very very slow pwm singal generation

[Ian777]

Hey everyone,

I'm starting to dig around and have been fooling with the ledc module, but I don't think it will fulfill my requirements completely. I need to generate a very slow pwm signal, somewhere in the order of having a period of 10 to 20 minutes. The duty will be fixed

Is there anyone I can generate this signal using the esp32?

Any help will really be appreciated!

[WiFive]

Use a timer. How accurate does it have to be?

[Ian777]

Hi WiFive,

This was the other option I was thinking of doing.

I was hoping that maybe the ledc module could do this.

I'd say if the timer has a period of 20 mins with a 10% duty, then a variation of 5% or less would be preferred.

I'm not too familiar with the esp32's timers. How would I go about setting the duty cycle?

Thanks for the help! appreciate it!

[mikronauts]

Just use a timer interrupt

Hi WiFive,

This was the other option I was thinking of doing.

I was hoping that maybe the ledc module could do this.

I'd say if the timer has a period of 20 mins with a 10% duty, then a variation of 5% or less would be preferred.

I'm not too familiar with the esp32's timers. How would I go about setting the duty cycle?

Thanks for the help! appreciate it!

[Ian777]

Just use a timer interrupt

That's what I ended up on doing, Only issue is I need three of these triggering at different times (with an interrupt triggering the respective timer and switching the others off)

Although this code works perfectly to start the timer:

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                gpio_set_level(32, 0);
                gpio_output_disable(GPIO_NUM_32);
                gpio_set_level(27, 0);
                gpio_output_disable(GPIO_NUM_27);
                gpio_output_enable(GPIO_NUM_13);
                restoff_args.callback = Rest_toggle_timer;
                restoff_args.dispatch_method = ESP_TIMER_TASK;
                restoff_args.name = "Restontimer";
                esp_timer_create(&restoff_args,&restoffhandle);
                esp_timer_start_once(restoffhandle,reston*1000000);

Now I want to be able to disable the other timers when this one starts (if there not active it should just carry on) so I changed the code to this:

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                esp_timer_stop(dischargeonhandle);
                err=esp_timer_stop(chargeonhandle);
                gpio_set_level(32, 0);
                gpio_output_disable(GPIO_NUM_32);
                gpio_set_level(27, 0);
                gpio_output_disable(GPIO_NUM_27);
                gpio_output_enable(GPIO_NUM_13);
                restoff_args.callback = Rest_toggle_timer;
                restoff_args.dispatch_method = ESP_TIMER_TASK;
                restoff_args.name = "Restontimer";
                esp_timer_create(&restoff_args,&restoffhandle);
                esp_timer_start_once(restoffhandle,reston*1000000);

Sadly it works when the timers are active, although when the timer linked to dischargeonhandle and chargeonhandle isn't active the esp32 crashes. Is there anyway around this?