If your repeater battery backups, it is interesting to know if the supply voltage 230V is present on your repeater.

We will use an opto input to which we connect a (former ) Phone power transformer. This type of transformer -based power and control in addition to being available in the drawers , with the advantage of also do not radiate as may be the case for small block of switching power supply. Its charge voltage is indicated on its label 3.7V . When empty, the voltmeter shows 9 V.

Connection

The connection must be made with :

  1. JP16 open ( no jumper in place )
  2. Place a resistor R33
  3. In connection Pin 2 + transformer block, and Pin Pin 9 or 10 - the block.

The resistor R33 installation of 1 kW allows a consumer 6mA on the input of the optocoupler .

Alert code

We chose to alert the user to the loss 220V power supply by changing the tone of the micro released ( roger beep repeater ) .

This code must be placed in the rgr_sound . When the power source is loss, the input GPIO24 is low (0)' . At that time , the usual beep is replaced by an ambulance tone ( in France 3 tones : 420 Hz, 516 Hz, 420 Hz). 

 sudo nano /usr/share/svxlink/events.d/local/Logic.tcl
#
# Executed when the squelch just have closed and the RGR_SOUND_DELAY timer has
# expired.
#
proc send_rgr_sound {} {
  variable sql_rx_id;
 
#Test input on GPIO24 , J26 low voltage between pins 2 & 10, Jumper J16 open
    if { [file exists /sys/class/gpio/gpio24/value]  } {
        set fd [open "/sys/class/gpio/gpio24/value" "r"]
        set absence_secteur [read $fd]
 
 
        if  {$absence_secteur == "1"} {
                #No power( "Ambulance" tone)
                #playTone Hz Vol Duration
                playTone 420 700 100;
                playTone 516 700 100;
                playTone 420 700 100;
                set rgr 1;
             }
    }
 
if {$rgr == 0 } {
  #playTone 440 200 100;
  CW::setCpm 100;
  CW::setPitch 1000;
  CW::setAmplitude 700;
  CW::play "K"
 }

  #playTone 440 500 100;
  #playSilence 200;
 
  #for {set i 0} {$i < $sql_rx_id} {incr i 1} {
  #  playTone 880 500 50;
  #  playSilence 50;
  #}
  playSilence 100;
}
 
 
 
 

<note>Curiously, despite the fixed output voltage of CNY74 , test Raspberry Pi returns the value ' 1 ' instead of ' ' 0 when lon reads the value of gpio24 . (cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio24/value). Tests with the external library gpio '' are to be programmed. </note>