Alternative to PolledTimeout?

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For ESP8266 I used PolledTimeout to do stuff where the timing is not critical. It consumed no timers, so no limitation on how many of these I could have.

Great, but this function is not available on ESP32. Do you know of a good replacement?

Example:

#include <PolledTimeout.h> // https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/cores/esp8266/PolledTimeout.h
void loop() {
  static esp8266::polledTimeout::periodicFastMs periodic_1s( 1000 ); // "Fast" versions sacrifices time range for improved precision and reduced execution time (by 86%)
  static esp8266::polledTimeout::periodicFastMs periodic_5s( 5000 ); // max is 26843 ms (26.8  s)
  static esp8266::polledTimeout::periodicMs periodic_60s( 60000 );
  static esp8266::polledTimeout::periodicMs periodic_300s( 300000 );

    // do every 1 seconds
  if ( periodic_1s ) {
  // do some stuff here
  }
}
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Not my territory but... Can You describe "the big picture" where/how/for what You will use this? Surely things can be done....

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In my IoT-thingies I use them as timers, examples:
Every 1s - check if something shall be sent on mqtt
Every 5s - update some topics on mqtt, update content on display
Every 300s - save data to eeprom (if needed, not on every change to save flash lifetime)

In the example above, the periodic_1s is trigged once per second. No need to reset something, which makes code simple.

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Hello teddyz

Brew your own timer using the millis() function explained in the BlinkWithOutDelay to be found in the IDE.

Have a nice day and enjoy coding in C++.

5

Thanks, but this is exactly what I want to avoid right now. Nothing I do can be as neat as PolledTimeout that I need to replace.

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It does not have to be neat to work properly, which Blink Without Delay does do.

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