Yeah, I have the same problem. The only solution I found is to rewrite a lot of the code. Still ongoing, though.

For you, Timer1 is probably the best candidate, unless you have already some use for it, like in my case.

A quick hack is to free Timer0: it is currently (ab)used by the wire library, which provides the typical arduino timing. But you can remove/rename the file wire.cpp to something that will not be identified as source (ex: wire._cpp) and comment out the init() function call from the main() function in the main.c file.

Normal Arduino stile time functions will not work, of course.

Unfortunatelly Arduino SW really lacks the structured design that would allow it to be useful in more complex cases and most of the libraries make exclusive use of resources that could be shared, timer being the most prominent example.

Port ISRs is another.

Btw, if you happen to use a SW serial library, it's already game over, as it busy loops inbetween bits, in interrupt context (!), rather than using a timer.

Yeah, I have the same problem. The only solution I found is to rewrite a lot of the code. Still ongoing, though.

For you, Timer1 is probably the best candidate, unless you have already some use for it, like in my case.

A quick hack is to free Timer0: it is currently (ab)used by the wire library, which provides the typical arduino timing. But you can remove/rename the file wiring.cpp to something that will not be identified as source (ex: wiring._cpp) and comment out the init() function call from the main() function in the main.c file.

Normal Arduino stile time functions will not work, of course.

Unfortunatelly Arduino SW really lacks the structured design that would allow it to be useful in more complex cases and most of the libraries make exclusive use of resources that could be shared, timer being the most prominent example.

Port ISRs is another.

Btw, if you happen to use a SW serial library, it's already game over, as it busy loops inbetween bits, in interrupt context (!), rather than using a timer.