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I was thinking of calculating vehicle speed in a timer callback-function set to be called at 1 hz, but am unsure what I'm allowed to do inside the callback. Can I declare and use local variables, call other functions, ...? Or is there a better way to implement speed calculation when I know how many pulses the inductive sensor gives per distance unit?

There are rules about ISRs:

https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/ ... rules.html

Unless you have a time-sensitive action to take, you should consider using micropython.schedule

https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/ ... n.schedule

With this, you can schedule a callback-function to be executed “as soon as possible” and it will be NOT in ISR context so there’s no restrictions like memory allocation.


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So I schedule a callback-function in the timer callback-function?
What do I do with the arg-argument of the schedule-function if I'm scheduling a function with no args?
Thanx!

Philosophix wrote:So I schedule a callback-function in the timer callback-function?
What do I do with the arg-argument of the schedule-function if I'm scheduling a function with no args?
Thanx!

Pass in 0 like the timer example here

https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/ ... #isr-rules



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