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Dear MatzTF Great. Thank you very much for the advise. I will go for trial with the ESP32-Ethernet-Brick, learning something new. As soon as I have the setup, I will post an image. Cheers. Yvo

Dear list I am using several Industrial-Bricklets in a rough environment. Well protected by an IP68-metal-box. But still exposed to vibrations. All the bricklets are very well supporting the environment since +12 month. As connection to a local Industrial-PC (IPC), I am using a Master-Brick and a USB-C cable. The entire setup is installed using a Rail Mounting Case . The software using the bricklets is running on the IPC and uses localhost as address. All other sensors used by the IPC are connected by LAN-connections using RJ45. The power-supply of the IPC and all the attached sensors is using 24V DC. The USB-C connection of the Master-Brick turned out to be the weak-point of the setup. The connection has to be protected by using silicon-glue from loosing. I would like to get a mechanically better connection between the IPC and the bricklets. Question: Would a ESP32 Ethernet Brick using a ESP32 Power Supply a reasonable replacement? The ESP32 Ethernet Brick could be attached with available LAN-connections and the software would address the defined LAN-address instead of localhost. Looking forward to your advice and suggestions. Cheers. Yvo

Hi List Last summer I was asking about the set_sleep_mode of the RaspberryPi using the BrickHAT. You will find the original post here. And the solution proposed by matzeTF was perfect. The background was, to control the shutdown of the RPi in a controlled way in combination with an Industrial-Dual-Relay Bricklets and a second power-supply of HAT and RPi using the 5V USB-connection. This combination allows a controlled shutdown of the entire system and a final cut of any power-supply of the system. This works perfectly so far with RPi-4. In the meantime, I switched to RPi-5 for a new edition of the entire setup. And with this switch, I am confronted with the new following effect: After calling the set_sleep_mode() -function, the system starts to shutdown as defined. But, at the end, the Industrial-Dual-Relay is not set back to default (no connection between A and SW). As a result, the system gets blocked in the following state: The system of the RPi is down. The Industrial-Dual-Relay still provides connection between A and SW. The HAT and RPi gets still power. The only solution to solve the problem is, to manually disconnecting the USB-power-supply from the HAT. After the disconnecting, everything goes and stays as it should (no connection at relay between and SW. Unfortunately, this behavior is not observed systematically. It occurs sometimes. While writing this post, I started the reflection, if the power_off_delay with 5.0 seconds is to optimistic and if the problem could be solved using a longer time-period for the power_off_delay. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Looking forward to any hints. Cheers. Yvo

Hi MatzeTF Fantastic. Thank you very much for the quick and positiv replay. Then I will implement it in this way. Cheers. Yvo

Dear List I am running a measurement-station using an Industrial-Counter-Bricklet to monitor the frequency given by an encoder: One application is accessing the Industrial-Counter-Bricklet every 5 seconds reading the current frequency on channel 0 and provides the information to a Prometheus-monitoring system. That works perfectly A second application could take usage of the measurements of the Industrial-Counter-Bricklet to monitor its own functionality. For this, it has to read the frequency on channel 0 of the Industrial-Counter-Bricklet as well. This in a similar rate such as every 5 seconds. Question: Is it safe and reliable to access an Industrial-Counter-Bricklet (or any other bricklet) reading the values from two individual applications using the same host and port? Or is it recommended to use a second bricklet. To keep the two applications fully independently, I try to avoid an exchange of the measurements between the two applications through a kind of communication-protocol. Looking forward to any suggestions and hints. Cheers, Yvo

Dear MatzeTF Thank you very much for the quick replay and the hint about the AA-battery. Works for me. Cheers

Dear list I have many installations running using the Real-Time-Clock bricklet. All the installations are running remote and are difficult to access (tunnel-construction sites). The installations are running for about 24 months. During the long duration of the installation, some batteries of the Real-Time-Clock bricklets are getting to low-voltage and the support of the RTC is not given anymore,. Question: Is there a way or method, to monitor the battery-voltage of the RTC-bricklets? Such kind of monitoring could allow to plan the exchange of the backup-battery of the RTC-bricklet. Looking forward to any ideas and hints. Cheers, Yvo

