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Do you have PID feedback control widget?

AlanioBridge — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:44:12 +0000

Do you guys have a PID feedback control widget?

Type K Thermocouple

AlanioBridge — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:44:39 +0000

I was thinking of using the MAX6675 chip which will convert the Type K thermocouple signal to a digital signal on a SPI interface. Do you support serial interfaces other than RS232 like SPI, I2C etc…?

Reply To: Server Actions Via API??

hans — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:00:05 +0000

Hi… thanks for the question.

There is not a way to setup server actions via an API call. The only (current) method is via the website. If we see a way to do this, I will let you keep you posted.

Server Actions Via API??

noc3000 — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:44:57 +0000

Is it possible to access/create server actions via the API?

I have been using the API to develop external pages that reference an IO204 dat through the API but I would like to add some features that allow my users to create message actions but there is no obvious way to set those actions remotely.

Any help would be appreciated.

Reply To: New iPhone and Android App

hans — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:55:19 +0000

Yes! We are adding HTML Widgets and Charts in the next update… they will launch and render in an embedded browser, so you could create an HTML5 app that runs inside of our app.

We also working on Android. We have some bugs on certain models of phones, so we are trying to get them fixed before release. Both updates will be over the summer.

Reply To: New iPhone and Android App

dhult — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:27:27 +0000

Any plans to implement the HTML widget in the ioApp?

The ioBridge Wiki is now ioBridge Connect

hans — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:12:25 +0000

I wanted to let everyone know about the changes to the ioBridge Wiki.

We have now moved all of the ioBridge Wiki content to ioBridge Connect.

We have the forum, documentation, projects, and tutorials all in one place.

ioBridge Documentation
http://connect.iobridge.com/docs/

ioBridge Projects
http://connect.iobridge.com/projects/

ioBridge Tutorials
http://connect.iobridge.com/tutorials/

ioBridge API
http://connect.iobridge.com/api/

ioBridge Forum
http://connect.iobridge.com/forum/

Reply To: Response to HTTP Post action

ctmorrison — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:13:52 +0000

So….if I want to control an io-204 based upon weather information (ex probability of precip), is there a recommended best practice? I’m fairly certain I can devise a work-around, but I’d like to know the “best practice” to incorporate Internet-based information in control. Thanks in advance!

Reply To: API limit?

niksargent — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:01:50 +0000

sorry – but i’ve hit the limit again..

so the problem is this: you reach a certain value – e.g. pulse count and want to send a message… so you configure a “greater than or equal to” rule. But then once the message is sent, the rule is met again and again and again – so this is using up the limit?

Firstly, how often are these actions checked? is that down to the “push” setting for the channel?

I really don’t understand how I am using up the API limit when I am not pushing any data more often than every 10 minutes.. finding it confusing to understand what data is getting sent where how often When you refresh your dashboard, does that use up the limit? I have a “realtime digital input” widget – does that use up the limit? Do the data logs use up the limit?

From what you say above, it is only the “message” actions? – these are the actions i have configured – but the channels are only set to push data every 10 minutes, so I don’t understand how I have used 1000 in a day…

The only inputs that have been true for SOME of the time today are ch4 pulse count > 750 (it gets reset every 10 minutes) & the last one (input > 240 – though it doesn’t show the rule below)

any ideas?

Pulse Count Message to ThingTweet (myhomealerts)
Subject: ioBridge Alert
Message: GOOD #bumblebee #activity detected (Pulse Count is %%input%%)
Module 24001477 / Channel 4 / Pulse Count >= 750

Analog Input Message to ThingTweet (myhomealerts)
Subject: ioBridge Alert
Message: WARNING #bumblebee nest #temperature below 7C (input is %%input%%)
Module 24001477 / Channel 1 / Analog Input <= 310

Analog Input Message to ThingTweet (myhomealerts)
Subject: ioBridge #Alert
Message: Dangerous Temperature 30C (%%input%%)
Module 24001477 / Channel 1 / Analog Input >= 566

Analog Input Message to ThingTweet (myhomealerts)
Subject: ioBridge Alert
Message: #Bumblebee nest #temperature = %%input%% C

Reply To: API limit?

niksargent — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:36:24 +0000

thanks yes, probably a mistake somewhere on my part. Now reviewed all my “actions” to make sure nothing happens too quickly…

Reply To: API limit?

hans — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:23:39 +0000

There is only an API limit when you send outbound connects to email or third-party web services. You can send 1000 API calls in a 24 hour window and the limit resets.

My guess is that you might had a Digital Input floating back and forth and have it tied to an email or HTTP POST action.

Reply To: Response to HTTP Post action

hans — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:19:40 +0000

The POST action that you are speaking of is a one-way trigger. The idea is that you can send a POST to an external service and have that external service react. So, in this case, you are not able to parse the response.

Response to HTTP Post action

ctmorrison — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:27:08 +0000

How do I access the results of an HTTP Post action??? For example, if I do a POST to retrieve current weather information, how do I access that information to make use of it?

Relay Board Stopped Working / Mobile phone issue

RogerDunstan — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:00:48 +0000

This is to flag up a problem I had which may help others. I had a system set up working well for a month, but then the widgets that had been controlling a relay baord on ch 3 stopped working. The relay board was ok if I plugged it into another channel so I assumed that ch 3 was faulty. I remebered a few days previously I had placed a mobile phone close to the IO 204, and when it was really close the relay board started switching rapidly so I thought maybe somehow I had fried soemthing. As a last resort I did a hard reset. This resolved the issue. So just a note – maybe close proximity of the phone caused the software to get scrambled..

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This reply was modified 25 days ago by hans.

API limit?

niksargent — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:37:42 +0000

I got an email saying i’d hit my API limit today. I didn’t know there was one? What is the limit and what is the function/operation that causes it to be hit?

is it affected by the number of widgets, or is it due to the number of message pushes?

thanks

Reply To: Debouncing a switch

wakefiec — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:41:15 +0000

The reed switch on my backdoor is about a 50 ft run from my iobridge – It occasionally sent two emails – but the bigger issue is that it has killed to digital input ports. It was suggested that static might be the issue. What could I do to eliminate that possibility. My son the electrician suggested a ferrite coil? Would a de-bounce circuit kill two birds with one stone. I’m a real tyro in this area. Any help appreciated.

Christopher

Frustration testing

niksargent — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:45:38 +0000

I thought i’d share this feedback. Is not a complaint, just an observation. I’m finding testing and setup frustrating because of the 10 minute logging restriction (and just to be clear, I’m right in thinking this is a limit in the charting resolution display and not actually the rate that data can be logged?)

I’d reall like to be able to buy just a short term faster logging resolution for the period I am setting up and testing and who knows, maybe extend it after that period, or have the option to switch back to 10 minutes….I’m finding testing rather slow and frustrating at the moment…

Just a thought

An activity counter – need help

niksargent — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:37:51 +0000

I’d like to get help trying to solve the followino problem, which I’m currently struggling with perhaps because I can’t quite visualise all the various triggers and interconnecting options on the board (I find it hard to build a mental map from the wizards, but that’s just me. I digress).

Basically I want to build a bumblebee activity monitor. There could be several approaches, but let me describe the outcome. I would ultimately like me a graphs that gives a reliable indicator of the level of activity of bumblebees coming in and out of their nest. In a perfect world I could count each one, but that’s too hard.

They come through a flap, so I would like to count each instance of the flap opening. At the end of the day, I’d like to see a graph of say 15 minute intervals with the number of activations of the flap for each interval.

Now, I have played with the light sensor and can generate pulses if a beam is broken, but that would be plan B. my preferred option is to build a contact switch from tin foil on the flap (it has to be VERY light for the bumblebees) and count the open/close.

Here’s the problem: if I count pulses then I get many (e.g. 10 or more) when the flap is open/closed. This is no good for accuracy though the data logging would achieve the right effect. I.e I could reset the pulse count every 15 mins and get the graph I wanT. But the data would be inaccurate.

I could a pulse counter so that I generate some kind of action every 10 pulses or something and reset the pulses to 0, but then I cannot generate the graph I need.because I need to total the pulses over 15 minutes.

I coould set a rule to check the door status every second, but then how do i count the number of activtations of the door (flap)? At the moment i am using this tecnique just to generate a regular beep if the door is stuck open. In fact i am close with all these ideas, they are almost there but not quite. Anyone tackled and solved something like this ?? By the way i need to do it with one channel is possible as the others are used. I’m sure it must be possible, but i’m missing something.

Any help welcome.

(also this form is a nightmare to use on ipad no cursor shows and it does some weird stuff moving words around, hence the d at the end of this i can’t remove! )d

Reply To: Can two servos be controlled using iturn?

kodypivik — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:46:21 +0000

I don’t have the four amp supply but they don’t need to be moved fast. My question was more about how to program them using iturn to get both to move at the same time when I turn my phone. I can get one to move when I turn my iphone but not both at the same time.

Reply To: Can two servos be controlled using iturn?

hans — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:41:55 +0000

Yes, you can move two servos at a time. If you move them quickly, you may need a bigger power supply as they tend to use a lot of current on start up. Do you have the 4amp supply?

Can two servos be controlled using iturn?

kodypivik — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:18:29 +0000

I am using the iturn program to turn a single servo but I was wondering how I could make it where when I turn my phone I can have two servos react at the same time?

Thanks

Reply To: Serial Smart Board & Arduino

turnerdanielt — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:53:09 +0000

Below Is my Arduino Code:

void setup() {
// Setup Serial
Serial.begin(9600);
delay(100);

Serial.flush();
delay(100);
}

void loop() {

// Listen to serial commands from ioBridge
if(Serial.available() > 0)
{
delay(100);

char charIn = 0;
byte i = 0;
char stringIn[32] = “”;

while(Serial.available())
{
charIn = Serial.read();
stringIn[i] = charIn;
i += 1;
}

// Echo Received Commands on the Serial Monitor
Serial.println(“Command Received: “+String(stringIn));
delay(200);

}
} // End loop

Serial Smart Board & Arduino

turnerdanielt — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:50:54 +0000

I am having some issues sending serial messages between the IOBridge and an Arduino Uno. I have the Serial Smart Board TX connected to the Arduino RX and I cant seem to get strings to send to the arduino using the variable serial widget. Im running 9600baud and TRUE signal. I can get strings to pass however if i connect the Arduino RX directly into the digital output of the IOBridge without using the serial smart board. Any help would be apprechiated

Reply To: Re: iphone servo control

kodypivik — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:19:00 +0000

I am pretty new to this stuff I have my servos set up and I put my code into the iturn code to be able to use my iphone to turn my servo but I don’t know what I need to do to get it onto my iphone I tried emailing it as an attachment but that didn’t work it doesn’t open it as a webpage.

Thank You

Reply To: Need some tips for Biomedical Project!

zkmfdmz — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:35:41 +0000

Project is due near the end of June…

I am having a little trouble having LabView read the ECG circuit as the OPAmps and filters are difficult to build on a breadboard (haha)

Also figuring a way to have LabView create an external action to communicate the digital changed state to the IO204 is challenging me.

Thank you for taking time to read and contribute!

Reply To: Need some tips for Biomedical Project!

hans — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:02:03 +0000

Yes, this is very possible.

You would connect to the Digital Input of the IO-204, then create an Server-side Action that sends a message based on the state of the digital input. When the input changes, you will get an email or email to a cell number (as an SMS) almost immediately.

When is your project due? This will probably the easy part

Reply To: Need some tips for Biomedical Project!

zkmfdmz — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:53:22 +0000

@hans

Which do you think would be a better idea? We were looking to use a digital output to allow for onboard rules on the IO Bridge dashboard that would send an SMS message when certain conditions were met.

We have a MyDAC from NI to convert the analog signals from the ECG circuit to digital for LabView to monitor, if labview detects an alarm condition, I would like a SMS warning to be sent to a particular number if possible. Is this achievable with the available technology from IO Bridge?

