cz461
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Post by cz461 on Jul 23, 2018 7:20:15 GMT -8
I've gotten the Zero W down to 218mA, so just over 1 watt. This is even with two tiny 40mm fans (one for temperature housing and the other for voltage regulator cooling) and still online after a rainy weekend with 6+ inches. I think I will install another separate solar powered Zero W with camera for a weather webcam!
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Post by SDL on Jul 23, 2018 14:00:00 GMT -8
Outstanding! Send pictures. If you want to see all the power saving we have done with the Raspberry Pi, check out our Project Curacao2 article on www.switchdoc.comBP
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Post by calesar380 on Aug 29, 2019 6:23:26 GMT -8
Hello; I have a routine configuration; a WeatherPlus with the new humidity sensor, version 36 board, which I can see on my wifi with the Switchdoc html page and I am able to alter the display size and update the sensor readout; with the SunAirPlus connected with a lipo battery and three panels I am running off the battery; the usbpowercontrol has a blue light, the sunairplus has a orange and a green light next to the I2C pin connectors (red line disconnect) and the red led lights up when the panels get a desk lamp light on them. But I don't see any solar or battery status on the display or on the html page; after air qualiity displays it goes back to outtemp. Allen.
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Post by SDL on Sept 1, 2019 13:47:18 GMT -8
OK. Connect up the red wire. to the I2C (VDD). Sometimes we just need to do that. BP I have the Vcc red post line not connected as per assembly instruction. I note that in early version user(s) were instructed to attach the VDD line to the I2C so is this still useful in version 36?Read more: forum.switchdoc.com/thread/820/gwp-am2315?page=6#ixzz5yJPSW4zP
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Post by calesar380 on Sept 3, 2019 23:20:50 GMT -8
BP; Neat;VDD line to I2C (red lead) connected, version 036 with new type humidity sensor; and after Air Qual is displayed I get the next page containing "Solar Reading" followed by Battery, Solar, and Load status. but Air Quality was "NP" and with VDD connected, Air Quality now displays "Fresh Air"; there is no air quality sensing attached to the setup so going from NP to Fresh Air is disconcerting. Using battery only or leaving ac usb charger on sunairplus board doesn't alter the air quality result. I didn't know if the red wire was still operative from version 2x when I see this last discussed. Thanks, Allen Lee.
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Post by calesar380 on Sept 5, 2019 0:04:07 GMT -8
So now there is a problem with the oled scrolling thru the sensor outputs and the solar charger/controller status; whenever I run the html "our weather" and select a update to the laptop the oled screen freezes on some random sensor output. Shutting down the html page, reloading it, and restarting the laptop does not alleviate the locked display. And I do not get a screen update with new sensor readings. Pressing the WeatherPlus board's reset button does the trick and the WeatherPlus board starts to cycle thru the sensors. So I'm not sure what is causing this but it only happens when I boot the laptop and query the WeatherPlus board.
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Post by SDL on Sept 5, 2019 12:09:04 GMT -8
Try a different browser (look at all the postings about browsers in this forum) and report back.
BP
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Post by calesar380 on Sept 6, 2019 0:28:48 GMT -8
I am using 32bit chrome; (Version 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (32-bit)) on a Dell Inspiron 6000 with 2 gig ram and M processor at 1.6Ghz and windows 7 pro. I will try Modzilla and IE next. By the way; in chrome using the ourweather html page I get randon lockup; once I make a request to either update or change oled resolution the oled stops with some sensor output display until I press reset.If I don't use the html page the unit seems to work fine. Allen.
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Post by SDL on Sept 6, 2019 6:26:05 GMT -8
Great. This is the classic browser problem. Check out the earlier postings on this problem.
