Motion sensor program issue

Mbed OS
1

Hi so I have this program for a motion but it doesn’t work? what I want to happen is when motion is detected, one LED will come on, and one will turn off then it will print a message on the LCD screen?

"#include “mbed.h”
#include “C12832.h”
DigitalOut led1(LED1);
DigitalOut led2(LED2);
DigitalIn alarm(p29, PullUp);
C12832 lcd(p5, p7, p6, p8, p11);

int main()
{
wait(1);
lcd.cls(); //Clear screen
while(1)
{
led1=1;
led2=0;
if (!alarm){
lcd.printf(“THE MOTION HAS DETECTED”);
wait(0.5);
}
else
led1=0;"

2

Hi George,

How long does the alarm signal remain low? You probably want to use an InterruptIn rather than a DigitalIn for your alarm. On the falling edge, you can set your led states in the interrupt and set a flag but don’t print inside the interrupt.

Your clear screen only gets called once as it is outside the while(1) loop.

Good luck,
Leon

3

Hi Leon,
this is the code now. with an interrupt in and fall edge. I’m not sure how to implement the Lcd screen as when I put it into it it doesn’t seem to work? how do I get it so where the alarm is triggered and its a falling edge, a message will appear on the screen?

thanks
George

#include “mbed.h”
#include “C12832.h”
//example using InterruptIn with the input from the PIR motion sensors
InterruptIn alarm(p11);
DigitalOut led(LED1);
DigitalOut flash(LED4);
C12832 lcd(p5, p7, p6, p8, p11);

void flip() {
led = !led;
}

int main() {
alarm.mode(PullUp);
wait(2);
alarm.fall(&flip); // attach the address of the flip function to the falling edge
while(1) { // wait around, interrupts will interrupt
flash = !flash;
wait(0.25);
}
}