fix(nrf52): drive the PWM RTTTL sequencer from a FreeRTOS timer - #11613
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds timer-driven RTTTL playback for nRF52 platforms. PWM notification playback uses platform-specific wrappers, and regular buzzer tones are suppressed during active PWM RTTTL playback. ChangesnRF52 RTTTL playback
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR moves nRF52 PWM ringtone advancement to a FreeRTOS timer, but the current head still has unsynchronized playback-state checks and can leave timer and polling advancement active after rejected timer commands. That can reprogram the buzzer during a ringtone or produce overlapping sequencing, so the synchronization and fallback ownership paths should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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ExternalNotificationModule->>NRF52RtttlTicker: Start PWM RTTTL
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NRF52RtttlTicker->>NonBlockingRTTTL: Advance playback
NonBlockingRTTTL-->>NRF52RtttlTicker: Return playback state
NRF52RtttlTicker->>FreeRTOS_Timer: Stop when playback finishes
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In `@src/modules/ExternalNotificationModule.cpp`:
- Around line 66-93: Implement a mutex-protected pwmRtttlIsPlaying() wrapper for
the playback-state query, using the existing nRF52 ticker synchronization where
applicable and the standard RTTTL state otherwise. Replace both direct
playback-state reads in ExternalNotificationModule::runOnce() with this wrapper,
preserving the current behavior on non-nRF52 targets.
In `@src/platform/nrf52/NRF52RtttlTicker.cpp`:
- Line 54: Update the timer-start logic around xTimerStart in NRF52RtttlTicker
so a pdFAIL result is handled explicitly. When the start command is rejected,
preserve or restore the polling fallback state used by pump(), or retry starting
the timer, ensuring playback continues advancing instead of relying on a
non-null inactive timer.
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| // The PWM buzzer sequencer is normally polled from this cooperative thread, so a slow display refresh | ||
| // delays the next note. nRF52 runs it from a FreeRTOS timer instead (NRF52RtttlTicker). | ||
| static void pwmRtttlBegin(uint8_t pin, const char *song) | ||
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| #ifdef ARCH_NRF52 | ||
| NRF52RtttlTicker::begin(pin, song); | ||
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| rtttl::begin(pin, song); | ||
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| static void pwmRtttlPump() | ||
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| #ifdef ARCH_NRF52 | ||
| NRF52RtttlTicker::pump(); | ||
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| rtttl::play(); | ||
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| static void pwmRtttlStop() | ||
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| #ifdef ARCH_NRF52 | ||
| NRF52RtttlTicker::stop(); | ||
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| rtttl::stop(); | ||
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The NonBlockingRTTTL library (authored by end2endzone) is a non-blocking Arduino library designed to play RTTTL (Ring Tone Text Transfer Protocol) melodies without halting the execution of other code [1][2]. The library enables multitasking, such as monitoring inputs or sensors, while audio is playing [1][3]. In the library header, NonBlockingRtttl.h, the core functionality is accessed through the rtttl namespace [1]. Key functions include: - rtttl::begin(pin, melody): Initializes the library with a specified buzzer pin and RTTTL melody string [1][4]. - rtttl::play: This function must be called repeatedly in the main loop to update the library's state and process note timing [1][4]. - rtttl::isPlaying: Returns true if a melody is currently playing, and false when the song finishes [1][4]. - rtttl::stop: Immediately stops the currently playing melody [1][4]. - rtttl::done: An alternative to isPlaying to check if the playback has finished [1][4]. Version 1.4.0 is a specific release of this library [5]. A typical implementation pattern in the loop function is to check if the library is playing; if not, you may trigger the next melody, otherwise, call rtttl::play to ensure playback continues [1][4]. Example implementation structure: void loop { if (!rtttl::isPlaying) { // Logic to start next song using rtttl::begin } else { rtttl::play; // Essential to call this to progress the melody } } [1][4]
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- 4: https://end2endzone.com/nonblockingrtttl-a-non-blocking-arduino-library-for-playing-rtttl-melodies/
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Synchronize the PWM playback-state query.
NonBlockingRTTTL stores playback state in a non-atomic bool. On nRF52, NRF52RtttlTicker::onTick() updates it through rtttl::play() while ExternalNotificationModule::runOnce() reads it directly at Lines 113 and 206. These accesses can race. Add a mutex-protected pwmRtttlIsPlaying() wrapper and use it for both queries.
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In `@src/modules/ExternalNotificationModule.cpp` around lines 66 - 93, Implement a
mutex-protected pwmRtttlIsPlaying() wrapper for the playback-state query, using
the existing nRF52 ticker synchronization where applicable and the standard
RTTTL state otherwise. Replace both direct playback-state reads in
ExternalNotificationModule::runOnce() with this wrapper, preserving the current
behavior on non-nRF52 targets.
