Arduino Uno keeps looping on setup() everytime I press a specific button on the remote

Question

I'm trying to decode my Panasonic television remote using the IR_RECEIVE sketch below.

When I press the remote's buttons it works fine and Iget the values, except from when I press the power button - the setup() function executes.

This is the code:

/* Raw IR decoder sketch!
This sketch/program uses the Arduno and a PNA4602 to
decode IR received. This can be used to make a IR receiver
(by looking for a particular code)
or transmitter (by pulsing an IR LED at ~38KHz for the
durations detected
Code is public domain, check out www.ladyada.net and adafruit.com
for more tutorials!
*/
#define IRpin_PIN PIND
#define IRpin 2
#define MAXPULSE 65000
#define RESOLUTION 20 
uint16_t pulses[100][2]; // pair is high and low pulse 
uint8_t currentpulse = 0; // index for pulses we're storing
void setup(void) {
 Serial.begin(9600);
 Serial.println("Ready to decode IR!");
}
void loop(void) {
 uint16_t highpulse, lowpulse; // temporary storage timing
 highpulse = lowpulse = 0; // start out with no pulse length
 while (IRpin_PIN & (1 << IRpin)) {
 highpulse++;
 delayMicroseconds(RESOLUTION);
 if ((highpulse >= MAXPULSE) && (currentpulse != 0)) {
 printpulses();
 currentpulse = 0;
 return;
 }
 }
 pulses[currentpulse][0] = highpulse;
 while (!(IRpin_PIN & _BV(IRpin))) {
 lowpulse++;
 delayMicroseconds(RESOLUTION);
 if ((lowpulse >= MAXPULSE) && (currentpulse != 0)) {
 printpulses();
 currentpulse = 0;
 return;
 }
 }
 pulses[currentpulse][1] = lowpulse;
 currentpulse++;
}
void printpulses(void) {
 Serial.println("\n\r\n\rReceived: \n\rOFF \tON");
 for (uint8_t i = 0; i < currentpulse; i++) {
 Serial.print("delayMicroseconds(");
 Serial.print(pulses[i][0] * RESOLUTION, DEC);
 Serial.println(");");
 Serial.print("pulseIR(");
 Serial.print(pulses[i][1] * RESOLUTION, DEC);
 Serial.println(");");
 }
}

This is the output:

Ready to decode IR!

Received:

OFF ON
delayMicroseconds(34724);
pulseIR(3600);
delayMicroseconds(1800);
......
delayMicroseconds(1340);
pulseIR(460);
delayMicroseconds(1360);
pulseIR(460);
Ready to decode IR!
Ready to decode IR!

The last 2 rows appeared when I pressed the power button (twice). The rows above appears when I press any other button.

I played around with the Arduino and the remote, I might have done something to cause this. The first time I tried it - it worked fine.

I tried resetting and re-uploading.

Sorry if the post is too long or not informative enough - I'm new to this and not really sure what kind of information to provide.

• Juraj: the chip resets on some error
• Juraj: try larger array uint16_t pulses[150][2];

Answer 1

How high can currentpulse get before it is reset to zero? It is used an array index and if it gets larger than the (number of array elements-1), your code will write outside of the array.

Can the array be so far over-written that it grows into the stack area? That could definitely cause a reset, or reset-like behavior.