Reply To: one shot push???

ctmorrison — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:45:17 +0000

Super news!!! This is a very nice improvement.

Reply To: Mobile App for Pro Accounts?

hans — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:12:02 +0000

The changes are still in progress.

So that you know when it’s ready, we will annouce the Pro support on our mailing list.

http://connect.iobridge.com/

(Mailing list sign up is on the bottom, right)

Reply To: one shot push???

hans — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:08:55 +0000

As you saw in the other forum thread, we are going to allow for Push notifications to be an output for a rule. So, you will be able to customize the input and scenario for the push message. We think this will help in this case.

Reply To: Need some tips for Biomedical Project!

hans — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:06:41 +0000

How are you planning on connection LabView to the ioBridge IO-204? Where you planning on sending API calls (HTTP)? Or serial?

I hope your project goes well!

Reply To: Mobile App for Pro Accounts?

hrdrckr — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:31:57 +0000

Are we getting any closer to releasing a mobile app for the Pro accounts?

Reply To: Re: BTU Measures

dmccoach1 — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:12:41 +0000

This does not work due to the re-scaling issue defined on page 2 and my conclusion there… I don’t believe they’ve come out with a method since to make this work.

Reply To: Onboard Rules – Send Text or Email when condition is met

hans — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:27:43 +0000

This is going on the upcoming feature list. We have received new interest in this and we will include this with the next round of feature updates. Thanks for letting us know about your project.

Reply To: Onboard Rules – Send Text or Email when condition is met

zkmfdmz — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:22:16 +0000

I am bumping this for interest. I am building an ECG circuit and when the alarm condition is met, I would like a text notification.

Need some tips for Biomedical Project!

zkmfdmz — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:11:15 +0000

My group and I are working on a project that uses IO Bridge and LabView. We want to monitor an ECG circuit for human issues such as arrythmia and cardiac arrest. I have written a Vi in LabView to monitor for these alarms. I wanted Labview to communicae to IO Bridge and send a mobile notification via Push or to IO Bridge Android app to notify of an alarm condition.

Is this even possible with the IO204? Is there a widget or something that must be created?

Thanks in advance!

one shot push???

ctmorrison — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:44:29 +0000

Does anyone have thoughts on creating a “one shot” push based upon a pulse counter? I’ve scarified a DO as a one second pulse output and a DI as a pulse counter to create an timer. I would now like to create a rule that occurs only once after the pulse limit is achieved (10 seconds). I don’t want to reset the counter because it will send a message every 10 seconds. I can’t push on limit or push on interval without getting undesired email alerts.

Push rule conditions and actions

ctmorrison — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:40:08 +0000

It would be very handy to be able to add conditions and actions to push rules. As an example, it would enable me to create a “one shot” push which occurs once after a pulse count limit, but not continuously send pushes. I also don’t want to reset the pulse via the existing rule.

By providing additional conditions and actions on the push rules, they would become more flexible.

Timer

ctmorrison — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:46:23 +0000

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I’ll request a timer function, complete with a enable and reset. There are many instances in which a condition needs to exist for a period of time before it should result in action. I believe this is a very critical need.

Rule sequence

ctmorrison — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:59:48 +0000

Are onboard rules executed in the sequence they are listed? I’m trying to develop a scheme to allow a timer feature so a state has to exist for an amount of time. I believe I can use variables and increase their value via rules, but need to know the sequence of periodic rules that all have the same period.

Reply To: Re: Temperature Sensor readings

RogerDunstan — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:29:07 +0000

Hi – A thought from someone new to this. I had a similar problem, a temperature sensor that had been working correctly suddenly went into overdrive and was reading a constant very high temperature. Inspection showed that the cable had a twist adjacent to the temperature board which I tink had caused the two legs to touch goiving the odd reading. Untwisting and separating the wires returned the readings to the correct level. An observation is that the solder connections are very close together on the board and others may therefore ahve had the same issue. Sorry if it has been raised before.. . . . .

Reply To: New iPhone and Android App

Joe — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:48:31 +0000

ioApp – Thank you! I’ve been with iobridge since early on and have seen such growth and now the iPhone app. Great job!!

It’s hard to be patient when the potential is so exciting; keep ‘em coming…

Joe

DIY aquarium chiller

mike60491 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:52:37 +0000

Newbie here.

Wondering if someone could help me. I would like to use io bridge to control 3 – 12omm pc fans (12v) that will be mounted to a triple 120mm radiator. The radiator has a barb which is the temp sensor. So 4 devices total. I would like to set this up when temp hits 60 degrees F the fans would turn on 50% when temp hits 70% fans turn on 100%

I assume this is possible but i dont know which accessories i would need ontop of the module itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Reply To: New iPhone and Android App

dgou — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:55:52 +0000

Tried it again today and I got the ‘@’. Weird…

UGH. Completely understand that decision re: login web page.

Charts are definitely ahead of multiple user accounts in my book too.

One thing I would like to see is “some kind of” timestamp for the data i’m looking at. If I put my phone into airline mode, I get a warning box when I try to refresh the widgets list, but when I’m looking at the dashboard there is no indication of connection error, nor do I have any idea how old the data is I’m seeing (both from the point of view of how long has it been since my phone contacted your servers and from the point of view of the time the data was actually collected by your servers). Phew, that was long winded, I hope it makes sense.

Thanks for the continued awesome products!

tabbed dashboard

bongobbongo — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:39:26 +0000

tabbed dashboard

I would like to see the dashboard turned into a tabbed screen… i have a lot going on in mine and i dont always want to view the entire sensor or graph range.

Also i have noticed when i run the scripts from a remote host i notice a lag or it locks up my iobridge.I thought iwas initially that i was loggec into the dashboard at the same time but i cant really confirm.

iPhone App for ioBridge Widgets is Now Available

hans — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:26:43 +0000

ioApp is available now in the App Store! Monitor and control almost anything connected to ioBridge from your phone!

ioApp is a mobile app created by ioBridge to access your ioBridge Widgets right from an iPhone or iPod Touch. All you have to get started with ioApp is create widgets at ioBridge.com, then run ioApp on your smart device. ioApp works with Button, Switch, Value, and State widget types. Android app and ioBridge Pro support are coming soon.

If you are new to ioBridge and wondering how to get started with ioApp, we have also created a video tutorial that walks you step-by-step. At the end of the tutorial, you will be monitoring your outside temperature right on your mobile device. View the complete ioApp tutorial on ioBridge Connect.

This reply was modified 64 days ago by hans.

Reply To: Personal Server Status

hans — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:19:51 +0000

Scotty,

We have put the personal server application on the back burner and made way for ThingSpeak last year – which allows you to put our data logging API on any PC or server.

ioBridge started in the cloud and we are continuing doing that path.

I will let you know if we ever start this up again.

Hans

Reply To: New iPhone and Android App

hans — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:12:52 +0000

The ioApp email field is set to “email” – I get an iOS keyboard that shows the “@” symbol – are you getting something else?

The reason that the main ioBridge web sign in does not use email as the type is because FF10+ displays the field and forces email validation (browser-side). Your username or account number could also be used to sign in, so I didn’t want to force email validation. It’s an odd quirk of FF. Until it’s resolved I am not putting “email” as the input type on the website. I will investigate again when FF changes how they handle it.

Multiple user accounts is a good idea… might take longer on that one. We are working on PRO user accounts and charts first.

Thanks for the feedback.

Reply To: Mobile App for Pro Accounts?

hans — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:04:44 +0000

The current version of the app does not work with Pro user accounts. This will change soon. The reason is that ioBridgePro.com is on its own cloud and has it’s own SLA. I will let you know, as soon as it’s ready.

Mobile App for Pro Accounts?

Swany — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:00:06 +0000

On the iPhone app, I can login but see no Widgets even though I see widgets on the web version, but that is ioBridgePro.com. Does this app work for Pro customers?

Reply To: New iPhone and Android App

dgou — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:37:30 +0000

Great, I love it!

Request: Please change the login ID box to be an email address (type=”email”) as that will bring up a different keyboard on iOS that will make logging in much easier.

Wishlist: Multiple account support! (Not multiple modules, multiple IOBridge accounts).

Thanks for the App, this is soooo much nicer than using a browser on the iPhone!!

-Doug

P.S. Please also make the type=”email” change for the main web page interface too!

P.P.S. type=”email” see http://webdesign.about.com/od/html5tags/p/input-email-tag.htm

Reply To: FB-2 Meat Probe

SMyers — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:56:23 +0000

You can definitely use the ioBridge module for making your own meat probe; however, I’d advise against using a thermistor, and therefore the FB-2. Thermistors simply can’t stand the heat they would be exposed to inside a grill or oven.

What you really need is a thermocouple. Here is a link to using a thermocouple. The link also links to the supplies you’d need to get going with a thermocouple.

Since the ioBridge module has analog inputs, any thermocouple or thermistor could be used. Just feed the analog signal being generated by your temperature probe into the ioBridge.

Personal Server Status

scottyratcliffe — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:51:43 +0000

What is the Status of the Personal Server appliaction?

Thanks,

Scotty

FB-2 Meat Probe

samdengler — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:30:47 +0000

Is it possible to get the FB-2 with a meat probe assembly?

If not, what specification requirements would a NTC thermistor meat probe have to meet in order to integrate with the IO-204?

New iPhone and Android App

hans — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:29:55 +0000

The ioBridge iPhone and Android apps are coming soon. First we will have the iPhone app ready and then the Android. The is called ioApp and it allows you to control most of the ioBridge widgets directly from the app.

Check the Mobile Apps section of our website for more information and for other apps.

Project Showcase

hans — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:39:55 +0000

A new feature of ioBridge Connect is our project showcase. This new section will be a place that shows the latest ioBridge projects.

Scaling with Expression Builder

robert — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:32:09 +0000

For those of you interested in scaling third-party sensors you might want to take a look at the Expression Builder feature. The documentation has recently been updated and should hopefully be easy to follow. Other examples of how to use Expression Builder are given in some of the tutorials.

New Forum for ioBridge

hans — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:31:39 +0000

Welcome to the new forum for ioBridge users and developers. We are still moving topics and cleaning up, but this new software should be a marked improvement. We also have brought together all of our documentation, projects, and tutorials all under one searchable roof.

We call this, ioBridge Connect!

Re: Debouncing a switch

SMyers — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:54:40 +0000

That’s a perfectly fine idea. If you find that you are still getting some bouncing there are some fancier things you could try too, but always start with the simpliest.

Debouncing a switch

sasines — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:27:38 +0000

Wondering if anyone can recommend a simple circuit to debounce a switch input on the ioBridge?  I have a magnetic garage door switch connected to the ground terminal and the digital in terminal on a terminal board and often get two or more email notifications when the door is opened or closed. I am thinking a simple analog RC circuit with 10K resistor and .1 uF capacitor giving a time constant of about 1 millisecond should probably work fine.  Any thoughts?  Thanks!

Re: Clearing logged data

hans — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:27:14 +0000

Data on a data log will stay in the database even if it is past 30 days, data just keeps adding on.

As far as clearing a log, we do not have that feature yet (short of deleting it and starting a new one).

Re: Temperature Sensor readings

hans — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:23:05 +0000

Please let us know how it works out.

Re: Thingspeak + IO Bridge

hans — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:20:29 +0000

Did you post a similar question over at ThingSpeak? If not, sorry for the delay.

In order to do this, first link your Twitter account to ThingSpeak. Then, you create a ThingHTTP request that points to your widgetID like you have in your post.

The last step is create a TweetControl that listens for the keyword "buzz" and point it to the ThingHTTP request that you made.

I hope that helps. Let us know what you come up with.

Re: HTML Widget & Video

hans — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:15:28 +0000

That’s pretty odd that it works on the iPhone and not a desktop. If you find anything else out, let us know.

