Passing a void (*fn) from a class - timer

Question

I'm writing an auto display turn-off function with ESP32 on Arduino framework with PIO.
I have a Screen class for handling all of the screen functions.
void Screen::turn_off_screen(){
digitalWrite(SCREEN_ENABLE, LOW);
}
void turn_off_screen_wrapper()
{
Serial.println("turn_off_screen_wrapper called");
if (c_screen_Instance != nullptr)
{
c_screen_Instance->turn_off_screen();
}
}
void Screen::auto_display_power_off(int timeout){
Serial.println("auto_display_power_off called");
c_screen_Instance = this;
auto_off_timer = timerBegin(0, 80, true);
Serial.println("auto_off_timer ran");
timerAttachInterrupt(auto_off_timer, &turn_off_screen_wrapper, true);
Serial.println("timerAttachInterrupt ran");
//Converts given seconds from us to seconds
timerAlarmWrite(auto_off_timer,timeout*1000000,false);
timerAlarmEnable(auto_off_timer);
}
The code compiles however I get this when I run it on the board.
auto_display_power_off called
[E][esp32-hal-cpu.c:93] addApbChangeCallback(): duplicate func=400811F8 arg=3FFBDC54
auto_off_timer ran
The screen never gets turned off of course since the callback never runs. Any ideas why this is happening?

Answer 1

is c_screen_Instance global?
is auto_off_timer global?
Consider providing a bit more of your code.
But anyway.
bool addApbChangeCallback(void * arg, apb_change_cb_t cb){
initApbChangeCallback();
apb_change_t * c = (apb_change_t*)malloc(sizeof(apb_change_t));
if(!c){
log_e("Callback Object Malloc Failed");
return false;
}
c->next = NULL;
c->prev = NULL;
c->arg = arg;
c->cb = cb;
xSemaphoreTake(apb_change_lock, portMAX_DELAY);
if(apb_change_callbacks == NULL){
apb_change_callbacks = c;
} else {
apb_change_t * r = apb_change_callbacks;
// look for duplicate callbacks
while( (r != NULL ) && !((r->cb == cb) && ( r->arg == arg))) r = r->next;
if (r) {
log_e("duplicate func=%8p arg=%8p",c->cb,c->arg);
free(c);
xSemaphoreGive(apb_change_lock);
return false;
}
else {
c->next = apb_change_callbacks;
apb_change_callbacks-> prev = c;
apb_change_callbacks = c;
}
}
xSemaphoreGive(apb_change_lock);
return true;
}
This is addApbChangeCallback's declaration.
Your error comes from this line :
while( (r != NULL ) && !((r->cb == cb) && ( r->arg == arg))) r = r->next;
Where r it's a struct to hold all the callbacks.
This error indeed indicates this callback function was already assigned somewhere in your code. r is global, so your code is re-assigning the same callback twice.
Try to either only assign it once, or to unassign the function before assigning it again with removeApbChangeCallback(void * arg, apb_change_cb_t cb) or timerDetachInterrupt
I've also found a reported issue related to timerAttach on the current version here: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/6730
Try to roll back the Platform PIO's version to a more stable one:
# instead of espressif32
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32.git#<tag-version>
Check on the git link for the available tags you can use.

Answer 2

Problem was that I was attaching the interrupt in the void loop(). Which would run way faster than the actual timer. After moving it to setup (Setup being a placeholder) I plan on having it on a Hardware interrupt it worked as expected.