Rover 5: how to measure distance with one encoder output

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I recently bought a Rover 5, Arduino Uno and 2A Motor Shield and made my first sketches.
I would now like to use the encoders to control the motors and I have a question about that.

I would like to measure distance and am not interested in direction.
That must be possible with one encoder output but how?

I experimented with Encoder.h. .
That provides the desired distance information, but requires two encoder outputs (myEnc.Read) – and I only want to use one encoder output.

I also experimented with digitalRead () but that only delivers “1” and “0” and no distance information.

I'm stuck and am looking for help and/or suggestions.

Thanks in advance. Regards, Ko

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Thanks for your replies. I solved the distance measuring with an interrupt (sub routine), as follows:

 

// Sketch @ distance determination with 1 encoder output using an interrupt (INT0)

  

volatile int distance = 0;

 

void setup() {

   // EncoderPin attached to pin 2 (Uno INT 0) | for distance measurement with one encoder output!

    attachInterrupt (0,ISR_Encoder,CHANGE);

  }

 

void loop() {

  }

 

void ISR_Encoder()

{

  distance = distance + 1;

}

 

Kind regards, Ko