Re: Temperature Sensor readings

andybdjuk — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:37:15 +0000

I’m sure that will sort it out, fingers crossed

Re: Temperature Sensor readings

jmaty23 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:16:20 +0000

I have since checked the thermister connection to the temperature sensor board and it looks like the copper wire leads were shorted out were the leads connect to the board. I cut the wires back and resoldiered them. When I reconnected the temp board to the iobridge, I was getting an accurate temperature reading of -1.3DEGF for about a half hour and then the temperature shot up to 95 DEGF and stayed. I am thinking the resister or the thermister is fried due to the lead wires having been shorted for so long.

I have since ordered a new temp board from iobridge and will try the new one when it comes in. I will be sure to update this post with my findings.

Re: Temperature Sensor readings

andybdjuk — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:03:19 +0000

Hi, my first thought is maybe temperature sensor open circuit or maybe poor connection or maybe it has become damp causing a change in resistance. It will be interesting to find out what the problem was once you find it.

Andy

Re: Temperature Sensor readings

jmaty23 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:10:55 +0000

I am getting an odd reading from a temperature sensor and module that is mounted in a 0 degF storage freezer. When I first powered on the module, I was getting the correct temperature reading (approx. -1.3degF). After a few hours of operation, the reading was 305 DEGF. I switched the temperature card from channel 1 to 3 and it continued to read 305deg. The iobridge components are about a month old. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Re: Thingspeak + IO Bridge

turnerdanielt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:34:48 +0000

I am new to the iobridge as i just purchased it this week.  I was looking over the cheerlights demo and saw how they linked an action to thingspeak using thingHTTP and twitter.  I am having difficulty linking a widget to thingspeak and im asking for some help.  I simply want to know how to link them so that when i tweet something like "buzz" that a digital output pulse on my iobridge will cause the buzzer to sound for a second.  I tried following:

    URL: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/post">http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/post</a><!– m –>
    Method: POST
    Body: key=<Digital Output ID>&value=%%buzz%%

Re: newbie – how to set up alert to e-mail

hans — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:32:36 +0000

Dave,

Was this issue resolved via the support email? Just making sure this has been addressed?

The solution to the support email was that emails being sent from us were in the SPAM folder.

Hans

Re: Clearing logged data

Arne — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:59:15 +0000

I’ll take that as a no.
So, any data logged is displayed for thirty days?

I would think that it would be a benefit to be able to send a command that could dump old data.

Re: HTML Widget & Video

sasines — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:47:43 +0000

Okay, I’m perplexed.  My camera does show up on my dashboard when I log into my dashboard on my iPhone or iPad but not when I log in on my PC.  I guess that is fine since these are the two devices that I need to use to monitor the camera.  Thanks anyway folks.

Re: HTML Widget & Video

sasines — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:13:12 +0000

Can anyone offer advice on getting a Cisco WVC80N IP camera set up as in Tutorial #11 Open and close your garage door over the internet? I saw the postings by ekanayak and I tried those settings since they seemed similar to the WVC80N settings but no luck.  I can view my camera on the internet and I created the widget but get nothing with the widget. Any advice or ideas for a newbie would be greatly appreciated.

Stan

Clearing logged data

Arne — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:23:20 +0000

Is it possible to clear data logged that was captured during a testing phase?

Re: alerts not working

hans — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0000

Glad it’s working.

Re: newbie – how to set up serial smart board?

hans — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:17:13 +0000

<!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="" title="Smiley" /><!– s:) –>

Re: alerts not working

starfire151 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:03 +0000

I just checked my spam filter and all the messages are sitting there just wanting to be delivered  <!– s:- –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/undecided.gif" alt="" title="Undecided" /><!– s:- –>

I’ve approved the sender so future messages should get through.

Thanks.

Dave

Re: newbie – how to set up serial smart board?

starfire151 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:17:39 +0000

I connected the smart serial interface (output and input messages on the dashboard) to an external PIC.  When I send a command, via the serial output, to the PIC, the PIC responds with a message of about 50 characters.  I see that the characters are put into a scrollable view window.  This should be adequate for my purposes.  I think I’ve answered my own question.

Re: alerts not working

hans — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:48:17 +0000

Dave,

It’s very possible that your email address is being blocked or our email to you is being blocked.

The email will come from iobridge.net or iobridge.com – can you check a SPAM folder?

Hans

Re: Subscription questions

hans — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:44:49 +0000

No problem Arne. Thanks for looking for clarification.

We store data on an on going basis. We actually do not delete data, it’s possible to get data older than 30 days with an API call. We are actually working on a much more robust API to handle historical data. Our plan is to let you have access to all of the data by making API calls for a date / time range.

Re: Subscription questions

Arne — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:42:55 +0000

Hans, I believe you have answered this quite clearly

BUT

I am looking at getting another gateway module and want to make sure I understand the data logging that comes included.

So, three years from now I will still be able to log a thirty day history of 4 channels every 10 minutes and when the 30 day buffer is full the next day (31) is stored, day (1) is lost and so on.

Or in short FIFO.

Thanks

Re: newbie – how to set up serial smart board?

hans — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:09:57 +0000

How much data are you sending into the serial smart board? If you are only seeing a few characters, are they the last few characters?

Re: Send e-mail when module loses power

jmaty23 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:22:13 +0000

Any update on this function? Is it possible to create a messaging event when the module goes offline?

Re: alerts not working

starfire151 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:50:10 +0000

I’ve been trying to set up an alert notification to my e-mail from an input change but, so far, no joy. <!– s:’( –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/cry.gif" alt=":’(" title="Cry" /><!– s:’( –>

First, I set up an analog input so when the channel light sensor value exceeds a trigger level, an alert should have been sent.  I set up the Actions for an Analog Input Messaging, detecting a level of 700 being exceeded with a 500 reset value.  I went to the channel setup and specified to Push Update on Analog Trigger and Reset, I set the Analog Triger to 700 and the Analog Reset to 500.  I shined a flashlight on the sensor and verified the raw value exceeded 900 (well above the 700 trigger value).  No e-mail was sent.

Second, I set up a simple digital input channel (on another channel) to Push Update on Digital State Change.  I connected a toggle switch to the input and verified the value changed when the switch was pressed.  Again, no e-mail was sent.

What else needs to be done to get the module to send an e-mail under these circumstances?

Thanks for any help.

Dave

update – how to set up serial smart board?

starfire151 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:00:04 +0000

A quick update …

I managed to get the serial interface to work correctly.  I was a case of bad wire connections in some jumpers (it doesn’t work too well if the ground wire isn’t connected between systems  <!– s:( –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!– s:( –>).  I got the variable length message output widget and the serial input monitor widget to work.

Is there a way to have more characters on the serial response displayed?  Right now it appears the response characters only display the last 2 or 3 characters.

Thanks.

Dave

Re: newbie – how to set up alert to e-mail

starfire151 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:27:30 +0000

I just got my new IO-204 module installed yesterday and put a light sensor input on channel 1, a digital output control to an LED on channel 1, a serial smart board on channel 2, a buzzer output on channel 3, and a humidity sensor on channel 4.

I’m trying to set up an alert to send an e-mail message when the light sensor exceeds a set limit.  I removed the buzzer board from channel 3 and then I tried to follow the Tutorial 3 example by using channel 3 as a paralleled input (I jumpered a wire from AI on channel 1 to AI on channel 3).  I created a widget for channel 3 as an I/O mode analog input.  I enabled auto-refresh on the widget and enabled it.  I enabled it on the dashboard so I could monitor the level being exceeded.  I went into the Channels page and set up channel 3 to "Push Update on Analog Trigger and Reset", I changed the Auto Message Perido to 10 seconds, I set the Analog Trigger to 700 (raw value) and the Analog Reset to 500 (raw value).  I then went to the Actions page and created a new action to send an e-mail to my account e-mail address, Analog Trigger Condition set to "Greater than or equal to [trigger]".  I left the Analog Trigger Value set to 0, as per the Tutorial text.  I also left the default subject and message.

I then shined a flashlight on the sensor and waited for the new poll that read all the analog channel values and displayed them in the dashboard.  The new value exceeded 900 (well above the 700 limit set) but no e-mail was sent.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

Dave

Re: newbie – how to set up serial smart board?

starfire151 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:47:18 +0000

I just got my IO-204 module installed yesterday with a light sensor input on channel 1, digital output to control an LED on channel 1, serial smart board on channel 2, a buzzer output on channel 3, and a humidity sensor input on channel 4.  Channels 1, 3, and 4 are working correctly.

After I installed the SB-5 serial smart board in channel 2, I created a widget for sending variable length serial messages and another widget for monitoring incoming messages from my serial device.  I connected the TX, RX, and GND pins of the SB-5 module to my system recv, xmit, and gnd pins, respectively.  I just have the recv and xmit pins going through a MAX232 level shifter and then to a HyperTerminal session on my PC to start with.  I formatted a message in the message block area on my dashboard and clicked the "send" button.  The message shows up on my HyperTerminal session correctly.  The serial port monitor, though, doesn’t appear to be seeing the characters sent from the HyperTerminal session back to the dashboard correctly, though.  It first displays a message indicating it is waiting for response.  I press a single key on the HyperTerminal session and the dashboard shows a rectangular block, similar to what you see when the baud rate is incorrectly set.  The HyperTerminal session is running at 9600, N, 8, 1.

Does the SB-5 serial smart board automatically determine baud rate and polarity?
Is there something else to configure for this board?

…close… almost there…  <!– s:-X –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/lipsrsealed.gif" alt=":-X" title="Lips Sealed" /><!– s:-X –>

Thanks.

Dave

Display temperatures on LCD display

jmaty23 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:12:47 +0000

Is it possible to display 2 input temperatures from 2 different channels on the LCD display board either by rotating back and forth between 2 messages or using the top and bottom line?

Re: Power over Ethernet

jmaty23 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:07 +0000

I am looking into monitoring a few different production room and cooler temperatures using multiple iobridge modules and I figure it would cut some install costs if I could power the modules using our POE ethernet switches.

Re: Power over Ethernet

hans — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:23 +0000

The IO-204 does not accept power directly over an Ethernet Cable into the Ethernet jack.

What are you looking to build?

Re: Power over Ethernet

jmaty23 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:24 +0000

Is it possible to power the IO-204 module using power over ethernet?

Re: Can you Time a Analog/Digital Input Messaging Action?

bbsux — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:34:59 +0000

i’ve been wondering if using a time delay relay might be a better way to go.  Basically the relay would be wired to all the motors, and if the motor stays powered longer than the 300 seconds it would engage the relay, which would be hooked to a digital input.

Re: Talking to iobridge…

andybdjuk — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:13 +0000

I did jailbreak my 4 but you need the code for Siri that changes all the time. I am very fortunate to have 4s now so not problem. So now I need to write a plugin to turn channels on in iobridge

Andy

Re: Talking to iobridge…

whitehexagon — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:34 +0000

thanks for the update, I got as far as unbuntu and then realised with a 4S this wasn’t going to go too far. so back to saving up for new hardware again.  I don’t know why they couldn’t add siri to the iPhone4, greedy apple as always.

Re: Talking to iobridge…

andybdjuk — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:13 +0000

Just as a quick update,

I have two PC’s both with Umbuntu running on them, Umbuntu Version  10.04 works fine with SIRI proxy, the other fully updated version 11.01 just wont respond correctly.

Maybe of interest to you if you are struggling.

Andy

Re: servo not in position

levi — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:27:36 +0000

Partly yes. The arm is quite large for the servo, but the arm is in balance in its final position. The problem arises when the rotation doesn’t quite complete, and it’s really just about a few steps.

Re: Assign a Unit code to a device (without code wheels)

flo — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:44:14 +0000

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply.
It’s probably the solution. I’ll try asap and will let you know.

Florian

Re: servo not in position

SMyers — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:38:19 +0000

A quick question first. Do you believe the sound is being generated because the weight on the arm is to great for the servo and it is straining to get to the desired location?

