Wow, thanks for this note!

Wow, so that might be a bug in the post writing front end. I used a standard markdown formatting for code input, which worked in preview, but broke spectacularly in actual post layout.

I just put the code on Github, feel free to fork, clone, and change. https://github.com/kinasmith/publicLab/tree/master/Riffle

Wow, I'm going to have to try this. I tested some markdown below to see if it could display your code. The editor won't let me preview this comment, so I will post it and see how it looks.

#include Wire.h
#include EnableInterrupt.h
#include DS3231.h
#include LowPower.h

DS3231 rtc; //initialize the Real Time Clock

const int RTC_INT = 5; //This is the interrupt pin
int interval_min = 1; //this is the interval which the RTC will wake the MCU (microcontroller)

//This function is called by the interrupt when it is triggered by the RTC
void pin5_interrupt()
{
disableInterrupt(RTC_INT); //first it Disables the interrupt so it doesn't get retriggered
}

//Puts the MCU into power saving sleep mode and sets the wake time
void enterSleep(int h, int m, int s)
{
//we give it an argument for when we want it to wake up in Hour, Minute, Second rtc.clearINTStatus(); //resets the alarm interrupt status on the RTC
enableInterrupt(RTC_INT, pin5_interrupt, FALLING); //Sets the interrupt on Pin5

rtc.enableInterrupts(h, m, s); //Sets the alarm on the RTC to the specified time
delay(100); //wait for a moment for everything to complete
LowPower.powerDown(SLEEP_FOREVER, ADC_OFF, BOD_OFF); //power down everything until the alarm fires
}

void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(RTC_INT, INPUT_PULLUP);
Wire.begin();
rtc.begin();
rtc.adjust(DateTime((DATE), (TIME))); //this sets the RTC to the computer time. More documentation in other examples
}

void loop()
{
DateTime now = rtc.now(); //get the current time
if (now.second() == 0)
{
//at the top of the minute....
//calculate the next alarm time
int nextHour = now.hour();
int nextMinute = now.minute() + interval_min;
if (nextMinute >= 60)
{
nextMinute -= 60;

//this bit of code assumes an interval time of less than 60 min. There is a more elegant way of doing this, I'm sure.

nextHour += 1;
}
Serial.print("The Current Time is: ");
Serial.print(now.hour());
Serial.print(":");
Serial.print(now.minute());
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Sleeping until: ");
Serial.print(nextHour);
Serial.print(":");
Serial.print(nextMinute);
Serial.println();
enterSleep(nextHour, nextMinute, 0); //enter Sleep until alarm fires
}
}

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Well. I just used <pre and <code tags to wrap the code in, and that worked. would also be super cool to be able to embed Gists i n a post.

There is a bug in the code that I'm going to fix now where it doesn't roll over past midnight. I'll update the github repo. @liz: Thank for noticing!

The names of the libraries which are in < > brackets don't display. I deleted the brackets in my comment above so the libraries would display.

I'm glad you are working on this because I can't get the code in Don's riffle_basic_logging sketch to log at any interval longer than 18 seconds.

I forked the seed Studio DS3231 library and made a little more straightforward and easy to use.

Library is here.

Example Code is here.

Holy cow, it works. I modified your SHT21_Logger.ino sketch to log data from two MCP9808 sensors and one DHT22 sensor and it seems to work great. It was logging fine every ten seconds, so I changed it to every 5 minutes, but I was too eager to get the probes back into the compost pile so I didn't wait around for five minutes to confirm. I might check on it tomorrow to make sure it is working.

Thanks for the new sketch,
Chris

Awesome, I'm glad it worked for you. I did an afternoon/overnight test and it seems reliable. This is the plot of the time difference between logging events. All stable except the one anomoly where the sensor got detached on the bike ride home.

And the Temp/Humidity/Battery Voltage....I am concerned about how much power the Riffle draws. I could only get the it down to about 1.5-2mA even when asleep...which isn't good at all.

I am so excited to try this out. 8 seconds is a ridiculous interval! (Sorry Don.)