Troubleshooting

@martinhjelmare Thank you!!!! I was getting crazy working only with the Serial monitor on both sides. I didn't know that the Controller is playing a key role on assigning the nodeID. It is working now after connecting the gateway to HomeAssistant. Thanks. Regards. Alfredo.

Thanks tekka! I have updated to IDE 1.6.9 (was on 1.6.7) and also found out I was using the wrong location for libraries (the libraries I copied to the program files folder in C:\Program Files(86)\Arduino, seems they belong in the documents folder of the user profile). After this indeed the example Sketch HumiditySensor now compiled without errors. On my particular sketch (I want to use send locally attached sensors through the ethernet gateway) I stil got the error. Now I started to compare the two and the error disappears when I include the MY_RADIO library (#define MY_RADIO_NRF24) in my sketch. Very happy that it's solved now. Thanks for your help!

Thanks - that's what I needed to point me in the right direction. Issue is resolved now :)

Try to use 2 new fresh AAA cells in serial, connected directly to VCC. and verify if this will work. Then you know that it's a power supply issue

Problem solved for my case. :smiley: Just to give a hint to anyone who might have a similar problem, I had misconfigured the default pin assignments. In particular the INCLUSION_MODE_PIN definition was colliding with one of the LED pins (maybe RADIO_RX_LED_PIN). Hope this helps.

Still this code is working?

No, I'm not using MySensors on the Arduino, I'm using RadioHead. I posted on here as there seemed to be a lot of people using that module on this forum. But yes: the radios are both configured to 2Mbps. The fact that the RPi can receive even though not transmit certainly lends weight to @mfalkvidd's suggestion that it might be power-related. I'm getting some voltage regulators and will power it separately from the Pi to see if that improves anything. On a related note ... why are 3.3V regulators so hard to come by!? It's been years since I last picked up a soldering iron... Grumble

Good to know - thanks for pointing that out.

@martinhjelmare I think you might be on to something, as I have noticed that other microcontroller modules point the antenna away from the PCB, where as the Sensebender and RF module are overlapping. I will investigate by adding jumper wires from the SenseBender and the RF module to add some separation. Thanks...

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@vga The sensor you are referring to is working with "hall" effect. I can't find the internal schematics of the thing but I assume there are some active components to give you a nice square wave output. Another principle would be a magnet with reed (magnetic) contact which you can read with minimal current. You can find the " rest" current by measuring the power line of the sensor .

Never mind figured it out. There was a problem somewhere in that sketch. basically started from scratch again. merged the W5100 MQTT client gateway sketch and the relay sketch. then referred to here for serial MQTT syntax. Hope anyone else thats struggling finds this info useful.

So on the bus it is disabled with D8 high?

Hi! Im not familiar with the Wifi so might be a stupid question - but is Wifi gateway supported by Domoticz? (Does it work the same way as Ethernet gw?)... Adding a serial gateway and ethernet gateway to hardware you have to change the settings in your hardware menu.

Well.. My initial use is for a pool temperature / level sensor.. The temp is easy - It's registering as a V_TEMP and working great, but what I want is for the level to say "1.5 inches low" or "2 inches high", etc.. I currently have the value implemented as another V_TEMP, and have my arduino code calibrating the code to show 0 degrees if it's "perfect" and then plus/minus one degree for each inch the pool is high or low, but to have a sensor that is named "Pool level" and the data being "1.5 degrees F" isn't intuitive. I thought about using a distance sensor, but I couldn't get the distance code to work in the first place, and then I'd have to just remember what "distance" is normal (ie: is 0 the "top" of the pool, the the distance represents how far down the water is?) It just seems simpler in many cases to have a few english words displayed in the Vera website. Another idea I have is to replace all my "expensive" z-wave door sensors with MySensors on Pro Mini because I hate that the output of the door sensor is just a picture of the door sensor with the "rainbow" on top either colored red, or not, and I have to remember which color is "open". I'd rather have a Vera output that just says "OPEN" or "CLOSED" and I can't figure out any way to do that with the regular sensors so I was just going to build my own.. I'm sure I'll think of more, but that's enough to keep me busy for a while! .. didn't get to try any of this last night as I had hoped.. we ended up going to the town carnival instead... Will try again tonight! -Steve

Hi Chris, You can test the RFM69 communication with the example sketchs from LowPowerLab (https://github.com/LowPowerLab/RFM69/tree/master/Examples), you only need the two libarys (SPIFlash, RFM69).