Robo-Tank v5.0 is Ready

[Rob F]

Please see attached for the sketches.  Yes, when it is still on, the display is saying its still on.

Thanks I'll go over and load them up.

My board is Gen 3, rev b., Software 5.01
Issue: ATO

Posting this here, for other awareness.  

I double checked my ATO last night and have the same issue I have been discussing with Rob.  I will post a follow-up once I update my software.   I plan to completely wipe my SD cards before I load 5.04.  The link below was very similar to what I am experiencing.  However, I do have the pull-down resistors on my board, and I measure 5.8K across the ATO resistor on board.

Something New:  When I push Sync on the display there is no response.  Even after I reboot the controller and display.  Not sure it matters, but I found this odd.

Refresher on my Situation
- The ATO pump will run any time the Backup is Closed(5V signal).  Regardless of the Main Float position and the ATO timer has no impact.  I have ATO timeout  set to 10 seconds.
- The controller always shows ATO Open Float on the display.
- The Pump will turn on anytime a Backup 5V signal is received, and only shuts off when Bkup is open circuit.  
- The ATO GUI for the timer, working mode, test mode, and schedule interval has no impact on running the pump
- Both Main(port 6) and Backup(port 7) floats are functioning correctly and toggle open and closed
- The Main Float, I can measure 0V and ~5V all the way to Pin A6 on the controller board
- There are no burnt marks on the control board.


https://www.robo-tank.ca/forum/Thread-AT...=ATO+water

Hi Mike, the sync hasn't been added that's why it doesn't respond. 

Last night I noticed on my display, I have the ATO sensor showing up on my right side of home page, that the float was changing from opened to closed on its own which I never noticed before. I looked on the board I'm using for playing and it didn't have a pull down resistor so I thought hmm it was working so I printed the true analog value to the serial monitor and instead of 0 which is 0.0v I was getting 1 which is 0.0048 volts. Now on this case it's likely happening because no pull down resistor, surprised it actually goes so low.

Now back in 5.01 in the code I had it so if analog value == 0 stop ato. That means if that analog value doesn't go down to 0 the pump won't stop, sound familiar. 

The funny thing is when I change the ATO code in last update I thought instead of have if == 0 I will put if <= 2 just in case some scenario and then last night that's exactly what happened to me. 

Now because you do have a pull down resistor it should definitely be a 0 but maybe not, so try the following when you update to 5.04. 

Before uploading display sketch go to the ato.h tab, you will have to use the drop down menu at the end of the tabs as there's too many to view. Then go to line 156 and you'll see the following.

Code:

//    Serial.print(F("_sensorValue:        ")); for (int t = 0; t < 21; t++){Serial.print(_sensorValue[t]); Serial.print(F(","));} Serial.println(F(""));

 
Remove the // from the beginning and upload the sketch. Then open the serial monitor and every second you'll see a line of values for the ATO's, the first number is ato 1. It should be 1023 or close to when closed and 0 when open. 

With all that said it still makes no sense why the pump doesn't stop with the ATO timeout, is the icon turning red?