[Dprglist] Arduino Code Troubles

Pat Caron patcaron at mail.com
Thu Dec 16 17:42:09 PST 2021


Hi Murray, I did try that with the same results.  NewPing.h library is
looking for a uint16_t although it didn't complain when I tried that.

...Pat C

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 8:35 PM Murray Altheim via DPRGlist <
dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:

> Hi Pat,
>
> What if you define maxDistance as uint32_t?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray
>
> On 17/12/21 2:27 pm, Pat Caron via DPRGlist wrote:
> > Hi guys, I'm looking for help with the following Arduino code.
> >
> >      uint32_t cm[8] = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}; // Create array
> >      uint16_t maxDistance = 200; // Also used with NewPing.h library
> >      .
> >      . // Other code here
> >      .
> >      irSensorL.read(); // Read IR sensor... This is working!
> >      cm[3] = irSensorL.ranging_data.range_mm/10; // This returns 268
> >      if (cm[3] > maxDistance) {
> >        cm[3] = 999;                 /
> >      }
> >      Serial.println(cm[3]);  / cm[3] value is always = 999
> >      sendData();
> >
> > The cm[3] value is always 999 when I run this.
> > If I comment out the if cm[3]... statement cm[3] value is then 268.
> >
> > ...Pat C
> >
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