Mozilla Webthings MySensors add-on / adapter

[alowhum]

Version 0.0.7 has been created, and should hopefully be accepted soon.

It fixes the issue that the user's preference for which capability should be shown centrally was reset every time the add-on restarted.

Internally, the add-on always uses persistence. Whether devices are shown as 'connected' is now an option. You can either immediately show all MySensors nodes as 'connected' upon a restart, or wait until nodes have sent a signal.

// It has been accepted

[alowhum]

Version 0.1.0 has been accepted. Persistence is a bit faster and hopefully more robust. Hopefully it fixes an issue @rmalbers was experiencing.

[alowhum]

Version 0.1.2 has been uploaded. It has a lot of new features:

• Automatic serial port searching. User doesn't need to add a serial port ID manually anymore (but can if they want)
• Support for metric/imperial units. You can set your preference in the add-on settings.
• Support for multipleOf. This should help show a sane amount of decimals on numeric variables.
• Experimental MQTT support based on user feedback.
• Anticipates switch to version 0.9 of the WebThings gateway by implementing title support.

[alowhum]

The new version has been accepted.

[alowhum]

I have uploaded a new version (0.1.4) that should hopefully be accepted in the coming days.

It allows MySensors devices to better work with voice control.

Its main new ability is that it can split up a single MySensors device into several. The reason this is important is that in the webthings gateway you currently cannot change property names, only thing names. By essentially creating many things with only one property, this problem is circumvented.

It also has some small improvements in MySensors V-types support.

[Nca78]

Thanks you @alowhum, is the splitting systematic or done in settings/configured ?

[alowhum]

@nca78 It's a setting, it's optional.

[alowhum]

Version 0.1.4 has now been accepted.

[alowhum]

Version 1.0.0 has been submitted to Mozilla.

• Support for time-outs. After a user-defined period of not receiving any sign of life (data/heartbeat), a node will be set to disconnected.
• Support for the new WebThings thermostat capability.

[alowhum]

It has been accepted.

[Nca78]

Thank you !

[rmalbers]

Thanks, I have the timeout set (to 30 minutes) and it seems to be working, GREAT! In other news, it looks like they added metric to the gateway with the new release last night and all my temp readings reverted to 'Cent', the new default, until I switched it off 'metric', scared me for a second!

[alowhum]

@rmalbers Thanks for suggesting the idea.

@rmalbers said in Mozilla Webthings MySensors add-on / adapter:

In other news, it looks like they added metric to the gateway with the new release last night and all my temp readings reverted to 'Cent', the new default, until I switched it off 'metric', scared me for a second!

Yeah I have to figure out how the add-on can get this value from the gateway instead.

[alowhum]

A bit of a side-note, but I've created a theme (the very first one!). It also adds thermostat setpoint buttons.

[badmannen]

I been searching around in the forum but I cannot find a way how to send the Battery % so the WEBTHINGS will recognize it , can anyone give me a hint?

at the moment I report it in from my battery node with:
sendBatteryLevel(batteryPcnt);

but I assume this does not get forwarded to the controller?
so should I send it as a separate "child node ID , message?
and which one would be most clever?

thank you

[Nca78]

@badmannen said in Mozilla Webthings MySensors add-on / adapter:

so should I send it as a separate "child node ID , message?

This is what I do at the moment

[badmannen]

@nca78 Do you send it as a "DIMMER" to send the percentage?

[Nca78]

@badmannen not even, was working with the humidity percentage so I kept the same for the battery :)

MyMessage batPercentMsg(CHILD_ID_BATTERY, V_HUM);

[badmannen]

@nca78 aaa ok . perfect . Now I try with dimmer and I will see if it appears like I want otherwise I´ll try your way . thanks !

[alowhum]

Interesting. I'll see if there's an 'official' way to implement battery level.

// Asked a question on how to implement it.