How do i increase the time for the LED when lit before it blinks again and without increasing the interval for LED light off? This is the code I got: (from https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkWithoutDelay )
/* Blink without Delay
Turns on and off a light emitting diode (LED) connected to a digital
pin, without using the delay() function. This means that other code
can run at the same time without being interrupted by the LED code.
The circuit:
* LED attached from pin 13 to ground.
* Note: on most Arduinos, there is already an LED on the board
that's attached to pin 13, so no hardware is needed for this example.
created 2005
by David A. Mellis
modified 8 Feb 2010
by Paul Stoffregen
modified 11 Nov 2013
by Scott Fitzgerald
This example code is in the public domain.
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkWithoutDelay
*/
// constants won't change. Used here to set a pin number :
const int ledPin = 13; // the number of the LED pin
// Variables will change :
int ledState = LOW; // ledState used to set the LED
// Generally, you should use "unsigned long" for variables that hold time
// The value will quickly become too large for an int to store
unsigned long previousMillis = 0; // will store last time LED was updated
// constants won't change :
const long interval = 1000; // interval at which to blink (milliseconds)
void setup() {
// set the digital pin as output:
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
// here is where you'd put code that needs to be running all the time.
// check to see if it's time to blink the LED; that is, if the
// difference between the current time and last time you blinked
// the LED is bigger than the interval at which you want to
// blink the LED.
unsigned long currentMillis = millis();
if (currentMillis - previousMillis >= interval) {
// save the last time you blinked the LED
previousMillis = currentMillis;
// if the LED is off turn it on and vice-versa:
if (ledState == LOW) {
ledState = HIGH;
} else {
ledState = LOW;
}
// set the LED with the ledState of the variable:
digitalWrite(ledPin, ledState);
}
}
did that already. i also had it to be in interval = 5000 with the other to be 1000 and vice versa. all it just do is increased the off time and not the on time. the on time is the same for all values of intervals in both conditions as i have observed.
const byte ledPin = 13; // the number of the LED pin
byte ledState; // ledState used to set the LED
unsigned long previousMillis; // will store last time LED was updated
const unsigned long interval = 1000; // interval at which to blink (milliseconds)
const unsigned long offTime = 950;
const unsigned long onTime = interval - offTime;
void setup()
{
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
unsigned long currentMillis = millis();
if(currentMillis - previousMillis > interval)
{
previousMillis += (ledState) ? offTime : onTime;
ledState = ! ledState;
// set the LED with the ledState of the variable:
digitalWrite(ledPin, ledState);
}
}
My code here is my experiment with that a year and a bit ago. It uses the idea explained above where you just set the on or off interval each time.
It does it for two LEDs independently. It puts the blinking code in functions, which has no fundamental effect but does make things a little tidier.
As always, E&OE, YMMV....
/* Blink without Delay on steroids
Turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED) connected to a digital
pin, without using the delay() function. This means that other code
can run at the same time without being interrupted by the LED code.
This enhanced version firstly does that for 2x LEDs not just 1, but also
allows the on and off times to differ.
LEDs named 1 and 2 in the appropriate code lines below.
For simplicity the work is done in functions.
The circuit:
* LEDs attached from pin 12 and 14 to ground, don't forget the resistors
Based on the original,
created 2005
by David A. Mellis
modified 8 Feb 2010
by Paul Stoffregen
This mod by JimboZA, December 2014
This example code is in the public domain
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkWithoutDelay
*/
// constants won't change. Used here to
// set pin numbers:
const int ledPin1 = 12; // the number of the LED pin
const int ledPin2 = 14; // the number of the LED pin
// Variables will change:
int ledState1 = LOW; // ledState used to set the LED
long previousMillis1 = 0; // will store last time LED was updated
int ledState2 = LOW; // ledState used to set the LED
long previousMillis2 = 0; // will store last time LED was updated
// for the pulse led....
// the follow variables is a long because the time, measured in miliseconds,
// will quickly become a bigger number than can be stored in an int.
long interval1; // interval at which to blink (milliseconds)
long onTime1 = 1000;
long offTime1 = 5000;
long interval2; // interval at which to blink (milliseconds)
long onTime2 = 110;
long offTime2 = 8530;
void setup() {
// set the digital pin as output:
pinMode(ledPin1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(ledPin2, OUTPUT);
//Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop()
{
// here is where you'd put code that needs to be running all the time.
pulseLED1(); //bwod
pulseLED2(); //bwod
}
void pulseLED1()
{
// check to see if it's time to blink the LED; that is, if the
// difference between the current time and last time you blinked
// the LED is bigger than the interval at which you want to
// blink the LED.
//Serial.println("in pulseLED");
unsigned long currentMillis = millis();
if(currentMillis - previousMillis1 > interval1) {
// save the last time you blinked the LED
previousMillis1 = currentMillis;
// if the LED is off turn it on and vice-versa:
if (ledState1 == LOW)
{
ledState1 = HIGH;
// set the interval to how long it must stay on
interval1=onTime1;
}
else
{
ledState1 = LOW;
// set the interval to how long it must stay off
interval1=offTime1;
}
// set the LED with the ledState of the variable:
digitalWrite(ledPin1, ledState1);
}
}
void pulseLED2()
{
// check to see if it's time to blink the LED; that is, if the
// difference between the current time and last time you blinked
// the LED is bigger than the interval at which you want to
// blink the LED.
//Serial.println("in pulseLED");
unsigned long currentMillis = millis();
if(currentMillis - previousMillis2 > interval2) {
// save the last time you blinked the LED
previousMillis2 = currentMillis;
// if the LED is off turn it on and vice-versa:
if (ledState2 == LOW)
{
ledState2 = HIGH;
// set the interval to how long it must stay on
interval2=onTime2;
}
else
{
ledState2 = LOW;
// set the interval to how long it must stay off
interval2=offTime2;
}
// set the LED with the ledState of the variable:
digitalWrite(ledPin2, ledState2);
}
}
Your code in #6 (long on, short off) works as expected for me by the way, so now I have no idea what the question is. If that's not what you want, then you'll need to explain it better.
it didn't work. it instead just inceased the off time of the blinking LED.
There have been many replies since you made this comment so I hope that you are now sorted, but I think that if you had looked more than just briefly at the code I posted then you might have seen how it worked and how the values of interval could be changed to do what you want.
One of the best things about the Arduino is that it is easy to try things out. I still remember that the first Arduino program that I loaded and ran was the Blink sketch, not even BWOD, and the first thing that I changed was the value of the delay to see what happened.
JimboZA:
But OP said that didn't work for him I think, although OP's code at #6 works for me.
He appears to have ignored (or been unable to grasp?) a simple fix. So I don't have much sympathy. Really, it isn't that hard to figure out that if the times are reversed, all you have to do is swap them (or change the polarity). There isn't much hope for a programmer that can't see that.
Or is it?