Software Timers
[API]

FreeRTOS Software Timer API Functions

• xTimerCreate
• xTimerCreateStatic
• xTimerIsTimerActive
• pvTimerGetTimerID
• pcTimerGetName
• vTimerSetReloadMode
• xTimerStart
• xTimerStop
• xTimerChangePeriod
• xTimerDelete
• xTimerReset
• xTimerStartFromISR
• xTimerStopFromISR
• xTimerChangePeriodFromISR
• xTimerResetFromISR
• pvTimerGetTimerID
• vTimerSetTimerID
• xTimerGetTimerDaemonTaskHandle
• xTimerPendFunctionCall
• xTimerPendFunctionCallFromISR
• pcTimerGetName
• xTimerGetPeriod
• xTimerGetExpiryTime

xTimerGetTimerDaemonTaskHandle

TaskHandle_t xTimerGetTimerDaemonTaskHandle( void );
		

Returns:

Returns the task handle associated with the software timer daemon (or service) task. If configUSE_TIMERS is set to 1 in FreeRTOSConfig.h, then the timer daemon task is created automatically when the RTOS scheduler is started.

pcTimerGetName

const char * pcTimerGetName( TimerHandle_t xTimer )
		

Parameters:

Returns the human readable name assigned to a timer when the timer was created.

xTimer

The handle of the timer being queried.

Returns:

A pointer to the timer’s name, which is a standard NULL terminated C string.