Design question about using interrupts or not

[Gerard van Seventer]

Hi All,

Since this is my first post I would like to thank all who made MySensors possible!

In my development environment I have several setups as a proof of concept with all kind of sensors, relays, LCD and so on. It works great and I am about to begin in designing a number of permanent nodes but have some thoughts about whether or not use interrupts.

The node I am working on is based on a Nano and NRF24 radio. On this node there will be following connected: DHT22, DS18b20, LDR(analog), 2 relays and 4 reed switches.

The 4 reed switched are to monitor some doors. A reaction time on those switches of about 0.5 second is enough(i think). So my question is; Should I use interrupts or is it better to (semi) continuously check the switches and occaisionally check and report the other sensors.

I know I could use interrupts but since there are doors to monitor and not several 10.000rpm tacho's I would like to keep it as simple as possible.

Please let me know if you have some thoughts on this.

Kind regards,
Gerard

[mfalkvidd]

Welcome to the forum @gerard-van-seventer!
If the nodes have a permanent power supply (not batteries), checking the switches will be sufficient. You can probably check them every millisecond if you want - a millisecond is a long time for a microcontroller.

[Gerard van Seventer]

Thanks @mfalkvidd for your quick reply.
Indeed it isn't battery powered. I already have a millis() delay loop so checking the swithes is easy then.
Thanks again!