Cerberus and RTC wakeup

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@ geologic -

GHI.Processor.RealTimeClock.SetDateTime(time); // IT HANGS HERE

This line will initialize and start RTC, comment out this line will cause everything relates to RTC work incorrectly.

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After removing the 2 caps the board doesnā€™t hang any more and the RTC wakes up, but always after 60 seconds, no matter the time i set in RealTimeClock.SetAlarm()ā€¦

Here is the output of the time:

Hibernating
Time: 09/15/2014 07:30:01
now is            : 09/15/2014 00:00:00-9-09/15/2014 00:00:00 - 7:30:1
Start Hibernate at: 09/15/2014 00:00:00-9-09/15/2014 00:00:00 - 7:32:1
The thread '<No Name>' (0x3) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Wake up!
now is            : 09/15/2014 00:00:00-9-09/15/2014 00:00:00 - 7:31:2
wake up: 09/15/2014 00:00:00/9/09/15/2014 00:00:00 - 7:31:2
Time: 09/15/2014 07:31:02

Another questionā€¦ acording to RCT cerberus document, the recomended crystal is one with 6pF capacitance, but according to this post https://www.ghielectronics.com/community/forum/topic?id=6993&page=3#msg154508 the total capacitance of the two caps (14pF) should match the capacitance of the crystal (6pF)ā€¦ So something is not right hereā€¦ (in fact, removing the 2 caps and assuming 5pF for the traces, it matches the capacitance of the crystalā€¦)

Any more ideas?

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How are you getting that output if the debugger is disconnected?

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:smiley:

Connected to VS and sleep mode, just to see the result on the screen.
Disconnected from VS all the modes wake after 1 minute (confirmed with a watch and the led on/off

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Remember sleep can be woken by any hardware interrupt. This is not the same as netmf events. These can be caused by framework level functionality.

Also sleep really doesnā€™t do much to save power anyway. In fact I think the latest firmwares use this sleep mode when idle anyway.

Deep Sleep is what you want. Try it.

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I tried this, and it works! Good news! :dance: I only tried one board, as the rest is in operation.

Its a Cerberus HW rev 1.1. which now has 4.3.4.0 Tinybooter, and 4.3.4.5 TinyCLR after awfully many attempts at updating.

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Thatā€™s what iā€™m trying to achieve, deepsleep / off, but RTC always wake up after 60 seconds, no matter what time i set in RealTimeClock.SetAlarm()ā€¦

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Anyone has tried deepsleep on cerberus? Iā€™m stuckedā€¦ RTC always wakes the board after 60 secondsā€¦

Thanks

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@ geologic - I have tried it on the cerbII40 which runs the same firmware.

Also there is this other thread where the OP is doing it.

https://www.ghielectronics.com/community/forum/topic?id=16737

Are you running Gadgeteer or plain NetMF?

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Iā€™m running gadgeteer

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Can you try a plain netmf app. Just a wake sleep loop.

See this example.

https://www.ghielectronics.com/community/forum/topic?id=16365&page=2#msg162473

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@ geologic -

just share to you that Low Power mode does only work without VS debugger, not only Cerberus but also all other EMX, G120

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Actually without usb all together, not just the debugger! A system in deep sleep is not expected to function, not even usb.

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Your code uses interrupt, not RTC. With interrupt i can wake up the board, no problem. With RTC it wakes up, but always after 1 minuteā€¦

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Yes, iā€™m aware of that. My board is only connected to USB for power, VS is shut down.
Iā€™m using led on/off and a watch to measure elapsed time between deepsleep/wakeup and always elapsed time is 1 minuteā€¦

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@ geologic -

I wish we can have that board to check for you!

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Can anyone point other crystal compatible with cerberus board?

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How is this going? Need a solution!!!

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Looks like this is a dead endā€¦
I was planning to use a cerbuino bee to do some remote stuff, but after these problems with cerberus, i gave up on that boardā€¦

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Because we are not able to reproduce here, so I think best solution is, we can test your board if you send it to us.