janjhl/cc-arduino-lib

Arduino library for the Control Chain protocol

Control Chain Arduino Library

Installation

Dependencies

• Arduino IDE v1.5 or greater
• TimerOne (required for Arduino Uno)
• DueTimer (required for Arduino Due)

See here how to install the dependencies libraries using the Library Manager.

This library

Go to releases and download the last version of the ControlChain.zip file. After download it, check this Arduino documentation to see how to import a new library.

Supported boards

This library has been tested only with the Arduino Uno but it should work for most of AVR boards as Mega, Mini, Nano, Ethernet and LilyPad.

It is also possible to use the library with the Arduino Due, however there is a slight change that need to be done on the Arduino's code. See below how to do it.

Fixing Arduino Due code

The fix is necessary because the Arduino core does not allow users to control interruptions by themselves. This library need to control the UART interruption in order to work properly and also to have the code as optimized as possible.

There is an ongoing pull request which add such functionality.

You can check here and manually apply the required changes while the pull request isn't merged to the main stream.

You will find that file in the Arduino installation folder, which depends on the OS you have. Once you find out, the path to the file should be something similar to packages/hardware/sam/1.6.11/variants/arduino_due_x/variant.cpp.

How to use

Once the library is installed, go to File > Examples > Control Chain, choose one of the examples and follow the instructions on the header of the file.

Taken resources (peripherals)

This library make use of the pins 0 to 2, where pins 0 and 1 are used as Serial and pin 2 as digital I/O. Timer 1 is also used by this library.