The emonPiCM

Hardware emonPi
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After many more hours, I can confirm that TX and RX of RF69 format packets through your library works well from RF12 devices.
There is a bug in RFDemo ( I think somewhere in the rf12 init from EEPROM, but it’s a really weird one, and the offset is that it increments the Group by 1 vs what you told it via RF12_init). Anyway that is a digression.

However, I’ve uncovered an issue in emonPICM. Every 5 seconds or so it appears to ‘tickle’ the shutdown GPIO, this leads to the display showing ‘Shutdown ? Hold 5 seconds’, and it does this every 5 seconds, despite navigating away from that page of the LCD.
Investigation shows the shutdown GPIO is being invoked and detected by the emonPiLCD.py control through this code :

   logger.info("Attaching shutdown button interrupt...")
    try:
        shut_btn = Button(17, pull_up=False, hold_time=5)
        shut_btn.when_pressed = preShutdown
        shut_btn.when_held = shutdown

The GPIO is being ‘tickled’ but not held for the 5 seconds that are needed to invoke shutdown, but this happens every 5 seconds without fail when running the CM firmware.

My investigation thus far shows it is somewhere in this block of code in the loop in emonPiCM:

  if (EmonLibCM_Ready())  
{
    single_LED_flash();                                                // single flash of LED on local CT sample

    emonPi.power1 = EmonLibCM_getRealPower(0);                       // Copy the desired variables ready for transmission 
    emonPi.power2 = EmonLibCM_getRealPower(1); 
    emonPi.power1_plus_2 = emonPi.power1 + emonPi.power2;
    emonPi.E1     = EmonLibCM_getWattHour(0);
    emonPi.E2     = EmonLibCM_getWattHour(1);
   
    emonPi.Vrms     = EmonLibCM_getVrms() * 100;                       // Always send the ACTUAL measured voltage.

    if (EmonLibCM_getTemperatureSensorCount())
    {
      for (byte i=0; i< MaxOnewire; i++)
        emonPi.temp[i] = allTemps[i];
    }
   
    emonPi.pulseCount = EmonLibCM_getPulseCount(0);
    emonPi.pulse2Count = EmonLibCM_getPulseCount(1);
    
    send_emonpi_serial();                                              // Send emonPi data to Pi serial using packet structure

    if (EEProm.showCurrents)
    {
      // to show voltage, current & power factor for calibration:
      Serial.print(F("|Vrms:")); Serial.print(EmonLibCM_getVrms());

      Serial.print(F(", I1:")); Serial.print(EmonLibCM_getIrms(0));
      Serial.print(F(", pf1:")); Serial.print(EmonLibCM_getPF(0),4);

      Serial.print(F(", I2:")); Serial.print(EmonLibCM_getIrms(1));
      Serial.print(F(", pf2:")); Serial.print(EmonLibCM_getPF(1),4);
      
      Serial.print(F(", f:")); Serial.print(EmonLibCM_getLineFrequency());
      Serial.println();
     }
    delay(50);

    // Save energy & pulse count values to EEPROM
    storeEValues(emonPi.E1, emonPi.E2, emonPi.pulseCount, emonPi.pulse2Count); 
}

Commenting that out and all is well. Now, that block of code is the guts of the CM, so I really don’t want to go down that rabbit hole when the man who built if may know why this is happening.

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Alan