Ethernet Gateway and Vera 3 on UI7

[Homer]

Looks like it is created in Vera!

But something isn't right because I can't see the gateway as connected in my router settings, and vera is also saying there is a communication error.

Any tips?

[Homer]

OK, to see what is going on, I have connected the Uno to my Macbook. The Uno was operating with the sketch that I had uploaded directly from Codebender, because every time I upload sketches from my mac using the Arduino program it never works...

So I connect it to my mac, and and try again to upload the Ethernet Gateway sketch, but still no go; it is always asking for me to set this or that. Maybe I read wrong but I thought I only had to set which ethernet I was using, set the IP address and that's it. Anyways it verifies and uploads using Codebender, but I can never get that far locally.

In all the reading that I've done, have I missed something? It does seem that way :-(

[Homer]

Now I am even more confused lol

http://www.mysensors.org/build/ethernet_gateway makes no reference to the IRQ pin on the radio, yet http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,23093.0.html does.

Which one is right?

[Homer]

Ignore previous post. I saw somewhere that the IRQ pin is optional..... what I don't understand is when should it be used and when not....

Anyways, I've worked out that uploading the sketches can be a bit of a hassle, depending on where you place stuff on your drive, so I'm just gonna stick with using Codebender.

So I do to Codebender and I make sure the sketch is set to us the W5100 ethernet. I then go and change the port to something I'll remember and then set an IP address which is somewhere in my router's range; 192.168.0.101 I then verify the sketch; all good. I then upload; all good.

I plug the ethernet cord into the port and I power the Uno using 7.5 volt wall plug. I reboot my Vera 3. While I can't see in my router that the gateway is connected, I can ping it from my router, I think :-) This is what I get, which looks good to me lol
**4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.298/0.483/0.918 ms **

Now that I have confirmed that it is connected, I will try again to create the device in Vera 3.

[Homer]

Some good news!

After pinging the Gateway, it now shows up as a connected device on my network!'

I have rebooted Vera 3 and recreated the device. I might have some success; I was getting error messages about communication at the top of the Vera dashboard, and now I don't. BUT when I used to go to the devices page, there were buttons that showed which I could press to start inclusion, but they aren't there anymore. I do though have more settings for the device, which I think is good lol

[Homer]

Maybe more good news!

I did some searching and found that not only do I have to set the IP address in Vera, but also the port. I tell you what, I do wish that all the info was in one place lol

So I go back into Vera dashboard, and the buttons I was talking about are back woohoo, but I have less settings, but that might be ok. I dunno lol

So I set the port number with the IP address and have rebooted again. In a moment I will check to see if it is working.. :-)

[Homer]

While it looks like the gateway is connected, I am not sure...

I build a relay sensor to operate my garage door, but couldn't get it to connect to the gateway. Thinking that it may be because it is too far away, I moved on to something else, and build a motion sensor. I sat it next to the gateway, and proceeded to connect the two following this : http://www.mysensors.org/build/vera#including-new-sensors but nothing happened :-(

Looks like I've spent another weekend not getting very far with this project :-( Gotta pack it all up now coz it's getting late and I have a big week at work. Everything read as though this wouldn't be all that difficult, but it isn't proving to be the case. I have emailed the makers of Vera yesterday and have asked them to remove the flag off my device so I can downgrade the firmware, but I haven't heard anything from them :-(

[hek]

@Homer

UI7?

[Homer]

@hek said:

@Homer

UI7?

Yep. why?

[hek]

@Homer

Noone has really fully verified the plugin in UI7. There might be problems with device-creation etc.

[Homer]

Yeah that does seem to be the case. But I have read that some were having success so I gave it a go anyways...

I can't see me having much time for a while to give this another go, so i'll probably wait until i can roll back to UI5.