Dear list Some bricklets are used by services written as Python-scripts started automatically at the startup of the RaspberryPis were the applications are running. One of those bricklets is an IndustrialDualRelay. At the start of the service / of the script, I am getting sometimes the following exception: Exception during usage of DualRelay: Did not receive response for function 255 in time (-1) Question: Can it be, that the service starts to early and the connection to the bricklet cannot be established? And do you have any suggestions? Thank you advance for any ideas and hints. Cheers. Yvo

Dear MatzeTF Ahh, sometime the solution is to easy to be found. Thank you very much for the hint. Works perfectly. Cheers and a nice weekend. Yvo

Dear list In the meantime, I implemented the proposed approach of Backdraft007 using the connection-position of the bricklet at the HAT. That works perfectly. Usually I am using wrapper-classes for the individual types of bricklets. In this case, I am using multiple IndustrialDualRelais with different jobs each. The rugged-approach is simply extended by a variable and a if-clause to decided, if the bricklet will be connected or not: def _callbackEnumerate(self, uid, connectedUid, position, hardwareVersion, firmwareVersion, deviceIdentifier, enumerationType): if enumerationType == IPConnection.ENUMERATION_TYPE_CONNECTED or \ enumerationType == IPConnection.ENUMERATION_TYPE_AVAILABLE: if deviceIdentifier == BrickletIndustrialDualRelay.DEVICE_IDENTIFIER: if position.upper() == PermanentPower.POSITION_HAT.upper(): self._dualRelais = BrickletIndustrialDualRelay(uid, self._ipcon) The constant value POSITION_HAT defines the position of the connection at the HAT (A ... H). For my applications, this approach solves the requirements, Cheers. Yvo

Dear list For a measurement-device, I had to implement a delayed shutdown of the entire device. The device is a RPi in combination with a HAT. The delayed shutdown and power-cut is realized using a manual switch and a IndustrialDualRelais. You will find a more detailed description in the following thread (last entry): Combined power-supply of HAT and RPi Reason for the delay is, to provide more time to the RPi to write all data to the disk. The approach described in the link above works perfectly. But ... I am cutting the power-supply of the RPi the hard-way without running a proper shutdown of the RPi. But if I am calling a correct shutdown of the RPi by os.system("sudo shutdown now") the HAT will not react anymore and the used HAT-funktion hat.set_sleep_mode(0, 2**32-1, True, True, False) is not working/called anymore. Question: Any ideas to combine a shutdown of the RPi, the hat.set_sleep_mode and the following cut of the entire power-supply? Looking forward to any ideas and hints. Cheers. Yvo

Dear all Time is running. But I am currently implementing the proposed solution: Main power-supply of HAT and RPi through the HAT 28V power-connection using 20V to 25V battery-power. Additional power-supply of HAT and RPi through the HAT USB-C 5V power-connection. The main power-supply is connected to a hardware-switch. And the USB-C supply is connected through a IndustrialDualRelais. At startup using the main-switch, a service defined at the RPi starts a PowerWatcher Python-application. The application immediately turns the 5V power-supply on. During the runtime of the RPi, the PowerWatcher checks every second the power-input of the main power-supply of the HAT. If the current drops below the power provided by the battery (main-switch turn off by human), the PowerWatcher starts the shutdown-procedure. The shutdown-procedure delays the cut of the 5V power-supply by a configured time. If the main-switch is turned on again by human, the shutdown-procedure stops. As soon as the configured delay-time is reached, the PowerWatcher turns off the entire setup using hat.set_sleep_mode(0, 2**32-1, True, True, False) With turning off the bricklets as well, the 5V power-supply gets cut as well and the entire unit is without power-supply. So far, it works. A still open question is, how to use the function set_sleep_mode-function and a proper shutdown-command in combination. But I will ask this in a separat thread. Cheers, Yvo

Dear photron Great, I just updated brickd using the update-tool of the Raspberry and it works. Thank you very much for all your work. Cheers, Yvo

Dear photron Great, I just updated brickd using the update-tool of the Raspberry and it works. Thank you very much for all your work. Cheers, Yvo

Hi JonD Have you been successful in the meantime to install and using brickv? I have probably the same error. Cheers, Yvo