unified firmware update – Valves do not open anymore

[Stefan]

Hi!
I’m using the Beaglebone Black Rev C and bought recently the Opensprinkler extension board for the BBB. After preparing the Hardware and the Valves i installed the recommended SD-Card Image Osbo2 (Aug-06-14). I was glad that everything worked fine and the valves did their job as they should.
Problems came up after installing the unified-firmware update 2-1-3 for the Osbo. During the installation there was no error message and everything was fine. All programms work, but the valves do not open.
I tried to repeat the update Process for a few times and there is always the same result. The Valves work fine with the SD-Card Image Osbo2 (Aug-06-14) but nothing happens by using the unified firmware update.

I hope someone can help me. Maybe someone has a working SD-Card-Image of the osbos unified-firmware??

Thank you very much in advance.
Greetings from Germany
Stefan

[Ray]

How did you run the Unified Firmware? Note that you have to run it as root or otherwise the GPIO operations are not permitted.

[clivep]

+1 to this. This is what I get…

Downloaded and installed the latest (Aug 2014) osbo image. System works OK, valves open etc.

Now I install the new firmware as follows:
ubuntu@arm:~$ ls
bin demos OSPi
ubuntu@arm:~$ git clone https://github.com/OpenSprinkler/OpenSprinklerGen2.git
Cloning into ‘OpenSprinklerGen2’…
remote: Counting objects: 777, done.
remote: Total 777 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 777
Receiving objects: 100% (777/777), 394.81 KiB | 142.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (522/522), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
ubuntu@arm:~$ cd OpenSprinklerGen2/
ubuntu@arm:~/OpenSprinklerGen2$ sudo ./build.sh osbo
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
Building OpenSprinkler…
Do you want to start OpenSprinkler on startup? y
Adding OpenSprinkler launch script…
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh …
/etc/rc0.d/K20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc1.d/K20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc6.d/K20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc2.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc3.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc4.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc5.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
Done!
ubuntu@arm:~/OpenSprinklerGen2$

No errors, all looks OK. Reboot.

System appears to function correctly but the valves do not open. Firmware version reported is 2.1.5(1).

Happy to assist further.

[Stefan]

Hey Ray!
at first congratulations for your great diy-project -really awesome!
I did the update exact in the same way as clivep did:

login as: ubuntu
[email protected]’s password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.13-bone56 armv7l)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
Last login: Thu Aug 7 03:15:33 2014 from 192.168.7.1
ubuntu@arm:~$ git clone https://github.com/OpenSprinkler/OpensprinklerGen2.git
Cloning into ‘OpensprinklerGen2’…
remote: Counting objects: 777, done.
remote: Total 777 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 777
Receiving objects: 100% (777/777), 394.81 KiB | 315.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (522/522), done.
Checking connectivity… done.
ubuntu@arm:~$ cd OpensprinklerGen2
ubuntu@arm:~/OpensprinklerGen2$ sudo ./build.sh osbo
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
Building OpenSprinkler…
Do you want to start OpenSprinkler on startup? y
Adding OpenSprinkler launch script…
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh …
/etc/rc0.d/K20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc1.d/K20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc6.d/K20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc2.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc3.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc4.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
/etc/rc5.d/S20OpenSprinkler.sh -> ../init.d/OpenSprinkler.sh
Done!
ubuntu@arm:~/OpensprinklerGen2$ sudo reboot

–> everything looks good, but the valves do not work or make a noise

Version number changes after updating from 2.0.3 to 2.1.5 (1)
For daily sprinkling I currently use a second sd-card with the Version 2.0.3 but using the unified firmware would be nice.

Thanks for your time
Stefan

[Ray]

Hi, sorry I am traveling away this week and I don’t have a set of OSBo hardware to test. I will check as soon as I get back on Saturday.

[gusglennox]

Hey,

i was having this same issue. was there a resolution?

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