Hey Mike, thanks for the code. I loaded it up and it seems to only pull the pin HIGH when the button is HIGH.
here is a very simple thing I tried, but it did not work:
const int buttonPin = 2;//button attached to pin 2
int buttonState = 0;//variable to store the state of button
int event1 = 13;//ssr to be connected to pin 9 for lights
long eventtime1 = 0;//clock value to be stored at the time milli() is called
void setup() {
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
pinMode(event1, OUTPUT);
}
void loop(){
// read the state of the pushbutton value:
buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
// check if the pushbutton is pressed.
// if it is, the buttonState is HIGH:
if (buttonState == HIGH) { //when button is pushed...
eventtime1 + 500 == millis(); //wait 1/2 a second...
digitalWrite(event1, HIGH);//turn on pin 13
if(eventtime1 > 3000){ //after 2 1/2 seconds...
digitalWrite(event1, LOW);//turn off pin 13
}
}
}
here is an awkward "drawing" of what I am attempting to achieve:
this taking place over a 5 minute period, and when a button is pushed...
Pin
1 ---------||||||||||||---------
2 -----||||||||||||||-----------
3 ---||||||||||||||||||||||||---
4 ------------------||||||||----
5 --------------|||||||||||||---
---- = off(LOW)
|||| = on(HIGH)
thanks