Digital pins do not work as a INPUT pins

[benmemo]

Hello, as i was practicing my coding with INPUTs and push buttons i realized that my push buttons aren't registered by an arduino. I thought that it was wiring problem but i have triplechecked my wiring and nothing was of. I also have pull down resistor (10k) connected to ground. The code is very simple. Here it is:

CODE:
int button = 8;
int led = 3;

void setup()
{
pinMode(button, INPUT);
pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
}

void loop()
{
if (button == HIGH)
{
digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
}
}

ENDCODE

As you can see its just a simple project. None of my pins are working as INPUTS except pin 13, though they work as OUTPUTS.

[slipstick]

'button' is the pin's NUMBER not it's value. You've obviously found digitalWrite() so maybe digitalRead() is the next command to look at.

Steve

[MarshaJ847]

Also look at (from the IDE memu)
File -> Examples -> 02.Digital -> Button

Marsha

[groundFungus]

Best practice does not use a pulldown or any external resistor*. Each digital pin has an internal pullup resistor enabled with:

pinMode(pin, INPUT_PULLUP);

The reference for digitalRead() and pinMode().

• Unless the switch wiring is long enough to pick up noise, then an, external, lower value pull up resistor (strong pullup) may be required along with the capacitor to form a low pass filter.

[alto777]

Your code never writes LOW to led. How can you possibly know anything about what's going on?

void loop()
{
if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH)
{
digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
}
else {
digitalWrite(led, LOW);
}
}

I added the other problem fix from @sliderule.

That can be written in a few other ways, but that's what you have to do logically. The else part is not automatic!

a7

[Ballscrewbob]

@benmemo

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[TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL]

alto777:
Your code never writes LOW to led. How can you possibly know anything about what’s going on?

void loop()
{
if (digitalRead(button) == HIGH)
{
digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
}
else {
digitalWrite(led, LOW);
}
}

aka

void loop()
{
   digitalWrite(led, digitalRead(button));
}

[lastchancename]

Just to be pedantic @groundFungus, could you H-flip your diagram so action flows from left to right ?
Maybe you can add the LED shown left-to-right as well ?

[UKHeliBob]

@benmemo - your duplicate topic created today has been deleted

Why did you create a second one, especially as this one has replies ?

[benmemo]

TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL:
aka

void loop()

{
  digitalWrite(led, digitalRead(button));
}

I just had a coding problem. This works for me. Pulldown resistor 10k is connected from input pin to ground. Thank you for your help.

[lastchancename]

You know, you don’t need a resistor at all if you read the replies above.

[GolamMostafa]

@OP

1. The following diagram (Fig-1) describing the structure of DPin-8 may help you to understand your coding mistake.

Figure-1:

2. You have written --

if (button == HIGH)
  {
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
  }

3. Instead of writing the code of Step-2, you could write as --

set direction of DPin-8 as input without internal pull-up resistor but with external pull-down resistor.
if (logic value of DPin-8 with which Button is connected is HIGH) //Button must have pull-down resistor
{
   then ignite LED connected at DPin-3
}

4. The Arduino code for the argument of if() structure of Step-3 is:

(digitalRead(8) == HIGH)

5. The final correct codes is --

pinMode(8, INPUT);
if(digitalRead(8) == HIGH)
{
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
}

6. In Fig-1, we observe that the input line (DPin-8) has an internal pull-up resistor (R_ip). If we like to use it instead of an external pull-down, then the Button connection would appear as follows (Fig-2):

Figure-2:

7. Now, the code to detect the closed condition of Button would be:

pinMode(8, INPUT_PULLUP);  //Rip is connected/enabled; G0OB is OFF
if(digitalRead(8) == LOW)
{
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
}