While extensively testing manual mode, a spike in temperature of the motor was noticed. This is largely due to constant ON of pins 8 and 9 coming from Arduino after first use of the motor. This was addressed by setting these pins as active LOW when not in use and setting them active HIGH before the motor begins to move. A delay of 10ms was included before and after activating pins in order to not activate the motor before operation. When I was doing independent testing of the system using power bank, the system would occasionally reset, but this issue did not come in testing with rechargeable battery in Jordan's blinds set up.
Manual mode was tested by both Jordan and I on two different blinds set-ups and worked as intended (video can be seen in Jordan's post). The custom mode was tested with 4 timers, each timer was set to run for 1 minute, wait 1 minute before starting new timer. After running the system for long periods of time, the internal time was slightly off, but not significant enough to affect the system. Timers used are shown in picture below, followed by a video link of a time-lapse of custom mode operation.
The team meeting was conducted with everyone present to observe the manual/ custom mode operation. We discussed the placement of the light sensor on the blinds and wire placement throughout the system.
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