PiDome Domotica/Home Automation

[Francois]

@John Hi I am back again. I now can see the MQTT node sensor. When I want to add the node sensor the custom devices don't show up in the "Select device to use" Why will that be?

Custom device adde

Custom device not show.

[John]

Device skeletons are limited to their driver/plugin and can not be interchanged (yet). When you are using the MQTT plugin you should create a MySensors MQTT custom device/skeleton. The first listing above shows these devices as a device for the serial version.

[Francois]

@john Mysensor MQTT is now working. Thank for all you help :-) :+1:

[John]

:+1: Next step would be integrating the Ethernet gateway, but that could take a week or so (working on other demanding tasks currently).

[Francois]

@John I see that you don't have any time days in your automation triggers. Do you plan to do this at a later stage?
I see that you are going to do twitter integration are you look as other message integration tools like pushbullet?

[John]

Currently the triggers do days in the form of "Every day", "Weekdays", "Weekend" and per day like "Mon", "Tue":

The time currently can be fixed, sunrise or sunset with calculations:

The above can then be resulted in a rule like below:

The above would then say that: "turn true every day when it is 30 minutes before sunset".

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About messaging integration:

The messaging framework is currently partly integrated and currently only takes care of SMS messages (outgoing). When the full messaging framework is implemented twitter will be added together with it's messaging API which could then be used to integrate web services. Currently i'm still very busy with a lot of core parts where developing devices, plugins stands next to it when specific API parts are done. So i can not say if or when pushbullet integration will be available and/or it is created by me.

[Francois]

@John what will I do if my Alarm is trigger and I want to switch it off after 10 min?

[John]

Because triggers are meant to be used as real triggers. If this happens quickly do that. If you would automate your alarm you would need to create a second trigger which would say, depending on the earlier example: when every day it is 20 minutes before sunset, execute alarm off.

Currently next to the triggers i'm busy with Automation flows you can build with blockly. But this is still under heavy development: https://twitter.com/Pi_Dome/status/510355701114605568/photo/1

[Francois]

@john I have the automation trigger for if the humidity for the bathroom. I have two trigger on for switching the fan on if Hum is >20 and one to switch the fan off it is Hum <19 this work. What I try now do now is combine this into one trigger where I use the "or" function . Can the execution list only execute one function for multiple condition?

[John]

@Fwessels
The above is one trigger.

Currently you have set it up like:
IF (the data description of room 01 > 20%H) OR (the data description of room 01 < 19%H) DO (set study lights to On)

Triggers are really also meant as triggers and are based on a combination of rules which should always revert to true with a list of actions of the total list of rules are true. To put it simple: "When this, then that". There is no "else" ;)

If you want to turn on and turn of based on a quick trigger action you should or create two triggers, or wait for the Automation rules to be implemented in the server which currently is in development.

[Francois]

@john I have two triggers and that is working.

[Francois]

@John Hi did not bug you for an while. I change my setup to work with the MQTTGateway but now I have the following issue.

1. My motion and door sensors is not changing status in the "Data description" field. This did work with the serial gateway.
2. On my relay button sensor the "Toggle description" is not changing it I press the button this did work on the serial gateway.

I run you latest snapshot (373)

PS the Android client is now working on my Tablet and Phone (4.4.2)

[John]

@Francois

That's the current latest yeah, have you defined the the data and/or toggle buttons as boolean or as an integer?

The Android client was kinda annoying, when deployed on a device from the development it worked, but when installed by the apk file it stopped working... Thanks for confirming it now works!

[Francois]

@John I did the same as the serial configuration as data field and boolean

[John]

@Francois

So both the data field as the toggle buttons are defined as booleans?

Since alpha 271 the server also displays the last received date and time positioned above the controls, are these modified? Not yet real time in the web interface, you have to click the device again in the list to see if it is updated.

[Francois]

@John both the fields are defined as data fields and as boolean. But the data field is not changing. This configuration is working in the serial gateway. Should I change this to toggle button for the MQTTGateway?

[John]

@Francois
Not needed, i understood you also had a toggle button.

Is it possible to mail you an updated MySensors library package? it currently is not possible to compile the whole server.

[Francois]

@John Yes you can email the update library. Do you still have my email address?

[John]

@Francois
Yep, and it's on it's way.

[EDIT]Confirmed as fixed and also generally available with server download[/EDIT]

[John]

I want to thank @Francois and others for some intensive testing of MySensors (and other stuff) in PiDome via both the serial and MQTT gateways.

P.S. From today until October 3rd responses are somewhat delayed due to the upcomming JavaOne conference.