Interrupt driven contact sensor

[clippermiami]

I've modified the sketch I use for temperature/humidity/barometer to remove the barometer and implement a magnetic door sensor. My plan is for this to be installed in/on my gun safe to monitor interior temperature and humidity and log whenever the safe is opened/closed.

Basically the contact sensor works but of course its loop-driven so it doesn't report when the door is actually opened/closed. It also reports every OTHER reporting cycle for some reason.

I have the sensor wired to Arduino Pin D3. Can someone guide me in making the contact sensor interrupt driven to report immediately?

Thanks
John

[Bandra]

In your sketch you may just be sleeping on a timer. Ie:

gw.sleep(SLEEP_TIME);

With the 1.4 beta improvements, there's now provision to sleep on timer AND on interrupt. Like this:

#define DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR 3   // D3 is the only interrupt pin left (radio uses D2)
#define INTERRUPT DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR-2
unsigned long SLEEP_TIME = 30000;

void setup() {
  pinMode(DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR, INPUT);      // sets the digital pin as input
}

void loop() {
    ...
    gw.sleep(INTERRUPT,CHANGE, SLEEP_TIME);
}

That may not all be exactly right, but it should be pretty close.

[clippermiami]

@Bandra Looks fairly simple, maybe its time to upgrade to 1.4