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Lua sleep function in milliseconds

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Lua Socekt must be use in order to call sleep function in milliseconds.

An example to install Lua Socket to OpenWRT

opkg update
opkg install luasocket

 

An example to sleep 10 milliseconds

require "socket"
socket.sleep(0.010)

 

Lua can only sleep/wait in seconds (not milliseconds) without install Lua Socket. Code below shows the sleep funciton.

function delay_s(delay)
   delay = delay or 1
   local time_to = os.time() + delay
   while os.time() < time_to do end
end

 

Example to sleep 5 seconds

delay_s(5)

 

 

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