General Discussion

Thanks.. I did break down and order 10 of the nrf radios last night... should be here tomorrow.. In thinking it through more, it seems that it's shortsighted of me to want everything on Wifi just because it's familiar.. I'd end up needing eventually to possibly expand my subnet, have to be reliant on an access point that is probably being killed by my son playing online games, etc.. I'm sure there's a learning curve to the NRFs, but from what I read about their low power requirements and the advantage of all of the self healing, it seems it's the right way to go.. Thanks for the info!

Found it! Thanks a million!

No worries. There is a reason it is called FAQ - lots of people ask that question :-)

Great that it worked. Thanks for reporting the result :)

Hi. I know this topic is a few months old now, but I'm wondering if you were able to accomplish what you wanted to do. I have a wifi gateway set up and would like to do something similar but with Home Genie as the broker running on a Raspberry PI. Did you have to modify the MQTT Client code much to fit your needs? I'm new to MySensors, but I've been researching topics as much as possible before I dive into the code. Can you point me to the version of the client code that worked for you? I would appreciate any help or tips as I am eager to set up several sensors around the house and perhaps a relay to control a garage door. Thanks.

Ok got it working. But now i see the main problem. When you change the colour - there is a lag so othe colours are seen. Same goes to switching off. For example we were at white light fullbrightness than switched off. You can first see the light becoming yelow, than blue than off. How can this be fixed? If i understand correctly - you have to pass all these HSB value processing to arduino and have the controller send 3 values at once. Are there any examples?

oh it's really long .. thanks.

It would be cool to be able to do the other way around... have wifi/bluetooth recievers listen and determine when someone was nearby. This could be used without the need for any application installed on your phone. Anyone have any pointers for a system like that? I know we use it in stores for example to measure visitors and how they move within stores/malls.

It's enabled automatically for the w5100 gateway.

@scalz Unfortunately, I didn't like the chipquick flux performance as much, so I reverted back to what I had been using.

[image: 1462873937252-water-pressuresensor.png] Update: I figured out how to make a few changes to the Vera device display. Now for some reason all three are reading from one analog pin. I have each one of them set on A0, A1, A2. Never mind as I was writing this post I think I figured out what I done wrong. For some reason I had the A0 pin defined twice in my sketch. Still need to test it an see that's the problem. And the only thing I have left to try an figure out is in the Vera Scenes the language is still in French. Anybody have any ideas how I can fix this??

I just realized that the site is also available in English. The book itself seems to be available in English. But I don't see a link to an english youtube channel.

@AWI I fully agree! The AM2302 (aka DHT-22) does not work, when the supply drops slightly below 3.3V, while the AM2321works at much lower voltage. I have used the AM2321 for more than 6 months to monitor my greenhouse

@mfalkvidd Yes, a pinned topic would be nice.

Have you seen the video collection here -> http://www.mysensors.org/about/videos There is one called "Combining MySensors example sketches" maybe it can be helpful for you.

@erangel - well not sure if I understand you, but yes - you can have a raspberry pi as gateway (search the forum) and then have arduino as nodes talking with the gateway wireless.

@KrisJacobs Hi Kris. I settled on domoticz pretty quickly. No complaints as yet. Am running it on a (free to me) HP mini with Ubuntu, but the pi documentation appears pretty thorough.

Hi . Here is my example .. working with my code for Relay board 32 relay by I2C IO expander. #include <MySensor.h> #include <SPI.h> // Define version #define VSN "v1.0" // Define Name #define NAME "Test" // Define Sensor - button #define BLU 1 // Button Left Up #define BLD 2 // Button Left Down #define BRU 3 // Button Right Up #define BRD 4 // Button Right Down // Sensor objects MySensor gw; void setup() { // eeprom_write_byte((uint8_t*)EEPROM_NODE_ID_ADDRESS, (byte)255); gw.begin(incomingMessage,AUTO); // Node ID auto .. if not used gateway , Node ID must define manualy gw.sendSketchInfo( NAME, VSN ); // Name and version gw.present(BLU, S_LIGHT); gw.present(BLD, S_LIGHT); gw.present(BRU, S_LIGHT); gw.present(BRD, S_LIGHT); } void loop() { gw.process(); } void incomingMessage(const MyMessage &message) { if (message.type == V_LIGHT) { MyMessage response (message.getByte(),V_LIGHT) ; // message.getByte() = payload define what relay want change state response.setDestination(1); // My Relay Board gw.send(response); } }```

