Troubleshooting

If someone tries to help @pw44, please respond in https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/11213/mysensor-gateway-with-enc28j60-ethernet-doubts to avoid confusion and double work.

@sindrome73 Like @BearWithBeard wrote, reading Nick Gammons guide is a must! I read it and used most of the stuff in there when I was making my battery node. The analog converter is super easy to turn of, ADCSRA = 0 does it. It's also in the guide by Gammon. Regarding the Minicore definitions, see here: https://github.com/MCUdude/MiniCore Just follow the "how to install" and when it's added in Arduino IDE you select the relevant options in the Tools menu under "board". Then select your programmer (also in tools menu) and finally "Burn bootloader". Edit: Did a quick google on the sensor. Found this: https://www.iot-experiments.com/pir-sensors-hc-sr501/ I just took a quick glance but it seems relevant.

@sash-sc upgrade MySensors to 2.3.2 or downgrade the esp board definition. More info: https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/releases/tag/2.3.2

I will, but it won't be for a while.

@pw44 no, mysensors doesn't need it for soft spi and won't use it

@Elias-0 you can edit the first post in this thread and click on the title to change it if you like. It's not a requirement though.

@Anticimex I had to turn off MY_DEBUG to add the encryption directives. I also moved everything back to version 2.3.1 as I was still seeing some weird stuff going on like msg-type 169 (unknown) and attempts to route through nodes that don't exist. These things I guess may have been due to high ram usage. I think I was at about 78% w version 2.3.2 and basic encryption enabled but now... Sketch uses 21542 bytes (70%) of program storage space. Maximum is 30720 bytes. Global variables use 1108 bytes (54%) of dynamic memory, leaving 940 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes. @Yveaux - I don't expect that it would have been high ram usage causing my initial issues as I wasn't using any encryption or signing before. I started seeing these problems when I moved to 2.3.2 but as I had also been dealing with a new sensor on my first Sensebender Micro, I wasn't sure what might be causing the problems. What do you think might have caused the received data type to flip from a float to an unsigned integer?

@mfalkvidd Also the fastest path to insomnia and alcoholism! ;)

In case this helps someone in the future, I learned two additional things about getting these added to Home Assistant: The "file does not exist" error messages is because I had not created a sensor yet. Described here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mysensors-persistance-file/11047 Home Assistant was not seeing my RelayActuator sensor because it needs to send an initial value from the loop. For some reason, that is not in the example sketches. Mentioned here https://www.elektormagazine.com/labs/mysensors-home-assistant-howto and I used code from here to make it happen https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mysensors#presentation

