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How do interrupts work on the Arduino Uno and similar boards?
TL;DR :
When writing an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR):
Keep it short
Don't use delay ()
Don't do serial prints
Make variables shared with the main code volatile
Variables shared with main code may ...
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Using millis() and micros() inside an interrupt routine
The other answers are very good, but I want to elaborate on how micros() works. It always reads the current hardware timer (possibly TCNT0) which is constantly being updated by the hardware (in fact, ...
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How many interrupt pins can an Uno handle?
There are two types of "pin change" type interrupts. The external interrupts, of which there are two on the Uno. They are called 0 and 1, however they refer to digital pins 2 and 3 on the board. These ...
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Why the need to use the volatile keyword on global variables when handling interrupts in Arduino?
First, it's volatile not Volatile. I cover these concepts in my page about Interrupts however to avoid giving a link-only answer I'll repeat the relevant bits.
What are "volatile" variables?
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Attach the Arduino ISR function to the class member
Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) outside a class
Let's consider a simple use of interrupts:
volatile bool switchChanged;
void switchPressed ()
{
switchChanged = true;
} // end of switchPressed
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Counting pulses with interrupt
You need to reset IRQCount back to 0 before attaching the interrupt again. Otherwise it will just continue counting from where it stopped last time.
I would actually keep the interrupt attached and ...
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Multiple independent LED patterns
Handling multiple patterns at the same time is certainly possible with a platform like Arduino, and there are a number of ways you could go about it.
One method I would consider is writing functions ...
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How to properly use volatile variables in Arduino?
You need to learn about critical sections.
What is probably happening is that the variables are being changed by the interrupt routines mid-way through the calculations. Your 'fix' reduces the time ...
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Calling I2C functions inside an ISR
Here is an analogy for you to help you understand why using the IRQ is a good idea.
Imagine you are at a conference. There's hundreds of you in the audience, and you are in a question and answer ...
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What is the right way to query an I2C device from an interrupt service routine?
Just because a pin is called "interrupt" doesn't mean that you have to read it using an interrupt input. The INTx pins of the ADXL345 are simple "level" outputs. All the time there is an "interrupt" ...
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Is `millis()` affected by long ISRs?
After some digging around in the core, it seems like Arduino updates millis() with a 8 bit timer: it uses overflow with a prescaler value of 64. In simpler terms, it has it set up so a certain piece ...
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What's the benefits between different interrupts on Arduino
Imagine that you have the circuit below:
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Let's say that you wanted to catch the user pressing the button. The input signal will go ...
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Using millis() and micros() inside an interrupt routine
It is not wrong to use millis() or micros() within an interrupt routine.
It is wrong to use them incorrectly.
The main thing here is that while you are in an interrupt routine "the clock isn't ...
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Sending serial data in an interrupt
You cannot use Serial inside an interrupt. Transmitting Serial relies on interrupts being available, and from inside an interrupt they aren't.
All Serial communication must be done from loop().
So ...
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IR Receiver interrupt and arduino sleep mode
This is what I have managed to achieve ...
Library
IRLib - GitHub
Version 1.51 March 2015
Copyright 2013-2015 by Chris Young http://tech.cyborg5.com/irlib/
This library is a major rewrite ...
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interrupting an interrupt
the timer will set the Timer Interrupt Flag (TIFR0 register)
The ISR will be called, and the flag will be cleared
you do some long calculations or something
the timer will match OCR0A, and set the ...
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Multiple Buttons on Single Analog Pin and Trigger Pin Arduino Uno
Use the analog comparator in the ATmega328P to trigger an interrupt once the input voltage rises enough to indicate a button press.
Connect the analog network to both the analog input and D6.
If ...
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Using millis() and micros() inside an interrupt routine
The quoted phrase is not a warning, it is merely a statement about how things work.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with using millis() or micros() within a properly-written interrupt routine.
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Critical sections in Arduino, interrupt consuming data
Warning: I am not familiar with the ESP8266 hardware, and some of my
answers below may be only valid on the AVR architecture.
The simplest way to synchronize your main code with your interrupt
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Using a lot of interrupts on a single Arduino
On a Uno, all of the digital and analog pins can trigger a pin-change interrupt. That gives you 20 inputs straight away. The Mega also has pin change interrupts but not on all its pins. The pins that ...
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How to generate hardware interrupt in mpu6050 to wakeup arduino from SLEEP_MODE_PWR_DOWN mode?
Well, this code worked. In this code, MPU's INT PIN is Active Low so generates Ground on motion which is than connected to INT0 or arduino UNO pin 2 which generates interrupt and wakes UP the MCU
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ATTiny13 Interrupt Issue
You would want your bool LED_STATE = false; to be volatile qualified like volatile bool LED_STATE = false; otherwise the compiler's optimizer may assume that the value cannot be changing between loads ...
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How to update a variable in an ISR using Timers
In CTC mode the top is OCR3A, not OCR3B!
After that TIMSK3 |= (1 << OCIE3B); should also be changed to TIMSK3 |= (1 << OCIE3A);, and ISR(TIMER3_COMPB_vect) to ISR(TIMER3_COMPA_vect)
For ...
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Interrupts for analog inputs
It is not possible to trigger an interrupt when an analog input has reached a threshold on any tinyAVR or megaAVR. It is possible to trigger an interrupt when an analog input of an AVR XMEGA with the ...
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'crash' when using pin change interrupts
Your onPinChange() function is called with interrupts disabled.
For you what it means is this function should:
last as short as possible (because NO interrupts are handled during its execution, that ...
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'crash' when using pin change interrupts
I'm going to include this answer even though I think there's a very little chance that it is the problem because I just wasted ten hours on a project before finding it and it's an easy check so it won'...
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What happens if an interrupt is triggered while sending data via serial?
If you are on the ardruino platform, and are using the hardware serial port, you basically don't have to do anything.
The Serial library interface already uses a outgoing data-buffer (it's varies ...
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Reading I2C sensors with a timer interrupt
Try putting sei(); at the start of the ISR. I think I2C needs interrupts enabled to work.
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