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The Monarco HAT

The Monarco HAT is a robust industrial graded HAT, perfectly suited for IOT projects, small home-automation or industrial projects and much more ...
It also protects your Raspberry Pi from overvoltage or short-circuiting and simultaneously provides you with enough IO channels and channel configuration versatility.
It features analog and digital inputs and outputs, RS-485, 1-Wire bus and a Realtime Clock.

Implemented as an IO device-driver, so no function block calls to the HAT in your software necessary.
The HAT is exposed as a hardware device with IO channels and parameters. Just write code, attach variable to a I/O channel in the hardware tree, ready!

  • 100% Open source,
  • 100% Pure IEC 61131-3 code (ST)

Changelog

v2.0.0.x Under Construction

devdescr.xml: vendor id set to 0004, device id set to 0005, see https://forge.codesys.com/drv/io-drivers/database/Home/ for details. 

    <DeviceIdentification>
      <Type>501</Type>
      <Id>0004 0005</Id>
      <Version>2.0.0.2</Version>
    </DeviceIdentification>
  • Ctrl Byte,
  • HWConfig,
  • UserLeds,
  • UserLedMask
  • Realtime Clock

v2.0.0.0 info
Initial release in cforge, forked from my git : https://github.com/Aliazzzz/Monarco-HAT-library-for-CODESYS-V3
* 4 DI channels,
* 4 DO channels,
* 2 AI channels (12bit),
* 2 AO channels (12bit)

Hardware prerequisitories

  1. A Raspberry Pi, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/
  2. A Monarco HAT, see https://www.monarco.io/
  3. 8 GB SD Card ...

Hardware installation and setup

Attach Monarco HAT to Raspberry Pi and power it up;

sudo cat /proc/device-tree/hat/vendor

should return "REX Controls".

sudo cat /proc/device-tree/hat/product

should return "Monarco HAT".

Disable system console on UART

sudo sed 's/ console=serial0,[0-9]\+//' -i /boot/cmdline.txt
sudo reboot

Install essential tools

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git

Flash Monarco HAT EEPROM (to avoid manual installation of overlay)

sudo git clone https://github.com/monarco/monarco-hat-firmware-bin

cd monarco-hat-firmware-bin
./monarco-eeprom.sh update

Software prerequisitories

  1. CODESYS V3 IDE available at https://store.codesys.com/codesys.html,
  2. CODESYS Raspberry Pi .package available at https://store.codesys.com/codesys-control-for-raspberry-pi-sl.html,
  3. CODESYS Raspberry Pi SL Demo or License (The Demo is unrestricted in technical capabilities but will only run for two hours straight, after which it stops and you have to set it in run again yourself by logging in)
  4. Contents of SVN directory : SVN

Codesys Runtime installation

Installing CODESYS runtime component on pi (Demo or licensed), just follow CODESYS online help steps, it's easy!
https://help.codesys.com/webapp/_rbp_install_runtime;product=CODESYS_Control_for_Raspberry_Pi_SL;version=3.5.12.0

Or check this youtube video:
[[embed url=https://youtu.be/6FPf3RHWyeU]]

Package installation


Download file

Install the Monarco codesys package via;

  • Double-click the package or via CODESYS IDE Package Manager,
  • Install the loose components via the Library / Device Repository, found under Tools menu option in CODESYS IDE.

Monarco UART configuration

Enable CODESYS to use the RS485 UART on the Monarco Hat.

Switch to etc direcory and edit the CODESYSControl.cfg;

cd etc/
sudo nano CODESYSControl.cfg

Add the following lines;

[SysCom] Linux.Devicefile=/dev/ttyAMA

Now save and Quit nano.

Now, do a forced NTP sync

sudo timedatectl

This will force to sync time with some time server and returns something like, depending on date/time and your time-zone;

 Local time: zo 2018-09-23 14:46:17 CEST
 Universal time: zo 2018-09-23 12:46:17 UTC
 RTC time: zo 2018-09-23 12:46:18
 Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam (CEST, +0200)
 Network time on: yes
 NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no

Now you can use the HAT, RS-485 and the Real-Time Clock from within a CODESYS IEC application.
Access the RS485 UART via a comlib of you own flavour in CODESYS (like CAA SerialCOM library).

Running the CODESYS project

Open the provided example project file.

Check/Set SPI master parameters:

Mode 0,
SPI bits 8,
Speed(Hz) 1000000 (=1MHz) => can be set up to 4 MHz, slower speeds avoid chance on crc errors

Compile, download and run and enjoy!

Limitations / Bugs

All functionality of the HAT is allready implemented into the core of the driver but some functionality still needs to be routed as parameters.
If you experience any bugs, please leave a Ticket

Acknowledgements

Special thanks goes out to Ingo Hornberger for helping out with difficulties and for his patience.

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