Strange value being sent from controller using mixed temp/relay node

[Gambituk]

Ok, well i guess you were listed on the sketch from before it was branched, but thanks for replying.

As an update to my struggles ;) i have found a workaround which might hint at a solution..

If i publish :

MyMQTT/25/5/V_LIGHT 0.0r
MyMQTT/25/5/V_LIGHT 1.0r

instead of

MyMQTT/25/5/V_LIGHT 0
MyMQTT/25/5/V_LIGHT 1

Then it seems that it overwrites the scraps of the previous temp readings that are causing trouble, and activates the relay everytime.

also.. interestingly if i publish 0.00r to my mqtt, then the gateway reads all the following temps with a trailing 0 eg 21.90 instead of 21.9 / or '1.9rr' instead of '1.9r' so it seems like it is storing a value somewhere and only overwriting the parts that are conflicting with the next received value.

[gadu]

@Gambituk said:

@gadu if you have a setup running, could you publish a message on your mosquitto server just like this?

MyMQTT/25/1/V_LIGHT 1
MyMQTT/25/1/V_LIGHT 0

I don't think it matters if you have any relays connected or defined, it's just to see what value it tries to send to the node... (assuming you have your gateway connected to a pc to be able to see the serial output)?

No problems if this is not possible.

Actually yes, I have a relay sketch that BulldogLowell helped me with in this thread:
http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/901/relaywithbuttonactuator-another-n00b-question/7

The idea behind the sketch is written in the thread, but the short story is that I needed two relays and when the button is pressed one goes on for a sec (then off) and the other goes on until i push the button again. So it's actually only controlling one relay, nothing else.
By publishing...

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mosquitto_pub -r -t MyMQTT/23/1/V_LIGHT -m "1"
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mosquitto_pub -r -t MyMQTT/23/1/V_LIGHT -m "0"

I can see the following...

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ mosquitto_sub -v -t MyMQTT/#
MyMQTT/23/1/V_LIGHT 1
MyMQTT/23/1/V_LIGHT 0

[Gambituk]

ah, sorry, @gadu i dont think i explained clearly... what i wanted to see was what happens in the serial monitor on the gateway when those values are published (what gets sent over nrf to the node). thanks for trying that, i understand if you cant get serial monitor output. but if it was possible, i would really appreciate it

[gadu]

I'll get tomorrow. No worries :)

[Gambituk]

Thanks! That would be really useful

[gadu]

Here goes...

This is the ProMini output from the monitor when I turn on and off the relay...

send: 23-23-0-0 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2,st=ok:1
read: 0-0-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2:1
This is an ack from gateway
Incoming change for sensor:1, New status: 1
read: 0-0-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=4:1.6r
Incoming change for sensor:1, New status: 1
send: 23-23-0-0 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2,st=ok:0
read: 0-0-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2:0
This is an ack from gateway
Incoming change for sensor:1, New status: 0
read: 0-0-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=4:0.6r
Incoming change for sensor:1, New status: 0

This what I see on the gateway when I turn on and off the relay....

publish: MyMQTT/23/1/V_LIGHT 1
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-23-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=4,st=ok:1sor
0;0;3;0;9;read: 23-23-0 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2:0
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-23-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2,st=ok:0
publish: MyMQTT/23/1/V_LIGHT 0
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-23-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=4,st=ok:0sor
0;0;3;0;9;read: 23-23-0 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2:1
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-23-23 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=2,l=2,st=ok:1

I hope it helps.

[Gambituk]

That's perfect, that shows clearly that the problem is coming from the gateway sketch. I assume that the r on the end of both your and my output's is a termination character, and everything between the (1/0) and the 'r' in the gateway serial output is 'debris' left over from a previous output.. (for me a previous temp reading, for you something ending in 'so' .

With my workaround from yesterday:- (publishing something like this from openhab or wherever mysensor:MyMQTT/25/4/V_LIGHT:command:ON:1.0r <-1.0r instead of just 1) , my relay reacts really fast and accurately when triggered and continues to work. Before it was very slow and not reliable.

I am not sure if i will find the cause and be able to correct it but at least there is a workaround.

Thanks for your time @gadu

[gadu]

No worries!