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The NonBlockingRTTTL sequencer was polled from ExternalNotificationModule's cooperative thread every 25 ms, so the start of each note waited behind whatever the main loop was doing. On boards whose display path stalls the loop for tens of milliseconds per frame (TFT_eSPI on nRF52 pushes each pixel as two blocking single-byte SPI transactions) that lands as audible gaps between notes exactly while the notification banner is being drawn. tone() is hardware timed on nRF52, so only note starts need servicing. Run rtttl::play() from a 2 ms FreeRTOS software timer; begin()/stop() stay on the main thread under a mutex, and the timer stops itself when the song ends. Falls back to main-loop polling if the timer cannot be created. Other architectures are unchanged.
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Reviewed the premise against the toolchain, it holds. tone() in framework-arduinoadafruitnrf52/cores/nRF5/Tone.cpp configures PWM2 and returns, no delay(), no interrupt handler. configUSE_TIMERS 1, configTIMER_TASK_PRIORITY 2 against a prio 1 loop task, so the daemon does preempt the blocking repaint.
Also verified: all four mutating rtttl:: call sites are wrapped, the two remaining raw isPlaying() reads are a single bool; onTick uses a zero timeout take so the daemon never blocks, and every stopNow() caller is task context, so portMAX_DELAY in begin()/stop() is safe; stop and tick interleave correctly in both orders; arduino_base strips -<platform/> and variants/nrf52840/nrf52.ini:63 adds +<platform/nrf52/>, so nRF54L15/Zephyr never compiles the new file and ARCH_NRF52 is undefined there.
Six points inline. Only the first is a correctness issue.
| if (xSemaphoreTake(lock, 0) != pdTRUE) | ||
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| if (rtttl::isPlaying()) | ||
| rtttl::play(); |
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The mutex covers NonBlockingRTTTL's state, not Tone.cpp's. tone() on this core mutates a file-static _pwm_config and drives PWM2 through a non-atomic stopPlayback -> initializeFromPulseCountAndTimePeriod -> applyConfiguration -> startPlayback sequence. src/buzz/buzz.cpp:155 calls tone() from the main thread and can now interleave with this callback.
InputBroker::handleInputEvent closes the button path by calling stopNow() and returning early while nagging(), but these callers do not go through it:
src/gps/GPS.cpp:238,:243,:2326,:2337(playGPSEnableBeep/playGPSDisableBeepon lock and sleep transitions)src/graphics/niche/InkHUD/Events.cpp:61,:99(playChirp/playBoop)
Failure mode: the main thread is preempted between applyConfiguration() and startPlayback(), the daemon reconfigures and starts its own note, the main thread resumes and triggers a SEQSTART computed for a config the registers no longer hold. One wrong frequency or wrong length note. Not a hang, since both callers always pass a non-zero duration, so the infinite LOOPSDONE_SEQSTART0 shorts path is unreachable.
One line in playTones() covers it, and also fixes the pre-existing same-thread case where a system beep stomps a ringtone note:
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Took your one-liner (38d845b), scoped to the tone() loop in a72ae0b. rtttl::isPlaying() only tracks the PWM sequencer, and runOnce() starts the I2S and PWM ringtone paths from independent conditions — only triggerBuzzerOutput() treats them as exclusive — so above the I2S branches it could silence I2S system tones on a board where PWM rtttl happened to be running.
NonBlockingRtttl.h is only a lib_dep under arduino_base, and ExternalNotificationModule.h carries a stub rtttl class for Portduino/STM32WL. Rather than pull that header into buzz.cpp I mirrored the guard, so the include and the check are both behind !ARCH_PORTDUINO && !ARCH_STM32WL.
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2 ms is 512 daemon wakeups per second. The stall being fixed is tens of milliseconds, so 5 ms is inaudible here and cuts the wake rate by 2.5x.
pdMS_TO_TICKS(kTickMs) must also not round to zero. At configTICK_RATE_HZ 1024 it is 2 ticks. Below 500 Hz it becomes 0, xTimerCreate returns NULL, and the fix degrades to the old polling silently. Worth a comment.
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5 ms now, with the wake-rate reasoning and the pdMS_TO_TICKS() rounding note in the comment (38d845b).
Added a static_assert(kTickMs * configTICK_RATE_HZ >= 1000) alongside it, so lowering the period or landing on a slower tick rate is a build error rather than a silent fall back to polling.