After I wrote the message above I realised this is another topic in fact, I hope you don't mind. To explain a bit more what happens, here is some debug output. Each 10 seconds an increasing counter is sent to the gateway, and after each sent message the TX power is printed on the screen. 46219 TSM:UPL:OK 46252 TSM:READY:ID=31,PAR=0,DIS=1 54607 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:4 Power is 3 64618 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:5 Power is 2 74629 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:6 Power is 1 85655 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:7 Power is 1 94650 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=OK:8 Power is 0 105168 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:9 Power is -1 114671 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:10 Power is -2 124682 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:11 Power is -3 135708 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:12 Power is -3 144703 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=OK:13 Power is -4 154714 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:14 Power is -5 164724 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:15 Power is -6 174735 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:16 Power is -7 184745 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:17 Power is -8 195772 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:18 Power is -8 204980 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=OK:19 Power is -9 214990 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:20 Power is -10 225804 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:21 Power is -10 235438 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=OK:22 Power is -11 245825 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:23 Power is -11 255836 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=NACK:24 Power is -11 265846 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=2,st=NACK:25 Power is -11 275857 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=3,st=NACK:26 Power is -11 285868 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=4,st=NACK:27 Power is -11 Here are a couple of NACKs, so this is on the limit of TX power IMO. Still one succesfull one, which decreases the power even more. 294862 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=5,st=OK:28 Power is -12 305889 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:29 Power is -12 315899 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=NACK:30 Power is -12 325910 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=2,st=NACK:31 Power is -12 335921 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=3,st=NACK:32 Power is -12 345931 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=4,st=NACK:33 Power is -12 355942 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=5,st=NACK:34 Power is -12 Five failed messages and the node starts finding its parent. But also that fails. 356024 !TSM:READY:UPL FAIL,SNP 356073 TSM:FPAR 356089 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=6,st=OK: 358203 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY 358219 TSM:FPAR 358252 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 360366 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY 360382 TSM:FPAR 360415 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 362512 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY 362528 TSM:FPAR 362561 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 364675 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL 364691 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1 364724 TSM:FAIL:DIS 364740 TSF:TDI:TSL 364888 !TSF:SND:TNR Power is -12 374784 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT 374800 TSM:INIT 374833 TSM:INIT:TSP OK 374865 TSM:INIT:STATID=31 374898 TSF:SID:OK,ID=31 374915 TSM:FPAR 374947 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 375046 !TSF:SND:TNR Now the Transportlayer is re-initialised and the power level goes to 5, which makes the messages being ACKed again. This starts the process all over again. Power is 5 375734 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-31,s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:0 375799 TSF:MSG:FPAR OK,ID=0,D=1 377044 TSM:FPAR:OK 377061 TSM:ID 377077 TSM:ID:OK 377110 TSM:UPL 377192 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1 377913 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-31,s=255,c=3,t=25,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:1 377978 TSF:MSG:PONG RECV,HP=1 378028 TSM:UPL:OK 378044 TSM:READY:ID=31,PAR=0,DIS=1 385105 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:37 Power is 3 395116 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:38 Power is 2 405127 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:39 Power is 1 415137 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:40 Power is 0 425148 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:41 Power is -1 435159 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:42 Power is -2 445169 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:43 Power is -3 455180 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:44 Power is -4 465207 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:45 Power is -5 475201 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:46 Power is -6 485720 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:47 Power is -7 495222 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:48 Power is -8 505446 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:49 Power is -9 516259 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:50 Power is -9 525254 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=OK:51 Power is -10 536281 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:52 Power is -10 546291 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=NACK:53 Power is -10 556302 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=2,st=NACK:54 Power is -10 565510 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=3,st=OK:55 Power is -11 576323 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:56 Power is -11 586334 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=NACK:57 Power is -11 596344 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=2,st=NACK:58 Power is -11 606355 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=3,st=NACK:59 Power is -11 615989 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=4,st=OK:60 Power is -12 626376 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:61 Power is -12 636387 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=NACK:62 Power is -12 646397 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=2,st=NACK:63 Power is -12 656408 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=3,st=NACK:64 Power is -12 666419 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=4,st=NACK:65 Power is -12 676429 !TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=5,st=NACK:66 Power is -12 676511 !TSM:READY:UPL FAIL,SNP 676560 TSM:FPAR 676577 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=6,st=OK: 678690 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY 678707 TSM:FPAR 678739 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 680853 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY 680869 TSM:FPAR 680902 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 682999 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY 683016 TSM:FPAR 683048 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 685162 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL 685178 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1 685211 TSM:FAIL:DIS 685228 TSF:TDI:TSL 685375 !TSF:SND:TNR Power is -12 695271 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT 695287 TSM:INIT 695320 TSM:INIT:TSP OK 695353 TSM:INIT:STATID=31 695386 TSF:SID:OK,ID=31 695402 TSM:FPAR 695435 ?TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK: 695533 !TSF:SND:TNR Power is 5 696369 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-31,s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:0 696434 TSF:MSG:FPAR OK,ID=0,D=1 697548 TSM:FPAR:OK 697565 TSM:ID 697581 TSM:ID:OK 697614 TSM:UPL 697696 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1 698236 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-31,s=255,c=3,t=25,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:1 698302 TSF:MSG:PONG RECV,HP=1 698335 TSM:UPL:OK 698351 TSM:READY:ID=31,PAR=0,DIS=1 705593 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:69 Power is 3 715603 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:70 Power is 2 725827 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:71 Power is 1 735641 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:72 Power is 0 745635 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:73 Power is -1 755646 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:74 Power is -2 765657 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:75 Power is -3 775667 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:76 Power is -4 785678 TSF:MSG:SEND,31-31-0-0,s=22,c=1,t=23,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:77

@elcaron I do not have the necessary hardware (or the time) I am afraid. I hope the community can help.

