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andrewshilliday / garage-door-controller

Software to monitor and control garage doors via a raspberry pi
MIT License
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Loop in controller.py when the "open" mail is sent and the door stays open #44

Closed Gilles94500 closed 7 years ago

Gilles94500 commented 7 years ago

Here are the /var/log/message The "Grille" door is opened Jan 4 14:00:11 raspberrypi garage_controller: Grille: open => closed Jan 4 17:29:53 raspberrypi garage_controller: Grille: closed => open 5 minutes later a mail is sent (TimeToWait = 900) Jan 4 17:34:53 raspberrypi garage_controller: Sending email message

The door is not closed, anyway, it shows closed and a closure mail is sent Jan 4 17:39:23 raspberrypi garage_controller: Grille: open => closed Jan 4 17:39:23 raspberrypi garage_controller: Sending email message and alternatively it show open , close, open , close Jan 4 17:39:24 raspberrypi garage_controller: Grille: closed => open Jan 4 17:41:58 raspberrypi garage_controller: Grille: open => closed Jan 4 17:41:58 raspberrypi garage_controller: Grille: closed => open etc...

Any idea? Gilles

Gilles94500 commented 7 years ago

The issue doesn't come from the controller.py . It came from the fact that I was using the same gpio number for the door and the light. The light has no status switch. Bye

andrewshilliday commented 7 years ago

Ah, that'd do it. Glad you figured it out.

Gilles94500 commented 7 years ago

To be honest, I thought that it was fixed, but it is not. I still have the same issue. The issue is only with these "wrong" messages. Fortunately, the door is not opening or closing. So it is not urgent. I am still trying to fix the issue. But despite of the trainings that I have attended, it is not easy for me to do the reverse engineering. :) Gilles

andrewshilliday commented 7 years ago

So it sounds somewhat as if your contact switches are flakey. Are they perhaps spaced too far apart or is the wire somehow not securely attached to the pi?

Gilles94500 commented 7 years ago

You are right I also need to check the wires between the door and the pi. I will also add a lot of syslog messages to try to find out where the trigger is. I will do this this weekend. Thanks

Gilles94500 commented 7 years ago

You were right. I have replaced the contact switch with a new one and now, everything runs fine. Maybe the cause was because it has frozen outside . I close the ticket. Thanks for your script. It works perfectly and, on top of this, it is structured, so it helps to understand . Regards, Gilles