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Hi,

I've been trying to track down this problem all evening so I figured I'd ask here. I would like to use digitalread in void setup, but it doesnt begin to work (it returns 0 regardless) until after the first pass of loop(). After that, the digitalread works fine.

Heres the code, its a little messy as I am debugging, sorry!

//highswitch will need voltage divider with debouncing
//phototrans needs divider and 0.1s time constant in hardware

#include <EEPROM.h>

// pin assignments
const int lowbeam = 9;                 // lowbeam fet pin 9
const int highbeam = 10;               // highbeam fet pin 10
const int highswitch = 2;              // interrupts supported on digital pins 2 and 3. digital pin 2 is chip pin #4
const int phototransistor = 5;         // chip pin #28

//duty cycles
const int modlowduty = 50;            //
const int modhighduty = 200;           //
const int daylbduty = 100;             // set to improve bulb life
const int dayhbduty = 100;             //
const int minduty = 50;                // minimum duty to complete halogen cycle
const int maxduty = 255;               // maximum voltage to bulbs, must measure

//constants
const int filtertime = 20;            //length of box filter for phototransistor, ~0.1s x filtertime

//variables
int highswitchstate = 0;         //first character of state (multiplied by 10), 1 = high beam selected
int daylightstate = 0;           //second character of state, 1 = day
int state = 1;                   // output state
int daylight = 0;              // Threshold daytime ADC value. to be read given certain input upon startup
unsigned int modstate = 0;
int photocell = 1023;
int photocellhist [filtertime];  // array to hold photocell history
int histpos = 0;                 // position in history array
unsigned int histtotal = photocell;
int highswitchhist[5] = {0,0,0,0,0};
int numchanges=0;

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(highswitch, INPUT);
 
  // if 4 highswitch changes in 2s then read and store daylight cutoff, else read cutoff from eeprom
  // count number of highswitch changes in 2s
 
  highswitchhist[0] = digitalRead(highswitch);
 
  for(int i=0;i < 100; i++)
  {
    highswitchstate = digitalRead(highswitch);
    Serial.println("setup");
    Serial.println(i);
    Serial.println(highswitchstate);
    if(highswitchstate =! highswitchhist[histpos] && histpos < 3)
    {
      histpos++;
      highswitchhist[histpos]=highswitchstate;
    }
    delay(20);
  }
 
 
  // count number of changes
  for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
  {
    if(highswitchhist!=highswitchhist[i+1]) numchanges++;
  }
 
  // store new daylight threshold & set daylight variable
  if (numchanges>3)   
  {
   for (int i=0; i<filtertime; i++)
   {
    daylight = daylight + analogRead(phototransistor);
    delay(50);   
   }
   daylight = daylight / filtertime;
   EEPROM.write(1, daylight / 4);  //writes a byte into eeprom (0-255)
  }
 
  //read old daylight threshold & set photocell history to night so no modulation on startup
  else
  {
  daylight = 4 * EEPROM.read(1);
   for(int i=0;i<filtertime;i++)                //initialize, test, increment
   {
    photocellhist=photocell;                  //set history to night so no modulation on startup at night
   }
  }

  histpos = 0;
  highswitchstate = 0;
 
  TCCR1B = TCCR1B & 0b11111000 | 0x04 ;   //set pin 9,10 pwm frequency to ~122 hz
}

void loop()
{
 highswitchstate = digitalRead(highswitch);
  Serial.println("nested shit");
 Serial.println(digitalRead(highswitch));
 
 // box filter photocell pin over filtertime
 histtotal = histtotal - photocellhist [histpos];
 photocellhist[histpos] = analogRead(phototransistor);    //100us to read
 histtotal = histtotal + photocellhist[histpos];
 histpos++;
 if(histpos >= filtertime) histpos = 0;
 photocell = histtotal / filtertime;

 if (photocell < daylight) daylightstate = 1;
 else  daylightstate=0;
 state = 10*highswitchstate+daylightstate;
 
 switch(state) {
      case 11:      // daytime, high visibility, modulate both beams
        if (modstate % 2){
          analogWrite(highbeam, modlowduty); analogWrite(lowbeam, 0);
        }
        else
        {
          analogWrite(highbeam, modhighduty); analogWrite(lowbeam, 0);
        }
        Serial.println("modulating");
        modstate++;
        delay(107); break;             
      case 1: analogWrite(highbeam, dayhbduty); analogWrite(lowbeam, 0); delay(107); break;   // daytime, low visibility
      case 10: analogWrite(highbeam, maxduty); analogWrite(lowbeam, 0); delay(107); break;      // night, high beam
      case 0: analogWrite(highbeam, minduty); analogWrite(lowbeam, 0); delay(107); break;       // night, low beam
      default: break;
    }
}

[Reply #1 on:]

Your listing mentions voltage divider & debouncing - what is hooked up in the meantime?
Try enabling the internal pullup until the rest is added:

pinMode(highswitch, INPUT);
digitalWrite(highswitch, HIGH); // enables internal pullup

[Reply #2 on:]

Currently I 5v hooked to a resistor hooked to pin 2, to go low I was grounding pin 2.

Enabling the internal pullup works, not sure why since it was already pulled up externally!?

[Reply #3 on:]

Currently I 5v hooked to a resistor hooked to pin 2, to go low I was grounding pin 2.

Most of my resistors have 2 legs. I presume yours do, too, but you only tell us where one leg is connected - to pin 2. Where is the other leg connected?

[Reply #4 on:]

5V-resistor-Gnd. Come to think of it, it was AREF not 5V. On my breadboard those are one and the same but that may not be the case on the uno?

[Reply #5 on:]

The Aref pin voltage depends on the selected analog reference and I think is fairly high impedance.  Its not for connecting pullups to!!

[Reply #6 on:]

Aref is Not connected to +5v on the UNO, it only has a decoupling cap to ground.