relay state after reboot

[manjh]

I've set up a Sonoff 4CH with ESP Easy and am now fine tuning the rules.
Besides simple "on" and "off", I've also created rules for the buttons to toggle the relay.
Works fine.
But I have also set two of the relays to be switched on after reboot. It works, the two relays are activated. But after that the two corresponding buttons have no effect!
In detail: relais 1 and 4 are switched off, 2 and 3 are switched on after reboot.
Then buttons 1 and 4 work fine, buttons 2 and 3 not.
It can be solved by sending an "off" command, then buttons 2 and 3 are OK again.

I tested this using the command field: evoking my "toggle" rule has no effect, turning it "off" resets the state and from that moment on everything works.
It feels like turning the relay on after boot "freezes" that state until an explicite "off" is done.

What is wrong here? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Another thing I noticed: the relay devices are defined with both "send boot state" and "send data", but the two relays that are switched on after reboot show up in Domoticz as "off", even though they are really on.

Here's a part of the rules (I copied only the relevant rules):

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On TurnOn1 do
  gpio, 12, 1
endon
On TurnOff1 do
  gpio, 12, 0
endon
On TurnOn2 do
  gpio, 5, 1
endon
On TurnOff2 do
  gpio, 5, 0
endon
On TurnOn3 do
  gpio, 4, 1
endon
On TurnOff3 do
  gpio, 4, 0
endon
On TurnOn4 do
  gpio, 15, 1
endon
On TurnOff4 do
  gpio, 15, 0
endon

on System#Boot do
  Event TurnOff1
  Event TurnOn2
  Event TurnOn3
  Event TurnOff4
endon

And a screenshot of one of the four devices:


Screenshot of one of the buttons:

[LisaM]

I've set up a Sonoff 4CH with ESP Easy and am now fine tuning the rules.
Besides simple "on" and "off", I've also created rules for the buttons to toggle the relay.
Works fine.
But I have also set two of the relays to be switched on after reboot. It works, the two relays are activated. But after that the two corresponding buttons have no effect!
In detail: relais 1 and 4 are switched off, 2 and 3 are switched on after reboot.
Then buttons 1 and 4 work fine, buttons 2 and 3 not.
It can be solved by sending an "off" command, then buttons 2 and 3 are OK again.

I tested this using the command field: evoking my "toggle" rule has no effect, turning it "off" resets the state and from that moment on everything works.
It feels like turning the relay on after boot "freezes" that state until an explicite "off" is done.

What is wrong here? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Another thing I noticed: the relay devices are defined with both "send boot state" and "send data", but the two relays that are switched on after reboot show up in Domoticz as "off", even though they are really on.

Rules + devices screenshot please!!!

[manjh]

Rules + devices screenshot please!!!

Done.

[grovkillen]

Please study this information.

https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/inde ... figuration

[manjh]

Please study this information.

https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/inde ... figuration

Can you be more specific as to which part of this overview contains a lead to my problem?
The Sonoff 4CH uses GPIO 12, 5, 4 and 15 for the relays. I realize 4 and 5 are normally used for SDA/SCL, but I removed them from the hardware page (SDA and SCL now blank, so unassigned).

[grovkillen]

Since you didn't mention stuff like this it is hard to help. But you could add a delay before setting the GPIO state. Right on boot might be a tad too fast?

[manjh]

Since you didn't mention stuff like this it is hard to help. But you could add a delay before setting the GPIO state. Right on boot might be a tad too fast?

I will try that.

But it is still very strange, since the actions are actually performed OK but the state of the two relays that are switched on are very cryptical. They respond to nothing except an "off" command, and after that they are normal again.

[LisaM]

Rules + devices screenshot please!!!

Done.

Screenshots of the button devices?

[manjh]

Rules + devices screenshot please!!!

Done.

Screenshots of the button devices?

Done.

[grovkillen]

Those images are broken for me.

[manjh]

Those images are broken for me.

Weird/ They show up fine as attachements to me...
I'll have another look tomorrow morning..

[LisaM]

Done.

I'm missing some toggle rules like this one:

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On Button2#State do
    If [Relais2#State]=1
        gpio,5,0
    Else
        gpio,5,1
    EndIf
EndOn

[manjh]

Done.

