UI5 Mysensors library 2.0 gateway issues

[ramoncarranza]

after switching to 115200 baud, the following poped up:

0;255;3;0;9;Starting gateway (RNNGA-, 2.0.0)
0;255;3;0;9;TSM:INIT
0;255;3;0;9;TSM:RADIO:OK
0;255;3;0;9;TSM:GW MODE
0;255;3;0;9;TSM:READY
0;255;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
0;255;0;0;18;2.0.0
0;255;3;0;9;No registration required
0;255;3;0;9;Init complete, id=0, parent=0, distance=0, registration=1

no changed occurred when wireless sensor was re-started

[hek]

Ok, so your communication is not working.

[ramoncarranza]

should I wire up a new radio, should I wire up a complete gateway with radio (or both)?

[hek]

You should probably look at the nodes log.

[ramoncarranza]

@hek ok, I plugged in the Motion Sensor to check the Serial log and nothing came up. I opened the sketch on wordpad and noticed that there is no entry on Baud rate whatsoever (I no nothing about code so I don't know if that means anything).

in regards to my other Sensor which is a Temp/Humidity Sensor, the sketch is not on my Library it was not included on the downloaded Zip file, so I downloaded it from here:

https://www.mysensors.org/build/humidity

but the downloaded copy does not have any entry for the radio and the baud rate is set 9600 so that's why the Gateway cant communicate with them,,I think.

[hek]

The baud rate has nothing to do with the radio communication. It's only used for the serial communication. That is debug prints or communication with controller.

I don't understand what you mean by "the downloaded copy does not have any entry for the radio".

[ramoncarranza]

include "DHT.h"

DHT dht;

void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Status\tHumidity (%)\tTemperature (C)\t(F)");

dht.setup(2); // data pin 2
}

void loop()
{
delay(dht.getMinimumSamplingPeriod());

float humidity = dht.getHumidity();
float temperature = dht.getTemperature();

Serial.print(dht.getStatusString());
Serial.print("\t");
Serial.print(humidity, 1);
Serial.print("\t\t");
Serial.print(temperature, 1);
Serial.print("\t\t");
Serial.println(dht.toFahrenheit(temperature), 1);
}

[hek]

wot? That isn't the example you linked above.

[ramoncarranza]

Example
"This example uses the external DTH library found here. Please install it and restart the Arduino IDE before trying to compile."

if you click the "here", that's what downloads

[hek]

"This example" refers to the example found on the mysensors page.
"uses the external DHT library" means you have to install the library in your ide by downloading it and install in your IDEs library path.

If you want to fetch all the examples and support libraries in one schwong, use this link:
https://github.com/mysensors/MySensorsArduinoExamples/archive/master.zip

[ramoncarranza]

got it thanks

[ramoncarranza]

@hek hi, this is what the Motion Sensor Log displays:

[ramoncarranza]

@hek I got my sensors working now. The radio unit on the GW was defective, so I swapped it out and things are working fine, just need to change the readings on my DHT from C to F, how would I do that?

[hek]

The unit format is normally updated from the controller. When the sensor starts it asks for the configuration.

But you can always hard code none-metric by setting it to false here:
https://github.com/mysensors/MySensorsArduinoExamples/blob/master/examples/DhtTemperatureAndHumiditySensor/DhtTemperatureAndHumiditySensor.ino#L69

.. and removing this line:

https://github.com/mysensors/MySensorsArduinoExamples/blob/master/examples/DhtTemperatureAndHumiditySensor/DhtTemperatureAndHumiditySensor.ino#L85

[ramoncarranza]

@hek got it
Thanks

[ramoncarranza]

@hek hi, how can I activate repeater mode on a particular sensor?, I've had to build 2 repeating nodes so far to be able to reach a couple of my sensors. I am adding more sensors as we speak and and they are getting farther and farther, I know I will need a ton of repeaters, but I hate to waste a radio and an Arduino board just for repeaters.
Thanks

[hek]

https://www.mysensors.org/download/sensor_api_20#create-repeating-nodes

[ramoncarranza]

thanks so much, I am becoming a pro at this, one day YOU will come to me for questions lol.

[hek]

Hope so, I might soon get senile ;)

[ramoncarranza]

@hek said:

senile
are the the sensors/nodes awake at all times by default?