gw.sleep() and millis()

9 years 5 months ago - 9 years 5 months ago #1192 by PaulRB
Hi, hopefully a quick question:

My MySensors sketches contain calls such as
gw.sleep(60000);
for 1 minute low-power sleeps. This command also allows for waking on a hardware interrupt, e.g. on pin 3 on atmega328.

Will millis() continue to update normally during low power sleeps? I want to use it for measuring the time between interrupt events. If not, how can I measure how long the sleep was before the interrupt occurred?

I ask because I want to connect up an anemometer. The anemometer contains a reed switch, activated by a magnet, which is closed twice per revolution. By timimng the period between switch closed or open events, or by counting the number of such events over a fixed period, I will be able to calculate wind speed (I have calibration data to use in that calculation). Either way, I need to measure time intervals accurately, while keeping the atmega in low power sleep as much as possible.


Thanks,

Paul

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9 years 5 months ago #1202 by EasyIoT
Replied by EasyIoT on topic gw.sleep() and millies()

PaulRB wrote: Hi, hopefully a quick question:

My MySensors sketches contain calls such as

gw.sleep(60000);
for 1 minute low-power sleeps. This command also allows for waking on a hardware interrupt, e.g. on pin 3 on atmega328.

Will millis() continue to update normally during low power sleeps? I want to use it for measuring the time between interrupt events. If not, how can I measure how long the sleep was before the interrupt occurred?

I ask because I want to connect up an anemometer. The anemometer contains a reed switch, activated by a magnet, which is closed twice per revolution. By timimng the period between switch closed or open events, or by counting the number of such events over a fixed period, I will be able to calculate wind speed (I have calibration data to use in that calculation). Either way, I need to measure time intervals accurately, while keeping the atmega in low power sleep as much as possible.


Thanks,

Paul


If I remember correctly mils() doesn't work correctly during gw.sleep. Some ideas to solve this:
-change MySensors library to use different sleep library. Some sleep libraries allow mils()
-use external RTC to measure time
-send pulses to EasyIoT server and let the server do the calculation

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