Narcoleptic on Arduino Pro Mini problem

[hughg]

Hi,

I can not seem to get Narcoleptic.delay to work on my Arduino Pro Mini.
The Pro Mini is the 3.3V 8MHz version.
Not a problem on my UNO while running a modified blink app.
What could be the problem?
The task requires minimum draw while powered by a supercapacitor for a minute or so.
The actual app uses three AtoD pins and all but one DIO pins.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[hughg]

Interesting you should mention this as it has crossed my mind.
I have not looked in to altering Arduino devices from stock.
Frankly I was hopping to avoid going too deep in low level tweaks to get things right.
Is this a fairly simple task?

I have verified that the Narcoleptic.delay is in fact capable of working on the Mini Pro by using a modified “Blink” program.
Something in must code must be in conflict with the Narcoleptic.delay.

Other includes used:
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
#include <string.h>

[hughg]

I removed the Narcoleptic.delay from my code and inserted it in various places just to see if there was hardware dependencies or lib conflicts.
It worked every where except where I want it, following a serial.print().
So as it turned out I need to allow the data que’d in the serial buffer to be clocked out of the serial pin.
The fix was insert delay(n), which allows the serial data to be clocked then call Narcoleptic.delay(n).
The results were very good.
Thanks.

[carlitos]

It is hard to say why it does not work. Perhaps you could try to upgrade the Mini Pro bootloader to be the same as your Arduino Uno.

[carlitos]

SoftwareSerial is probably interfering. Try removing it.

[hughg]

Interesting you should mention this as it has crossed my mind.
I have not looked in to altering Arduino devices from stock.
Frankly I was hopping to avoid going too deep in low level tweaks to get things right.
Is this a fairly simple task?