Sensebender. Still same problems with NEW board and radio

[Nigel31]

Re: Trouble with Sensebender gateway initialisation

Hi.
I'm having the same issues with a NEW Sensebender gateway board, fitted with a diffrent RFM69 radio.

Diagnostics STILL fail at the eeprom reading.

See log

What can I possibly be doing wrong, given that the first one of these I built, worked fine?

Regards Nigel

Sensebender GateWay test routine
Mysensors core version : 2.2.0
GateWay sketch version : 0.2
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- > SHA204 Ok (serial : 01234DB597196D83EE)
- > SD CARD SD CARD did not initialize!
 -> EEPROM 0;255;hu;0;hu;3 MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RRNGS---,VER=2.2.0
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSF:LRT:OK
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSF:WUR:MS=0
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:CNT=hu
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:DIS
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSF:TDI:TSL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:CNT=hu
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:DIS
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSF:TDI:TSL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:CNT=hu
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:DIS
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSF:TDI:TSL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:INIT
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:CNT=hu
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSM:FAIL:DIS
0;255;hu;0;hu;3 TSF:TDI:TSL

[rejoe2]

Is there any specific reason for using 2.2 and not either 2.3 or even 2.4 (development tree)?
Afaik, there's been especially some changes around the RFM drivers, so giving newer versions a try might be a good idea :wink: .

[Nigel31]

@rejoe2
The reason for 2.2.0 is that when I (when 2.3.0) came out, I upgraded, and quite simply nothing worked, even though in theory, no significant "breaking" changes had been made.
I could try upgrading, and building the gateway under 2.3.x, just to see if it works, but I am loth to change things, unless I can run some offline trials. I have about 20 nodes, including the whole central heating system. given it's now summer, I can give it a go, time depending.

The NEW rfm69 driver, is it wirelessly compatible with the OLD driver? i.e. can old talk to new?
the first Sensebender gateway, which I inadvertantly killed, by upping the max power, was built under 2.2.0.

regards Nigel

[Yveaux]

@Njwyborn said in Sensebender. Still same problems with NEW board and radio:

The NEW rfm69 driver, is it wirelessly compatible with the OLD driver? i.e. can old talk to new?

No, the on - air payload is different. All nodes in a network must use the same rfm driver.

[Nigel31]

@Yveaux Thank you for the clarification, big job to upgrade!

Question. Anyone know if I can run two mysensors serial gateways on Domoticz? Different network ID's? That would enable me to move nodes over to the latest release / drivers, and only have the node I was working on at the time offline! Assuming I can ever get my sensebender working!

[Yveaux]

@Njwyborn said in Sensebender. Still same problems with NEW board and radio:

big job to upgrade

Or stick with the old driver

[Nigel31]

Question.
Would using the "ClearEepromConfig" sketch, do anything nasty to the sencebender gateway eeprom?