I am still in the learning phase, the very early learning phase, of programming and have a possibly dumb question. My project uses the Time and TimeAlarms libraries (and of course using an alarm in my program, two in fact) and it says to use alarm.delay in place of the regular delay. That's easy enough, however while looking into another library I'll be using (DallasTemperature) I noticed it has delay used several times. I'm hoping someone can tell me if this is ok, or should I go through this library along with others I use and replace any instances of delay, with alarm.delay? Is that a huge no-no, or an ok thing to do as a precaution with no issues, or totally unnecessary and I am over thinking this?
Sorry for my bad grammar and as always, thanks for any helpful responses!
You'll be fine using Dallas Temperature, the delays in it I'm sure are short enough to not interfere with your alarms.... and TimeAlarms does not use interrupts so no problem there either...
Just use Alarm.delay(your value); or Alarm.delay(); in your loop() code.
You don't have to touch your libraries.
The reason you need the Alarm.delay() is, its this code where Alarm timers (if any) are checked and handled.
That's correct, in the readme of the timealarms library is states you may use Alarm.delay(0); if you only wish to check the alarm status and not cause a delay.
Thank you for the responses! I did not realize Alarm.delay had to be called for the Alarms to trigger. I just reread the read me file for the library and I can't believe I missed that the first time through. Thanks for the help everyone!