I'm missing some toggle rules like this one:

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On Button2#State do
    If [Relais2#State]=1
        gpio,5,0
    Else
        gpio,5,1
    EndIf
EndOn

I did not think they are relevant.At bootup I only use on and off.... that puts the two 'on" relays in a very strange state.

[LisaM]

Done.

I'm missing some toggle rules like this one:

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On Button2#State do
    If [Relais2#State]=1
        gpio,5,0
    Else
        gpio,5,1
    EndIf
EndOn

I did not think they are relevant.At bootup I only use on and off.... that puts the two 'on" relays in a very strange state.

At bootup you put the relay to the on state, then when pushing the corresponding button you want it to change state? Since it's a push button, there's no on or off state but only toggle...

[manjh]

I'm missing some toggle rules like this one:

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On Button2#State do
    If [Relais2#State]=1
        gpio,5,0
    Else
        gpio,5,1
    EndIf
EndOn

I did not think they are relevant.At bootup I only use on and off.... that puts the two 'on" relays in a very strange state.

At bootup you put the relay to the on state, then when pushing the corresponding button you want it to change state? Since it's a push button, there's no on or off state but only toggle...

Correct. Two more rules that I use but did not show yet:

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on Toggle2 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon
on button2#state do
  Event Toggle2
endon

[papperone]

Can you try like this:

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on System#Boot do
  Event TurnOff1
  Event TurnOff2
  Event TurnOff3
  Event TurnOff4
  Event Toggle2
  Event Toggle3
endon

I can imagine your toggle events get confused when you set channels manually On at boot so above should work properly

[manjh]

Can you try like this:

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on System#Boot do
  Event TurnOff1
  Event TurnOff2
  Event TurnOff3
  Event TurnOff4
  Event Toggle2
  Event Toggle3
endon

I can imagine your toggle events get confused when you set channels manually On at boot so above should work properly

I tried this approach, does not make any difference.

[LisaM]

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on Toggle2 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon
on button2#state do
  Event Toggle2
endon

Did you try :

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on Toggle2=1 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon

[manjh]

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on Toggle2 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon
on button2#state do
  Event Toggle2
endon

Did you try :

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on Toggle2=1 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon

No, I did not try that. But I don't see the point: all rules work just fine. The only problem is when I switch a relay on after boot. It then goes into a strange state, which can only be corrected by an explicit "off" command.

[LisaM]

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on Toggle2 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon
on button2#state do
  Event Toggle2
endon

Did you try :

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on Toggle2=1 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon

No, I did not try that. But I don't see the point: all rules work just fine. The only problem is when I switch a relay on after boot. It then goes into a strange state, which can only be corrected by an explicit "off" command.

Set a timer at boot and set state in the timer on a later time?

[manjh]

Did you try :

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on Toggle2=1 do
  if [relais2#state]=1
    Event TurnOff2
  else
    Event TurnOn2
  endif
endon

No, I did not try that. But I don't see the point: all rules work just fine. The only problem is when I switch a relay on after boot. It then goes into a strange state, which can only be corrected by an explicit "off" command.

Set a timer at boot and set state in the timer on a later time?

Will try that. If it works my problem is solved by this workaround, but it does not explain what is going on here...

[grovkillen]

Since it is the two I2C pins it might be that these are still being active as such right at boot. (Just my wild guess, I haven't studied the code.)

[manjh]

Since it is the two I2C pins it might be that these are still being active as such right at boot. (Just my wild guess, I haven't studied the code.)

Ah, that could make sense. During the boot process the I2C is activated (or in this case: deactivated). If that happens after the execution of the "on boot" command block, it could explain the behaviour.
I will try. But if it does work, I would think we can qualify this as a bug...

[manjh]

I just tried this approach: in the system-boot section added a timerset for 5 seconds.
Then when the timer expires, switched on the two relays that I want switched on.
After this everything works as it should!

It could mean that the I2C initializing is done after the execution of the system-boot block in the rules.
Do we classify this as a bug?

For now, I am happy to leave the timerdelay in there. The unit does not boot-up often, so it is not a big deal.

[grovkillen]

Yes, that's considered a bug. Will you file it as an issue on GitHub?

[manjh]

Yes, that's considered a bug. Will you file it as an issue on GitHub?

Done.

[vbs]

I think I also do suffer from that problem.

I cannot find the Github issue you have created. Could you provide a link please?