Re: Assign a Unit code to a device (without code wheels)

hans — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:08:10 +0000

Florian,

I think that you are pretty close getting this LM15ES to work. Everything that you describe is the way that socket controller works.

I found this in the documentation:

Installation
[list:c1mn5nsp]
[*:c1mn5nsp]Remove the light bulb from its socket and insert the LM15 into the light socket.[/*:m:c1mn5nsp]
[*:c1mn5nsp]Insert a standard light bulb (up to 100W) into the LM15. Energy saving bulbs can be used with this product.[/*:m:c1mn5nsp]
[*:c1mn5nsp]Turn the lamp switch on if appropriate.[/*:m:c1mn5nsp]
[*:c1mn5nsp]Set any X-10 controller to the House Code and Unit Code you want want the LM15 to respond to.[/*:m:c1mn5nsp]
[*:c1mn5nsp]Press the ON button (corresponding to the Unit Code you want the LM15 to respond to) on the X-10 controller three times, at about one second intervals. On the third press, the lamp will turn on signifying that the code has been learnt. To set the code from an IR7243 Infrared Command Centre, press the number three times only.[/*:m:c1mn5nsp]
[*:c1mn5nsp]To change the code that the LM15 responds to, turn off the power to the unit, turn it back on and repeat the previous step within 30 seconds after applying power.
[/*:m:c1mn5nsp][/list:u:c1mn5nsp]

Other parts of the documentation say, "Lamp module which fits into a standard ES lamp holder. Provides ON and OFF functions and responds to ALL-LIGHTS-ON and ALL-UNITS-OFF X-10 commands." So, I think it’s working properly. You just have to "teach" the lamp module what house code the module is supposed to use.

You would create an X10 widget at ioBridge.com and pick a house and unit code. Press the On button 3 times, and hopefully that programs the lamp module.

I hope this information helps. Please let us know what you find out.

Thanks!

Re: Assign a Unit code to a device (without code wheels)

flo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:14:01 +0000

Hi there,

This is my first post here, happy to join the community!

I recently bought an IO-204 + an X10 Smart Board + LM15ES (lamp socket [b:3u3sz0e3]without code wheels[/b:3u3sz0e3]).
My setup is working well and turns ON/OFF my lamp using the " All Lights On/Off" option with the House Code A.

My concern is I can’t find any informations browsing the web about setting up a Unit code to my LM15ES, in order to drive [b:3u3sz0e3]only[/b:3u3sz0e3] this lamp.

How can I do this with IOBridge?

Thank you for your help guys!  <!– s;) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!– s;) –>

Regards,
Florian

Re: servo not in position

levi — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:10:38 +0000

I have a servo that rotates a fairly large arm. The servo can’t always seem to get into the the arm in precise position, which leads to the servo continuously buzzing. Is there a way to stop this from happening? Is it perhaps possible to power down the servo after rotation? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Re: Can you Time a Analog/Digital Input Messaging Action?

hans — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:32:55 +0000

This is a semi complicated request. With everything that we provide you today, it’s not possible without an external timer.

However, we do have an experimental feature that would allow you to do this. Just send us an email, and maybe we can trial it together. You can send an alert after a certain amount of time has passed with a combination of onboard rules and server actions. With the new feature you, can send a push notification as the output of an onboard rule (that’s the new feature). And everything else is normal. If our testing works well, we will give everyone access.

Re: Talking to iobridge…

andybdjuk — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:31:29 +0000

Thanks guys

I will start playing and post my doing’s

Andy

Re: Talking to iobridge…

hans — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:28:03 +0000

Glad you are trying to figure out how to connect Siri to ioBridge. The way it has been done in the past is to have Siri send a request to ioBridge’s Static Widget API.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/api/static-widget-api">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/api/static-widget-api</a><!– m –>

You create a widget that controls something. This will generate a Widget ID.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/id=">http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/id=</a><!– m –>[widgetID]

Replace [widgetID] with your widget ID with yours, and that call will control what you have linked to that widget. You can test in a browser to make sure this is the proper interaction.

Please let us know if you take it further and if have any more questions.

Re: Talking to iobridge…

andybdjuk — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:17:33 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

So far I have installed Umbuntu onto my windows laptop as utube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LowzAiud0dE/url:20fx9wte

I have my Iphone talking to it with the test command "Test SIRI proxy" and it reply’s.

….And that’s as far as I have got. The next bit I need to do is find out how install the proxy plugin’s and get them working and then pass those commands to iobridge

I’m really not a software man, pure old school electronics engineer.

Andy

Re: Talking to iobridge…

whitehexagon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:38:53 +0000

I’m the developer behind HomeWatch iOS app.  I’m also quite interested to get siri working.  How far have you got so far?  is jailbreak required for the proxy? or where do you install the proxy?  any links?
The ioBridge commands are documented on the ioBridge wiki as part of the static API.  I assume it’s just a case of mapping from voice to the static API as the next step.  Sadly I dont yet have a 4S device to play with this further.

Re: Talking to iobridge…

andybdjuk — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:17:57 +0000

Hi
I would like to be able to control things from my iobridge and am more than comfortable with hardware interfacing. What I struggle with is the software.

I thought as a starter project I would like to control iobridge via SIRI on the iPhone. There is a lot on the net but little explanation.

Is anybody able to give some explanation and pointers, I have SIRIproxy installed but its what and how commands are then passed to iobridge I struggle with.

I’m sure others would be interested too.

Thanks

Andy

Re: Can you Time a Analog/Digital Input Messaging Action?

bbsux — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:05:11 +0000

Can you make a timed Analog/Digital Input Messaging Action?  like if I wanted it to notify me via sms if a input was getting 5vdc longer than a minute, and then shut down the unit with the powerswitchtail.

Basically here is my situation:

I have an older vending machine, sometimes it will jam with a can inside.  This can be all sorts of trouble leading to a broken can and a mess and a burned out motor or worse, and plus the machine is effectively locked up until its cleared. 

So what I am proposing is to connect a 5vdc power supply to the 120v motors (there are 8, so I could use all the analog and all the digital inputs — or I may be able to piggyback off the vending counter, but I need to test it to see if it shuts off before the can is vended).

So I need to know if I can make the IOBridge time the 5vdc input and if it stays on for say 1 minute then activate the "Analog/Digital Input Messaging Action" to SMS me and shut the machine off with the powerswitchtail.

Ideally I’d also like the ability to reset the machine via the web… with a widget.

Thanks for your help and thoughts…

Re: Simple accelerometer question…

gerryc — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:14:00 +0000

Great, thanks for the answers. Makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain. 

I ordered a couple of the adafruit sensors.

All ahead full.

Re: Simple accelerometer question…

hans — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:39:32 +0000

This is a great accelerometer to start with: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.adafruit.com/products/163">http://www.adafruit.com/products/163</a><!– m –> — uses the ADXL335 – which detects acceleration in 3-axis.

If you are looking to detect movement, you might be able to do this with 1 axis, which will use a signal and power pins of 1 channel on the IO-204.

I see you place an order, so it looks like you are getting an early start to your tinkering! Looking forward to seeing what you build.

Re: Editing existing Server Actions

hans — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:15:27 +0000

This is on our list of things to add. Thanks for letting us know that it’s something that you need.

Re: Editing existing Server Actions

SMyers — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:13:43 +0000

Yes, I believe you have to start over when you want to edit a server action. Onboard rules, on the other hand, can be edited after they have been created.

Re: Simple accelerometer question…

SMyers — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:10:08 +0000

The way that one works you couldn’t use it directly with an iobridge. You would need something in between like an arduino. The reason is that the accelerometer isn’t outputting data but a time that is the data.

What that means is the device represents a 5 as the pin going high for 5 milliseconds rather then transmitting a 5.

To use an accelerometer directly with the iobridge, you’d need one that outputs the actual data as an analog value.

Re: Simple accelerometer question…

gerryc — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:56:12 +0000

Hi, new here. So new, in fact, I don’t even have my kit yet.

I am looking to set up an accelerometer as a switch to measure whether an object has moved or not.

I found this accelerometer on an arduino site, and was wondering if it was as simple as hooking it up to the I/O, using one of the axes (either X or Y) to generate a signal.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Memsic2125?from=Tutorial.AccelerometerMemsic2125">http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Memsic212 … Memsic2125</a><!– m –>

Make sense? Is there a simpler way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Gerry

Editing existing Server Actions

chuckvideo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:52:06 +0000

I’ve done a few searches but I cannot find an answer to this.  Once a Server Action is created on the ioBridge interface site (in my case "Analog Input Message to ThingTweet") can it be edited to make changes?  I can’t find a way to do so other than to delete the Action and create a new Action with the changes.  Thanks in advance.

Re: Share Widgets with the Community

hans — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:58:56 +0000

I have re-enabled this: the button is now called "Shared Widgets" on the Widgets tab.

We have been re-vamping the sharing part of our service, so look for changes in the future on this feature.

Re: Share Widgets with the Community

mrich01 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:36:59 +0000

have been having a look around and noticed the "Find Widgets" button has gone. or is it just me? The share widget option still seems to be available.

Clear history, restart browser

hans — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:38:42 +0000

You may need to clear your Internet history and restart your browser, to connect to iobridge.com. We had a DNS issue, it was resolved quickly, but your DNS record may be stale.

iobridgepro.com was / is not affected.

Please let us know if you have any issues, logging in.

Connectivity Status LED Always Red

xm_smarthome — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000

I have a module, the network cable and the power cord both plug in, but LED display always show 3 to 8, and the connectivity status LED don’t turn green.

Anyone knows the reason?
Thanks!

Want to learn JavaScript?

SMyers — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:42:25 +0000

If you’ve been viewing the forums or playing around with the ioBridge products you might have seen some of the powerful things that can be done with javascript.

While not required to make some great widgets, knowing a programing language can help.

What if you don’t know javascript? Well I came across this in the news and it’s designed to teach you javascirpt over the course of the year, even if you don’t know anything about programming.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://codeyear.com/">http://codeyear.com/</a><!– m –>

Re: Monitor Input with Terminal Board

tmzacharias — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:28:29 +0000

awesome thanks for the help!  I plan on making a more in depth video when I am done…I’ll post it here again.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

hans — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:25:41 +0000

If I would have had a UK outlet controller I would send it to you. We are sorry that you ran out of time, I wish we would have caught on earlier to help you out. Let us know what happens.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:49:45 +0000

Oh I feel like such an idiot! Sorry about wasting your time! I am presenting the project on Wednesday and Im not sure Id get the module on time! Total disaster!

Re: Customizing X10 widgets

SMyers — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:24:26 +0000

Gtown,

Your controller doesn’t need to bother with an code. Just log into your iobridge account and great a x10 widget. Check out that video on the other posting for some an example.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

SMyers — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:37:16 +0000

When you have the parts you need, check out this video. It gives a quick tutorial of how things are hooked up.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-DkaWkK0o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-DkaWkK0o</a><!– m –> (the iobridge interface is a little different than it was then, but you’ll get the idea.)

Re: Monitor Input with Terminal Board

hans — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:36:01 +0000

Cool project Tim!!! If you have any more details, let us know.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

hans — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:34:46 +0000

The light flashing when a command sent is a good sign. It indicates that a command is being received and acknowledged.

This item: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products/Marmitek-X10-Two%252dway-PLC-Interface-(XM10-TTL%7B47%7DCMOS-Interface">http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products … -Interface</a><!– m –>).html – is just the interface to your electrical network. This takes the control command and puts it on your electrical network so any controllers attached can be controlled by that command.

You need to have an outlet controller plugged in somewhere else in the house. Like this appliance module: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products/Marmitek-X10-Appliance-Module-AM12U.html">http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products … AM12U.html</a><!– m –>

Is this helping?

