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/** BLUETOOTH DATA PACKETING FUNCTIONS */
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/** The two functions in this section handle packeting the data and sending it over USART to the bluetooth module. The two functions are
* identically named so are called the in the same way, however the first is run if the value passed to it is a float and the second is
* run if the value passed into it is an integer (an override function). For all intents and purposes you can ignore this and simply call
* 'sendData(identifier, value);' using one of the defined identifiers and either a float or integer value to send informaion over BT.
* identifier: see definitions at start of code
* value: the value to send (typically some caluclated value from a sensor)
void sendData(char identifier, float value)
if (!DEBUG_MODE) // Only runs if debug mode is LOW (0)
// It is impossible to send null bytes over Serial connection
// so instead we define zero as 0xFF or 11111111 i.e. 255
// Values under 128 are sent as a float
// i.e. value = dataByte1 + dataByte2 / 100
tempDecimal = (value - (float) integer) * 100;
decimal = (int) tempDecimal;
dataByte1 = (byte) integer;
dataByte2 = (byte) decimal;
// Values above 127 are sent as integer
// i.e. value = dataByte1 * 100 + dataByte2
hundreds = (int)(value / 100);
tens = value - hundreds * 100;
dataByte1 = (byte)hundreds;
//dataByte1 = dataByte1 || 0x10000000; //flag for integer send value
// Send the data in the format { [id] [1] [2] }
Serial.write(identifier);
/** override for integer values*/
void sendData(char identifier, int value)
dataByte2 = 0xFF; //we know there's no decimal component as an int was passed in
hundreds = (int)(value / 100);
tens = value - hundreds * 100;
dataByte1 = (byte)hundreds;
dataByte1 += 128; //sets MSB High to indicate Integer value
Serial.write(identifier);