servo and pir

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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how do you get a pir to communicate with a servo to tell it when to turn on and off

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The PIR is a switch which is either ON of OFF (or HIGH/LOW).
Your sketch has to detect the HIGH or LOW and either run or stop the servo.

...
if (digitalRead(pirPin) {
  // Pin reads HIGH
  myServo.write (180);
} else {
  // Pin reads low
  myServo.write (0);
}

or more tersely (and probably less flexibly)

  myServo.write (180 * digitalRead (pirPin));
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