Re: Customizing X10 widgets

GTown_Surfer — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:41:19 +0000

@Rip
Hi there, I know you haven’t posted on here in a while but could you tell me how you set up your XM10U interface? I got one recently for an experiment due in a week and I really don’t know why it won’t work. Check out my posts here for more details:
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/forum/index.php/topic,1368.0.html">http://www.iobridge.net/forum/index.php … 368.0.html</a><!– m –>
Thanks!

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:30:08 +0000

I can’t see any dials or anything? I have no idea really! Here is a link to the exact model that I have:
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products/Marmitek-X10-Two%252dway-PLC-Interface-(XM10-TTL%7B47%7DCMOS-Interface">http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products … -Interface</a><!– m –>).html

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

SMyers — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:20:41 +0000

Before you mentioned A01. Did you also set the plug you are using to A01? They usually have a little dial or set of switches somewhere on them.

Re: Monitor Input with Terminal Board

SMyers — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:14:27 +0000

That’s exactly correct. You can even change the labels for the on/off that will displayed in case you want it to say something more interesting like "motor running."

Re: Remote Hour Meter

SMyers — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:11:12 +0000

As in your want the a circuit to calculate up the time and then send that information to the iobridge?

The pulse method would be directly converted into a time, such as in the linked example above.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:47:08 +0000

Sorry to be reposting so much but I also just noticed that the light on the XM10U flashes  when I send a command. I have a wired connection between the two and they’re only about a foot away from eachother. So the plug must be receiving a command but it isn’t carrying it out?

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:28:51 +0000

I also purchased the IO Channel Tester if this helps in anyway for diagnosing my problem. Both lights are green by the way so the X10 is in sync with the module and the module is online.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:40:54 +0000

Yeah both lights are on and the light on the X10 board flashes once when I try to make a command. I am almost sure the command is getting that far. It might be an issue with the Marmitek plug so I might try their forums?

Re: Remote Hour Meter

jmaty23 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:16:04 +0000

Is it possible to do it with time duration that the input is on and not use pulse signals?

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

hans — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:07:01 +0000

Okay, let’s start with the basics.

There is a light on our X10 Smart Board. It will glow green when it is in sync with our IO-204 module and web services. Is their a green light on your X10 smart board? I want to cross this off the list before we try other things.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:14 +0000

I have tried all these tips and it still won’t work? What House Code should I be using when setting up the module? I am using A01 at the moment. The command gets to the module because the light on my X10 function board flashes when I send a command. I tried many different plugs. I also noticed that the number 1 appears on the display on the module when I send a command. Any ideas?

Re: Monitor Input with Terminal Board

tmzacharias — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:12:10 +0000

Ok – how would I capture or log when the switch closes on the iobridge? Would you use the real time I/O monitor widget for the digital input?

Re: Monitor Input with Terminal Board

SMyers — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:10:51 +0000

You wouldn’t want to put 12V into the iobridg; however,  if you are saying the switch is rated up to 12VDC then there’s no reason you couldn’t just put 5VDC through it.

One of the iobridge channels could provide the power and the built in pull up resistors on the digital input makes it super easy to connect switches.

Monitor Input with Terminal Board

tmzacharias — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:15:57 +0000

I have a pet feeder working with the IObridge, the relay board and a small motor turning a modified cereal dispenser.  I want to monitor whether or not the motor is actually rotating when the relay to the motor is powered.  I would like to do this using a reed switch and magnet assembly, where the magnet is mounted on the motor coupling and will actuate the switch (wired normally open) when it rotates by. 

Can I connect this switch into the terminal board module and monitor when the switch provides power to the board?  The switch is rated to 12VDC.

If there is a better way to do this or input this information into the IObridge please let me know.

Here is a link to a quick video of the feeder if this helps: http://youtu.be/hpQ21NZ_fuw/url:32ui8zqh

Thanks,
Tim

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

hans — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:53:42 +0000

And X10 does not work thru surge protectors on power strips…

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

SMyers — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:30:31 +0000

One thing to note if you cant get it to work. X10 cant cross the legs of your house’s electrical system. If you have the module and x10 device far away from each other this might happen. If you can, try trouble shooting the issue with the devices in the same room.

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:34:42 +0000

I really don’t know? I have tried that with just about every combination but I can’t seem to get it to work. Would it be to do with compatibility or am I overlooking something?

Re: IO-304 Serial UART issue

hans — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:42:40 +0000

We are sure that the voltage level will accept 3.3V on the Rx. It must be a protocol issue.

The protocol does send a confirmation when the protocol is sent correctly.

Are you getting any response back?

Re: IO-304 Serial UART issue

dharrist — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:46:43 +0000

I already did everything that you described, but I am not seeing anything in the module.  I believe this problem relates to the voltage difference I described.  Can you tell me what the voltage-high level is for the IO-304? 

If this is not the problem, then I must be doing something wrong in the protocol, but I would like to know whether or not the voltage level is a problem.

Thanks.

Re: IO-304 Serial UART issue

hans — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:33:27 +0000

In order to use the serial port, you first need to enable it, set the baudrate, and configure whether or not the Signal is Idle High or Low.

Then to see if it is receiving data, create an Onboard Serial Widgets called "Serial Message Display widget".

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

hans — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:48:29 +0000

You want to create an X10 widget. Here is more info about X10 on our Wiki:

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/widgets/x10">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/widgets/x10</a><!– m –>

Once you sign in, click Widgets â†’ Create Widget â†’ X10 Control

Let us know if you need more help.

Hans

Re: IO-304 Serial UART issue

dharrist — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:37:50 +0000

Hello, I am trying to talk to a IO-304 unit through the UART.  My device has a separate power supply running at 3.3V, and the IO-304 runs at 5V.  Can the IO-304 see the data I am trying to send it?  In other words, what is the voltage-high level that the IO-304 needs to see to work properly?

Thanks,

Dan

Re: XM10U and the X10 Function Board

GTown_Surfer — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:42:28 +0000

Hey all! I am new to ioBridge technology so please excuse my ignorance. I recently purchased an XM10U interface, an X10 Function board and an IO 204 control module. My aim for my first project is to control a plug socket with the XM10U device. This project is part of an exhibit I am doing next week so quick help would be appreciated! I have the module connected to the internet but I don’t know how to create a module for controlling a plug socket ON or OFF. Thanks for your help!

Re: hot water temperature probes

reggie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:56:47 +0000

Thanks, can’t wait to get started on this project

Re: Serial Smart Board SB-5 Pinout Question

hans — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:19:36 +0000

J.P.

Here is more info about he Serial Smart Board:

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/smart-boards/serial-smart-board">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/smart-boar … mart-board</a><!– m –>

The photo is a little old, we switch to a screw terminal to differentiate from our standard sensor connector.

I personally don’t have any experience with 1-wire, but I know that we are working on something 1-wire related in the lab. I will see if I can dig up any info.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Hans

Serial Smart Board SB-5 Pinout Question

jpmcginley — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:01:01 +0000

I searched the forum first, figured I’d send out my VERY first question.
Hope I did not miss this being answered here.
The SB-5 Which is on the store website has what appears to be
a five pin out.  The SB-5 I received seems to have a screw type/phoenix
connector.  Now the question…what are the pinouts?
I saw there was +5V, RX, TX, RTD and GND
Can the SB-5 RX/TX seriel data (like the dallas one wire sensors)?
Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere.
TNX,
J.P.

Re: Well Pump Control

SMyers — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:28:42 +0000

If you need any more info just let us know.

Re: hot water temperature probes

SMyers — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:25:02 +0000

With a resistor and some wire you could hook up the iobridge to the aux contact. Monitoring the digital state of the iorbidge’s channel you could see when the motor is on or off. Closing the contact could make the iobridge channel go high. This information could be plotted quite easily and used to calculate time on.

As a similar example, I have an ambient light sensor in my office that is plotted. We have motion sensing lights at work. So when I am in my office, the sensor generates a signal. By looking at the generated graph I am able to tell how long i was at work each day.

Re: Remote Hour Meter

SMyers — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:15:00 +0000

A 555 is a basic chip that puts out a pulse at a set rate. You put resistors and capacitors on it to generate the timing you want.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC</a><!– m –>

Re: Well Pump Control

reggie — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:27:00 +0000

JayV,

Control of the pump is easy. I’m busy today but if you email me I will get back to you tonight.

Reggie
<!– e –><a href="mailto:reggie@rwjc.us">reggie@rwjc.us</a><!– e –>

Re: Remote Hour Meter

jmaty23 — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:33:03 +0000

This may be a dumb question but what is a 555?

Re: Well Pump Control

JayV — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:23:06 +0000

Thank you Reggie

Surface Pump, Irrigation only, 1 Horsepower….I do not have easy access and have damaged the pump due to different issues.  If I could easily monitor the suction and discharge pressures and have positive control of start and stop it would be a benefit.

Re: hot water temperature probes

reggie — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:30:20 +0000

I want to graph when the well pump starts and how long it runs for at least a week but preferably 1 month. I intend to mount the ioBridge module in a control cabinet that will have a magnetic starter for the pump. The starter has N.O. aux contacts that can provide a dry contact to the module.

Right now the well pump/pressure tank system provides the circulation for the heating loops in the houses. My end result is to reduce the number of pump starts per day.

Re: hot water temperature probes

SMyers — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:39:43 +0000

Which part in particular are you looking for some direction? Can you provide some info about the devices you will be working with?

Re: Well Pump Control

reggie — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:28:29 +0000

I am new to ioBridge equipment also but I can help you with water pumping.  Could you give a bit more information? If this is your primary water source, you need to be very careful with manual control or automatic control other than pressure. Most well systems are installed with a mechanical pressure switch before the pump control box.

1  Is this a submersible or surface pump?
2  Is the well for domestic water or irrigation use only?
3  Do you know the Horsepower and voltage of the pump?
4  Why do you want manual control?

<!– e –><a href="mailto:Reggie@rwjc.us">Reggie@rwjc.us</a><!– e –>

Re: hot water temperature probes

reggie — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:16:05 +0000

Thanks for the link and info. I’m looking forward to working with your gear. My client is an electronics PhD and he is also very interested. FYI, I am an electrician, more in touch with industrial controls than computer PCB’s and java script but this will be a good opportunity to learn.

We are installing KWH and water meters from another outfit for billing purposes but we are going to build our own KWH meter inspired by your guy’s Instructables project and compare it’s cost and accuracy to the other one. Will keep you informed.

The first thing I want to do when I get it installed is to monitor and log the time and duration the well pump is running. I would like to accumulate at least 1 month’s worth of data. I can provide a dry contact closure from the contactor. Could you steer me to the correct information I will need to accomplish this?

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.

Re: hot water temperature probes

SMyers — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:41:01 +0000

As far as can an iobridge do what you need, ABSOLUTELY.

A number of projects similar to that have been done with the iobridge module (the involve solar water heaters rather than naturally occurring warm water) and some are even documented here. In this link I helped someone use an iobridge to calculate BTUs with expression builder (which I believe is now included for free with all accounts):

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/forum/index.php/topic,915.0.html">http://www.iobridge.net/forum/index.php … 915.0.html</a><!– m –>

As far as finding temperature sensors that would work with your plumbing, there are a number available. I did a BTU project where we used invasive and noninvasive temperature probes. We got ours from a pool supplier. They were designed to work in hot tubs. They worked just like the iobridge temperature probe, and we were able to plug ours into the iobridge module just like they were the ones produced by iobridge.

Hope this helps you get started. 

Re: Well Pump Control

JayV — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:16:41 +0000

I would like to be able to switch on and off my well pump.  My thought was use a solidstate relay with 0-5VDC input and 120VDC output to control power to the motor. I am new to IO Bridge and will take all comments please. Eventually I would like to monitor pressure on the suction and discharge of the pump and have the capability of automatically switching the power off on given pressures.  For now I’ll start small with just the solid state relay. Thank you.

