Thanks Frank. That seems to reset for now.

Jack, Can you confirm my power off in dock fix for waking a sleeping docked Roomba?

Thanks, Frank

Hi Frank,

Unfortunately not at this time. The Roomba I am using would not dock so I retired and I use as a test bed at this time.

I have other Roombas but haven't had the chance to play with. I did do the manual reset and that works good.

This Roomba I cannot figure out what is wrong other than the board is going bad. I traced everything back to the board and will not dock or even charge when placed on docking station. I have 4 Roombas and it will not dock on any. I have to plug in manually so limits what I can do for now.

But it is a good test platform and everything else works on it.

Jack

Jack, I know what you are going through with used Roombas

I finally decided to buy a Create 2 so that I have a known tested standard to work with

@ellis & @nink & @robohappy can you test my manualy cutting power to the dock solution to wake a sleeping docked Roomba via BRC pulse?

Thanks Frank

@Nink, Regarding the stability of a heavily loaded Roomba... I have seen a few recommendations :

• add another caster & weights on the dust bin

  

• remove the springs from the wheels robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/9640/steadier-wheels-pin-them-or-lock-springs

• Create (1) even supplied wheel clips for this purpose

  

Create (1) user manual

Regards, Frank

Thanks Frank. Good option. I appologise for not testing your solution to the need to push the clean button to activate. It is the first time it has been warm in Toronto for a long time so I am getting a vitamin D fix. I will check workaround as soon as bad weather permitting.

Hi Nink, Enjoy those rays... I'm not on any schedule... I'm retired..

Thanks, Frank

@faengelm,

I'm not sure if this is what you are refering to but I had the usual issue of needing to wake the Create 2 up from a sleep and the only reliable solution I came up with is to carefully remove the top pieces and get access to the clean button. I neatly soldered two fairly thin guage wires to the switch and neatly ran them up to a relay module that activates with 3.3 volts and I control it with a digital output on the EZB Controller. Then control the relay with a simple script.

Turn relay control on Wait 1 second (for example) Turn relay control off

This works really well. Just make sure the relay module you use has a control current that doesn't exceed the ezb controller digital output source current. The relay modules I use have a buffer transistor between ezb controller digital output and the relay coil input so requires very little source current from ezb controller digital ouput pin. Hope this helps....Rick