RelayIso16 freezes on sockets 5 & 6 on Fez Cerberus

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Hi,

I have the Fez Cerberus and the RelayIso16 board. The template designer in Visual Studio shows that I can only connect it to sockets 5 or 6, but the first time I open the relays it doesn’t open the correct relays and also it hangs.

  • Is this a known issue?

  • Is there a way around this?

  • Can I connect to another port and not use the designer for the relay?

Any help you can provide with be appreciated as it will get me unblocked.

Cheers!

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Looks like this was previously reported on another thread: http://www.ghielectronics.com/community/forum/topic?id=10320&page=1

However, I still don’t have a working relay. Will post my information on the original thread.

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I do not quite understand the solution here. I have tried to edit the GadgeteerHardware.xml file which did open up other ports but didn’t work for me. Still heard the clac and then froze.

Original GadgeteerHardware.xml file

<Sockets>
        <!-- This example socket is compatible with socket type S, and it has electrical connections to pins 3,4,5,7,8,9, with 7,8,9 being shareable (SPI bus) -->
        <Socket Left="70" Top="49" Orientation="180" ConstructorOrder="1" TypesLabel="Y">
          <Types>
            <Type>S</Type>
          </Types>
          <Pins>
            <Pin Shared="false">3</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="false">4</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="false">5</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="true">7</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="true">8</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="true">9</Pin>
          </Pins>
        </Socket>
      </Sockets>

Updated GadgeteerHardware.xml file

<Sockets>
        <!-- This example socket is compatible with socket type S, and it has electrical connections to pins 3,4,5,7,8,9, with 7,8,9 being shareable (SPI bus) -->
        <Socket Left="70" Top="49" Orientation="180" ConstructorOrder="1" TypesLabel="Y">
          <Types>
            <Type>Y</Type>
          </Types>
          <Pins>
            <Pin Shared="false">3</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="false">4</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="false">5</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="true">7</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="true">8</Pin>
            <Pin Shared="true">9</Pin>
          </Pins>
        </Socket>
      </Sockets>

Any help in getting this working and resolved will be greatly appreciated.

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Did you exit out of Visual Studio, change the xml file, get back into Visual Studio, load your project, then switch your project where the RelayISOx16 is connected to a pure Y port(skip S ports), deploy your code, put the RelayISOx16 on the new port, make sure you’ve got 12V going to the RelayISOx16 and then start it back up?

I had problems earlier in the week when I had a flash board on my hydra port 3 and the RelayISOx16 on port 4. I could get one or the other to work. After I changed the xml file, I kept my flash on port 3 and moved my RelayISOx16 to port 7 and everything on that end is working like a dream.

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@ NXTwoThou

I missed the part about connecting to a pure Y port (skip S ports) so I was still connected to port 5. I thought that the xml fix addressed that too. I will move to port 7 tonight and respond to the thread on whether that worked.

Cheers!

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Hope that’s it, that’s what got me going with the Hydra.

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@ NXTwoThou - thanks for the assistance, moving to a pure Y port resolved the issue.

The only other issue that I know have is that the method DisableAllRelays() does not seem to do anything. I have to close the relays individually by DisableRelay(). I was hoping to close all the relays that I had opened with the one call but for now I will just remember which ones I opened and close them individually.

Cheers!

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The issue with the Y vs S type socket has been reported and corrected for the next release.

The issue with DisableAllRelays() was also corrected.