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Dan-in-CA / SIP

A highly customizable DIY irrigation/sprinkler controller based on Raspberry Pi
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Station Extensions Not Working #303

Closed Tails86 closed 1 year ago

Tails86 commented 1 year ago

I updated to 4.1.54 2023-03-25 from a version I think June of last year. The station extensions worked before the update. Then they stopped working after the update. I checked voltage on zones 9 and 10. It reads 0V when they should be on. Zones 1 through 8 work as expected.

Update: Extensions work using commit db2f59dd63fabcbd7426e8a5d6dba0b8db4b48af from Sat Jul 2 11:31:51 2022

Dan-in-CA commented 1 year ago

The latest version of SIP requires Python3. If you are running an older version of raspberry Pi OS it may not have the RPi.GPIO module for Python 3 installed in which case the stations will not be activated.

It can be installed with: sudo apt install python3-rpi.gpio Dan

Tails86 commented 1 year ago

I do have Python 3 installed, but it is fairly old now

pi@ospi:~ $ python3 --version
Python 3.7.3

I did sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade, and sudo apt install python3-rpi.gpio, but I am still experiencing the same issue with getting zones 9 and 10 to run. Should I try to update my python version?

Dan-in-CA commented 1 year ago

Python 3.7.3 should be OK. Are other zones working? Are you using the Relay board or relay 16 plugin?

Tails86 commented 1 year ago

Zones 1 through 8 work fine. I purchased the zone expander from https://opensprinkler.com/product/zone-expander/ with 16 outputs back in 2017. I'm not using any additional plugin to use this board. I selected that I have "2" station expansions in the Station Handling options, but all I use out of it are zones 9 and 10. Stations 11 through 24 are disabled in the Stations tab.

Dan-in-CA commented 1 year ago

Testing here seems to be working for zone extensions. I would suggest going with the db2f59d commit for now. I will continue to look for a possible bug.

Dan

Tails86 commented 1 year ago

This issue seems to be isolated to the hardware on my end. I took everything apart, and then it started to work fine on my benchtop on master. Something is likely going on with my I2C connection. I swear though that it was pretty consistently not working on master before and consistently working with the previous commit. That's just to say I'm embarrassed 😳

Thank you for spending the time to look into it! Knowing it worked on your end helped with my diagnosis.