Well i have a "problem" here with my domotica.
The equipment we have running here is quite old but still works great when used the IR remote.
The luxaflex and curtains i am controlling since a few months but i am experiencing now and then some errors.
I am using a Arduino with some relay boards , and i "hot wired" a remote from the curtains because when wiring the controls on the wall the wires are behaving as little antennas and the controls seem to have problems with EMC or something because they do not respond anymore.
So every button on the remote is connected to a relay so i can press them by the software,made some Events and that took me a while as well to figure out when it worked good.
what is another "problem" is that the remote remembers what channel he is on, not when you drop the power it automatically goes back to 0 so when i get a misfire/press it is lost and i have to do a inspection by hand to set it back to chan 0 but luckily this did not happen to often.
Because i can not fire the relay very fast to go up to channel 3 for example i need to make the event with a few seconds of pauze.
After each press i have to deactivate the relay of course otherwise it only stays on.
So its like:
activate "chan up relay" wait 2 seconds, deactivate "chan up relay", activate "chan up relay" wait 4 seconds ,deactivate "chan up relay" , activate "chan up relay" wait 6 seconds, deactivate "chan up relay".
If i do not use the wait things get messed up.
This has worked for quite a while but i do get some errors and the errors are then after a program in the morning and evening it seems that some relays stay on.
They do not switch off, this does not happen always.
I am wondering how is this possible that it does not switch relays off anymore ?
Is it software related, plugin related ?
What i have tried as well is to start a even 2 minutes after the even to open the curtains or close them is a event that switched off all relays after the events have runned.
But these do not seem to work ok.
What i also noticed, when manually pressing the even activation icon the blue arrow all things work fine.
But when its automatically activated it seems to have errors and the last days every day in the week..
Any ideas were to start searching, i have put the log on but do not see any strange behaving as well.
(not sure if this is the proper forum to ask sorry if not)
Edit: after a few hours some of the dallas temp sensors that worked great before start to act up as well.
reset the card, reconnect, reboot the computer but they keep the temp on 85 degrees Celsius.
strange things are happening here.
The rest of the sensors do keep working like the PIR and relays.
The equipment we have running here is quite old but still works great when used the IR remote.
The luxaflex and curtains i am controlling since a few months but i am experiencing now and then some errors.
I am using a Arduino with some relay boards , and i "hot wired" a remote from the curtains because when wiring the controls on the wall the wires are behaving as little antennas and the controls seem to have problems with EMC or something because they do not respond anymore.
So every button on the remote is connected to a relay so i can press them by the software,made some Events and that took me a while as well to figure out when it worked good.
what is another "problem" is that the remote remembers what channel he is on, not when you drop the power it automatically goes back to 0 so when i get a misfire/press it is lost and i have to do a inspection by hand to set it back to chan 0 but luckily this did not happen to often.
Because i can not fire the relay very fast to go up to channel 3 for example i need to make the event with a few seconds of pauze.
After each press i have to deactivate the relay of course otherwise it only stays on.
So its like:
activate "chan up relay" wait 2 seconds, deactivate "chan up relay", activate "chan up relay" wait 4 seconds ,deactivate "chan up relay" , activate "chan up relay" wait 6 seconds, deactivate "chan up relay".
If i do not use the wait things get messed up.
This has worked for quite a while but i do get some errors and the errors are then after a program in the morning and evening it seems that some relays stay on.
They do not switch off, this does not happen always.
I am wondering how is this possible that it does not switch relays off anymore ?
Is it software related, plugin related ?
What i have tried as well is to start a even 2 minutes after the even to open the curtains or close them is a event that switched off all relays after the events have runned.
But these do not seem to work ok.
What i also noticed, when manually pressing the even activation icon the blue arrow all things work fine.
But when its automatically activated it seems to have errors and the last days every day in the week..
Any ideas were to start searching, i have put the log on but do not see any strange behaving as well.
(not sure if this is the proper forum to ask sorry if not)
Edit: after a few hours some of the dallas temp sensors that worked great before start to act up as well.
reset the card, reconnect, reboot the computer but they keep the temp on 85 degrees Celsius.
strange things are happening here.
The rest of the sensors do keep working like the PIR and relays.
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