Architecturing a doorway LED project

[DaveX]

@Highfire1

What I want to ask is how I should architecture the codebase. I initially looked into interrupts for the motion sensor as I thought they would be necessary to quickly transition from passive lighting to special effects, as currently all the passive effects have multiple hardcoded delay()s.

For architecture, look to:

@DaveX

• Planning and Implementing an Arduino Program by @Robin2-- A great way to plan your program to be flexible, easy to read, understand, maintain, and extend. ( Live Sim: Lesson A ... Lesson G )
• Demonstration code for several things at the same time by @Robin2-- An example running a couple blinking LEDS, a button and two servos, all independently. (Live Simulation)

It like doesn't need to transition instantly. If you must use an interrupt, only use it to set a flag that a transition is needed, and then adjust your longer animations with the many hard-coded delays to check the flag and abort with 'break;'. Inserting a check such as this won't slow your delays much and could improve responsiveness.

for(int ii = 0; ii< NUMLEDS;++ii){ 
  ...
  if(activity || checkSensors()){break;)
  delay(500);
  ...
}