Help needed on Hour-meter

osull · 2009-08-31 15:39

Hi

How do you encorperate an hour meter in spin code? I just want to be able to keep track of the minutes and hours while powered on and display it to an LCD screen. I know how to display it. But I do not know how to set up the variables to count the minutes or hours while running.

Dermot

Bobb Fwed · 2009-08-31 16:25

Here this does everything (seconds, minutes, hours, days):

VAR

  BYTE seconds, minutes, hours
  WORD days                     ' 179 years 

PUB Clock | wait

  wait := cnt
  REPEAT                        ' repeat forever
    waitcnt(wait += clkfreq)
    seconds++
    IF (seconds => 60)
      seconds~
      minutes++
      IF (minutes => 60)
        minutes~
        hours++
        IF (hours => 24)
          hours~
          days++

If you want to do code that counts time without making a cog exclusive to counting time (integrating it into an existing loop)...I have code for that too, but this one is simpler to implement.

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Post Edited (Bobb Fwed) : 8/31/2009 4:30:21 PM GMT

Help needed on Hour-meter

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