MySensors 1.4 Released

[Damme]

@hek Sweet! I like them :)

http://www.mysensors.org/radio/nrfTop.png <- I got extremely confused in the beginning because my colors on my cables did not match the ones on the image (of course) but maybe you should add PIN number to that image for extreme clarification :)

[hek]

@Damme said:

http://www.mysensors.org/radio/nrfTop.png

Pin numbers? You add it as a comment on the page :)

I won't touch that freakin image again! Haha.

[Damme]

@hek
in http://www.mysensors.org/build/battery
I actually like mr @Yveaux vcc library https://github.com/Yveaux/arduino_vcc

http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/186/new-library-to-read-arduino-vcc-supply-level-without-resistors-for-battery-powered-sensor-nodes-that-do-not-use-a-voltage-regulator-but-connect-directly-to-the-batteries/

I use it on my battery powers nodes my self (then I'm not using a stepup/down converter that is) (and I've noticed its not in mysensors lib)

[hek]

Yep, it's good! A codebender example on the forum would get a link from battery page!

[Yveaux]

@hek congrats man! Thanks for all the hard work!

[RJ_Make]

Indeed!! Thank you everyone for all the hard work that goes into this project to help make it all possible for those of us like me who don't really have a clue what we are doing. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

[marceltrapman]

CONGRATULATIONS Henrik and all those that made this release happen. It is a wealthy step up from 1.3...

[hek]

@marceltrapman said:

CONGRATULATIONS Henrik and all those that made this release happen. It is a wealthy step up from 1.3...

And the future looks even brighter with :

• Multi radio support
• Understandable split between devices vs variables.
• OTA improvements
• MySensors hardware!!
• ...and hopefully some kind of cloud enabled node-controller. Yeah .. I know it takes an awful lot of time to get that up and running.
• Runner ups: Encryption, Time awareness and scheduling

Hope to see more controller plugins and fun projects from the community.

Thanks to all donors and code contributors! Really! :heart: You make the project progress!

[Zeph]

Great work, Henrik!

And good work on fostering a community of cats as well!

Donation made in honor of the release.

[hek]

@Zeph

Thanks @Zeph!

[ToSa]

@hek congratulations indeed :+1:
nice surprise looking at the forum after a 10 hour drive back home... :)

[korttoma]

Congratulations!!

[Homer]

@ServiceXp said:

Indeed!! Thank you everyone for all the hard work that goes into this project to help make it all possible for those of us like me who don't really have a clue what we are doing. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

I gotta agree with this big time!

The examples and the ease in which I can upload sketches is great, and because it is so easy i have the confidence to do this and try different things and learn. It has been over 20 years since I programmed any code, and that length of time has kind of scared me so I felt I couldn't do it again, but this is just made so easy!

I love the pics and I just watched the video demo on the knock sensor! That was awesome!!!!

[clippermiami]

@hek Congratulations to you and to everyone involved in making this transition. Thanks for everything you have done for us.

Is it safe to assume that all of the code examples are now Lib 1.4 based? As I recall previous discussion said the Lib 1.4 change has to be applied to the Gateway and Sensors all together?

[aquapro]

Awesome! Thanks for great work!

[hek]

@clippermiami said:

Is it safe to assume that all of the code examples are now Lib 1.4 based? As I recall previous discussion said the Lib 1.4 change has to be applied to the Gateway and Sensors all together?

Yes, everything on main site is now 1.4.

[epierre]

Hello,

I am a bit puzzled by the documentation online as I try to upgrade my home made controller/gateway.

Before we had a description of the radio signal as 5 fields, now it is 6 and even reading the lua code for Vera I've not seen the new field being used. (apart for making it not backward compatible, not a big issue for me)

Also some new capacities are here, but they lack documentation (at least for me), where can I have a look to see the expected behavior on both side ? (sensor and controller/gateway)?

And to finish, what is the ack behavior on the radio, meaning that before I observed that the sendVariable needed to be requested 2 to 3 times to have it correctly received by the node, is there an automatic retry from the node as before ? (I suspect not from the simpler and clever new method...).

As a positive note, I've moved all my sketches to 1.4 (time bounced watermeter was the hardest) and run a parallel gateway till all is "stable", so far so good !

[hek]

@epierre said:

Before we had a description of the radio signal as 5 fields, now it is 6 and even reading the lua code for Vera I've not seen the new field being used. (apart for making it not backward compatible, not a big issue for me)

No, the (incoming) ack status is currently not used by the Vera plugin. For outgoing messages to actuators it is always enabled.

Also some new capacities are here, but they lack documentation (at least for me), where can I have a look to see the expected behavior on both side ? (sensor and controller/gateway)?

Yes, agree. This could be documented better.

And to finish, what is the ack behavior on the radio, meaning that before I observed that the sendVariable needed to be requested 2 to 3 times to have it correctly received by the node, is there an automatic retry from the node as before ? (I suspect not from the simpler and clever new method...).

No, the (blocking) automatic retry has been removed. If I would need retry functionality it would probably look something like this:

https://codebender.cc/sketch:46971

[epierre]

@hek sorry, I've editied the post, the android template makes me write like a blind man...

@hek said:

No, the (incoming) ack status is currently not used by the Vera plugin. For outgoing messages to actuators it is always enabled.

except for INTERNAL as it seems, is there a reason ?

Also some new capacities are here, but they lack documentation (at least for me), where can I have a look to see the expected behavior on both side ? (sensor and controller/gateway)?

Yes, agree. This could be documented better.

In the Vera LUA I only see TIME as a new event, right ?

And to finish, what is the ack behavior on the radio, meaning that before I observed that the sendVariable needed to be requested 2 to 3 times to have it correctly received by the node, is there an automatic retry from the node as before ? (I suspect not from the simpler and clever new method...).

No, the (blocking) automatic retry has been removed. If I would need retry functionality it would probably look something like this:

given the limited write cycle, I guess I wouldn't want to use the EEPROM for storing states. But if my watermeter starts but cannot get the reference volume, that would mean a mess if that persist, could the sensor loop on startup to get the data, but anyway manage reading the status of the sensor ?

[hek]

@epierre said:

except for INTERNAL as it seems.

Yes, true.

In the LA I only see time as new, right ?

:question:

could the sensor soop on startup to get the data, but anyway manage reading the status of the sensor ?

:question: