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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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Hi allObjects, thanks for your comment. I think that my problem was that I didn't completely understand how the "watch" function works, and (so far) my difficulties seem to have been solved by changing the hardware debouncing circuit that sends the pulses to the ESP8266. My diagnosis is that "watch" catches all the transitions of an undebounced switch input and the "debounce" option in "watch" happens in software. Thus, if there are too many inputs from undebounced switches, the "watch" queue becomes overloaded. The other thing I found is that "watch" really needs a fast edge input. The frustrating/fun part of my working with Espruino is that I have relearn to do all the things I used to know how to do in C.