BP
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Post by Calesar380 on Sept 11, 2019 16:57:39 GMT -8
Hello BP; I didn't know where to look but you have a lot of contributors in your forum so I hope to come across the browser problem and find a solution. I did a short setup run making small changes and got this: "So I've been trying to dig down into the wifi problem but don't know enough about how browsers affect wifi affect html pages..etc. 9/10/2019 WeatherPlus Board = "WPB", SunAirPlus Board = "SAP", I2C (used to connect SAP to WPB) location is J3 on the I2C board, opposite end of cable is SAP board; either connect or not connect WPB SAP I2C WiFi status (does it work?) note: using SwitchDoc.com/OurWeatherPage.html to connect and query system. 1 AC usb power Off Not connected Chrome, works okay 2 AC usb power Off connected Chrome, works okay 3 AC usb power On connected Chrome, on lipo battery only Air Quality reports Fresh Air status (there is no sensor connected so there should not be any results, should say NP (not present). Does not report power status; hit WPB reset. After reset, power status is reported correctly; air quality still says "fresh air" 4 AC usb power AC usb power connected Chrome, OurWeatherPage.html not connecting, Air quality (on OLED display) = fresh air 5 SAP power AC usb power connected Chrome, OurWeatherPage.html working, Air Quality = Fresh Air 6 SAP power AC usb power connected Mozillia, OurWeatherPage.html, says reading but no sensor data shows up; reset on WPB - no effect; false "reading"? 7 SAP power AC usb power connected IE11/ MSN, OurWeatherPage - no connection to OurWeatherPage.html 8 SAP power AC usb power connected BING, OurWeatherPage -no connection to OurWeatherPage.html. (this was originally intended for a work-group in CalEsar to make a APRS unit; the next person would be putting a Raspberry Pi onto this and getting it to grab the output strings and reformat it for DireStorm input); "So at this point I'm looking to put this stuff into a weatherproof box and hand it over; on its own it works and the OLED display shows me that it is reporting everything including the solar panel and lipo battery status. Maybe the html page is buggy but we are planning to use something else to poll the data anyway and that's a step for the next person. I don't get why it suddenly thinks there is an air quality sensor connected and that its getting a fresh air result as well. I don't know why other browsers are working with the html page but that's not much I understand there anyway. I presume its something to do with my router setup maybe. The admin page to reset parameters on the WeatherPlus board works so maybe it can be reconfigured to work correctly if I missed something the first go. Allen." So I'll take another pass to see where the browser stuff is. Thanks, Allen.
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Post by Calesar380 on Sept 11, 2019 17:02:22 GMT -8
oops; I didn't realize the format changed; I was using Excel to table my results. The line with the "WPB SAP I2C WiFi status" should have been headers where after a line number, WPB indicated where ac usb or the SAP board is power source; the colume under SAP would have indicated power on or off; the column I2C would indicate connect or not connect between the WPB and the SAP and finally the WiFi status would be notes on function. Allen.
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Post by SDL on Sept 12, 2019 10:59:19 GMT -8
Boy, I can't make heads or tails out of your table. Take an image of it and post it here and I will go through it.
BP
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Post by Calesar 380 on Sept 13, 2019 11:05:50 GMT -8
BP; Yea; sorry about the mess; didn't know Excel couldn't keep its format. Essentially I don't get communication using Mozilla, IE11, Bing. I get Air Quality = good when I expect NP since we don't have any sensor for that (only with solar controller board connected at J3 on the 6 port I2C board). I only see voltages on the OLED display; didn't know if I should expect that to show in the OurWeather html page. Under Chrome, randomly when I ask for a OurWeather update the OLED freezes (can be any point in its polling) and sometimes (after a few days) I'll check on it and see that the OLED display is frozen as well - don't know why as the lipo battery will run it for several days it seems; otherwise I keep it on an AC usb charger which charges the battery as well. I have noticed that after the last week of continuous operation the time and date were off (had a different month, different hour) so I used the admin page to reset the clock, don't know what caused that. RTC batteries look ok at 3.3v. There is something about the solar controller that sets up the poll to show an air quality input of "good" instead of "np" since it only changes when the solarairplus is connected to the I2C bus. Maybe I'll move the I2C cable to another position. thanks, Allen.
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Post by SDL on Sept 13, 2019 18:21:06 GMT -8
Calesar,
Could you use some formatting when you type a long message above. Hard to read and take care of the issues. Hmm The OLED freezes when you hit the OurWeather update page?
BP
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Post by calesar380 on Sept 18, 2019 0:12:09 GMT -8
Yes;under google chrome when I query the weatherplus board with its solarairplus board connected the oled can stop dead in its tracks; no particular page seem to be significant (it can be on any part of a display ) when it stops and only continues the current display until I press reset on the weatherplus board. Today I noticed that when disconnecting the usb power to the solarairplus (to force it to run off the lipo battery indoors) then it can sometimes freeze up the oled display and the OurWeather page says connected but there is no activity when I request update. Pressing reset button makes it work okay with the ac usb power still disconnected.I note that the WeatherPlus board reports "fresh air" but the OurWeather query returns NP for air quality (as it should be - there is no air quality sensor in this setup). Other than these quirks the new humidity sensor and the updated version 36 seem to be working okay. Don't know what the one-time when it was locked up was connected to anything obvious and sometimes I can't get a wifi connection. Going to try a newer laptop with os10 next time. Allen.
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