[OpenTRV-dev] Help getting serial connection to Radbot

Sun Feb 14 21:45:37 UTC 2021

Hi,

1) FWIW, when I am powering remotely, eg to reflash, I tend to run at 3.6V.

2) Yes, I think that we label our TX and RX the ‘wrong’ way round and have confused ourselves from time to time.  Almost certainly an early error or at least bad choice by me, reinforced by my trying to then be consistent across schematics.

3) FWIW I use a FTDI TTL-232R-3V3 to talk to Radbots.

Rgds

Damon

> On 14 Feb 2021, at 20:52, Robert May <rob at themayfamily.me.uk> wrote:
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> Thanks Damon, Christoph.
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> I already moved to soldering my connections to eliminate that issue.
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> I can see the TX LED flash on my dongle when I hit <return>, and if I swap the tx/rx connections so I have tx on dongle to tx on Radbot and rx on dongle to rx on Radbot then after I hit <return> I see the rx led on the dongle flash approx. every 2 seconds for a while - so I *think* I'm waking it up.    This feels wrong, but past experience tells me that there is sometimes confusion over how rx and tx pins are marked.
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> But I see nothing in my terminal.  I've shortened the wires as much as I can, and I'm sure that my grounds are OK
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> Can you expand on what you mean by "perhaps one of the devices doesn’t like the 3.0V supply"?
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> Here's a couple of pictures
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8jdv6j9a4covw3/Photo%2014-02-2021%2C%2020%2041%2054.jpg?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8jdv6j9a4covw3/Photo%2014-02-2021%2C%2020%2041%2054.jpg?dl=0>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/sp819pw2ds1lf73/Photo%2014-02-2021%2C%2020%2042%2011.jpg?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/sp819pw2ds1lf73/Photo%2014-02-2021%2C%2020%2042%2011.jpg?dl=0> (not a good shot, but I'm sure the pins and +ve terminals are not touching)
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> Any other ideas?  I've been staring at this all day and can't see what's wrong.
> 
> Rob.
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> On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 19:33, Christoph M. Wintersteiger <christoph at winterstiger.at <mailto:christoph at winterstiger.at>> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
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> That’s great, you’ve got very far in a very short amount of time!
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> It sounds like you’re “holding” the wires on – just solder them on if you have a soldering iron around, it’s easy enough to take them back off after the operation.
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> I can imagine that there’s a ground potential problem and perhaps one of the devices doesn’t like the 3.0V supply. The Radbot takes very little power and I was able to simply power it from my USB-serial adapter, but that depends on the adapter of course. Alternatively, the RPi also has a 3.3V supply (and 5.0V too) and it has a serial port right next to the supply pins too, so if you have a few breadboard wires around, that would be a simple and quick alternative.
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> Cheers,
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> Christoph
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> From: OpenTRV-dev <opentrv-dev-bounces at lists.opentrv.org.uk <mailto:opentrv-dev-bounces at lists.opentrv.org.uk>> On Behalf Of Robert May
> Sent: Sunday, 14 February, 2021 18:24
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> Subject: [OpenTRV-dev] Help getting serial connection to Radbot
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> I've finally found time to unbox my Radbots.   The plan is to build a combined stats hub and boiler controller based on a RPi.
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> I've successfully compiled the code Christoph shared (https://github.com/wintersteiger/wlmcd <https://github.com/wintersteiger/wlmcd>) and used to to show the one Radbot I've powered up transmits and that I can receive the frames using a CC1101/RPi combination.  Of course the decryption fails as I've yet to set a decryption key.
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> I'm struggling to get a connection over the serial port to the Radbot.  I'm trying to follow the instructions shared by Tristan (https://github.com/tyrken/heatmon/wiki/Reprogramming-Radbot-TRVs <https://github.com/tyrken/heatmon/wiki/Reprogramming-Radbot-TRVs>) but I can't seem to get any comms over the serial port.
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> I've opened up my radbot to get better access to the pads.
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> I'm powering the Radbot from a bench power supply at 3.0V
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> I've got a USB serial dongle operating at 3.3V logic, grounded to the -ve supply.
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> I think I'm hold the rx/tx lines on the pads (tx from my dongle to rx on the radbot and rx on the dongle to tx on the Radbot), but I get nothing from 'screen' that I'm using for my terminal.
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> As far as I know I'm using 4800baud, 8-N-1 (screen /dev/ttyUSB0 4800), which I believ to be the expected settings?
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> Can anyone see anything that I'm doing wrong or give me a pointer to things that I can try. ?
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> Thanks,
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> Rob.
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