Some IoT devices are powered by electric battery and rely on ADC pin to do the battery measurement.
The issue is that the voltage value generally exceed voltage reference of Beken ADC pin who is by default 2400mv.
So to bypass that issue Tuya implement some voltage divider activated by a relay pin. here's an example on CBU:
thanks @nelliug54 for the schema
in this example BAT_ADC is on pin 5 and BAT_Relay on pin 20. when relay is activated it will divide the voltage on pin 5 by ~2.3 (it's mostly the case 2 or 3 AAA power sensor) on schema. but in real the divider was 2.29 so the vdivider really need to be adapt on each sensor (depending on the quality of resistor)
OpenBeken has a driver to capture that and publish the value in voltage and battery mqtt topic of the device.
If BAT_ADC pin is assign Battery driver will launched automatically and take measurement every 10sec.
it come with two command :
"Battery_Setup" : it permit to change the default parameter to calculate battery value.
- vmin(required) : minimal value accepted by the device in mv (default 2000)
- vmax(required) : maximal value accepted by the device in mv (default 3000)
- vdivider(optional) : divider (default 2.29 but to adapt on your sensor if value seems not good)
- vref(optional) : vref of the ADC pin (default 2400 and static on BK7231)
- adcbits(optional) : number of bits available in ADC (default 4096 in 99% of case shoud be that)
"Battery_cycle" <int> : it permit to adjust the number of frame to skip to take measurement (1 frames = 1seconds) (default = 10 )
On most device the default value should be ok, so just starting the driver and launch a scheduleHADiscovery will do the trick.
Edit : Change the order of args for battery setup to simplify script implementation (https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App/pull/692)
Edit 2 : Adding BAT pin reference and Autostart
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@dheenhasty do you think this solution is also used in those door sensors: https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic3959677.html https://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/viewtopic.php?p=20448552#20448552 The... [Read more]
Certainly on schema we see a transistor on gpio16 so it has a divider. A good way to test is to assign ADC to a channel and a rel to gpio16. Then you can try to switch the relay to check the value. Then... [Read more]
Well, what about the second one? Those door sensors seems to be different. No worries, it's already solved. It's just that I haven't tested it on N yet, but should work as well? https://github.com/openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App/commit/4265f6730384180caa2adda6f7395190f38e75e7 No... [Read more]
Ok found the issue with my inconsistency on battery value. i have some bug regarding the battery setup who don't take in account the v_divider. Now it's resolve. so BK7231N has effectively a static... [Read more]
Yes, something like "SHT30_Auto 0/1" is the correct way, with value 1 by default. Tell me when to merge the changes into the main repository branch. [Read more]
i have try to respect what i have put in place in Battery driver so talking about cycle. so now we have SHT_cycle and Battery_cycle and when it's put to 0 it deactivate the measurement. [Read more]
Hm okay may it be, just keep it enabled by default so beginners don't have to write a single line of code to get stuff working. Also make sure that HA discovery works for both battery and sensors. It... [Read more]
Yes, default to 10 seconds for both [Read more]
@dheenhasty as far as I know, the battery driver has been updated - can you update the description to include new pin roles and automatic restart? [Read more]
Ok i have done the modification, waiting for your approval :) [Read more]
@dheenhasty Have you run across the battery reading issue, where the battery reading will be jumping from 2.5 (sometimes lower) to 3V while connected to a PSU? This is my autoexec.bat: Battery_Setup... [Read more]
Strange.... Not really. There's something strange in the log regarding the battery setup .... On which version you are ? [Read more]
Ok, this is what I've noticed on the bench so far. Measuring BAT_FET pulse with the oscilloscope (still trying to save images from it, so sorry no pictures right now). Measurement interval varies... [Read more]
The first version included a delay. But after some test i have removed it and trust the beken..... But seems like we might need to had some delay between the switch and the measurement. [Read more]
The correct way to do a delay is to plug a counter inside RunFrame (quick tick) and do something like: // warning: quick dirty pseudocode static int frameNum = 0; frameNum++; if(frameNum... [Read more]
Yes understood :) I will not work on it this week i'm away. So if you want to take a look. [Read more]
With 10mS pulse reading is much, much better. I've tested it on the entire working range (2.20 - 3.00V) with the latest 1.16.4 build. Here are some of the results: https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6817990200_1681661421_thumb.jpg... [Read more]
We're testing a rtos_delay_milliseconds(10); route. It's a different way that I said earlier but I decided to try t anyway, as the main reading is in every second loop and not in quick tick. [Read more]
I am working with @dedamraz on smoke sensor: https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/1805881700_1684607249_thumb.jpg https://obrazki.elektroda.pl/6324644900_1684607249_thumb.jpg Here's how the battery... [Read more]