[cayco]

Hi! I'm starting to play with relay and I experiencing somethings similar. I have 3 sensors (two of them works great, just temperature, volt, light and humidity) one is relay sensor. First of all it just doesn't react to my commands:

mosquitto_pub -p 1883 -h 10.0.0.11 -t MyMQTT/22/1/V_LIGHT -m "1"

serial shows just this:

connecting at 115200
repeater started, id 22
send: 22-22-0-0 s=255,c=0,t=18,pt=0,l=3,st=ok:1.4
send: 22-22-0-0 s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=1,l=1,st=fail:0
send: 22-22-0-0 s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=12,st=ok:Relay sketch
send: 22-22-0-0 s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,st=ok:1.0
send: 22-22-0-0 s=1,c=0,t=3,pt=0,l=3,st=ok:1.4

I'm using stock http://www.mysensors.org/build/relay code, just setting node_id manually to 22.

On the controller I have:

0;0;3;0;9;read: 21-21-0 s=11,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:23.0
publish: MyMQTT/21/11/V_TEMP 23.0
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-21-21 s=11,c=1,t=0,pt=0,l=7,st=fail:23.0001
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-22-22 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=7,st=fail:13.0001

It looks like it tries to send '1' with garbage from last sensor read.

It does this with my humidity sensor:

publish: MyMQTT/21/12/V_VOLTAGE 5001
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-21-21 s=12,c=1,t=38,pt=0,l=4,st=ok:5001
0;0;3;0;9;read: 21-21-0 s=10,c=1,t=1,pt=7,l=5:52.0
publish: MyMQTT/21/10/V_HUM 52.0
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-21-21 s=10,c=1,t=1,pt=0,l=8,st=fail:52.05001

I am also using MQTT client gateway which @gadu recommended me.

I did not understood how does this workaround @Gambituk mention work. Do you know what is going on above? What am I doing wrong?

P.S. Using standart EthernetGateway code also scrambles messages (please note strange sing after '1'):

0;0;3;0;9;read: 22-22-0 s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=12:Relay sketch
0;0;3;0;9;read: 22-22-0 s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3:1.0
0;0;3;0;9;read: 22-22-0 s=1,c=0,t=3,pt=0,l=3:1.4
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-22-22 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=2,st=ok:1à
0;0;3;0;9;read: 0-1-22 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=2:1à
0;0;3;0;9;read: 21-21-0 s=12,c=1,t=38,pt=4,l=4:5023
MyMQTT/21/12/V_VOLTAGE

0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-22-22 s=1,c=1,t=2,pt=0,l=2,st=fail:1à

after this relay node does not accept any message (you can see st=fail on the last line - that was me retrying mosquitto_pub -p 1883 -h 10.0.0.34 -t MyMQTT/22/1/V_LIGHT -m "1").

[Gambituk]

Sorry, i just saw this, do you still have the issue or is it resolved?

[cayco]

I still have it. I need to check how this is (not)working in single sensor environment. I will laso try not to set IT manually. Only if I get some tim to do it...

[cayco]

I have reconnected it again and it did just starte to work as it should from the start. I changed nothing. Strange...

[Gambituk]

What i think happens.. in my own way of thinking!

                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
                      B a d v a l u e      something longer than expected
                    1 1 . 4 v a l u e        next value is 11.4 but longer value stays in a register somewhere
                    2 1 . 6 5 7 l u e       and is mixed with the next value -
                    1 2 . 5 5 7 l u e       until restart or overwrite -

So i think there is something that needs to be changed to control the length of expected values or actual values to adapt to whatever data arrives.

For my workaround, send 1.0 and 0.0 instead of 1 and 0 seems to force the sketch to round the value to 1 or 0 even when there is "1.0dvalue" as the received instruction.

[Gambituk]

http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/524/mqtt-client-gateway/29 There is a proposed solution in the following post, i will test and see if it helps, and report back.

[Gambituk]

Initial tests seem that it is now resolved with the fixed version of the mqttclient gateway as modified by fotofieber

[tjay4x4]

I try this code on pro mini with Vera3 but then I implementing it I have a DOOR Switch instead of Ds18b20. So is it possile to show temperature on vera and what's wrong?

repeater started, id 1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=255,c=0,t=18,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=1,l=1,st=ok:0
send: 1-1-0-0 s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=25,st=ok:Liquid warm floore relay 
send: 1-1-0-0 s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,st=ok:1.0
send: 1-1-0-0 s=0,c=0,t=0,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=1,c=0,t=0,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=2,c=0,t=0,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=4,c=0,t=3,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=5,c=0,t=3,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 1-1-0-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,st=ok:28.6
send: 1-1-0-0 s=1,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,st=ok:28.2
send: 1-1-0-0 s=2,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,st=ok:28.5

[hek]

@tjay4x4

We can't help you much without any code.

