MP3 player use with PIR Sensor and Servo

[Anonymous]

The MP3 player works great with your library.  Thank you for sharing it.  I would like to play a track and write to a servo if the PIR sensor goes HIGH for a Halloween project.  I am using a Parallax PIR sensor and a HITEC 311 standard servo with the standard Servo.h library.  I am using pins D5 (for PIR) and D10 (for servo), but the servo doesn’t respond to commands and starts to jitter. I suspect a there are interrupt collisions with the servo and the MP3 library, or maybe I am using the wrong pins?  I am not library code savvy.  Any suggestions for a work around to get the servo to work with the MP3 Player at the same time?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am working with similar settings and for my project I am using D12 for the PIR and D10 to light a button’s LED.

Hope this helps.

 

 

[Bill]

Troy replied to the notification email instead of posting here. His response:

 

I’ve had no issues using PIR sensors and LEDs with the MP3 player.  That works as expected.  It’s only when introducing a servo that operation goes awry.  Perhaps the MP3 player simply isn’t compatible with the timing of servos, unless there is a modification I could do?

[Anonymous]

I found a solution to use a servo and the MP3 player at the same time.

I used an Arduino with the MP3 player and a PIR sensor as the MASTER, and used I2C and the Wire Library with analog pins 4 & 5 to connect to a second Arduino as a SLAVE which used the Servo Library and a servo.  When the PIR senses motion, it kicks off a track and sends a Wire command to the Slave to turn the servo.  When track is over, it sends another Wire command to stop the servo.  Works like a charm.

This wasn’t a MP3 Library issue, but rather  me trying to figure out a working solution to my project.

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