fresh eyes and a little help

@ozyjimbo 

Are you using the same power supply for the Arduino, player and LEDs ?

@will yes i am i'm still under the 900ma threshold as i'm using the pir on the 3v3 so the only devices being used on the nano board 5v is the player and lights i did allow a 10% on the led 20ma each and the player via the book is 2ma

@ozyjimbo 

That 3.3V you mentioned, is it also drawing from the Arduino ? What is the 900 mA threshold from ?

@will ok you got me on an oversight i'm using usb duh the 900ma is if you are running vin guess what i'm gonna try run the lights on a sep voltage see to much time on this bloody coding lol

made no difference no matter where i put the mpplayer.play in the loop it doesn't play i have tried to add it to else if for adding another digitalWrite for unknown reasons it still not playing

ok i got this one to work but only works on board reset when it finishes it doesn't let you retrigger with the pir and the lights when turned off flicker like they are coded for lightning

@ozyjimbo millis() returns unsigned long

@zander yes i did a bit of reading regarding millis but have left that sketch behind and started work on a more simpler sketch attached in my last post i made two working sketches one for lights and one for mp3 player and joined them but doesn't wanna work as well as i thought it would

@ozyjimbo Maybe you should start at the IDE Examples/Basics to give you a tiny amount of background to build on. Almost everyone here started at Blink, or maybe 'Hello World'. Even thos of us with over 50 yrs of experience when trying out a new language almost always start at 'Hello World' then move on to examples that are more relevant to what we want to do. Perhaps after you work through some basics post a question in Help Wanted along the lines of 

I want to turn on some Leds and play some music every time somebody walks in a room.

@zander that's where I started examples then reading then branching out to the point i'm at know i don't know everything i have done enough to get me to a point of a somewhat working sketch i guess it's not worth helping on?

@ozyjimbo I took your first sketch you posted and fixed a couple things plus fleshed out the logic to include all 4 conditions. I added some debug println's so you can see what conditions are occuring. Give it a try and show us the serial output. Only a dozen or less lines from serial output from midway to end. Use a screen grabber don't use a cell.

@ozyjimbo Sorry, I don't understand you, but what I don't see is a statement of requirements. I am old and have poor memory, but IIRC you want to do something with LED's, an MP3 player, and PIR?

@zander all good i'll try your sketch IIRC is that still going? i haven't used that in years i mainly use crapbook messenger i do appologise for my little outburst above was just getting frustrated as what seemed to be something easy to Frankenstein turned out to be a horror show my learning capacity isn't all the great these days and i pretty much only absorb 5% maybe on a good day 10% but yup i'll load the sketch and do a serial output something i rearly do on my anti acquainted laptop

good news it works ron i sent a mobile pic on messenger as the laptop doesn't do print scr and the serial monitor just produced what you see in the pic

thanx for getting this going so now i shall cross examine where i went wrong

@ozyjimbo How do you know my messenger ID? Just google print screen and you will get instructions. IIRC it's PrtScn or use the snippet tool. I use a Mac so my instructions are different.