Re: hot water temperature probes

reggie — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:14:21 +0000

I am going to install an ioBridge module as a test for a project here in Nevada. One of the things we want to monitor is water temperature in the water pipes. The well is sitting on a geothermal anomaly and produces 120 F water which is used for hydronic heating. I need to find a sensor, either invasive or non-invasive, to place in various locations in the plumbing system. I want to have a BTU meter for each house plus well temperature monitoring at the pump house. All I can find so far are industrial process controls and I would like to find something more residential.  Thanks

Re: Remote Hour Meter

SMyers — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:15:45 +0000

It could definitely log what you need. You could go with something really simple like putting a 555 in your circuit so that when the device is on a regular pulse is output, which the iobridge would read and turn into a duration for you.

Re: Remote Hour Meter

jmaty23 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:48:44 +0000

I would be using a normally open circuit. When the machine is running, the circuit would close, meaning the machine is running.

Re: Remote Hour Meter

SMyers — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:13:58 +0000

Yes, that is something that could definitely be monitored with iobridge. If the device doesn’t have some type of output to tell you when it’s on you would need to build a simple circuit that would tell the iobridge it is on. The first thing that comes to mind is a circuit that pulses at a set rate when the device is on. Then you could monitor the time like in this example.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/tutorials/monitoring-a-pulse-output-power-meter-over-the-internet">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/tutorials/ … e-internet</a><!– m –>

Re: Physical display of any numeric range

hans — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:50:54 +0000

We love the idea. Let’s explore it further…. Happy Holidays.

Physical display of any numeric range

tinkertoyz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:32:55 +0000

I saw an ad online for a clock-like device made of wood with a rotating dial on the front (rather than clock hands).  The device is connected to a website where you post your current status (e.g., traveling, dining, hiking, etc., etc.), and as you change your status on the web site, the device retrieves this new data and rotates the dial to the new position that corresponds to that status.  Essentially, it’s a physical display of a piece of online data.  You can give this gadget to family and friends and they can "watch" your status without a computer or smartphone – all they need is an internet connection.  What I want to do is something similar, but instead of a given set of statuses, it’s a numeric range.  Think of an analog barometer or thermometer and how the physical needle moves up or down depending on the sensed value.  What I want to do is build a process that posts a piece of data online – say a value between 0 and 100 – OR pushes that piece of data directly to an ioBridge SmartBoard (whichever is easiest), and then turns a servo to a position that accurately corresponds to that value.  The servo is behind a wood facade labeled with the numeric values, and the servo spindle is connected to a needle which moves on the face of the wood and then points to the correct value.  I don’t care about receiving any data from the SmartBoard, and I don’t need any fancy interface to manually control the servo.  I just want to know that as I update the data, the needle is automatically moving to a position that points to that value.  Real-world example:  Let’s say I have a continuously-running employee satisfaction survey at my company.  A dozen executives at our company are given an employee satisfaction "clock" (made with ioBridge parts, of course!) on their desk that’s looking up or receiving a piece of data every day about the latest satisfaction scores for employees in their organization.  Let’s say the numeric range is between 0 and 100, and that reflects the percentage of their employees that are "satisfied."

So the question is – is this possible, what parts do I need, and who’s got some code to get me up and testing?  I think this would be a fantastic way to drive human behavior in the workplace, or do all kinds of other things:  watch my stock price, watch election results, watch exchange rates – any piece of ranged data you want….

Remote Hour Meter

jmaty23 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:42:34 +0000

I am looking into hooking up iobridge to a piece of equipment to monitor its run-time usage. What I need is ultimately a remote hour meter. When the machine is turned on, I need the hour meter/counter to start counting. When the machine is turned off, I need the hour meter to stop. When the machine is turned back on again, I need the hour meter to start again from where it left off and just continually count up. I would need this readout in hours. If something like this possible through iobridge.

Hour Meter

jmaty23 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:29:09 +0000

using VEX motors with module

HTinc — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:20:05 +0000

Does anyone have experience using VEX motors with an ioBridge?  I was able to connect to ioBridge, but I have no control of them.  They just run forever.  Any help?

Re: New Advanced Chart Widgets

hans — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:47:56 +0000

That is strange. I see one chart is column type and the other chart is line. I am not sure why there would be a difference in widths.

Re: New Firmware

hans — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:33:28 +0000

We are glad that the firmware upgrades went smoothly.

The firmware revisions are listed on our Wiki:
[url=http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/modules/io-204-monitor-and-control-module?s[#firmware-versions]http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/modules/io-204-monitor-and-control-module?s[#firmware-versions[/url]

Thanks for checking in!

Re: New Advanced Chart Widgets

emosca — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:43:17 +0000

When creating a data log chart the width (time axis length) for a Column chart is different than the width for the other graph types when using the same data log.  You can see this on the charts found at <http://web.me.com/genemosca/Site/Blank.html>.  At that site, the upper graph is a Column chart and the lower graph is a Step chart.  Both of these charts are plotting the same data from the same Data Log (Hot Water Used).  Unfortunately, the width of the upper chart is 36 hours whereas the width of the lower chart is 24 hours.  The Number of Days value for the widgets that create these charts are both set to 1 day. 

In my mind both chart widths should be 24 hours.  That the Column chart is wider than the other chart types is a concern because I wish to post a Temperature chart and Gallons Used chart on the same web page, with one chart located above the other so the times line up.  One reason I would prefer a Column chart to a Step chart is that the automatic scaling on the y axis sets lower limit for the range of y values at -2 rather than 0 on the Step chart.

My question is, can the width of the Column chart be 24 hours when the widget is set to 1 day?

New Firmware

mrich01 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:11:31 +0000

I’ve had two reacent firmware updates, Both were done remotely and were flawless. Just wondering what the changes were if any? 4.7 if I remember and 4.9 Current.

Re: FB-6 Buzzer Board noobie question: Remove seal after washing

hans — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:59:37 +0000

The label muffles the sound a bit. It can be loud.

BTW… It’s a manufacturing label that we leave on so you can lower the sound. It basically protects the insides of the buzzer during manufacturing process.

Re: FB-6 Buzzer Board noobie question: Remove seal after washing

ubuntourist — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:50:06 +0000

Eh? Subject line says it all (almost).  Should I just ignore that label and remove it? Leave it on (I’m guessing no to that)? Wash it? With what?

Re: Only one widget logging data

hans — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:07:26 +0000

I think the channel setting might have reset back to "Disable Push Messaging" – check the Channel Push settings and see if that gets the module logging again.

Re: How to change time format to 24H in data log chart

hans — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:05:54 +0000

Let us look into this and make an option on the widget settings for 24H format. Thanks for letting us know.

How to change time format to 24H in data log chart

sebswed — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:11:54 +0000

Hi, I’m new to this forum. It might have been asked before but I did not find any results when searching on "time format".
I’m from Europe and AM/PM is not what I’m used to. I would like to see the time on my chart in 24H time format. Is there a way for me to change this?

Only one widget logging data

rusnak — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:12:21 +0000

I have an iobridge setup that is logging temperature on channel 4 and humidity on channel 3. Channel one has two servos for a pan/tilt camera. I just added a servo on channel one and plugged a relay board into channel 4 and now it seems the board goes on and offline randomly. Another side effect is that humidity no longer logs at all while temperature logs every couple of hours instead of ten minutes. Any idea what could be going on here?

Re: Resetting the pulse counter

dhaselhorst — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:01:01 +0000

Trying to do something similar.  Did you find a result that worked?

15% Holiday Discount and new Tutorials

hans — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:43:27 +0000

Use the coupon code, Holiday15, to get an 15% off your entire order at the ioBridge Store.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://store.iobridge.com/">http://store.iobridge.com/</a><!– m –>

We have a new "Internet of Things" evaluation kit that includes a temperature sensor and buzzer bundled with an iobridge IO-204 gateway.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://store.iobridge.com/Evaluation_Kit_p/kit-eval-1.htm">http://store.iobridge.com/Evaluation_Ki … eval-1.htm</a><!– m –>

We also have new tutorials that take you from setting up an ioBridge to building a garage door opener.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/tutorials">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/tutorials</a><!– m –>

Cheers!

Re: Android Home screen Widget to display ioBridge Temperature

hans — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:53:10 +0000

Thanks for posting to Android Market. We will get the word out. Cheers!

Onboard Rules – Compare 2 Input Channels

DrNeil — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:46:41 +0000

Would like to request that the onboard rules allow one input channel to be compared to another – e.g. If Analog Input 1 > Analog Input 2 or If Pulse Count Input 1 <= Pulse Count Input 2.  My application is a simple solar controller and I wish to have an additional rule that shuts the pump off if the return temperature is less than the flow temperature. Currently there is no way to do this that I can think of with on-board rules.

Re: Ability to mount the IO-204

texasclodhopper — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:12:40 +0000

It is quite easy to "glue" a mounting plate to the bottom of the IO-204. I used ordinary 25 year caulking from a hardware store. When that stuff cures, it is tough.

Just make the mounting plate to fit your situation and "glue" it on.

Re: Android Home screen Widget to display ioBridge Temperature

mancinip — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:39:24 +0000

This widget is now available in the Android market.  Just search for IoBridge.

Re: BTU Measures

DrNeil — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:15:43 +0000

I realized after submitting my previous post that in order for this method to work, you have to leave a browser window logged into iobridge. The widget and embedded map command only executes when the widget is active on a web browser. If you do’t leave a browser window up then the value never gets updated on the hardware.

Re: BTU Measures

DrNeil — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:09:28 +0000

I did read through this entire thread but I’m going to stick to responding to the original question since it’s not clear you ended up with a satisfactory solution. 

I have successfully done what you are trying to do by using the trick of writing values back to an unused PC port and then setting that up for logging.  I am computing energy absorbed in my solar hot water system by measuring the temperature difference in the flow and return lines (it’s a circulated, open loop system) multiplied by the number of gallons transferred in the sample period (10 minutes in my case). I am also using a Jerman meter but since the flow rate doesn’t change I don’t need to monitor it live in this particular case – I have simply used the flow rate of 14.36 gals per 10 mins in my calculation below. I calculate the BTU’s (Temp diff * 8.34 * # Gals) and then I write that (‘map" is the expression builder command) to an unused PC port on the IOBRIDGE device.  I have then set that port up to push every 10 minutes and I have set up a log on the server side to catch that data.  This is the only way I could think of to create a log of an expression.  It works great as long as the value you are calculating can be converted to decimal with a minimal loss of accuracy. In my case the BTU’s values are in the 100′s and low 1000′s so this is not an issue – the PC registers are 32 bit regs.

I have also played a little with reading a PC register, saving it to another unused PC port and then recalling it later to compute flow. That same widget can then save the latest value to the unused port for the next time the widget fires. This is a way to keep track of actual flow if the flow rate is not uniform as it is in my application.

Anyway, here’s the expression builder code to calculate and map the value to the unused PC port:

Send = %%input:24000961,AI,2%%;
Return = %%input:24000961,AI,3%%;
SendKelvin = 1/(3.35401643468053E-03+2.5698501802E-04*ln((1023-Send)/Send)+2.6201306709E-06*ln((1023-Send)/Send)^2+6.3830907998E-08*ln((1023-Send)/Send)^3) ;
SendTemp = (SendKelvin – 273.15) * (9/5) + 32;
Return = %%input:24000961,AI,3%%;
ReturnKelvin = 1/(3.35401643468053E-03+2.5698501802E-04*ln((1023-Return)/Return)+2.6201306709E-06*ln((1023-Return)/Return)^2+6.3830907998E-08*ln((1023-Return)/Return)^3);
ReturnTemp = (ReturnKelvin – 273.15) * (9/5) + 32;
DiffTemp = ReturnTemp – SendTemp;
DiffTemp = DiffTemp * theta(DiffTemp) * 8.34 * 14.36;
DiffTemp = floor(DiffTemp);
%%map:24000961,PC,1%%

Hope this helps.