@The-Grue: Don't be embarrassed by it...pretty sure you are not the first one that fell for this trap and certainly not the last one. Hopefully also other readers on the forum can benefit from your (bad) experience in this way. Thanks for reporting back and good to hear that some of your trust has returned towards the nrf24 and your part shops with a "good name" :slightly_smiling_face: .

After a year of nearly having no problems, I got nodes that started crashing. I let my repeater up for the night and monitored his behavour. I got this again: 08:47:27.607 -> 22440 NRF5:SND:TO=0,LEN=16,PID=0,NOACK=0 08:47:27.641 -> 22447 NRF5:SND:END=1,ACK=1,RTRY=2,RSSI=-45,WAKE=8 08:47:27.641 -> 22452 TSF:MSG:SEND,78-78-0-0,s=1,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:24.3 08:47:27.707 -> 22508 NRF5:SND:TO=0,LEN=16,PID=1,NOACK=0 08:47:27.707 -> 22515 NRF5:SND:END=1,ACK=1,RTRY=2,RSSI=-45,WAKE=7 08:47:27.707 -> 22520 TSF:MSG:SEND,78-78-0-0,s=0,c=1,t=1,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:45.2 08:47:28.435 -> 23226 NRF5:SND:TO=0,LEN=16,PID=2,NOACK=0 08:47:28.435 -> 23233 NRF5:SND:END=1,ACK=1,RTRY=2,RSSI=-45,WAKE=7 08:47:28.435 -> 23237 TSF:MSG:SEND,78-78-0-0,s=2,c=1,t=16,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1 08:47:28.766 -> Si7021 Found 08:47:29.331 -> 24145 NRF5:SND:TO=0,LEN=16,PID=3,NOACK=0 08:47:29.331 -> 24152 NRF5:SND:END=1,ACK=1,RTRY=2,RSSI=-45,WAKE=7 08:47:29.331 -> 24157 TSF:MSG:SEND,78-78-0-0,s=1,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:24.3 08:47:29.397 -> 24213 NRF5:SND:TO=0,LEN=16,PID=0,NOACK=0 08:47:29.397 -> 24220 NRF5:SND:END=1,ACK=1,RTRY=2,RSSI=-45,WAKE=7 08:47:29.397 -> 24225 TSF:MSG:SEND,78-78-0-0,s=0,c=1,t=1,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:45.2 08:47:32.310 -> 27131 NRF5:SND:TO=0,LEN=16,PID=1,NOACK=0 anyone got an Idea what this message means, it crashes after the last line.

@Robert-Król what result did you get when you tested the gateway? sudo ./bin/mysgw Edit: if you haven't already, see the test and install sections at https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry#test

Fixed - You have to use void before() and place it before void presentation() void before() { pinMode (4, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(4, HIGH); } void presentation() { // Send the Sketch Version Information to the Gateway Serial.print("Send Sketch Info: "); sendSketchInfo(SKETCH_NAME, SKETCH_VERSION); Serial.print(SKETCH_NAME); Serial.println(SKETCH_VERSION); wait(LONG_WAIT);

I was asking similar question, when I made a lamp that supports changing temperature of the white. Unfortunately Mysensors doesn't has variable type for color temperature. It could be added, but so far nobody beside you and me is interested in this feature. Support for CT variable must be added in the Mysensors integration in the first place. You could to add missing code for it and maybe it would be merged eventually. My quick solution was just separate dimmer slider for CT.

@skywatch I've got some 10 µF and 100 µF electrolytic capacitors, and just received a bunch of other various capacitors, ranging from 1 to 470 µF. I haven't tested them for now. But good news ! I also received 3 NRF24L01+ with built in antennas, reset the entire crew of nodes and gateway, and it works like a charm :blush: I'm more than happy. Thanks again for all your advices. I'll post some news later, testing the capacitors with NRF24L01+ and antennas. Ciao.

@Sushukka thanks for sharing!