Robin2:
I have prepared the attached example sketch in the hope that it will be a
suitable model. I have tested it on an Uno and a Mega. I have called it
"SeveralThingsAtTheSameTime.ino". (It seems to be too long to show the
code directly in this post)
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It also uses the "state machine" concept to manage the various activities
and enable the different functions to determine what to do.
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Comments are welcome.
Thank you for this, I will be studying it.
I'm new to Arduino coding and learning what and how can be fit in Arduino
IDE code. My starting approach was to leverage this SimpleTimer code:
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/SimpleTimer#.UyIPih_f9ic
Here is a code fragment where I do periodic Serial writes. This not
really equivalent to what your code is doing, but this is my starting
point.
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#include <SimpleTimer.h>
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SimpleTimer timer;
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void setup()
{
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timer.setInterval((5*1000), timerWrite);
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}
void loop()
{
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timer.run();
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}
// Periodic write to Serial to test RPi <-> Arduino
void timerWrite()
{
// Code here that queues up some text to write on Serial
}