Troubleshooting

@TimO Deat TimO! Its working now! I had to restart openhab service Thanks again! Best regards T

@ggg welcome to the MySensors community, and congrats on building your first node :-) It looks like the Mega is rebooting all the time. How is it powered? If you haven't already, check out https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/666/debug-faq-and-how-ask-for-help/ for how to fix the most common problems (power problems for example ;-) ). Then report back here and we'll help you take the next step.

@Newzwaver If I remember correctly you have to change in your sketches from getConfig() to getControllerConfig()

@Yveaux Thanks for the quick reply. Ah yes I did forget the pull ups. Not use to using them. Anyhow, it made the stand alone RTCLib example work mostly which was just a simple clock program but the Gateway still not working. Not getting the correct date and time from the RTC. I say mostly because the code doesn't seem to report the module not connected from the function rtc.begin() ? Steve

@royson84 you can use the multimeter and connect/hold black to ground and measure your way through the circuit to see where the power cuts. For the radio you can go Vin, jumper, radio.

@bjacobse Couldn't agree more. This might just be the problem I face.

@stress-nero the light values was fixed bad jump wire position, 

Hi, It worked. using the 2.2 library solved my issue. Now I'll setup openhab. thanks for your quick and effective answer

Seems like the ESP-12 switches GPIO5 and GPIO4. Changing the the GPIO 5 => 4 did the trick: #define MY_RF69_IRQ_PIN 4 // GPIO5```

@Arthur good to hear!

@George-Laynes said in OpenHAB 2.1 keeps showing light level as 0 with BH1750 and V_LEVEL: Any idea on how soon it'll be available for general public? Very soon. The next release is finished in the next days. But it will not be backwards compatible because there was a change in the naming of the parameters, for example: skipStartupCheck is now named startupCheckEnabled, so I need to think about migration options.

Hi, I am also trying to get them to work and stumbled upon this. I will try that and let you know if it works. @webzter30 I guess he connected it to RST on the Adafruit-board. He mentioned that before. And the breakout does work with 3-5V, so it should work with almost anything. But Adafruit stated that you should use the same power on VIN as on the logic circuits. So for a Nano that would be 5V EDIT: Works for me! Thanks.

Thanks I'am using IoBroker. i will ask in the iobroker-Forum.

@Yveaux Yes, it works now.

@Yveaux thank you for your help! yes, that makes a lot of sense actually. My ignorance on the matter kicked-in once again... sorry :( What I'm missing so is how to create a sensor node which can be operated on battery and take measurements every "x" seconds/minutes/hours: shall I leave the Gateway always on and then configure differently another Node-MCU to act as a Sensor Node ? Edit: In fact all of this was meant, for me, to be a "test run" bedore developing the whole system. I got a little off-road with the deepSleep and Battery thing, but I wanted to have a real-word-test of my sensor left for a day in the soil while sending reliable data to controller. As I'm reading even more documents and forum post, it's getting clear to me that the best thing would be "ask to the comunity" their experience with HW nodes, thus I can decide which one is best for my case.

For information on electricity consumption: Tensy 3.2 mit RFM96HW 130 µA Tensy 3.2 mit RFM96HW BME280 130 µA Tensy 3.2 mit RFM96HW BME280 BH1750 165 µA Teensy LC mit RFM95 90 µA Arduino Pro mit RFM95 DS18b20 6 µA Arduino Pro mit RFM95 BME280 BH1750 11 µA

I have since been diverted onto other troubleshooting but I no believe this was a serial port permissions issue. When I used this command ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* I could see that only the “root” user and the “dialout” group have proper permissions to use the serial port, so I added pi to the dialout group. Thanks for your help

I have managed to get a working system by using Arduino Mega with the NRF24 (the one with the Aerial Connection) running the serial sketch - connected to a RPi2 running Domoticz and connected to the Arduino by USB. This seems an expensive way to sort out a gateway so I will persevere with trying to find why I cannot get the other versions up and running but at least now I have a system - knitting will have to wait!! Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

@mfalkvidd thank you! I didn't noticed that among the whole log, my ignorance about this just kicked-in. Thank you again fo your help, I'll read on how to set the beta library and compile again.

I noticed that Domoticz sometime is picky and doesn't like nodes that change configuration too often, that's why I suggested to use a different ID just in case.