Hi,
I've got some questions that are stumping me. I purchased a Netduino Plus 2 a while ago and never really tinkered with it until I decided to do some light controls for the Christmas tree. I'm a PLC programmer by day and it's driving me nuts that what I want to do I would already have done in ladder logic in a matter of minutes. But I'm persistent and determined to learn this thing so here we go.
I'm trying to use a single pushbutton to turn lights on and off. I used the eventhandler example posted on the boards here but I kept running into debouncing issues with the button and I did not know how to add a duration of button press so I switched to two buttons.
Imports Microsoft.SPOT Imports Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware Imports SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware Imports SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware.Netduino Module Module1 Dim ButtonState As Boolean = True Dim led As New OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D1, False) Dim Potentiometer As AnalogInput = New AnalogInput(Cpu.AnalogChannel.ANALOG_0) Dim ScaledValue As Double = 0 Sub Main() Dim ButtonOff As InterruptPort = New InterruptPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D0, False, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp, Port.InterruptMode.InterruptEdgeLow) AddHandler ButtonOff.OnInterrupt, AddressOf ButtonChangeHigh ButtonOff.EnableInterrupt() Dim ButtonOn As InterruptPort = New InterruptPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D2, False, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp, Port.InterruptMode.InterruptEdgeLow) AddHandler ButtonOn.OnInterrupt, AddressOf ButtonChangeLow ButtonOn.EnableInterrupt() While ButtonState = True Potentiometer.Scale = 1000 ScaledValue = Potentiometer.Read() led.Write(True) Thread.Sleep(ScaledValue) led.Write(False) Thread.Sleep(ScaledValue) End While Do Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite) Loop End Sub Sub ButtonChangeHigh(data1 As UInteger, data2 As UInteger, time As Date) ButtonState = True End Sub Sub ButtonChangeLow(data1 As UInteger, data2 As UInteger, time As Date) ButtonState = False End Sub End Module
So, What I'm seeing is that If I declare buttonstate as true initially I can turn it off. However, I cannot turn it on again. I'm assuming I am not doing it correctly. Ideally though I would prefer a single pushbutton to toggle the system on and off.
Secondly, My Analog input declaration would not work with my code I have written unless I used CPU.AnalogChannel.AnalogChannel_0. Pins.GPIO_PIN_A0 would complain about implicit conversion.
Thirdly, do these have RTC abilities? I originally wanted to have two modes. Manual on/off and time controlled. Start at X hour, stop at y hour.
I appreciate your help!