Shmoopty/rpi-appliance-monitor

Multiple sensors stuck on "vibrating"

pilsnerz opened this issue · 3 comments

pilsnerz commented

So I've gotten everything to work with 1 sensor on my dryer but now having issues when connecting another sensor. I've followed directions with a new settings file set to a unique GPIO which I've set to 14 and 15 (in separate files). Also added a second line to the rc.local file like below. They both seem to work and will get a message the washer or dryer has started but now I get no end notification. When I SSH in they seem to be just stuck on "vibrating" even though they are not. Not sure if my rc.local file is wrong? Do i need multiple vibration.py files?

python /home/pi/vibration.py /home/pi/vibration_settings.ini &

python /home/pi/vibration.py /home/pi/vibration_settingsW.ini &

Shmoopty commented

Everything you describe here is correct. Pins 14 and 15 should work. You don't need multiple copies of the program.

I would recommend trying to run each of those commands separately from the command line so you can see the output.

Good luck, and keep us posted!

pilsnerz commented

Thanks for the response. So I tried them each separately and they worked fine except for giving me 2 messages each but I think because I was going into putty and running the command "sudo /etc/rc.local" to start seeing the output and the program was already running. I ended up switching the start up file to have GPIO 15 config first and its working fine now!

Is there a way to start seeing the output when SSHing in? Anyway this has been a fun learning experience, thank you!