Re: Senior Design Project – Need Advice for ioBridge

hans — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:40:34 +0000

Lots of questions in there?

If you are just looking to store data, check out <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thingspeak.com">http://www.thingspeak.com</a><!– m –> – you can download the source code and modify. It’s written in Ruby based on Ruby on Rails.

Good luck with your project.

Re: HTML widget

ekanayake — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:58:08 +0000

Thank you for the support, everything is working ok.

best regards

Jagath

Re: HTML widget

ekanayake — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:41:43 +0000

Thank you for the comprehensive explanation.

Since I am a newbie to internet and things I still could not get it going. However, I could use the URL you sent me to view the camera even without the user name and password ( how that happens). I will use your explanation to learn and get it to work. You have already given me a lot of information to get a good start.  Everything else ( log temp data, i/o monitor,  servo operation and on-off switch ) work fine for me:  thank you

best regards

Jagath

Re: Data logging

ekanayake — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:33:46 +0000

Thank you for response

There are 40 measuring points with 120 sensors sampling 30 min interval. Some work has to be done to get data from the 4 base stations to iobridge. I am not even sure how to do this as I do not have access to base station software.

However, I am working on Xbee ( digimesh from idigi) to form our sensor network for future research and I am investigating available options to find where I could store all the data. Iobridge and thingspeak appear to be very good option.

Best regards

Jagath

Re: HTML widget

hans — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:09:35 +0000

Jagath,

That Cisco WVC210 has a slightly different API than the one we used in our tutorial.

For your camera (Cisco WVC210) use: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://jagath.dyndns.org:1024/img/snapshot.cgi">http://jagath.dyndns.org:1024/img/snapshot.cgi</a><!– m –>
and use it in the tutorial: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/tutorials/open-and-close-your-garage-door-over-the-internet">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/tutorials/ … e-internet</a><!– m –>

Here’s the API info for your camera, if you are interested in other options.

Snapshot

Method: GET

URL:http://<ip>/img/snapshot.cgi?size=<value>&quality=<value>

Where size is one of the following:

Image Resolution:
1: 160×120
2: 320×240
3: 640×480

Where quality is one of the following:
1: Very high
2: High
3: Normal
4: Low
5: Very low

Example 1:
To make a snapshot of a 640×480 high quality JPEG image from network camera
192.168.1.99:
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://192.168.1.99/img/snapshot.cgi?size=3&quality=1">http://192.168.1.99/img/snapshot.cgi?size=3&quality=1</a><!– m –>

Example 2:
To make a snapshot of a JPEG image from network camera 192.168.1.99 (with
current resolution and quality):
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://192.168.1.99/img/snapshot.cgi">http://192.168.1.99/img/snapshot.cgi</a><!– m –>

Example 3:
To make a snapshot of a low quality JPEG image with current resolution from the
network camera 192.168.1.99:
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://192.168.1.99/img/snapshot.cgi?quality=4">http://192.168.1.99/img/snapshot.cgi?quality=4</a><!– m –>

You can download the full API here: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=282414033&flowid=7149&softwareid=283465909">http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/rel … =283465909</a><!– m –>

Let us know how it turns out…

Re: Data logging

hans — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:47:53 +0000

We have never deleted since we started offering this in 2008 – any of the data and all of the sensor data is kept and accessible by you. The paid account type allows for more frequent updates.

How often are you gathering your data to generate 1MB a day? How many sensors are you collecting data from?

Re: Data logging

ekanayake — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:15:41 +0000

I have a few wireless sensor networks monitoring soil moisture which gather around 1 Mb of data/day in New Zealand ( research purpose).

For how long can I store these data at iobridge under free and paid subscription ?

And what is the maximum length of data I can store ( years of data ? or a few months of data? )

best regards

jagath

Re: HTML widget

ekanayake — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:05:10 +0000

Thanks for the reponse.

The head and body codes are exactly same as Garage door open demo in the tutorial with my jagath.dyndns.org:1024, and user name and passowrd were replaced as instructed.

As you are an administrator, I am happy to let you know the user name and password of my account if needed.

regards

jagath

Re: HTML widget

SMyers — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:36:12 +0000

Could you provide some more specifics about what problems you are actually having?

Senior Design Project – Need Advice for ioBridge

Science Knight — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:25:07 +0000

Hello!  I am a military student in college, getting ready to graduate in May.  I’m majoring in Computer Engineering and my Senior Design project will be to make a preexisting air conditioning system (which I will refer to as HVAC system) connect to the internet.  This is because our ultimate goal is to make an HVAC system that can be controlled from a smart phone application.

I personally have experience in web programming, so it’s my job for the Senior Design team to investigate how to make hardware communicate with the internet, and the client had a subtractor that recommended ioBridge.

Basically, all the hardware in the project has been outsourced.  Someone else is redesigning the previously existing HVAC system, so it’s just our job to set up the software and web infrastructure to make a browser, and ultimimately a smart phone app, control and HVAC system.  We will need to create our own "simulated" HVAC system with Java or C Sharp.

Our strategy so far is to create a MySQL database that can store all the variables that the previously existing advanced HVAC system has.  A single HVAC system’s data structure would have a User Name, Outdoor Temperature, Indoor Temperature, Outdoor Humidity, Indoor Humidity, what temperature and humidity the user WANTS, and so forth.

So we would put all this in a web browser, adjust settings, and we would click Sumbit and it would get stored in a database and then our simulated HVAC system (and later, the real one) would need to be able to read these commands and make changes.

So how much of that strategy matches up with ioBridge?  What sort of languages, tricks and strategies would we need to use to make this project a reality?  Any advice would be appreciated?  Thank you.

Re: Ability to mount the IO-204

levi — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:44:55 +0000

I second this idea

ease in/out speed of servo

levi — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:44:12 +0000

I am controlling a long rotating arm using a servo. As the servo is rotating this fairly large arm, the movement becomes jagged because the arm tips the servo’s position ahead of where it should be, which prompts the servo is to correct its position. Perhaps an speed-ease-in and out function would minimize this issue.

Re: HTML widget

ekanayake — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:02:46 +0000

I have been trying to get HTML widget as Jason’s fish cam and garage door opeing demo. I can get my IP cam on the internet working properly(<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://jagath.dyndns.org:1024,&nbsp;">http://jagath.dyndns.org:1024,&nbsp;</a><!– m –> user=guest, password=guest). I followed all the instructions given in Jason’s garage door opening demo. No luck yet. Appreciate if some one could possibly put me in correct direction please.  Many thanks, jagath

Re: Water leak detection in soil…

nick — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:57:44 +0000

The object you are looking for is called a "plumber."  What you have is called a banded coupling. Properly sized and installed they should be extremely reliable. Code permits them to be buried in concrete and concealed inside walls, which is only allowed for fittings expected to last the life of the building. Most likely the coupling you have is not properly sized for your pipe. It could also be improperly installed; many banded couplings specify that the bands should be tightened with a torque wrench to the proper torque. A third possibility is that the pipe is not properly supported and the coupling is excessively strained.

If you really want to detect leaks rather than fix the problem, I would drive pieces of stainless steel into the dirt, apply 5V to one and the other to a resistor going to ground and an analog input. As the soil gets wetter the resistance of the dirt will drop and the voltage at the analog input will increase.

Nick

Water leak detection in soil…

bbsux — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:40:11 +0000

I have a sewer (yuck) pipe in my basement that I have to keep a close eye on.  the original pipe is the old cast iron 4" pipe and it is mated to a 4" pvc.  The problem is that the mating is done by a rubber coupler and a metal tightener.  Sometimes this comes loose and allows water to leak out of the seal.  About 6" down the pipe is buried in dirt.  Does anyone know of a way i could make a sensor to detect when that soil is wet and alert me somehow?  Sort of like a moisture sensor but just a notify if any detected.

I saw somebody took a smoke detector and wired probes into the test switch which would work but I’m usually too far away to hear it.

Thanks…

Re: High Temperature Mesurement

brooklynrab — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:15:15 +0000

Jason, Since this was posted in 2009, has anyone come up with a better/cheaper solution? I want to use my iobridge to monitor my smoker, with a max temp of about 350F, so I’d use some type of K type armored thermocouple.

stay logged in forever

Thomas — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:16:51 +0000

Can you guys add a stay logged in forever option on the iobridge dashboard.  You graciously added a remember password option on the iphone when I asked 2 years ago. 

thanks

Thomas

Re: Stuck on 1

nick — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:51:35 +0000

Thanks. It was 4.1. I upgraded to 4.6.

Re: Stuck on 1

hans — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:11:19 +0000

Nick,

What is the firmware on that module?

The latest firmware is C4.6 which includes a full system watchdog for routers that loose power.

I think that would help you.

Re: Stuck on 1

nick — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:41:09 +0000

I have an IOBridge at a remote location. On August 28 we lost power when Hurricane Irene came through, and the IOBridge never came back up when the power came on. I finally got to it this weekend and found it was stuck with the status LED displaying "1."  Resetting it got it working again.

Is there anything I can do to keep this from happening in the future?

Nick

Re: Driveway Alarm Notification

SMyers — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:04:30 +0000

Hopefully that will work for you. When you are there, if it doesn’t, just post more details and we will get it set up.

Re: Driveway Alarm Notification

brooklynrab — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:18:02 +0000

Thanks very, very much for the detailed instructions. I look forward to doing this when I am there on the weekend. You have a great product with so many applications!

Re: Driveway Alarm Notification

SMyers — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:25:00 +0000

That should be a pretty straight forward setup. What I would do is:

Set the receiver box so one of the zone relays is triggered when the sensor detects the alarm.
After this is done you will need to get 3 wires. It can be 3 separate wires or something like phone or ethernet cable that has multiple conductors per cable. 
A type C relay is a SPDT switch, so it should have 3 connection points. Connect the NO (normally open) portion of the relay to the 5V+ on the iobridge. Connect the NC (normally closed) to the ground on the iobridge, and the connect the COM to the digital input on the iobridge.
Go to iobridge.com and setup the proper channel of your iobridge to look for a digital state change. With this configuration, when the receiver is triggered it will cause the digital input on the iobridge channel to go from ground (0V or LOW) to 5V (or HIGH).

Just incase, the device’s instruction manual can be found here:
<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dakotaalert.com/manuals/WR-3000.pdf">http://www.dakotaalert.com/manuals/WR-3000.pdf</a><!– m –>

Re: Driveway Alarm Notification

brooklynrab — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:50:38 +0000

Thanks very much for replying so quickly. This is the item I have: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dakotaalert.com/catb2b1/product_info.php?cPath=47&products_id=122">http://www.dakotaalert.com/catb2b1/prod … cts_id=122</a><!– m –>. The transmitter is far away from the house and my ethernet, but the receiver is in the house near the ethernet. I note that the product website says that "The WR-3000 [the receiver] is equipped with four form â€œCâ€

Re: Driveway Alarm Notification

SMyers — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:06:42 +0000

That shouldn’t be too hard to do. Do you have a link to the magnetic sensor you are using right now? If you already have that sensor it might be best to piggy back off of it; however, there are other types of sensors that you could use too such as a proximity sensor or beam break sensor.

Let’s get a little more info on your magnetic sensor and go from there.

Re: Driveway Alarm Notification

brooklynrab — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:43:25 +0000

I have a rental property in a vacation community that has webcams that allow me to check out what is going on there. The thing is, I have a day job and can’t always watch the webcams to see what is going on there. I already use an IOBridge at that house to turn on lights via X10, and now I am trying to figure out how to have IOBridge tell me when someone is at the house, so I can look at the webcams and make sure everything is OK. I have a wireless driveway magnetic field sense that sends a wireless signal on the property to a plugged in  chime box to "Chime" when a car drives by the sensor. I was thinking about somehow using the IOBridge to pick up that signal at the chime (either 1) by using a sound activated sensor connected to the IObridge, hears the chime, and tells the IOBridge or, better, 2) some kind of digital input tying the chime to the IOBridge that sense when the "close circuit" signal is received by the chime from the sensor). I figure then the IOBridge can just see that as an event that then has your website send me an email or a text to check the webcam and see who is on my property.
I know this must be eminently doable, but don’t know how to do it. I’m good with a soldering iron but know just enough to be dangerous. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Re: peizo virbation sensor

SMyers — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:38:47 +0000

The data sheet on this similar product from parallax[/url:16inrvp1] does in fact suggest using a zener diode.

