// This value will store the last time we published an event
long lastPublishedAt = 0;
// this is the time delay before we should publish a new event
// from this device
int publishAfter = 10000;
bool shouldActivate = false;
int solPin = D4;
int buttonPin = D2;
void setup()
{
// We'll want to subscribe to an event thats fairly unique
// From the Particle Docs
// A subscription works like a prefix filter.
// If you subscribe to "foo", you will receive any event
// whose name begins with "foo", including "foo", "fool",
// "foobar", and "food/indian/sweet-curry-beans".
// Basically this will match any event that starts with 'db2018/paired/'
// This is a feature we'll useto figure out if our event comes from
// this device or another (see publishMyEvent below)
Particle.subscribe( "diot/2020/paired/" , handleSharedEvent );
pinMode(solPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(buttonPin , INPUT_PULLUP); // sets pin as input
}
void loop()
{
// publish my event
// you'll want some more complex stuff here
int buttonState = digitalRead( buttonPin );
// when the button is not pushed we'll get a HIGH
// if LOW, send the event
if( buttonState == LOW )
{
// turn the LED On
publishMyEvent();
}
// delay for a bit
delay(100);
}
void publishMyEvent()
{
// Remember that a device can publish at rate of about 1 event/sec,
// with bursts of up to 4 allowed in 1 second.
// Back to back burst of 4 messages will take 4 seconds to recover.
// So we want to limit the amount of publish events that happen.
// check that it's been 10 secondds since our last publish
if( lastPublishedAt + publishAfter < millis() )
{
// Remember our subscribe is matching "db2018/paired/"
// We'll append the device id to get more specific
// about where the event came from
// System.deviceID() provides an easy way to extract the device
// ID of your device. It returns a String object of the device ID,
// which is used to identify your device.
String eventName = "diot/2020/paired/" + System.deviceID();
// now we have something like "diot/2019/paired/0123456789abcdef"
// and that corresponds to this devices info
// then we share it out
Particle.publish( eventName, "data goes here" );
// And this will get shared out to all devices using this code
// we just pubished so capture this.
lastPublishedAt = millis();
}
}
// Our event handlde requires two bits of information
// This gives us:
// A character array that consists of the event name
// A character array that contains the data published in the event we're responding to.
void handleSharedEvent(const char *event, const char *data)
{
// Now we're getting ALL events published using "db2018/paired/"
// This includes events from this device.
// So we need to ignore any events that we sent.
// Let's check the event name
String eventName = String( event ); // convert to a string object
// This gives us access to a bunch of built in methods
// Like indexOf()
// Locates a character or String within another String.
// By default, searches from the beginning of the String,
// but can also start from a given index,
// allowing for the locating of all instances of the character or String.
// It Returns: The index of val within the String, or -1 if not found.
// We can use this to check if our event name contains the
// id of this device
String deviceID = System.deviceID();
// device id = 0123456789abcdef
// event = "diot/2019/paired/0123456789abcdef"
if( eventName.indexOf( deviceID ) != -1 ){
// if we get anything other than -1
// the event came from this device.
// so stop doing stuff
return;
}
// otherwise do your stuff to respond to
// the paired device here
shouldActivate = true;
if( shouldActivate ){
doSolenoid( );
shouldActivate = false;
}
}
void doSolenoid( ){
digitalWrite(solPin, HIGH);
delay( 5000 ) ;
digitalWrite(solPin, LOW);
delay( 100 );
}
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