Stop Program After X Seconds

Tiago Severino said:

I need to stop my program after 2 Minutes, is there any way to do it, like an internal timer or multi threading?

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[COLOR=blue]Start0:
      do
            [/COLOR][COLOR=green];
            ; This is the main program...
            ; ...running at 16MHz
            ;
            [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]Sertxd (cr[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]lf[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=red]"Main program here"[/COLOR][COLOR=blue])
      loop
Start1:
      Pause [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]60000       [/COLOR][COLOR=green];wait one minute
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]Pause [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]60000       [/COLOR][COLOR=green];wait another minute
      ;
      ; we could just stop both tasks...
      ;
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]end   [/COLOR][COLOR=green];(stop could be used - which doesn't power everything down)
      ;
      ; ...or just the main one...
      ;
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]suspend [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]0
      [/COLOR][COLOR=green];
      ; ...in which case, we can carry on and do other things here
      ;
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]sertxd(cr[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]lf[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=red]"Task 1 still alive"[/COLOR][COLOR=blue])
      [/COLOR][COLOR=green];
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]end [/COLOR][COLOR=green];?[/COLOR]

johnlong said:

Hi Welcome
Doe's it need to restart after another time period

john

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hippy said:

On the PICAXE M2 chips you can use the 'time' variable which increments about once every second, so can take action when 'time >= 120'.

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westaust55 said:

And after the 2 minutes / 120 seconds, use the
STOP command
Which will stop all action until the power is cycled.

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PhilHornby said:

Something like this? :-

Code:

[COLOR=blue]Start0:
      do
            [/COLOR][COLOR=green];
            ; This is the main program...
            ; ...running at 16MHz
            ;
            [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]Sertxd (cr[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]lf[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=red]"Main program here"[/COLOR][COLOR=blue])
      loop
Start1:
      Pause [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]60000       [/COLOR][COLOR=green];wait one minute
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]Pause [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]60000       [/COLOR][COLOR=green];wait another minute
      ;
      ; we could just stop both tasks...
      ;
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]end   [/COLOR][COLOR=green];(stop could be used - which doesn't power everything down)
      ;
      ; ...or just the main one...
      ;
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]suspend [/COLOR][COLOR=navy]0
      [/COLOR][COLOR=green];
      ; ...in which case, we can carry on and do other things here
      ;
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]sertxd(cr[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=blue]lf[/COLOR][COLOR=black],[/COLOR][COLOR=red]"Task 1 still alive"[/COLOR][COLOR=blue])
      [/COLOR][COLOR=green];
      [/COLOR][COLOR=blue]end [/COLOR][COLOR=green];?[/COLOR]

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Tiago Severino said:

I just need to shutdown after 2 minutes . . . I know but time doesn't increment when in pause command, and I'm using some functions with pause command

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#picaxe 08M2
pause 5000
sertxd(#time)

lbenson said:

time certainly does increment during pauses.

Code:

#picaxe 08M2
pause 5000
sertxd(#time)

This prints "5".

If some of your pauses might carry you over the 120 second mark, break up the pauses into smaller pieces and check time in between pauses.

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