DAFFY-4 - Four relays outputs and four clean contacts input DIN rail I2C board

This article ilustrates what is and how to use the Daffy-4 board

Features

  • 4 relay output
    • Normaly open and normaly closed screw terminals
    • Panason ALQ112
    • 10A 250VAC
    • Surge 8,000 V, High breakdown voltage 4,000 V (Between contact and coil)
    • RC snubber circuitry on NO and NC contacts to suppress voltage transients
  • 4 clean contact input
    • Electrostatic transient protections on each input
  • I2C buffer
    • Bus speed up to 400-kHz
    • Input and output screw separate screw terminal
    • On-board repeater buffer between input and output terminals
  • Pitch 5mm screw terminals for all signals
  • Double Acme FPC six connector for WiFi controller and Acme Sensors boards
  • Power in 12VDC
  • DIN rail case (6 module)

I2C Addressing

Daffy-4 can use up to 8 different I2C addres setting the SW1 dip switch. The factory default address is 0x38 (all SELx switches in OFF position)

SEL2 (A2) SEL1 (A1) SEL0 (A0) Hex Address Dec Address
ON (0) ON (0) ON (0) 0x38 56
ON (0) ON (0) OFF (1) 0x39 57
ON (0) OFF (1) ON (0) 0x3A 58
ON (0) OFF (1) OFF (1) 0x3B 59
OFF (1) ON (0) ON (0) 0x3C 60
OFF (1) ON (0) OFF (1) 0x3D 61
OFF (1) OFF (1) ON (0) 0x3E 62
OFF (1) OFF (1) OFF (1) 0x3F 63

Each board has a I2C bi-directional buffer that regenerates the bus voltage levels provided to the next board

Wire and search the DAFFY-4 board on Acme-Sensor 2 port

Set the Daffy-4 dip switches in this way:

SEL 0 SEL 1 SEL 2 Addess Hex Address Dec
ON ON ON 0x38 56

Wire the Daffy-4 board to the Acme sensor port 2

Scan the I2C bus to check the board presence:

sudo i2cdetect -y 1

     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:                         -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 38 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Python examples

Install python3-smbus package by typing:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-smbus

Save this Python3 code inside a file called daffy.py:

import smbus
import time

DEVICE_BUS = 1 # /dev/i2c-1

# Board list
BOARD_ADDR=[56];

# Output value to send on each board
RELAY_OUT=[0x10,0x20,0x40,0x80,0x00];

Reg_InputPort =          0x00 # default 0x00
Reg_OutputPort =         0x01 # default 0xFF
Reg_PolarityInversion =  0x02 # default 0x00; polarity invert
Reg_Configuration =      0x03 # default 0xFF, 1 = input; 0 = output;

bus = smbus.SMBus(DEVICE_BUS)

for addr in BOARD_ADDR:
    print("Send configuration to board: " + "0x{:02x}".format(addr))
    bus.write_byte_data(addr, Reg_Configuration,0x0F)

while True:
    for addr in BOARD_ADDR:
        for relay_bitmap in RELAY_OUT:
            print("Send " + "0x{:02x}".format(relay_bitmap) + " to board " + hex(addr))
            bus.write_byte_data(addr, Reg_OutputPort,relay_bitmap)
            time.sleep(0.2);

Turn on teh Acme sensor port 2

  • Power line ON (PIOBU5) sudo gpioset gpiochip1 5=1
  • Power line OFF (PIOBU5) sudo gpioset gpiochip1 5=0

Then type:

sudo python3 daffy.py

If you have two or more boards add their address on this line:

BOARD_ADDR=[56,57,58];

and set the switch on each board:

Board # SEL 0 SEL 1 SEL 2 Addess Hex Address Dec
1 ON ON ON 0x38 56
2 OFF ON ON 0x39 57
3 ON OFF ON 0x3A 58
... ... ... ... ... ...