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| lock = xSemaphoreCreateMutex(); | ||
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| timer = xTimerCreate("rtttl", pdMS_TO_TICKS(kTickMs), pdTRUE, nullptr, onTick); |
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configTIMER_TASK_STACK_DEPTH is 256 words on this core, 1 KB, shared with Bluefruit's timer callbacks. onTick -> rtttl::play -> nextnote -> tone -> applyConfiguration is now the deepest chain on that stack, with a uint32_t pins[4] and several 64-bit locals. Likely fits, but one uxTaskGetStackHighWaterMark(xTimerGetTimerDaemonTaskHandle()) reading on the T-Echo Plus would confirm it.
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Measured on a T-Echo Plus: uxTaskGetStackHighWaterMark(xTimerGetTimerDaemonTaskHandle()) logged once after a ringtone finishes reports 195 of 256 words free, so onTick -> rtttl::play -> nextnote -> tone -> applyConfiguration peaks at 61 words / 244 bytes — with Bluefruit's timer callbacks sharing the stack.
Dropped the probe and left the figure as a comment on onTick (6408bcd) so anything that deepens that chain later has a baseline.
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| LOG_ERROR("RTTTL timer unavailable, falling back to main-loop playback"); |
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Once creation fails this logs on every begin(), and begin() runs again on each nag restart. One-shot flag, or move the log to the caller.
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One-shot flag in ensureInit() (38d845b). Kept it there rather than at the caller so the fallback path in begin() stays a single branch.
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| xTimerStop(timer, pdMS_TO_TICKS(10)); |
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Return ignored here while begin() checks the symmetric xTimerStart. It does self-heal: rtttl::stop() clears playing and the next onTick calls xTimerStop(timer, 0). The asymmetry still reads as an oversight; a (void) cast plus a one line comment would settle it.
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(void) cast plus a note on why a rejected stop self-heals (38d845b). Chasing that further turned up a real gap: timerRunning going false doesn't prove the timer stopped, so a rejected stop followed by a rejected start left pump() polling from the main thread while onTick() was still firing — two threads in rtttl::play() and tone(). pump() now takes the same mutex non-blocking (f6a54c6).
| pwmRtttlBegin(config.device.buzzer_gpio, rtttlConfig.ringtone); | ||
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On nRF52 the module thread no longer sequences anything on this path, it only polls for song end and nag restart, so the 25 ms rate is now dead weight. Not a bug, and fine to leave if you want the diff scoped to one concern.
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Left as is -- the 25 ms poll is what bounds the nag restart. At EXT_NOTIFICATION_MODULE_OUTPUT_MS (1000 ms) a nagging ringtone would get up to a second of silence between repeats. Worth revisiting if the nag path gets restructured, but it'd need its own timing rather than falling back to the slow rate.
develop extracted the inline buzzer/vibra alert blocks in handleReceived into triggerBuzzerOutput() and triggerVibraOutput(). Keep the extracted form and move the pwmRtttlBegin() call into triggerBuzzerOutput(), so the new startNotification() waypoint and geofence path routes through the ticker as well.
Review follow-ups for the RTTTL FreeRTOS timer. tone() on nRF52 mutates a file-static _pwm_config and drives PWM2 through a non-atomic stopPlayback -> initializeFromPulseCountAndTimePeriod -> applyConfiguration -> startPlayback sequence. The ticker's mutex covers NonBlockingRTTTL's state, not that, so a main-thread playTones() caller that is not routed through InputBroker's nagging() early return (GPS lock/sleep beeps, InkHUD chirps) can now interleave with the timer callback and trigger a SEQSTART for a config the registers no longer hold. Bail out of playTones() while a ringtone is playing; that also fixes the pre-existing same-thread case where a system beep stomped a ringtone note. Also: 5 ms instead of 2 ms (the stall being fixed is tens of milliseconds, and this cuts the daemon wake rate by 2.5x), with a static_assert so the period can never round down to zero ticks and degrade to polling unnoticed; one-shot the timer-creation error so nag restarts do not repeat it; report the timer daemon's stack high water mark once per boot, since onTick -> tone is now the deepest chain on its 1 KB stack; and cast away the xTimerStop() return with a note on why a rejected stop is harmless.
uxTaskGetStackHighWaterMark(xTimerGetTimerDaemonTaskHandle()) on a T-Echo Plus reports 195 of 256 words free after a ringtone, so onTick -> tone peaks at 61 words. Drop the one-shot probe and keep the figure as a comment.
