DMXserial.ino

// - - - - -
// DmxSerial - A hardware supported interface to DMX.
// DmxSerialSend.ino: Sample DMX application for sending 3 DMX values:
// 
// Copyright (c) 2011 by Matthias Hertel, http://www.mathertel.de
// This work is licensed under a BSD style license. See http://www.mathertel.de/License.aspx
// 
// Documentation and samples are available at http://www.mathertel.de/Arduino
// 25.07.2011 creation of the DmxSerial library.
// 10.09.2011 fully control the serial hardware register
//            without using the Arduino Serial (HardwareSerial) class to avoid ISR implementation conflicts.
// 01.12.2011 include file and extension changed to work with the Arduino 1.0 environment
// - - - - -

#include <DMXSerial.h>


// The color fading pattern

int RedList[]   = {255, 128,   0,   0,   0, 128};
int GreenList[] = {  0, 128, 255, 128,   0,   0};
int BlueList[]  = {  0,   0,   0, 128, 255, 128};

int RedLevel, GreenLevel, BlueLevel;

int RedNow = 0;
int GreenNow = 0;
int BlueNow = 0;

int state = 0;

void setup() {
  DMXSerial.init(DMXController);
} // setup


// loop through the rainbow colors 
void loop() {
  RedLevel = RedList[state];
  GreenLevel = GreenList[state];
  BlueLevel = BlueList[state];
  
  if ((RedLevel == RedNow) && (GreenLevel == GreenNow) && (BlueLevel == BlueNow)) {
    state += 1;
    if (state == 6)
      state = 0;

  } else {
    if (RedNow < RedLevel)  RedNow++; 
    if (RedNow > RedLevel)  RedNow--; 
    DMXSerial.write(1, RedNow);

    if (GreenNow < GreenLevel)  GreenNow++; 
    if (GreenNow > GreenLevel)  GreenNow--; 
    DMXSerial.write(2, GreenNow);

    if (BlueNow < BlueLevel)  BlueNow++; 
    if (BlueNow > BlueLevel)  BlueNow--; 
    DMXSerial.write(3, BlueNow);
  } // if

  delayMicroseconds(2000); // wait a little bit
} // loop