Dosing And Wavemaker Pause for a while [SOLVED]

[Diztly Wardizt]

there is a way for the wavemaker to run smoothly, not to paused every 5 seconds. is it because Arduino cannot be multi-tasking. And dosing pump when it works all features stop for a moment.


Thanks.

[Fernando Garcia]

Hi!

Sorry, I don't understand fine.

What it should make every 5 seconds while dosing?

Best regards.

[Fernando Garcia]

No more info?

[Diztly Wardizt]

Diztly Wardizt wrote:

there is a way for the wavemaker to run smoothly, not to paused every 5 seconds

sorry if my speak is not good, I mean why wavemaker doesn't it work smoothly, stuttered every 5 seconds.
and I need you to check the wavemaker function, if in night mode and condition in mode reef crest there is a slight problem.

thank you.

[Fernando Garcia]

Hi!

Friend, I have explained it for you here.

Every 5 - 6 seconds Arduino is checking others functions.

Regarding dosage, the way to make it very accurated is using delay and during this time Arduino won't make anything else. You can try using millis but the code can hang in some part and a big amount will be dosed in your tank.

Here you can try make something using while replacing this delay to make something during dosage.

Example:

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unsigned long millis_dosage = millis();

while((millis() - millis_dosage) < tempo_dosagem)
{
  digitalWrite(dosadora[i], HIGH);
  do_something_else();
}

Best regards.