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timerRunningrecords the result of queuingxTimerStart(), not the timer’s active state. IfxTimerStop()fails, the auto-reload timer can remain active. If the nextxTimerStart()also fails,pump()can callrtttl::play()whileonTick()calls it through the active timer.Do not enable polling until the timer is stopped. Protect
pump()with the same lock, or makeonTick()honor an atomic fallback state. Add a test for rejected stop and start commands while the timer is active.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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-// The stall this works around is tens of milliseconds, so 5 ms is inaudible and keeps the timer -// daemon at 200 wakeups/s. Must stay above one tick (configTICK_RATE_HZ is 1024 here) or -// pdMS_TO_TICKS() rounds to zero, xTimerCreate() fails, and we silently drop back to polling. +// Keep the period above one tick so pdMS_TO_TICKS() does not round to zero. +// Use a short period to avoid gaps during main-loop stalls.As per coding guidelines, C++ comments must be minimal and one or two lines maximum.
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In `@src/buzz/buzz.cpp`:
- Around line 121-124: Restrict the rtttl::isPlaying() early return to the
use_pwm tone path in playTones, so it does not suppress I2S playback when
use_i2s_as_buzzer is enabled independently. Preserve the notification-ringtone
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In `@src/platform/nrf52/NRF52RtttlTicker.cpp`:
- Around line 67-69: Ensure RTTTL timer and polling playback remain mutually
exclusive in the timer lifecycle around xTimerStart(), xTimerStop(), pump(), and
onTick(): only enable polling after confirming the timer is stopped, and
synchronize pump() with onTick() using the existing lock or an atomic fallback
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In `@src/platform/nrf52/NRF52RtttlTicker.cpp`:
- Around line 14-16: Shorten the timer-period comment above the relevant ticker
configuration to two lines while retaining both the requirement that the period
exceed one tick to avoid zero-tick timer creation failure and the rationale that
5 ms limits audible stalling while keeping the timer daemon at 200 wakeups per
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The early return sat above the I2S branches, but rtttl::isPlaying() only tracks the PWM sequencer. runOnce() starts the I2S and PWM ringtone paths from separate conditions - only triggerBuzzerOutput() treats them as exclusive - so enabling use_i2s_as_buzzer alongside use_pwm, or any HAS_I2S_SPEAKER_NRF52 board, could leave the flag set while I2S owns system tones and silence them for no reason. Move it next to the tone() loop whose registers it protects.
…llback timerRunning going false does not prove the timer stopped: a stop rejected by a full command queue, in stop() or in onTick() itself, leaves the auto-reload timer live. If the next begin() then has its start rejected too, pump() polled from the main thread while onTick() was still firing, and two threads drove rtttl::play() and tone() with nothing between them. Take the same mutex in pump(), non blocking, so whichever path is live has the sequencer to itself. play() is time gated on noteDelay, so a tick skipped for a contended lock is a no-op rather than a dropped note.
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In `@src/buzz/buzz.cpp`:
- Around line 158-161: Synchronize the RTTTL playback check in playTones() with
NRF52RtttlTicker::onTick() so the state read and PWM operation cannot race with
rtttl::play(). Add or reuse a mutex-protected status query, or serialize both
operations through the ticker, while preserving the early return when a ringtone
owns the PWM.
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The NonBlockingRTTTL sequencer is advanced from
ExternalNotificationModule::runOnce(), whichasks for a 25 ms interval while a ringtone plays.
tone()on nRF52 is hardware timed, so a noteends on time, but the next note only starts when the module thread next runs. Every note
boundary therefore carries a gap as long as whatever else the cooperative loop was doing.
That is audible on boards whose display path blocks the loop. TFT_eSPI's generic processor
backend pushes each pixel as two single-byte
SPI.transfer()calls, and each of those is aseparate blocking
nrfx_spim_xfertransaction, so a repaint costs tens of milliseconds — and aringtone is exactly when the screen is busiest, since the notification wakes the display and
setFastFramerate()raises it to 30 fps. E-ink boards with a PWM buzzer have the same exposurewith a much longer stall. The result is dropped or ragged notes for the duration of the alert.
This moves note scheduling off the main loop on nRF52:
NRF52RtttlTickerrunsrtttl::play()from a 2 ms FreeRTOS software timer.begin()/stop()stay on the calling thread under a mutex; the timer callback takes itnon-blocking and skips a tick rather than blocking the timer service task. The timer stops
itself when the song ends.
ExternalNotificationModulereaches the sequencer through three thin wrappers on theuse_pwmpath. Other architectures call
rtttl::exactly as before. The nRF52 I2S-speaker path(
nrf52RtttlPlayer) is untouched.Applies to any nRF52 board using the PWM buzzer.
Testing
Tested on Heltec Mesh Node T1 (TFT), Seeed Wio Tracker L1 (OLED) and LilyGo T-Echo Plus (e-ink):
ringtones play cleanly while the notification banner draws and the panel refreshes, where they
previously stuttered. Both display architectures the fix targets are covered.
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