Hi
The Arduino boards have two external interrupts: numbers 0 (on digital pin 2) and 1 (on digital pin 3).
so I would assume it would be possible, I have tested both inputs, but I can not put up a new calculation for both on the same display, someone will help a newbie ...
/**
- Water Flow Gauge
-
- Uses a hall-effect flow sensor to measure the rate of water flow and
- output it via the serial connection once per second. The hall-effect
- sensor connects to pin 2 and uses interrupt 0, and an LED on pin 13
- pulses with each interrupt. Two volume counters and current flow rate
- are also displayed on a 2-line by 16-character LCD module, and the
- accumulated totals are stored in non-volatile memory to allow them to
- continue incrementing after the device is reset or is power-cycled.
-
- Two counter-reset buttons are provided to reset the two accumulating
- counters. This allows one counter to be left accumulating indefinitely
- as a "total" flow volume, while the other can be reset regularly to
- provide a counter for specific events such as having a shower, running
- an irrigation system, or filling a washing machine.
-
- Copyright 2009 Jonathan Oxer jon@oxer.com.au
- Copyright 2009 Hugh Blemings hugh@blemings.org
-
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version. Licenses - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
-
-
www.practicalarduino.com/projects/water-flow-gauge
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*/
#include <Wire.h>
#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(0x27,16,2);
// set the LCD address to 0x27 for a 20 chars and 2 line display
byte sensorInterrupt = 0;// 0 = pin 2; 1 = pin 3
byte sensorPin = 2;
// The hall-effect flow sensor outputs approximately 4.5 pulses per second per
// litre/minute of flow.
float calibrationFactor = 50;
volatile byte pulseCount;
float flowRate;
unsigned int flowMilliLitres;
unsigned long oldTime;
void setup()
{
delay(500);
lcd.init(); // initialize the lcd
// Print a message to the LCD.
lcd.backlight();
lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
delay(100);
lcd.begin(16, 2);
lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
lcd.print(" ");
lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
lcd.print(" ");
// Initialize a serial connection for reporting values to the host
Serial.begin(9600);
// Set up the status LED line as an output
// We have an active-low LED attached
// Set up the pair of counter reset buttons and activate internal pull-up resistors
pinMode(sensorPin, INPUT);
digitalWrite(sensorPin, HIGH);
pulseCount = 0;
flowRate = 0.0;
flowMilliLitres = 0;
oldTime = 0;
// The Hall-effect sensor is connected to pin 2 which uses interrupt 0.
// Configured to trigger on a FALLING state change (transition from HIGH
// state to LOW state)
attachInterrupt (sensorInterrupt, pulseCounter, FALLING);
}
/**
- Main program loop
*/
void loop()
{
if((millis() - oldTime) > 1000)
// Only process counters once per second
{
// Disable the interrupt while calculating flow rate and sending the value to
// the host
detachInterrupt(sensorInterrupt);
//lcd.setCursor(15, 0);
//lcd.print("*");
// Because this loop may not complete in exactly 1 second intervals we calculate
// the number of milliseconds that have passed since the last execution and use
// that to scale the output. We also apply the calibrationFactor to scale the output
// based on the number of pulses per second per units of measure (litres/minute in
// this case) coming from the sensor.
flowRate = ((1000.0 / (millis() - oldTime)) * pulseCount) / calibrationFactor;
// Note the time this processing pass was executed. Note that because we've
// disabled interrupts the millis() function won't actually be incrementing right
// at this point, but it will still return the value it was set to just before
// interrupts went away.
oldTime = millis();
// Divide the flow rate in litres/minute by 60 to determine how many litres have
// passed through the sensor in this 1 second interval, then multiply by 1000 to
// convert to millilitres.
flowMilliLitres = (flowRate / 60) * 1000;
// Add the millilitres passed in this second to the cumulative total
// During testing it can be useful to output the literal pulse count value so you
// can compare that and the calculated flow rate against the data sheets for the
// flow sensor. Uncomment the following two lines to display the count value.
//Serial.print(pulseCount, DEC);
//Serial.print(" ");
// Write the calculated value to the serial port. Because we want to output a
// floating point value and print() can't handle floats we have to do some trickery
// to output the whole number part, then a decimal point, then the fractional part.
unsigned int frac;
// Print the flow rate for this second in litres / minute
Serial.print(int(flowRate )); // Print the integer part of the variable
Serial.print("."); // Print the decimal point
// Determine the fractional part. The 10 multiplier gives us 1 decimal place.
frac = (flowRate - int(flowRate )) * 10;
Serial.print(frac, DEC) ; // Print the fractional part of the variable
// Print the number of litres flowed in this second
Serial.print(" "); // Output separator
Serial.print(flowMilliLitres);
// Print the cumulative total of litres flowed since starting
Serial.print(" "); // Output separator
lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
lcd.print(" ");
lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
lcd.print("Flow:");
if(int(flowRate ) < 10)
{
lcd.print(" ");
}
lcd.print((int)flowRate ); // Print the integer part of the variable
lcd.print('.'); // Print the decimal point
lcd.print(frac, DEC) ; // Print the fractional part of the variable
lcd.print(" L");
lcd.print("/min");
// Reset the pulse counter so we can start incrementing again
pulseCount = 0;
// Enable the interrupt again now that we've finished sending output
attachInterrupt(sensorInterrupt, pulseCounter, FALLING);
}
}
/**
- Invoked by interrupt0 once per rotation of the hall-effect sensor. Interrupt
- handlers should be kept as small as possible so they return quickly.
*/
void pulseCounter()
{
// Increment the pulse counter
pulseCount++;
}
