interrupt mystery with sensebender micro

[hek]

D2 is connected to the radios IRQ pin on the sensebender.

https://www.openhardware.io/dl/568d7feb0779a3581858ac2a/design/MySensorMicro.pdf

So your sleep -ing will be interrupted by the radio IRQ pin.

You could tap in to the D2 somewhere (and cut the leg off the radio module) to solve your dual external pin wake up problem.

[ikkeT]

Is it safe to cut off radio irq pin? So it's not used by the MySensors code?

[hek]

No, it's not used right now.

[tbowmo]

D2 interrupt is not used by nrf24, but if you're going to use it with rfm69 (with an adapter board) then you need interrupt for the radio.

[ikkeT]

According to the above pic, there is plenty of interrupt pins. If thats what the int means in their name. Why can't I use other than the D2 for interrupt, and make sure D2 is not used for interrupts?

[tbowmo]

D3 is also an interrupt. The rest of the pins also have a pin change interrupt function (haven't used it yet myself)

[ikkeT]

I used pins 3 and 4 for the interruptible input from sensors. What does D2 have to do with this in my case, if none of the code is using it for interrupts?

I brought d2 and d3 up because some sample codes for sensors mentioned that only those can be used for interrupts. But I assume now this is not the case for SB, thanks to the pic above.

[hek]

The CHANGE interrupt can only be used on pin 2,3 of the Atmeta328

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/AttachInterrupt

There are other ways of trigger wakeup on all pins, but they are not supported by the MySensors sleep function and requires out to keep track of which pin that was triggered manually.

[scalz]

+1 on what said @Hek ;)
there is Pin change Int for other pins but you'll need to use raw registers stuff. There exists a lib for this but not supported by MYS sleep. And it's more efficient for memory consumption to use only what you need :)
I will publish soon my multisensor sketch where I use D2/int0,D3/int1 and two others pinchange int but in case you will find everything you need for this here : : http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=11497

[ikkeT]

@hek thanks, this clears the topic. I'll try cutting off the D2 and reuse that. I'll report back...

[ikkeT]

Good news and bad news... I got change based interrupts to work by moving the motion to D2. That required cutting off the radio IRQ. Naturally I lost one radio there cutting too much....

So now it works initially. But after some rounds the serial text gets garbled, and it stops sending anything quite soon then.

isMetric: 1
TempDiff :127.31
HumDiff  :151.00
T: 27.31
H: 51
TempDiff :0.01
HumDiff  :0.00
Door  :0
Motion:1
TempDiff :0.01
HumDiff  :0.00
Door  :0
Motion:0
TempDiff :0.07
HumDiff  :0.00
Door  :0
Motion:1
TempDiff :0.10
HumDiff  :0.00
Door  :0
Motion:0
x00�����x00�����x00�x00x00��x00��x00x00�x00x00�x00x00x00�x00x00x00x00�x00�x00x00x00x00��x00x00�x00x00x00���������```

the last line contines for long. Any ideas what could cause it? Some trick I missed with interrupts?

Again, the fixed code is here, it's almost the original SB Micro sample:
https://github.com/ikke-t/sensebender/blob/master/SenseBender/SenseBender.ino

[ikkeT]

Solved the scrambled test. I removed the interrupts, and made it loop faster. It always got screwed after five rounds, so it seemed to be due the clock speed change in the template:

#ifndef MY_OTA_FIRMWARE_FEATURE
  if ((measureCount == 5) && highfreq) 
  {
    clock_prescale_set(clock_div_8); // Switch to 1Mhz for the reminder of the sketch, save power.
    highfreq = false;
  } 
#endif

Removing that takes it further. I suppose the sample code is missing something to fix the serial speed after prescaler change. I also wonder if the radio would require some reconfig after clock speed change?

[ikkeT]

But weird still. If I set the sleep time to 10 secs, without interrupts it works just fine. If interrupts are enabled, it stops always in less than ten rounds. So could it be the interrupts break the radio part somehow? E.g. if interrupt comes during transmit? Are interrupts safe in arduino, or should there be some lock set or disable interrupts for time of radio transmit?

[Yveaux]

@ikkeT Have a look at the other pin interrupt related post: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4999/solved-latest-git-snapshot-causes-freezes/38
I fixed an issue that might also bother you.

[ikkeT]

@Yveaux Thanks, I was following the thread. I confirm, the change fixed my problem too, excellent.

[rborer]

@ikkeT, I've used the PIN 3 with a door sensor, it work perfectly, just enable the mode INPUT_PULLUP on the setup.

void setup() {
pinMode(DOOR_PIN, INPUT_PULLUP);