Mozilla Webthings MySensors add-on / adapter

[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.

[badmannen]

@alowhum did it your way and it works like a charm. 🤘👍🏻

[badmannen]

I just wish Mozilla could introduce some more settings in their web interface. Just to edit nodes and bring back nodes that you deleted etc, in an easy way. The easy interface is pretty and all but it would be useful with some more settings options etc

[alowhum]

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

@alowhum did it your way and it works like a charm. 🤘👍🏻

I'm not sure what you're talking about?

[badmannen]

@alowhum a sorry, I was answering the person who wrote above