C# - Dual Relay Bricklet¶

Simple¶

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using System;
using System.Threading;
using Tinkerforge;

class Example
{
    private static string HOST = "localhost";
    private static int PORT = 4223;
    private static string UID = "XYZ"; // Change XYZ to the UID of your Dual Relay Bricklet

    static void Main()
    {
        IPConnection ipcon = new IPConnection(); // Create IP connection
        BrickletDualRelay dr = new BrickletDualRelay(UID, ipcon); // Create device object

        ipcon.Connect(HOST, PORT); // Connect to brickd
        // Don't use device before ipcon is connected

        // Turn relays alternating on/off 10 times with 1 second delay
        for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
            dr.SetState(true, false);
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
            dr.SetState(false, true);
        }

        Console.WriteLine("Press enter to exit");
        Console.ReadLine();
        ipcon.Disconnect();
    }
}

Basic Functions¶

class BrickletDualRelay(string uid, IPConnection ipcon)¶

Parameters:	uid – Type: string ipcon – Type: IPConnection
Returns:	dualRelay – Type: BrickletDualRelay

Creates an object with the unique device ID uid:

BrickletDualRelay dualRelay = new BrickletDualRelay("YOUR_DEVICE_UID", ipcon);

This object can then be used after the IP Connection is connected.

void BrickletDualRelay.SetState(bool relay1, bool relay2)¶

Parameters:	relay1 – Type: bool, Default: false relay2 – Type: bool, Default: false

Sets the state of the relays, true means on and false means off. For example: (true, false) turns relay 1 on and relay 2 off.

If you just want to set one of the relays and don't know the current state of the other relay, you can get the state with GetState() or you can use SetSelectedState().

All running monoflop timers will be aborted if this function is called.

void BrickletDualRelay.GetState(out bool relay1, out bool relay2)¶

Output Parameters:	relay1 – Type: bool, Default: false relay2 – Type: bool, Default: false

Returns the state of the relays, true means on and false means off.

Advanced Functions¶

void BrickletDualRelay.SetMonoflop(byte relay, bool state, long time)¶

Parameters:	relay – Type: byte, Range: [1 to 2] state – Type: bool time – Type: long, Unit: 1 ms, Range: [0 to 232 - 1]

The first parameter can be 1 or 2 (relay 1 or relay 2). The second parameter is the desired state of the relay (true means on and false means off). The third parameter indicates the time that the relay should hold the state.

If this function is called with the parameters (1, true, 1500): Relay 1 will turn on and in 1.5s it will turn off again.

A monoflop can be used as a failsafe mechanism. For example: Lets assume you have a RS485 bus and a Dual Relay Bricklet connected to one of the slave stacks. You can now call this function every second, with a time parameter of two seconds. The relay will be on all the time. If now the RS485 connection is lost, the relay will turn off in at most two seconds.

void BrickletDualRelay.GetMonoflop(byte relay, out bool state, out long time, out long timeRemaining)¶

Parameters:	relay – Type: byte, Range: [1 to 2]
Output Parameters:	state – Type: bool time – Type: long, Unit: 1 ms, Range: [0 to 232 - 1] timeRemaining – Type: long, Unit: 1 ms, Range: [0 to 232 - 1]

Returns (for the given relay) the current state and the time as set by SetMonoflop() as well as the remaining time until the state flips.

If the timer is not running currently, the remaining time will be returned as 0.

void BrickletDualRelay.SetSelectedState(byte relay, bool state)¶

Parameters:	relay – Type: byte, Range: [1 to 2] state – Type: bool

Sets the state of the selected relay (1 or 2), true means on and false means off.

A running monoflop timer for the selected relay will be aborted if this function is called.