Manage the Daffy-4 board using an ESP8266-12F

#include <WiFiClient.h>
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <MQTT.h>
#include <PubSubClient.h>

#include <Wire.h>

//----SERIAL CONFIG ----
#define SERIAL_SPEED        115200

//----WIFI CONFIG ----
#define WIFI_SSID           "acmetest"
#define WIFI_PASSWD         "acmetest"
#define MAX_WIFI_INIT_RETRY 10
#define WIFI_RETRY_DELAY    500

//----MQTT CONFIG ----
#define MQTT_SERVER         "192.168.1.95"
#define MQTT_UNAME          ""
#define MQTT_PASSW          ""
#define MQTT_BROKER_PORT    1883          
#define MQTT_CLIENT_ID      "1234"

WiFiClient wifi_client;
PubSubClient mqtt_client(wifi_client, MQTT_SERVER, MQTT_BROKER_PORT);

//unsigned long delayTime;

//Wifi Initialization function
int WiFi_init()
{
  const char* wifi_ssid   = WIFI_SSID;
  const char* wifi_passwd = WIFI_PASSWD;

  int retries = 0;

  Serial.println("Connecting to WiFi AP..........");

  WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); //set wifi station mode

  WiFi.begin(wifi_ssid, wifi_passwd); //start connecting to WiFi AP

  //check the status of WiFi connection to be WL_CONNECTED
  while ((WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) && (retries < MAX_WIFI_INIT_RETRY)) {
    retries++;
    delay(WIFI_RETRY_DELAY);
    Serial.println("#");
  }
  Serial.println(String(WiFi.localIP()[0]) + "." + String(WiFi.localIP()[1]) + "." + String(WiFi.localIP()[2]) + "." + String(WiFi.localIP()[3]));

  return WiFi.status(); //return the WiFi connection status
}

void mqtt_callback(const MQTT::Publish& pub)
{
  Serial.println("MQTT receiving a message:");
  Serial.println(pub.payload_string());

  if (pub.payload_string()=="ON") {
    Wire.beginTransmission(0x38);
    Wire.write(0x03);
    Wire.write(0x0F);
    Wire.endTransmission();    // stop transmitting

    Wire.beginTransmission(0x38);
    Wire.write(0x01);
    Wire.write(0xF0);
    Wire.endTransmission();    // stop transmitting
  } else {
    Wire.beginTransmission(0x38);
    Wire.write(0x03);
    Wire.write(0x0F);
    Wire.endTransmission();    // stop transmitting

    Wire.beginTransmission(0x38);
    Wire.write(0x01);
    Wire.write(0x00);
    Wire.endTransmission();    // stop transmitting
  }

}

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(SERIAL_SPEED);
  Wire.begin();
  delay(100);

  Serial.println("Program Start");

  Wire.begin();
  Wire.write(0x03);
  Wire.write(0x0F);

  // WiFi
  while(true) {
    Serial.println("WiFi try");
    if (WiFi_init()==WL_CONNECTED) {
      Serial.println("WiFi success");
      break;
    }

    Serial.println("WiFi failed");
    delay(1000);
  }

  // MQTT
  while(true) {
    Serial.println("MQTT try");

    if (mqtt_client.connect(MQTT::Connect(MQTT_CLIENT_ID).set_keepalive(90).set_auth(String(MQTT_UNAME), String(MQTT_PASSW)))) {
      mqtt_client.set_callback(mqtt_callback); //set callback on received messages
      mqtt_client.set_max_retries(255);
      if (mqtt_client.subscribe("/daffy/relay")) {
        Serial.println("Subscription success");
        break;
      } else {
        Serial.println("Subscription failed");
        mqtt_client.disconnect();
        delay(1000);
        continue;
      }
    } else {
      delay(1000);
      continue;
    }
  }
}

void loop() {
  char payload[20];

  //sprintf(payload,"Start");
  //mqtt_client.publish("/daffy/input", payload);

  if (mqtt_client.connected()) {
        mqtt_client.loop();
  }
}

Schematic

Datasheet

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Features Buy

Four relays outputs and four clean contacts input DIN rail I2C board
  • 4 relay output
  • 4 clean contact input
  • I2C interface
  • Acme Sensor connector
  • Power supply 12 VDC