This is the description of the Shell API bindings for the Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0. General information and technical specifications for the Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0 are summarized in its hardware description.
An installation guide for the Shell API bindings is part of their general description.
The example code below is Public Domain (CC0 1.0).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | #!/bin/sh
# Connects to localhost:4223 by default, use --host and --port to change this
uid=XYZ # Change XYZ to the UID of your Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0
# Turn relays alternating on/off 10 times with 100 ms delay
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
sleep 0.1
tinkerforge call industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet $uid set-value true,false,false,false
sleep 0.1
tinkerforge call industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet $uid set-value false,true,false,false
sleep 0.1
tinkerforge call industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet $uid set-value false,false,true,false
sleep 0.1
tinkerforge call industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet $uid set-value false,false,false,true
done
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Possible exit codes for all tinkerforge
commands are:
argparse
module is missingThe common options of the call
and dispatch
commands are documented
here. The specific command structure is shown below.
call
industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet
[<option>..] <uid> <function> [<argument>..]¶Parameters: |
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The call
command is used to call a function of the Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0. It can take several
options:
--help
shows help for the specific call
command and exits--list-functions
shows a list of known functions of the Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0 and exitsdispatch
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[<option>..] <uid> <callback>¶Parameters: |
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The dispatch
command is used to dispatch a callback of the Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0. It can
take several options:
--help
shows help for the specific dispatch
command and exits--list-callbacks
shows a list of known callbacks of the Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0 and exitsindustrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet
<uid> <function>
[<option>..] [<argument>..]¶Parameters: |
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The <function>
to be called can take different options depending of its
kind. All functions can take the following options:
--help
shows help for the specific function and exitsGetter functions can take the following options:
--execute <command>
shell command line to execute for each incoming
response (see section about output formatting
for details)Setter functions can take the following options:
--expect-response
requests response and waits for itThe --expect-response
option for setter functions allows to detect
timeouts and other error conditions calls of setters as well. The device will
then send a response for this purpose. If this option is not given for a
setter function then no response is sent and errors are silently ignored,
because they cannot be detected.
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<uid> <callback>
[<option>..]¶Parameters: |
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The <callback>
to be dispatched can take several options:
--help
shows help for the specific callback and exits--execute <command>
shell command line to execute for each incoming
response (see section about output formatting
for details)industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet
<uid> set-value
<value>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Sets the value of all four relays. A value of true closes the relay and a value of false opens the relay.
Use set-selected-value
to only change one relay.
All running monoflop timers will be aborted if this function is called.
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<uid> get-value
¶Output: |
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Returns the values as set by set-value
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<uid> set-channel-led-config
<channel> <config>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Each channel has a corresponding LED. You can turn the LED off, on or show a heartbeat. You can also set the LED to "Channel Status". In this mode the LED is on if the channel is high and off otherwise.
The following symbols are available for this function:
For <config>:
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<uid> get-channel-led-config
<channel>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Returns the channel LED configuration as set by set-channel-led-config
The following symbols are available for this function:
For config:
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<uid> set-monoflop
<channel> <value> <time>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Configures a monoflop of the specified channel.
The second parameter is the desired value of the specified channel. A true means relay closed and a false means relay open.
The third parameter indicates the time that the channels should hold the value.
If this function is called with the parameters (0, 1, 1500) channel 0 will close and in 1.5s channel 0 will open again
A monoflop can be used as a fail-safe mechanism. For example: Lets assume you have a RS485 bus and a Industrial Quad Relay Bricklet 2.0 connected to one of the slave stacks. You can now call this function every second, with a time parameter of two seconds and channel 0 closed. Channel 0 will be closed all the time. If now the RS485 connection is lost, then channel 0 will be opened in at most two seconds.
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<uid> get-monoflop
<channel>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Returns (for the given channel) the current value and the time as set by
set-monoflop
as well as the remaining time until the value flips.
If the timer is not running currently, the remaining time will be returned as 0.
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<uid> set-selected-value
<channel> <value>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Sets the output value of the specified channel without affecting the other channels.
A running monoflop timer for the specified channel will be aborted if this function is called.
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<uid> get-spitfp-error-count
¶Output: |
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Returns the error count for the communication between Brick and Bricklet.
The errors are divided into
The errors counts are for errors that occur on the Bricklet side. All Bricks have a similar function that returns the errors on the Brick side.
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<uid> set-status-led-config
<config>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Sets the status LED configuration. By default the LED shows communication traffic between Brick and Bricklet, it flickers once for every 10 received data packets.
You can also turn the LED permanently on/off or show a heartbeat.
If the Bricklet is in bootloader mode, the LED is will show heartbeat by default.
The following symbols are available for this function:
For <config>:
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<uid> get-status-led-config
¶Output: |
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Returns the configuration as set by set-status-led-config
The following symbols are available for this function:
For config:
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<uid> get-chip-temperature
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Returns the temperature as measured inside the microcontroller. The value returned is not the ambient temperature!
The temperature is only proportional to the real temperature and it has bad accuracy. Practically it is only useful as an indicator for temperature changes.
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<uid> reset
¶Output: |
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Calling this function will reset the Bricklet. All configurations will be lost.
After a reset you have to create new device objects, calling functions on the existing ones will result in undefined behavior!
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<uid> get-identity
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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.
Callbacks can be used to receive time critical or recurring data from the device:
tinkerforge dispatch industrial-quad-relay-v2-bricklet <uid> example
The available callbacks are described below.
Note
Using callbacks for recurring events is always preferred compared to using getters. It will use less USB bandwidth and the latency will be a lot better, since there is no round trip time.
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<uid> monoflop-done
¶Output: |
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This callback is triggered whenever a monoflop timer reaches 0. The parameters contain the channel and the current value of the channel (the value after the monoflop).
Internal functions are used for maintenance tasks such as flashing a new firmware of changing the UID of a Bricklet. These task should be performed using Brick Viewer instead of using the internal functions directly.
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<uid> set-bootloader-mode
<mode>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Sets the bootloader mode and returns the status after the requested mode change was instigated.
You can change from bootloader mode to firmware mode and vice versa. A change from bootloader mode to firmware mode will only take place if the entry function, device identifier and CRC are present and correct.
This function is used by Brick Viewer during flashing. It should not be necessary to call it in a normal user program.
The following symbols are available for this function:
For <mode>:
For status:
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<uid> get-bootloader-mode
¶Output: |
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Returns the current bootloader mode, see set-bootloader-mode
.
The following symbols are available for this function:
For mode:
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<uid> set-write-firmware-pointer
<pointer>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Sets the firmware pointer for write-firmware
. The pointer has
to be increased by chunks of size 64. The data is written to flash
every 4 chunks (which equals to one page of size 256).
This function is used by Brick Viewer during flashing. It should not be necessary to call it in a normal user program.
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<uid> write-firmware
<data>¶Parameters: |
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Writes 64 Bytes of firmware at the position as written by
set-write-firmware-pointer
before. The firmware is written
to flash every 4 chunks.
You can only write firmware in bootloader mode.
This function is used by Brick Viewer during flashing. It should not be necessary to call it in a normal user program.
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<uid> write-uid
<uid>¶Parameters: |
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Output: |
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Writes a new UID into flash. If you want to set a new UID you have to decode the Base58 encoded UID string into an integer first.
We recommend that you use Brick Viewer to change the UID.
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<uid> read-uid
¶Output: |
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Returns the current UID as an integer. Encode as Base58 to get the usual string version.