The other relay remains untouched.

void BrickletDualRelay.GetIdentity(out string uid, out string connectedUid, out char position, out byte[] hardwareVersion, out byte[] firmwareVersion, out int deviceIdentifier)¶

Output Parameters:

uid – Type: string, Length: up to 8 connectedUid – Type: string, Length: up to 8 position – Type: char, Range: ['a' to 'h', 'z'] hardwareVersion – Type: byte[], Length: 3 0: major – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] 1: minor – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] 2: revision – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] firmwareVersion – Type: byte[], Length: 3 0: major – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] 1: minor – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] 2: revision – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] deviceIdentifier – Type: int, Range: [0 to 216 - 1]

Returns the UID, the UID where the Bricklet is connected to, the position, the hardware and firmware version as well as the device identifier.

The position can be 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g' or 'h' (Bricklet Port). A Bricklet connected to an Isolator Bricklet is always at position 'z'.

The device identifier numbers can be found here. There is also a constant for the device identifier of this Bricklet.

Callbacks¶

Callbacks can be registered to receive time critical or recurring data from the device. The registration is done by appending your callback handler to the corresponding event:

void MyCallback(BrickletDualRelay sender, int value)
{
    System.Console.WriteLine("Value: " + value);
}

dualRelay.ExampleCallback += MyCallback;

The available events are described below.

event BrickletDualRelay.MonoflopDoneCallback(BrickletDualRelay sender, byte relay, bool state)¶

Callback Parameters:	sender – Type: BrickletDualRelay relay – Type: byte, Range: [1 to 2] state – Type: bool

This callback is triggered whenever a monoflop timer reaches 0. The parameter contain the relay (1 or 2) and the current state of the relay (the state after the monoflop).

Virtual Functions¶

Virtual functions don't communicate with the device itself, but operate only on the API bindings device object. They can be called without the corresponding IP Connection object being connected.

byte[] BrickletDualRelay.GetAPIVersion()¶

Output Parameters:	apiVersion – Type: byte[], Length: 3 0: major – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] 1: minor – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255] 2: revision – Type: byte, Range: [0 to 255]

Returns the version of the API definition implemented by this API bindings. This is neither the release version of this API bindings nor does it tell you anything about the represented Brick or Bricklet.

bool BrickletDualRelay.GetResponseExpected(byte functionId)¶

Parameters:	functionId – Type: byte, Range: See constants
Returns:	responseExpected – Type: bool

Returns the response expected flag for the function specified by the function ID parameter. It is true if the function is expected to send a response, false otherwise.

For getter functions this is enabled by default and cannot be disabled, because those functions will always send a response. For callback configuration functions it is enabled by default too, but can be disabled by SetResponseExpected(). For setter functions it is disabled by default and can be enabled.

Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is sent and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.

The following constants are available for this function:

For functionId:

• BrickletDualRelay.FUNCTION_SET_STATE = 1
• BrickletDualRelay.FUNCTION_SET_MONOFLOP = 3
• BrickletDualRelay.FUNCTION_SET_SELECTED_STATE = 6

void BrickletDualRelay.SetResponseExpected(byte functionId, bool responseExpected)¶

Parameters:	functionId – Type: byte, Range: See constants responseExpected – Type: bool

Changes the response expected flag of the function specified by the function ID parameter. This flag can only be changed for setter (default value: false) and callback configuration functions (default value: true). For getter functions it is always enabled.

Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is sent and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.

The following constants are available for this function:

For functionId:

• BrickletDualRelay.FUNCTION_SET_STATE = 1
• BrickletDualRelay.FUNCTION_SET_MONOFLOP = 3
• BrickletDualRelay.FUNCTION_SET_SELECTED_STATE = 6

void BrickletDualRelay.SetResponseExpectedAll(bool responseExpected)¶

Parameters:	responseExpected – Type: bool

Changes the response expected flag for all setter and callback configuration functions of this device at once.

Constants¶

int BrickletDualRelay.DEVICE_IDENTIFIER¶

This constant is used to identify a Dual Relay Bricklet.

The GetIdentity() function and the IPConnection.EnumerateCallback callback of the IP Connection have a deviceIdentifier parameter to specify the Brick's or Bricklet's type.

string BrickletDualRelay.DEVICE_DISPLAY_NAME¶

This constant represents the human readable name of a Dual Relay Bricklet.