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brackendawson / ChristmasLights

Christmas lights program for Arduino/MSP430 and WS2801 LED Pixels.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Red LED on pattern code taking too long wont always work. #1

Closed brackendawson closed 11 years ago

brackendawson commented 11 years ago

Currently it lights the Red LED if the USI code is still transmitting when we start to calculate the next frame. If it's time for a new frame when the last one is still being processed it probably won't light. Not sure but I might also be missing 25 FPS by not counting some timer ticks.

brackendawson commented 11 years ago

The second part of this bug (missing 25FPS) is valid. I can fix it by using the second, higher priority TImerA0 interrupt to keep counting timer wraps while the pattern's frame code is running.

Using another clock source isn't really an option, the VLO varies too much from one chip to the next.

brackendawson commented 11 years ago

Does quoting the commit associate the bug with it?

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