A tiny BME node - BME280 on ATtiny85

[Nca78]

@fabyte said in A tiny BME node - BME280 on ATtiny85:

(used 5V instead of 3.3V).

Usually after doing that the radio still seems to work, but it's not reliable anymore and it is gobbling a lot of power. It is quite vicious as you think it is still working, but the sensor dies quickly...

[chamroeun ou]

Hi, I try to compile your code change for Mysensors against my Attiny85 but it failed with many errors like

yHwAVR.cpp:74:2: error: 'EIFR' was not declared in this scope
  EIFR = _BV(interrupt);
MyHwAVR.cpp:93:26: error: 'WDTCSR' was not declared in this scope
  const uint8_t WDTsave = WDTCSR;
...

Please note that my environment is AttinyCore.

How is your sensors after 1 year? What is your recommendation?

[fabyte]

Hi @chamroeun-ou
please try and add the following on top of your main.cpp:

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// missing defines
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define SIGRD   RSIG    // Signature Row from Store Program Memory Control and Status Register
#define EIFR    GIFR    // External/General Interrupt Flag Register
#define WDTCSR  WDTCR   // WDT Control Register
// #define TCCR1A TCCR1
// #define TIFR1 TIFR
extern void serialEventRun(void) __attribute__((weak));

[chamroeun ou]

Ok, now it works with your BME-i2c code. not enough memory maybe due to update in AttinyCore which is bigger than your version. I think memory limit is the challenge.

[chamroeun ou]

To use Attiny, i think there's a need to optimize Mysensor for it as Mysensor consumes the most space of the 8K.

[BearWithBeard]

@chamroeun-ou I think it's actually quite fascinating that you can fit MySensors in less than 5kb of memory! Consider all the things the library does behind the scenes and that this includes all the required dependencies.

Try using your BME280 on the SPI bus, which you need anyway for the transceiver. This should shave off about 800 bytes or so. It still fits on ATtinys with 8kb flash using the example sketch posted above (direct link).

Processing attiny85 (platform: atmelavr; board: attiny85; framework: arduino)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLATFORM: Atmel AVR (3.3.0) > Generic ATtiny85
HARDWARE: ATTINY85 8MHz, 512B RAM, 8KB Flash
PACKAGES:
 - framework-arduino-avr-attiny 1.5.2
 - toolchain-atmelavr 1.70300.191015 (7.3.0)
RAM:   [=======   ]  65.8% (used 337 bytes from 512 bytes)
Flash: [==========]  97.2% (used 7960 bytes from 8192 bytes)

[chamroeun ou]

@BearWithBeard , it's not my code. it is based on @fabyte 's code. Actually, I want to use SHT30 I2C but space is the biggest challenge.

There's a NRFLite(https://github.com/dparson55/NRFLite) which I think it may save space and can also work with 2 PIN for NRF24 as its created for Attiny but it may not work MySensors without code change.

My decision now is to use Attiny167 instead but the problem now is it's not working on Mysensors. I try this approach but not work https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/pull/1485.

[BearWithBeard]

@chamroeun-ou I'm sorry, I was under the impression that you want to rebuild the OP's project, since there was no mention of different sensors etc.

Regarding the ATtiny85: How would you have used both SPI and I2C together in the first place? Both are implemented through a single USI and have to share the same OI pins.

Regarding the ATtiny167: I don't think I have an ATtiny167 at hand currently, so I can't test if it'll actually work, but the OP's example code compiled fine for me. I just had to comment out the the external interrupt flag register redefinition (//#define EIFR GIFR), since it is implemented in the same way it is on the ATmega328P for example.

Processing attiny167 (platform: atmelavr; board: attiny167; framework: arduino)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PLATFORM: Atmel AVR (3.3.0) > Generic ATtiny167
HARDWARE: ATTINY167 8MHz, 512B RAM, 16KB Flash
PACKAGES:
 - framework-arduino-avr-attiny 1.5.2
 - toolchain-atmelavr 1.70300.191015 (7.3.0)
RAM:   [=======   ]  65.0% (used 333 bytes from 512 bytes)
Flash: [=====     ]  50.5% (used 8274 bytes from 16384 bytes)

The ATtiny167 has dedicated SPI and I2C interfaces and IO pins, so it should be possible to use it as a MySensors node with an SHTC30 sensor. There's plenty of free space, too.

[chamroeun ou]

@BearWithBeard How do you get it compiled using Mysensors? which code you based on? I got many compiled errors:

In function 'void hwPowerDown(uint8_t)':
../MySensors/hal/architecture/AVR/MyHwAVR.cpp:93:26: error: 'WDTCSR' was not declared in this scope
const uint8_t WDTsave = WDTCSR;
^~~~~~

/../MySensors/hal/architecture/AVR/MyHwAVR.cpp: In function 'uint16_t hwCPUFrequency()':
/../MySensors/hal/architecture/AVR/MyHwAVR.cpp:305:26: error: 'WDTCSR' was not declared in this scope
const uint8_t WDTsave = WDTCSR;
^~~~~~
..MySensors/hal/architecture/AVR/MyMainAVR.cpp: In function 'int main()':
Arduino/libraries/MySensors/hal/architecture/AVR/MyMainAVR.cpp:34:7: error: 'serialEventRun' was not declared in this scope
if (serialEventRun) {`

For your question on SPI+IIC on Attiny85, someone has done it successfully by using NRF24 3 PIN so it's left with 2 PIN and use SoftWire library to force BME t use those two PINs.

Another sketch that I come across is like this: https://github.com/chaeplin/esp8266_and_arduino/tree/master/_51-attiny85-nrf24-lcd-getntp
But I can't get it to work maybe due to some pullup resistor or something.

[BearWithBeard]

@chamroeun-ou I used the example sketch from the OP further up in this thread (direct link). The relevant defines are also mentioned in the software section of the first post.

You need to add the following to your sketch to get rid of the compiler errors:

#define WDTCSR  WDTCR   // WDT Control Register
extern void serialEventRun(void) __attribute__((weak));

Note that ATtinys aren't officially supported by MySensors. Although they may work fine in many instances, you are basically on your own if you run into issues. There simply aren't many people who use MySensors on ATtinys.

You're much more likely to find help if you use a more common MCU, like the ATmega328P. You'll find a list of MySensors-supported architectures on the Overview page.

[chamroeun ou]

@BearWithBeard said in A tiny BME node - BME280 on ATtiny85:

Overview page

@BearWithBeard thanks, now i got my Attiny167+Sht30 working with Mysensors and Mysensor gateway. Next step will be formatting the data for Thingsboard cloud.