int solPin = D2;
bool shouldActivate = false;
long lastPublishTime = 0;
int publishAfter = 1000;
void setup()
{
Particle.subscribe( "diot/2020/paired/" , handleSharedEvent );
Particle.function( "activate", activateSolenoid );
pinMode(solPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
if( shouldActivate ){
doSolenoid( );
shouldActivate = false;
}
delay( 100 );
}
void doSolenoid( ){
for( int i = 0; i < 5; i++ )
{
digitalWrite(solPin, HIGH);
delay( 100 ) ;
digitalWrite(solPin, LOW);
delay( 100 );
}
}
int activateSolenoid( String command ){
shouldActivate = true;
return 1;
}
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( lastPublishTime + 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, "no activity" );
// And this will get shared out to all devices using this code
// we just pubished so capture this.
lastPublishTime = 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
// shouldActivate = true;
return;
}
// otherwise do your stuff to respond to
// the paired device here
//motorOn = true;
String dataStr = String( data );
if (dataStr == "MOVE") {
shouldActivate = true;
}
}
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