I am writing a code that suppose to count 5 minutes and then get back to 0 on the serial, I wrote a code that counts the time correctly until the first second and then the timer goes crazy and counts the time to fast
that is my code thank you for helping
int sec=0;
int periodStartMillis=0;
int mint=0;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
periodStartMillis = millis();
if (periodStartMillis >= 1000) {
sec= sec +1;
periodStartMillis = periodStartMillis -1000 ;
}
if (sec == 60){
mint = mint+1;
sec = sec -60;
}
if (mint == 5){
mint = mint -5 ;
}
Serial.println("periodStartMillis");
Serial.println (periodStartMillis);
Serial.println ("sec");
Serial.println (sec);
Serial.println ("mint");
Serial.println (mint);
}