RA Net with Relay doesn't seem to be working correctly.

[Sacohen]

I had to unplug the relay from the power strip again today and I plugged it directly into the outlet and the same thing happened.

Red light on switch is on.
Logo is not illuminated at all.
No Ports on even fallback 8 and not control from Portal or App.

While I was sitting in the man cave watching TV I noticed that the lights would turn off for a second and then come back on. This happened twice.

Also my ATO was on forever, even past the 10 limit and the app would not update ate all, while the ATO was running.

So I looked at the head unit and the screen was flashing on and off. No display just white to off.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/wxJQJp_mneo[/youtube]

http://youtu.be/wxJQJp_mneo

As Roberto always asks, what is new with the system and what have you added.
Well in this case it was the RA Net and Relay.

I opened the head unit up, disconnected the serial cable, and removed the RA Net board.
Connected it back up and the ATO was off, the screen display was on and the App was interfacing with it.

Something strange is up with the RA Net board.

I just looked at my head unit now and the screen is blank, just a grey screen, but not flashing.
This is with the RA Net board out of the head unit.

[rimai]

Something is definitely wrong.
Can you send it back for me to look at it?

[Sacohen]

Do you want the relay too or just the board?
You probably just need the board.
Do I need an RMA?

Also why would I still have no display on the screen, just a grey blank screen?

[rimai]

I think the relay box too just in case.
Send me a PM

[Sacohen]

No Problem. PM sent.

[Sacohen]

Strange thine happened today.
Like I said I unplugged the Relay again yesterday and lost everything except the Red Power switch Illumination.

Well today I gained sync (Solid White Logo) and port 8 fallback came on.
Now this is the strange part, I removed the RA Net board from the head unit yesterday so what is the Relay synching with?

[Sacohen]

I got the replacement RANet and relay yesterday. hooked it all up and it works fine.
Roberto said there was a problem with the receiver on the other unit.

Thanks for all the help with it though.

[phrusher]

LED on relay unit when Head unit is on but not in sync.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=067azYoRu74

That is pretty much exactly what the logo looks like for me too :/

[rimai]

Does it ever sync?

[phrusher]

Does it ever sync?

It synced at some time when I just received the RANet and relay but I haven't used it in a while. Now when I tried it the logo has been flickering but never fading smoothly white/blue.

I just disconnected the RA and removed the RANet for a while before putting it back in. Now the logo on the relay box is not lit up at all, just the red power switch is lit. On the RANet ASC is blinking green.

I use this to test with now:

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ReefAngel.AddRANet();
ReefAngel.Relay.RANetFallBackE[1] = Port3Bit;

Dip switch nr 1 is down and the other two in up position on the relay. Is that correct or is my head a bit slowish? Just want to see if it ever sync. Or should it be [0]? I also have the Power Control Expansion so I guess that would be [0]?

[rimai]

Power control is [0] and your relay box would be [1].
But I don't think it is that.
Maybe it is the RANet Add-On that is not good. I had to replace Sacohen when he sent me his stuff to troubleshoot.
I could never find out what the problem was.
I think it was a bad baking of the pcb when it went to the oven for reflow.
I'm assuming that you can't reprogram the RANet module either, right?

[phrusher]

I'm assuming that you can't reprogram the RANet module either, right?

Do you mean reflash the firmware? I don't know but I can give it a try. I think I saw some step by step here somewhere, I'll see if I can find it again.

[phrusher]

I'm assuming that you can't reprogram the RANet module either, right?

Btw, are you referring to the sender or receiver? I only found instructions for reprogramming the receiver: http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?p=45104#p45104

[rimai]

Correct, the receiver.

[phrusher]

The blue led on RSSI lights up when connecting the cable but in Arduino studio I get error uploading (w/ optiboot). See below for full output.

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avrdude: Version 6.0, compiled on Apr  6 2012 at 19:29:19
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Reef Angel Controller\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : \\.\COM3
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200
Rebooting Reef Angel Controller
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: 
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x64

avrdude done.  Thank you.

[rimai]

Can you try uploading without the xbee module?
If that doesn't work, we may need to get you another board.

[phrusher]

Exactly the same error without the module mounted, but the RSSI LED did not light up.

[rimai]

Yeah, we may need to replace.
I'm going to make a small batch.

[davaraj]

I have a RANet wireless dimming module. For the past 2 days the lunar module connected to the wireless dimming module is not working. I think the dimming module is not syncing with the head unit. Can I reprogram the receiver in the wireless dimming module? I had done this to the receiver in the wireless relay box earlier when there were syncing problems.

Dr Davaraj

[rimai]

Yes, you can. Same way.

[davaraj]

The blue led on RSSI lights up when connecting the cable but in Arduino studio I get error uploading (w/ optiboot). See below for full output.

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avrdude: Version 6.0, compiled on Apr  6 2012 at 19:29:19
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Reef Angel Controller\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : \\.\COM3
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200
Rebooting Reef Angel Controller
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: 
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x64

avrdude done.  Thank you.

I get the exact same error when I try to reprogram the receiver on the dimming module. I also get the same error without the xbee module installed. The RSSI LED lights up for a fraction of a second when the code uploads before it fails.

Dr Davaraj

[phrusher]

Yeah, we may need to replace.
I'm going to make a small batch.

Any progress on the new batch?

[rimai]

Huh.. Totally missed this
I'll work on this.