[2016-04-27 20:55:10.973 Info] INFO *** Logging START *** [2016-04-27 20:55:10.974 Info] VERSION MYSController 0.1.2.282 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.569 Info] NODE New node discovered, node id=2 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.570 Info] CHILD New child discovered, node id=2, child id=internal [2016-04-27 20:55:33.570 Info] DEBUG Assigned firmware=Blink to node=2 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.571 Info] INFO BL version=257 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.572 Info] INFO Send FW info to node 2: type=A, version=1, blocks=0x02C8, CRC=0xB718 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.573 Info] TX 2;0;4;0;1;0A000100C80218B7 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.574 Info] RX 2;255;4;0;0;0A000100C80218B70101 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.655 Info] SIGNING Node 2 does not require signing [2016-04-27 20:55:33.656 Info] SIGNING MYSController is not signing [2016-04-27 20:55:33.656 Info] TX 2;255;3;0;15;0 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.658 Info] RX 2;255;3;0;15;0 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.658 Info] DEBUG Update child id=255, type=ARDUINO_NODE [2016-04-27 20:55:33.659 Info] RX 2;255;0;0;17;1.5.4 [2016-04-27 20:55:33.662 Info] TX 2;255;3;0;6;M [2016-04-27 20:55:33.663 Info] RX 2;255;3;0;6;0 [2016-04-27 20:55:35.671 Info] RX 2;255;3;0;11;Bin.Sensor Sleep [2016-04-27 20:55:35.674 Info] RX 2;255;3;0;12;1.0 [2016-04-27 20:55:35.676 Info] CHILD New child discovered, node id=2, child id=3 [2016-04-27 20:55:35.677 Info] DEBUG Update child id=3, type=DOOR [2016-04-27 20:55:35.678 Info] RX 2;3;0;0;0; [2016-04-27 20:55:35.679 Info] CHILD New child discovered, node id=2, child id=4 [2016-04-27 20:55:35.679 Info] DEBUG Update child id=4, type=DOOR [2016-04-27 20:55:35.681 Info] RX 2;4;0;0;0; [2016-04-27 20:55:35.722 Info] RX 2;3;1;0;16;1 [2016-04-27 20:55:35.745 Info] RX 2;255;3;0;0;79 [2016-04-27 20:55:40.876 Info] RX 2;4;1;0;16;0 [2016-04-27 20:55:41.375 Info] RX 2;4;1;0;16;1 [2016-04-27 20:55:42.819 Info] RX 2;3;1;0;16;0 [2016-04-27 20:55:43.461 Info] RX 2;3;1;0;16;1 [2016-04-27 20:55:54.189 Info] TX 2;0;3;0;13;0 [2016-04-27 20:56:13.510 Info] REPO FW "Blink" loaded. t=10, v=1, blocks=712, crc=0xB718 [2016-04-27 20:56:13.523 Info] REPO FW "TimeReporter" loaded. t=20, v=1, blocks=840, crc=0x4AC5 [2016-04-27 20:56:13.542 Info] REPO FW "Sensebender Micro" loaded. t=100, v=1, blocks=1344, crc=0x3482 [2016-04-27 20:56:13.552 Info] REPO FW "Sensebender Blink" loaded. t=110, v=1, blocks=768, crc=0x1314 [2016-04-27 20:56:13.552 Info] REPO FW repository loaded. Items=4 [2016-04-27 20:56:17.551 Info] TX 2;0;3;0;13;0 [2016-04-27 20:57:00.075 Info] CHILD New child discovered, node id=2, child id=3 [2016-04-27 20:57:00.076 Info] RX 2;3;1;0;16;0 [2016-04-27 20:57:00.439 Info] RX 2;3;1;0;16;1 [2016-04-27 20:57:02.092 Info] CHILD New child discovered, node id=2, child id=4 [2016-04-27 20:57:02.094 Info] RX 2;4;1;0;16;0 [2016-04-27 20:57:02.363 Info] RX 2;4;1;0;16;1