[Ovmsdev] Flashing Lights

[William Petefish]

Mark,

How goes the coding?

William

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Udo Werges <Udo.Werges at t-online.de> wrote:

> sounds good, the changes will give a lot more information via the flashing
> LEDs.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 10:46:57 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [Ovmsdev] Flashing Lights
> > From: William Petefish <william.petefish at gmail.com>
> > To: OVMS Developers <ovmsdev at lists.teslaclub.hk>
>
> >
>
> #6 has my vote. It may be more complex in code, but easier to impliment on
> existing hardware.
>
> I guess it could act similar to the old OBD that cars had prior to OBD2.
>
> William
> On May 5, 2012 2:36 AM, "Mark Webb-Johnson" <mark at webb-johnson.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've been getting frustrated lately trying to help users diagnose
>> problems early-on in the GSM connection sequence. We've had problems with
>> SIMs cards getting recognised (broken sim cards), with sim locks (PIN lock
>> on), with general modem comms issues, and with lack of GSM signal - and all
>> these show up as the same red flash, red solid, red flash,
>> red-green-alternate indicators. Without getting out a USB-serial cable and
>> laptop, it is real hard to diagnose.
>>
>> Talking this through with Bennett, and others, I think we can do better,
>> and I suggest the following changes:
>>
>>
>>    1. Take the LED control out of the individual code files and have
>>    them controlled by a central module with its own timer. This module would
>>    be told at a high level what to do with the LED (eg; make the green led
>>    flash 7 times) and would make it so.
>>
>>    2. Both LEDs off would indicate NO POWER.
>>
>>    3. On startup, animate both LEDs for a short time to demonstrate that
>>    they both work.
>>
>>    4. Change init code to (a) use AT to verify modem is connected, (b)
>>    check for SIM connected and readable, (c) check for SIM PIN lock, (d)
>>    initialize modem to our required settings, and (e) AT+COPS for cellular
>>    signal search. By splitting this up, to separate check states, we can
>>    individually alert on a failure at a particular state.
>>
>>    5. In general, use the green LED to show status, and the red LED to
>>    show the last error (cleared whenever a state is successful).
>>
>>    6. On startup, you would see the green led count up through each
>>    stage, and if it got stuck at a particular stage the blinks would tell you
>>    where it is. If there was an error at any stage, the red LED would indicate
>>    the error code.
>>
>>    7. For blinking, I suggest just off for a second, then rapidly blink
>>    the code, then off for a second, then rapidly blink the code, etc.
>>
>>    8. Once we reach a final GOOD state (either GSM with GPRS disabled,
>>    or GPRS connected to server), we would just turn both LEDs to a steady
>>    blinking pattern (perhaps on for a second, off for a second).
>>
>>
>> As well as the obvious clarity to diagnostics that this brings, it would
>> also be for general use to see at a glance if the module is working
>> correctly and is connected to the server ok.
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> Regards, Mark.
>>
>>
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