IonoPiMax

Iono Pi Max is an extremely versatile industrial server with a huge variety of Input/Output lines and standard communication interfaces, all routed to the quad-core processor of the Raspberry Pi.

Iono Pi Max

This driver provides support for both a local installation of HSYCO on Iono Pi Max itself, or a remote Iono Pi Max unit connected via SSH. In both cases, the Raspberry Pi OS Kernel module for Iono Pi Max must be installed. The kernel module documentation is available at GitHub and the Iono Pi Max User Guide.

HSYCO Configuration

Add a IONO Pi Max I/O Server in the I/O Servers section of the Settings and set its parameters:

Note that the IONO Pi Max I/O Server doesn't count in the I/O servers license total, so you don't need an extra I/O Server license to use IONO Pi Max with HSYCO.

Communication

• IP Address: the IP address assigned to Iono Pi Max, leave blank for a local installation
• Port: SSH port configured on Iono Pi Max (defaults to 22), leave blank for a local installation.

Authentication

• User: username to access the remote Iono Pi Max via SSH, leave blank for a local installation
• Password: password to access the remote Iono Pi Max via SSH, leave blank for a local installation.

High Availability

• Shutdown when inactive: defaults to false.

Options

ID	Default	Values	Description
startupevents	false	true	generate IO events also during the driver’s start-up phase
		false	start generating events only after HSYCO is aligned with the current status of the system
pollinterval	250	10 <= n <= 30000	the data acquisition interval, in milliseconds
dualsdsync	false	true	enables the files synchronisation process that copies all HSYCO files and some operating system configuration files to the alternate SD card (SD1). Synchronisation occurs automatically once a minute. SD1 is enabled and its root file system mounted to /mnt/alt
		false	disables the files synchronisation process
		manual	doesn't change the watchdog configuration parameters
watchdog	always	always	enables the hardware watchdog and automatically generates the heartbeat signal (when the HSYCO main control loop is running normally, approximately every 10 seconds). The watchdog timeout is set to 60 seconds while HSYCO is running, or to 1 hour when HSYCO is manually stopped (sysctl stop hsyco) and when it is starting. If dualsdsync is set to true or manual, the watchdog is configured to boot from the alternate SD card if there is no heartbeat after the first reboot
		true	enables the hardware watchdog only while HSYCO is running, and automatically generates the heartbeat signal (when the HSYCO main control loop is running normally, approximately every 10 seconds). The watchdog timeout is temporarily set to 1 hour when HSYCO is starting. If dualsdsync is set to true or manual, the watchdog is configured to boot from the alternate SD card
		false	disables the hardware watchdog
		ignore	doesn't change the watchdog configuration parameters
shutdown_minutes	0	0	no automatic shutdown after power failure
		N > 0	the driver will command the operating system shutdown and hardware power off after N minutes of back-up battery operations during a power failure. Iono Pi Max will be turned back on when power is restored
skip		<list>	Space or semicolon separated list of datapoints or prefixes (not including the I/O Server id). Datapoints starting with one of the keywords defined in the skip list are not polled. Skipping unused datapoints improves polling performance on both local and remote configurations
quiet	false	true	enables audible alarms on power failure
		false	disables audible alarms on power failure

 The following configuration options are only used for local installations, and ignored on remote Iono Pi Max units: dualsdsync, watchdog, shutdown_minutes, quiet.

Datapoints

The Iono Pi Max implements all data points provided by the underlying Iono Pi Max kernel module. Refer to the documentation available at Iono Pi Max Kernel Module.

Each readable file name exposed by the kernel module under the /sys/devices/virtual/ionopimax/ sub-directories appears as a data point with id <subdir>.<file>. For example, as the buzzer's status file is /sys/devices/virtual/ionopimax/buzzer/status, the corresponding data point is "buzzer.status".

Command files that are marked as write only in the documentation (W), are not shown as visible data points in HSYCO, but can be used in the IO events action or ioSet() methods to send a command.

For example, if "max" is the id assigned to the Iono Pi Max I/O Server, then:

TIME : IO max.buzzer.beep = 1000

will make the buzzer beep for 1 second (1000 ms).

Note that "max.buzzer.beep" is not visible in the Status Browser and doesn't generate events, because it is write only, and only the "max.buzzer.status" data point will be visible, with a value of 0 if the buzzer is not active, or 1 if active.

Additional datapoints

ID	Value	R/W	Description
connection	online	R	connection established
	offline	R	HSYCO can't connect to the device
shutdown	1	W	initiate a power cycle
dualsdsync	0	R	manual SD synchronisation completed
	1	R	manual SD synchronisation pending or in progress
		W	initiate SD synchronisation (only available when the dualsdsync option is set to "manual"
dualsdsync.status	N	R	status of the last SD synchronisation run: >=0: number of files synchronised -1: error while updating files (see logs) -2: alternate SD card not available or file system error
dualsdsync.time (cm duo only)	<timestamp>	R	positive integer number representing the time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 of when the last synchronization run ended (with or without errors)

 The shutdown, dualsdsync and dualsdsync.status datapoints are only available for local installations.

Release Notes

3.8.0

• dual µSD card support
• improved watchdog and UPS support
• new "skip" option
• added support for remote Iono Pi Max units via SSH access
• new "connection" datapoint

3.7.0

• initial release

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