Best way to read in an analog trigger signal

I had been fussing with reading it into pin A0 using any values above 3V as high and 0 as low

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Read the previous post for criteria to test your analog against

But now I'm wondering if I can just read it into a digital pin to simply do a digitalRead to determine high or low.

You could do that. Since we don't know what the signal looks like you have a 50/50 chance of success with that approach

Thoughts?

try both

I'm especially interested in little fussy coding snipets I need to include to make sure I'm not accidentally causing explosions and mass hysteria all over my psyche.

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