OH3 - MySensors Binding

[waspie]

@haasje30
smartsleep is easy with MQTT

Initially a few years ago i tried the binding and it gave me nothing but trouble.
While it was configured I'd watch MQTT to see what it would do.

2020-12-31 22:58:22 unoout/202/255/3/0/33 180000 (THIS IS THE SLEEP DURATION)
2020-12-31 22:58:22 unoout/202/255/3/0/32 500 (AT THIS MOMENT YOU HAVE 500MS to GET A COMMAND SENT)

So define a thing to the channel ending in 32.
Bind an item to that channel with an expire timer for like 10 seconds state = 0

then for your rule you'd have

rule "whatever"
when
Item whateverSleepItem changed from 0 to 500
then
whateverOtherItemThatIsSendingOutACommand.sendCommand(ON/OFF/WHATEVER)
end

[haasje30]

Thanks TimO and waspie. At this moment I have one mysensors hardware gateway, which is connected to my openhab2 instance. I have an OH3 test instance, and no hardware controller for this (yet). I did an short test with my current controller, but this is not the best way for me. So I orderded an wemos D1 mini to create a new mysensors gateway. As soon as this is in I will be testing. Thanks again...

[Dbagioni]

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[waspie]

@haasje30 if it's mqtt both can subscribe at the same time

[Klabbe]

@TimO Thank you! It works for me with my Ethernet Gateway. I don't have that many nodes but the ones that I have, works as good as they did with OpenHAB2. I have a watermeter, an actuator and a door sensor. Great work!

[TimO]

@Klabbe thank you for your feedback!

[Guillermo Schimmel]

@Klabbe great! perhaps I'll go back to ethernet gateway. Do you think is better option over mqtt gateway?

[haasje30]

Hello,

I did some testing with 2 openhab versions to one ethernet gateway. At first it did not discover any devices, thats because they were allready discovered in the old (2.5) version of openhab, I Think, because when I created a new mysensor device,it was immediattely discovered by the new openhab. I noticed a minor problem, there is an ability to scan (and because auto discovery did not seem to work I tried this), but after a scan the ethernet gateways failes. When you try to add a device(manually), it goes back to the first page when you select the gateway. I had to restart de openhab service to get it running again.

I tested with a new blinds sensor (with smartsleep), and smartsleep seem to work OK. So I prefer this binding over de generic mqtt binding, because stuf like request() and smartsleep() work 'out of the box'. These are my fisrt tests, I will be doing more (other sensor types) later on when I have an additional gateway available.

Regards...

[Guillermo Schimmel]

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[kerberos]

@TimO ,

many thanks for the updated binding. I just wait to update my OpenHAB to version 3.0.0 till your binding is ready. I use a OpenHAB manual install since many years on a ArchLinuxARM system. My Mysensors gateway is a serial one, which works like a charm till OpenHAB 2.5.11 and your bindings.

Today I updated to OpenHAB 3.0.0 and tried also OpenHAB 3.1.0-Snapshot. In both cases I got the Mysensors binding not working. It shows just "Initializing" in the Things overview. mqtt and serial transport features are installed. I don't change the manual config (things / items) files from 2.5.11 to 3.0.0.

If I use the openhab console, the bundle:diag and bundle:status shows "Active" and no errors.

If I take a look into the openhab.log, I found entries like:

[WARN ] [core.karaf.internal.FeatureInstaller] - The binding add-on 'mysensors' does not exist - ignoring it.

or

[WARN ] [org.apache.felix.fileinstall        ] - A bundle with the same symbolic name (org.openhab.binding.mysensors) and version (3.1.0.202012312203) is already installed.  Updating this bundle 
instead.

[WARN ] [org.apache.felix.fileinstall        ] - Failed to uninstall bundle: /opt/openhab/addons/org.openhab.binding.mysensors-3.1.0.jar.1 with id: 87. The bundle has already been uninstalled

Maybe you can share some ideas how to solve this issue? Any help is appreciated...

[TimO]

@kerberos Interesting find. Haven't seen something like this till now. I suggest to delete the jar file, delete the cache and start over again.

I haven't tested textual configuration, but this should work just fine and your problem occurred before the textual configuration is initialized.

[Andreas Kräuchi]

hmm maybe I go back to the binding as well. Just spent several hours migrating all to the mqtt binding. It's working now but much slower.... So when I press a button the mqtt is slower to react as with the mysensor binding is. Why so?

[kerberos]

@TimO

many thanks for quick answer. I already remove the jar file and delete the cache, tmp and mysensors folder in the userdata folder several times. The textual configuration is used for many years, with some small updates. I don't try the gui configuration.

If you need more data's for debugging, I will provide.

[gjongerh]

Great work TimO your thing is working for me. Didn't do that much with it yet, so will keep testing.

[Dustin Hagstrom]

@TimO What a fantastic build, thank you so much!
My build:
OH2 -> 3.0.0 upgraded via raspberry pi update (in OH3 instructions)
Battery Nodes, Color Lights, Buttons, Moisture sensors
My Sensors Eth Gateway Serial bridge

Side note for any newbies like me out there. Follow the instructions for OH2 installation for my sensors. Follow the directions for manually adding in the addon. And using TimO's jar instead.

I've been monitoring all my logs and no issues reported, everything seems to work just like in OH2.

[syntacrsc]

@TimO
Thanks a lot for the updated version of the openHAB Binding (jar file) for openHAB 3.
It seems to be working well on OH 3- just perfomed some initial testing on my OH3 (3.0.0) test system.

Also I feel it might be a good idea adding a link to the new 3.1.0 jar file to the "official" Install Instruction on https://www.mysensors.org/controller/openhab - don't you agree?

[ncollins]

@TimO Great work.

I've had a merge request https://github.com/tobof/openhab2-addons/pull/141 floating around for months to add a wind direction channel to the my sensors binding.

Is your code in a shared repo? I'd love help add in my enhancement into your OH3 mysensors build.

[ncollins]

Well, after a rather painful experience of manually upgrading and cherrypicking SerialPort changes from the decompiled OH3 mysensors jar posted above, I managed to get it a build working of the MySensors binding 3.1-SNAPSHOT.

This is the source: https://github.com/nikolac/openhab2-addons/tree/mysensors-oh3-migration/bundles/org.openhab.binding.mysensors

This fork has my addition, a direction channel on wind variables.

[fabyte]

@ncollins Any chance this rebased work will be pushed upstream to the openhab/openhab-addons repo? Mainline support could help this binding with future framework changes and avoid reverse engineering of code changes and simplifies the binding installation.

Also any ideas on the MQTT bridge problem? Somehow the broker name cannot be resolved as also discussed here:
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/10184/help-openhab-2-4-binding-mqtt

[ncollins]

@fabyte I'd love to see this get pulled into the main repo. Not sure if @TimO plans to continue support, but I have no problem helping or even picking up where he leaves off.

I didn't contribute any MQTT specific fixes, and I don't recall manually migrating any MQTT fixes, but let me take a look.