Re: peizo virbation sensor

jason — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:49:45 +0000

I’m just "shooting from the hip", but this may call for a Zener diode.

Check out this circuit…  it will limit the voltage to 5v if you use a 5v zener diode.

[img:94n861r1]http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/images/zenerd.gif[/img:94n861r1]

Connect the Piezo leads to the "input" and run the output leads to the IO-204.  I don’t have a part number for a zener diode at the moment.  Google around for a 5v zener that can handle up to 90v.

Re: peizo virbation sensor

shell_toe19 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:19:42 +0000

could i use a resistor to bring the voltage down? are there any vibration sensors that are between 0 v and 5 v

Re: peizo virbation sensor

hans — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:39:30 +0000

The piezo is putting out a +/- 90 voltage. The pins are only tolerant to 0 to 5v. I would not connect that sensor directly to the module.  I personally don’t know enough about using piezo connecting to a digital input pin.

Digital State updates only happen if the module channel is set to "Push on Digital State Change".

peizo virbation sensor

shell_toe19 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:49:40 +0000

right now, i have a piezo vibration sensor hooked up to a teminal board, however then i make movements to activate the sensor my digital input and the status does not change…is their a reason why this is not working?

here is my sensor: <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9197">http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9197</a><!– m –>

Re: Send e-mail when module loses power

hans — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:08:39 +0000

That is on our list. We have different versions of that feature working, but we want a way to be able to do this for everyone in a scalable way.

Re: Send e-mail when module loses power

jmaty23 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:25:10 +0000

Is it possible to have the server side send an e-mail when the iobridge module loses power?

Re: Ability to mount the IO-204

hans — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:54:35 +0000

If I knew more about getting custom plexiglass made, I would send it to http://customlasercutting.com//url:2n670ke8 – I do like the idea of a new bottom plate that mounted to the wall.

Re: Ability to mount the IO-204

Travinder — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:01:14 +0000

I would like some sort of mount for the io-204.  I am wanting to mount a few of my io-204 units to walls.  I would like to see either some sort of clip that would be able to be screwed to the wall and the io-204 simply clicks into the clip. Or possibly a replacement plexiglass bottom that is wider with screw mount hole cutouts on either side of the io-204.

Re: New Advanced Chart Widgets

hans — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:19:54 +0000

By popular demand, we just added the ability to set the Y-Axis scale on the charts.

To change the Y-Axis scale, select your Widget and select between "Auto" and "Fixed" – Auto means, the Y-axis will automatically pick the Max/Min values for the Y-Axis. Fixed means that you can enter the Max/Min values for the chart. This will help when there is little deviation on the values or when comparing one data series with another.

Re: Powerswitch tail Kit

skoobi — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:38:43 +0000

Brilliant thank you for your response… thats exactly whats needed…

Cheers

Re: Powerswitch tail Kit

hans — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:39:08 +0000

There is a kit from PowerSwitchTail the company:

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://powerswitchtail.com/PSTIIU.aspx">http://powerswitchtail.com/PSTIIU.aspx</a><!– m –>

It does not include the power cables and requires some assembly – just make sure to get the 240VAC version if you go down this path. This is compatible with ioBridge.

Re: Powerswitch tail Kit

skoobi — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:55:14 +0000

Hi just wondering if there is a uk version of the powerswitch tail kit??? or is there a site which does them for use with the iobridge module…

cheers
chris

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:55:44 +0000

Thank you for the clarifications!
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Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

hans — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:35:35 +0000

Yes, Pulse Count Type affects the push messages as you would expect. The setting determines if the high / low edge or both edges gets pushed.

You can use a combination of push messages from the settings and onboard rules. You will not break anything on the device. You may right some loop code, and you can always hard reset the module and re-sync the rules if you make a mistake. We do have some provisions for combinations that could slow down the module, but overall the module will take a beating.

Hard reset is done buy, unplugging the power, holding down the Link button, reapplying power whiling holding down the link button until the display flashes. Usually take a 5 seconds or so.

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:13:46 +0000

Thank you for the clarification.

In my experimentation with the onboard rules, simple changes (additions) seem to use up a lot more of the ‘rule space’ (%) than I had expected. (I’ve undone the changes since playing around with this.)

As such, my inclination is to continue to use the controls/settings for just pushing values to be logged, and save the onboard rules space for making decisions (when to push pulse counts, turning other digitial outputs on, etc.).

Is that OK?

Most important to me is that the channels/settings and the onboard rules don’t cause a corruption of the IOBridge itself or the data being sent, or a loss of data.

I’m not sure how to unpack the earlier comment: "The best way is to use the onboard rules for both pushes." perhaps I’m just being overly paranoid, but I’d appreciate any additional insight you can share about how controls/settings and onboard rules interact.

Also, does the "Pulse Count Type" in the control/settings affect the onboard rules push activity or does it only affect pushes set up from control/settings? I’m guessing that the various push-related controls on the control/settings panel only affect the push update mode also set on the control/settings panel?

Thanks for all the help!

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

hans — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:38:51 +0000

The only difference between the setting under the channel vs. the onboard rules is presentation of the data on the web interface.

When analog data gets to pushed to our servers, the data is always "Raw".

Here’s a look up table to make the conversions:

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/sensors/iobridge-temperature-probe-fb-2-lookup-table">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/sensors/io … okup-table</a><!– m –>

Glad the push messaging is working.

Re: Word Press Blog?

wlbrycemt — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:21:25 +0000

Thanks! Got it to work. One note if using a Blog on WordPress.COM it will not work as the service will not allow JAVA. But if using WordPress.ORG it will.

One more step in this project, that is getting data off a solar/wind controller via the serial board. Not working real just yet as it is bianary.

Here is the data on a regular web page without details.

<!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.pineridgeproducts.com/PRPSite/DAQ.html">http://www.pineridgeproducts.com/PRPSite/DAQ.html</a><!– m –>

Its a work in progress. Would be much easer if you had the Wireless unit avalible!

Logan

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:58:21 +0000

Server actions on pulse counts update:
I was able to get separate emails from the pulse count pushed from an Onboard Rule.
Specifically, if the pulse count <= 1, I get the "lights on!" mesage, and if the pulse count >= 2 I get the "lights off!" message. (the values are arbitrary, all that matters is that they are different).

The remaining questions I have are in the previous post on this thread re: Channels/Settings and Onboard Rules interactions, etc.

Thanks!
-=Doug

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:51:40 +0000

Second follow on question:
In the Channels/Settings, I can set the analog value to degrees F, but in the Onboard rules, it just pushes the analog value. I’m a bit leery of changing this without knowing how it’ll affect the server side logging.

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:10:29 +0000

Thank you, I will be experimenting, and I’ll add another post to this thread with my results.

Follow on question:
What is the difference between the Onboard Rules pushing and the Channels/Settings pushing? Are the Channels/Settings actions just another way to write Onboard Rules?
Where can I find more info on how they interact, etc?

Thanks!
-

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

hans — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:54:55 +0000

Sorry for the late reply…

Yes, you can safely push both an Analog Value and Pulse Count on the same channel. The best way is to use the onboard rules for both pushes.

To create two server side action, just make one action for the "less than" condition and the other for the "more than" connection. The issue is setting the conditions for the onboard rules to push the pulse count. I think you would use the Push at Limit and set the Reset number to where the less than the "less than" value of the server side action.

Let us know if you experiment and what the results are.

Re: Word Press Blog?

hans — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:47:27 +0000

Yes, it’s definitely possible. On my blog, all I did was edit the template and paste the widget embed code exactly where I wanted it to be placed.

Let me know if you try this out and what your results are.

Re: Word Press Blog?

wlbrycemt — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:13:02 +0000

Is it possible to imbed the Widget code into a WordPress Blog page?

Anyone have any examples to share?

Thanks

Logan

Re: no network available…

skoobi — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:50:41 +0000

Hi thanks for that I’ve been reading a bit more into the iobridge kit and there’s an unlimited number of things you can do with it and it got me thinking of a neat project for myself which will keep me occupied for quite some time i think lol… I think im going to have to use a zelio logic or something like that for my original project…

Cheers
Chris

Re: no network available…

hans — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:19:42 +0000

Chris,

The ioBridge IO-204 module is tethered to web services. You access the device via those web services. This module works great when you need persistent [i:1gsdzaqn]remote[/i:1gsdzaqn] monitoring and control. But, not so much if local control is the main function.

You could track pump pressure and temperature and store that on the web with the IO-204 and you would not have to maintain any local servers. This is our model, but does not work in every application.

I hope that info helps.

no network available…

skoobi — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:38:17 +0000

Hi im just wondering if the iobridge can act as a stand alone component to log data if no internet or network connection is available.

The reason im asking is because i am wanting to track the level in a water storage tank and display it on an LCD display and possibly the
same with the temperature and pump pressure.
Is this possible with io bridge hardware or am i barking up the wrong tree <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smiley.gif" alt="" title="Smiley" /><!– s:) –>

Cheers
Chris

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:03:11 +0000

I’ve found a solution (or something like one).
use onboard rules to set the pulse count and use pulse count limit pushing to get the ‘event’ to the server. Then use an action on the server to trigger email.

Questions for IOBridge:
a) Can I safely have a channel set to push analog values periodically (via the channel tab) and still have a rule (Onboard Rules) that pushs pulse counts on the same channel without those two things interfering or corrupting each other or one causing the other to be lost?
b) Can I have server side actions based on pulse counts that have both upper and lower limits? Right now, I am using two separate channels to push my ‘lights on’ and ‘lights off’ events. If I could have upper and lower limits for server side actions, I could use just one channel. That is, I could set the pulse count to 2 to mean ‘lights on’ and set the pulse count to 1 to mean ‘lights off’. What I can’t do (right now) is figure out how to get the ‘lights off’ action to be skipped when the pulse count is 2 (lights on).

Thanks!
-
[img:ft2e78vd]http://IOBridge-actions.png[/img:ft2e78vd]
[img:ft2e78vd]http://IOBridge-rules.png[/img:ft2e78vd]

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

SMyers — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:59:16 +0000

hmm. I’ll have to think about what you could do too.

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:52:01 +0000

@SMyers
Thanks, i misunderstood the "reset" part.
I’m already full on the channels, so duplicating the input isn’t viable for me.

Maybe there is something in Expression Builder thpat can do this? I’ll have to go read up on that some more…

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

SMyers — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:39:18 +0000

If you set it like I showed then you won’t get but one email per threshold crossing. You must set your trigger and reset appropriately.

However, having it push only on the trigger won’t give you the data you want for logging. Do you have another channel free on the module? If you do you could tie the temperature probe into two channels. Use one as the trigger to send the email and log from the other.

Re: Log and Trigger from same channel?

dgou — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:29:09 +0000

@SMyers
Thanks!

But.
If I do what you suggest, I’ll:
* lose the ability to log all the values?
* still have the problem that when the value stays above the threshold it’ll continue to trigger and cause a flood of emails?

I’ll try to be more clear about what I’m trying to achieve…
I really do want to log the data, but I only want notifications when the value crosses a threshold. Just as the "Servo Controlled by Switch" section of the wiki page <!– m –><a class="postlink" href="http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/onboard-actions">http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/onboard-actions</a><!– m –>). Specifically, quoting from that section:
"This lets the rule only execute once vs. sending the position to the servo over and over."
Only in my case it isn’t sending the position to the servo over and over, it is sending email over and over…