[tjay4x4]

Sorry. :) Hek, I using this code. Vera3 find relay and it works, but also appears 3 door sensors instead of 3 temp sensors.
I try to use the my arduino board only with sd18b20 sketch and it work's and show temperature. Is it sketch suitale for vera?

@Gambituk said:

and here is the modified relay/temp sketch

// Running DS temperature sensor(s) and relay(s) on one mysensor arduino node
    // Combines Onewire and Relay code
    // 2014-10-14 Pego: Tested and Running on Uno/Clone and MQTT gateway
    
    // Example sketch showing how to send in OneWire temperature readings
    // Example sketch showing how to control physical relays. 
    // This example will remember relay state even after power failure.
    
    #include <MySensor.h>  
    #include <SPI.h>
    #include <DallasTemperature.h>
    #include <OneWire.h>presen
    
    #define ONE_WIRE_BUS 3 // Pin where dallase sensor is connected 
    #define MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20 16
    
    #define RELAY_1  4  // Arduino Digital I/O pin number for first relay (second on pin+1 etc)
    #define NUMBER_OF_RELAYS 2 // Total number of attached relays
    #define RELAY_ON 1  // GPIO value to write to turn on attached relay
    #define RELAY_OFF 0 // GPIO value to write to turn off attached relay
    
    unsigned long SLEEP_TIME = 30000; // Sleep time between reads (in milliseconds) 30000 orig
    OneWire oneWire(ONE_WIRE_BUS);
    DallasTemperature sensors(&oneWire);
    MySensor gw;
    float lastTemperature[MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20];
    int numSensors=0;
    boolean receivedConfig = false;
    boolean metric = true; 
    // Initialize temperature message
    MyMessage msg(0,V_TEMP);
    
    void setup()  
    { 
      // Startup OneWire 
      sensors.begin();
    
      // Startup and initialize MySensors library. Set callback for incoming messages. 
      //gw.begin(); 
      gw.begin(incomingMessage, AUTO, true);
    
      // Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
      gw.sendSketchInfo("Temp and Relays", "1.0");
    
      // Fetch the number of attached temperature sensors  
      numSensors = sensors.getDeviceCount();
    
      // Present all sensors to controller
      for (int i=0; i<numSensors && i<MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20; i++) {   
         gw.present(i, V_TEMP);
      }
    
      // Fetch relay status
      for (int sensor=1, pin=RELAY_1; sensor<=NUMBER_OF_RELAYS;sensor++, pin++) {
        // Register all sensors to gw (they will be created as child devices)
        gw.present(sensor, S_LIGHT);
        // Then set relay pins in output mode
        pinMode(pin, OUTPUT);   
        // Set relay to last known state (using eeprom storage) 
        digitalWrite(pin, gw.loadState(sensor)?RELAY_ON:RELAY_OFF);
      }
    
    }
    
    
    void loop()     
    {     
      // Process incoming messages (like config from server)
      gw.process(); 
    
      // Fetch temperatures from Dallas sensors
      sensors.requestTemperatures(); 
    
      // Read temperatures and send them to controller 
      for (int i=0; i<numSensors && i<MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20; i++) {
     
        // Fetch and round temperature to one decimal
        float temperature = static_cast<float>(static_cast<int>((gw.getConfig().isMetric?sensors.getTempCByIndex(i):sensors.getTempFByIndex(i)) * 10.)) / 10.;
     
        // Only send data if temperature has changed more then 1 degC and no error
        if (int(lastTemperature[i]) != int(temperature) && temperature != -127.00) { //added integer
     
          // Send in the new temperature
          gw.send(msg.setSensor(i).set(temperature,1));
          lastTemperature[i]=temperature;
        }
      }
      //gw.sleep(SLEEP_TIME); //no sleep for relays!!!!
    }
    
    void incomingMessage(const MyMessage &message) {
      // We only expect one type of message from controller. But we better check anyway.
      if (message.type==V_LIGHT) {
         // Change relay state
         digitalWrite(message.sensor-1+RELAY_1, message.getBool()?RELAY_ON:RELAY_OFF);
         // Store state in eeprom
         gw.saveState(message.sensor, message.getBool());
         // Write some debug info
         Serial.print("Incoming change for sensor:");
         Serial.print(message.sensor);
         Serial.print(", New status: ");
         Serial.println(message.getBool());
       } 
    }