Troubleshooting

@mehrdad.silatani here are some suggestions: http://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/8511/how-to-identify-arduino-mini-pro-5v-vs-3-3v One of them is basically what you did, load a sketch and see if all timings are off by 2x. But always try with 3.3V since 5V can damage a board built for 3.3V.

@mfalkvidd thanks! I actually found the problem while messing around with different settings. I changed 'uint16_t' to regular 'int' and it started working! Now, both should have worked (I guess by doing a quick google on uint16_t). So as to why how what.. im perplexed. Thanks for looking at the code :)

Thanks @ragflyer, that sounds reasonable. I'll see what I can do.

Hello @AWI thanks for you reply, I will read the document! With other sensors I use LiOn Nokia/Samsung battery, and it's ok! But I want to solve this little issue :smiley:

@doug I see, there are still some changes pending to rhe smartsleep function and a dedicated message type indicating the node is going to sleep (and waiting for a short time for commands). I will adjust MYSController thereafter.

@korttoma Yup, going over the ethernet gateway then. Thanks for the replies!

@karl261 said: @tekka But now I found something: the repeater sketch does not work, if MY_DEBUG is commented out. I tried several times forth and back. On the gw I get the output below. I checked and re-programmed the repeater. It seems that it has gone away. I can use my repeater without MY_DEBUG. I don't know what caused this, but the repeater is working now.

@LarsMachiels There was a problem with some versions of the arduino ide that caused the rebooting. You may have to revert to an older version, I am using 1.6.9 and I have compiled the gateway without issue but some have had to go back to 1.6.7 See this post for more details.

Thank you! That's helpful. When i get some more hardware in the mail I'll test it out.

@hek Ah yes, that's right. The radio needs to be on. I forgot about that. We need an over the air interrupt... ;-)

Great. I added a comment to the GitHub issue to signify its importance.

I have the exact same problem: the node never reconnects to gateway after a gateway outage. In my case it is an ethernet MQTTClientGateway and a humidity node. I have experimented with your suggestion and found that 1000ms was still not enough for a full reconnect before the node goes to sleep, so I made it 3000ms. This seems to allow a reconnect all the time (at least in my environment). // @TODO remove after testing gateway outage if (!isTransportOK()) { #ifdef MY_DEBUG Serial.print("Transport ERROR. Waiting for a proper transport reconnect"); #endif wait(3000); } // Sleep for a while to save energy sleep(UPDATE_INTERVAL); I am unsure why MySensors doesn't have this self-healing element built-in. Maybe it is only a bug, maybe it has some deeper reason.

That's cool, just thought I would throw it into the pot. I don't use OpenHAB so can't be of much help there i'm afraid.

Why did they die?

Hi and thanks for the tips. I didnt think of the PIR indeed. But anyways, the nano isn't sleeping because I get serial debug back from it after the sleep command.

It works, many thanks. I used a 4K7 resistor as pull-up and it seems to be enough.

@boozz again thank you for help me i am beginner , so you mean one node is not a repeater now, but it can be ? a sensor and a repeater ! is this correct ? but i am beginner so i want know this is easy or hard ? ( convert a node to sensor + repeater !? :) about second problem , now i just test devices and they are in 1 meter with me :) (now without any wall) but some time disconnect between node and gateway . and dont any work Unless with unplug and plug in gateway or nodes ! i have test it once with vera edge (esp8266 gateway) and more once with comoticz (windows) ( serial gateway) in vera is better and most time i have disconnect when unplug vera ( esp8266 is connect with usb to my vera ) after power on vera for 1 hours or more my gateway dont work ! also some time ( little sometime ) Accidentally disconnect gateways with node , so unplug and plug in again (gateway and nodes) in "windows domoticz" is more happen . some time ( more time ) after send codes , i receive this error "Error sending switch command, check device/hardware !" is this better i use a 10 nF for radio ? i think problem is related to radio !

Hi Thank you! I've used the search fonction but with no luck apparently. Thanks again for the fast answer.

Great work @pryning, thanks for reporting back. Hopefully it can help someone else with a similar problem in the future.

Thank you both for your advice. I ended setting a fixed ID for the repeater node and forcing that as parent ID in the sensor. So far it has been working for 6 hours without any hiccup so things looks promising! :thumbsup: