Controller Buzzer as Distance Decreases

[barkster]

Thanks, yeah I just took code from some some example and worked with it and being a crappy programmer I didn't even think about the int & string thing. I will give that a try.

Stopping turning the buzzer on does not turn it off. You need to stop the buzzer.

Why are dist and dist2 strings? You never use them as a string, so why convert a nice float to a string only to have to convert it back to a float whenever you use it? And why convert the float to an int? You never need the value as an int.

Use function arguments instead of duplicate code. distance and distance2 are the same function.

from time import sleep, time
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
from gpiozero import PWMLED, Buzzer
 
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO_BEEP = Buzzer(18)
GPIO_TRIGGER = 23 #rx
GPIO_ECHO = 24 #tx
GPIO2_TRIGGER = 25 #rx
GPIO2_ECHO = 8 #tx
GPIO.setup(GPIO_TRIGGER, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(GPIO_ECHO, GPIO.IN)
GPIO.setup(GPIO2_TRIGGER, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.setup(GPIO2_ECHO, GPIO.IN)
 
led = PWMLED(21) 
led2 = PWMLED(27) 

def distance(trigger, echo):
    GPIO.output(trigger, True)
    sleep(0.00001)
    GPIO.output(trigger, False)
  
    while GPIO.input(echo) == 0:
        pass
    start_time = time()
  
    while GPIO.input(echo) == 1:
        pass
    return (time() - start_time) * 17150

def ledbrightness(num):
    if num <= 60:
        brightness = 1
    elif num <= 200:
        brightness = .1
    else:
        brightness = 0
    return brightness
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        while True:
            dist = distance(GPIO_TRIGGER, GPIO_ECHO)
            led.value = ledbrightness(dist)
            
            if 50 < dist < 100: 
                speed = dist/1000
                print("Speed:", speed)
                GPIO_BEEP.beep(speed, speed)

            dist2 = distance(GPIO2_TRIGGER, GPIO2_ECHO)
            led2.value = ledbrightness(dist2)

            print(dist, " : ", dist2)
            time.sleep(0.5)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("Measurement stopped by User")
        #GPIO.cleanup()

Maybe the buzzer logic should be:

if dist < 100: 
    speed = max(0.5, dist/1000)
    GPIO_BEEP.beep(speed, speed)
else:
    GPIO_BEEP.off()