JeePower2 Kyle Gordon kyle@lodge.glasgownet.com Available under the terms of the GPL v3
A simple little Arduino compatible sketch used to provide some intelligence to an in-car power supply.
It monitors vehicle ignition and oil pressure. Only when the oil pressure warning light hsa been extinguished and the ignition has come on will it start some timers and eventually power up an output relay.
If the ignition is off, it will run a countdown timer before turning off a relay that's used to indicate an impending loss of power. After another timer has expired, it will kill the main power.
The current use for the indication relay is to indicate to a Bifferboard over the GPIO pins that the power will be lost. The Bifferboard does not support ACPI, so another method had to be found. A python script monitors the state of the input, and will initiate a shutdown if the input is brought low. If the Arduino lowers this input, and then the ignition is brought back on, the Arduino will continue the shut down process and then restart the whole system when appropriate, as there is no way to interrupt the shutdown once it's started on the Bifferboard.
Make sure you have avr-libc and avrdude installed, along with the latest copy of the jeelib libraries from https://github.com/jcw/jeelib
Using scons, in the downloaded directory, execute the following whilst substituting in the correct parameters for your environment.
scons ARDUINO_HOME=~/Applications/arduino/ ARDUINO_BOARD=uno
As above, but append 'upload' to the end
scons ARDUINO_HOME=~/Applications/arduino/ ARDUINO_BOARD=uno upload
Signal line from CPU to MCU to indicate current power state. (CPUState) Signal line from MCU to CPU to indicate desired power state. MCU control of CPU power line.
Rough pseudocode...
if IgnitionState = on Cancel shutdown timer if CPUState = off Sleep enough to overcome delay between OS turning off signal, and halting Raise MCU to CPU line Raise PowerSupplyState elseif CPUState = on pass fi fi if IgnitionState = off If ShutdownTimer = 0 Start ShutdownTimer elseif ShutdownTimer > 30 seconds Lower MCU to CPU line to signal shutdown elseif ShutdownTimer > 120 seconds Lower PowerSupplyState (to turn CPU off) Go to Sleep fi fi