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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon rstrouse

Sequent Home Automation V4 8 relay

Open dakowals opened this issue 1 year ago • 9 comments

Any chance you can update for the 8 relay version of the home automation board? I can use the 4rel4in to run the 8rel8in, but only the first 4 relays work.

dakowals avatar May 03 '23 23:05 dakowals

I can't seem to find that board. Are you possibly confusing this with the 8 relay hat? If you are then choose Multi-Relay Board and choose the Sequent8 IND board for the controller. If there is a new board can you point me to the spec sheet for it?

rstrouse avatar May 04 '23 01:05 rstrouse

It is here: https://sequentmicrosystems.com/products/raspberry-pi-home-automation-card It is not the 8 relay card. It is an automation card which acts as I/O or relay. If you select Multi-Relay, relays contacts 1 and 4 turn on, but will not turn off. If I select the 4rel4in, all of the relays work properly.

dakowals avatar May 04 '23 02:05 dakowals

Oh that is the Home Automation card not a variant of the 4rel4in card. The bummer about that card is that the contacts for the relays all share a common and they are only normally open. When I get a chance I will add a profile for it hopefully in the next week or two.

rstrouse avatar May 04 '23 18:05 rstrouse

Great. Thank you.

dakowals avatar May 04 '23 20:05 dakowals

I took my first stab at the Building Automation Card. Pull REM. It should support the relays, digital inputs, analog inputs, DAC outputs, and open drain. image

rstrouse avatar May 20 '23 00:05 rstrouse

Awesome. I will give it try. Thank you!!

dakowals avatar May 22 '23 20:05 dakowals

First off thanks for you work on this project. I hobbled together a DIY system with a MCP relay board, ADS1115 ADC, and Atlas EZO sensors 3 or 4 years back. I saw that the $70 Sequent Home Automation board was now an option in REM and thought it would simplify my setup. I am not sure if @dakowals is having problems with this board in REM, but I am. I have tested the relays and ADC using Sequent's ioplus program and everything seems to work.

REM Relays After setting up the relays, I can only turn on ch1 no other channels. Also I can not turn it back off.

REM Inputs Analog I can enable each channel, but REM does not seem to report a value or give me any options to edit these particular inputs into a feed.

Let me know if I should provide more detail or screenshots. I can help test from my end or send/buy you one of these boards if that would help.

Thanks, Nick

sonapsent avatar Aug 01 '23 13:08 sonapsent

Can you start by changing the logging in REM to silly and log to file? And then toggle the relays and upload the file in the /logs directory here?

2023-08-02_15-06-17

tagyoureit avatar Aug 02 '23 22:08 tagyoureit

Seems like a good lace to start. After starting the log I went to channels 1-5 and attempted to turn 1 on, turn 1 off, turn 2 on, etc. CH1 turned on, then do not turn off, hit CH2 but CH3 came on, then nothing would really register. The web display seems to read the status well when I manually turned off CH1 and CH3 with "ioplus 0 relwr 1 off".

consoleLog(2023-08-02_21-01-10).log

sonapsent avatar Aug 03 '23 02:08 sonapsent