ESP8266 Tidy PWM

If you check out an earlier post I managed to get PWM working nicely on the ESP-12 on the otherwise unused GPIO15. Well, it was a little messy – so I’ve tidied it up with the use of a struct.

Here it is..  You’ll need to make minor mode to the PWM .C page as per my earlier blog.

In your variable setup…

typedef struct {
    uint8_t channel;
    uint16_t frequency;
    uint8_t actual;
    uint8_t bright;
    uint32_t timeout;
    uint8_t minimum;
} PWM;
PWM pwm; 

And a 100 step gamma correction table…

static const uint8_t PWMTable[100] = {0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 
4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9,10, 11, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15, 16, 
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 
46,48, 51, 53, 56, 59, 62, 64, 68, 71, 74, 78, 81, 85, 89, 93, 97, 102, 107, 111, 
116, 122, 127, 133, 139, 145, 151, 157, 164, 171, 178, 186, 194, 202, 210, 218, 
226, 234, 244, 250 ,255 }; 

In your INIT code

pwm.channel = 0;
pwm.frequency=500;
pwm_init(pwm.frequency, 
&pwm.channel);
pwm_set_duty(pwm.channel, 0);
pwm_start(); 

In your timer callback (mine is every 20ms)

if (pwm.timeout) {
    if (--pwm.timeout == 0) pwm.bright = pwm.minimum;
}
if (pwm.actual != pwm.bright) {
    if (pwm.bright > 99) pwm.bright = 99;
    if (pwm.actual > pwm.bright) pwm.actual--;
    else if (pwm.actual < pwm.bright) pwm.actual++;
    pwm.channel = PWMTable[pwm.actual];
    pwm_set_duty(pwm.channel, 0);
    pwm_start();
} 

And that’s it – just adjust pwm.bright from 0-99 and if you set pwm.timeout the light will fade out after a while –and if you set pwm.minimum when it times out it will time out to that value.

Handy for general LED strip lighting, SAD lighting etc.