Sensor dht+relay won't send data or present

MasMat

I think there's a bigger clitch in my code somewhere that is causing that. I'm not sure if the millis-timer is properly used here or if that is somehow interfering with the other code.

gohan

I'd use a wait (500) or (1000) at the end of the loop, to slow things down a bit

MasMat

@gohan you mean "delay(500)"? Will that not affect the radio function if it is waiting for a command for the relay for example?

MasMat

The startup serial "seems" OK, but the relay function is not there. The MQTT log appears to send empty strings "" rather than 0 or 1 when I attempt to activate the relay from Domoticz.
Just in case, the startup serial is as follows:

0 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RNNNA--,VER=2.1.1
3 MCO:BGN:BFR
4 TSM:INIT
5 TSF:WUR:MS=0
12 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
14 TSF:SID:OK,ID=1
16 TSM:FPAR
52 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
319 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-1,s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:0
324 TSF:MSG:FPAR OK,ID=0,D=1
2059 TSM:FPAR:OK
2060 TSM:ID
2061 TSM:ID:OK
2063 TSM:UPL
2068 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1
2075 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-1,s=255,c=3,t=25,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:1
2080 TSF:MSG:PONG RECV,HP=1
2082 TSM:UPL:OK
2084 TSM:READY:ID=1,PAR=0,DIS=1
2089 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=15,pt=6,l=2,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:0100
2098 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-1,s=255,c=3,t=15,pt=6,l=2,sg=0:0100
2105 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=0,t=17,pt=0,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:2.1.1
2113 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:0
2240 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-1,s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:M
2247 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=22,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:TemperatureAndHumidity
2257 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1.1
2266 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=0,c=0,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2273 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=1,c=0,t=6,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2281 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:Relay
2289 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1.0
2297 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=1,c=0,t=3,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2304 MCO:REG:REQ
2307 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=26,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:2
2345 TSF:MSG:READ,0-0-1,s=255,c=3,t=27,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:1
2351 MCO:PIM:NODE REG=1
2353 MCO:BGN:STP
2355 MCO:SLP:MS=2000,SMS=0,I1=255,M1=255,I2=255,M2=255
2360 MCO:SLP:TPD
2362 MCO:SLP:WUP=-1
2364 MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1```

HenryWhite

@MasMat said in Sensor dht+relay won't send data or present:

@gohan you mean "delay(500)"? Will that not affect the radio function if it is waiting for a command for the relay for example?

That's what wait() is for (mysensors specific) , it will not interfere with the radio commumication.

MasMat

Thanks for the tip. Good to learn these things as I go.

I'm to the point of rebuilding the sensor (or building a duplicate really) to see if this could be a hardware glitch.

gohan

You could try ethernet gateway instead of mqtt if it works better and move to mqtt later on

MasMat

@gohan I cant see the upside to going back since I couldnt get the Ethernet gw working but the mqtt appears to be working AND Domoticz supports it apparently.
I did a quick breadboard setup and it seems the problem might be hardware rather than sketch.

Question about the wait command: could I use wait (=soooo simple) rather than a millis timer to have a sensor/node be ready to activate a relay at any time but to only send DHT data every 60s or so?

gohan

sure you can use the wait()

MasMat

To follow up. It was hardware: broken vcc pin on the dht11 corrupted the whole sensor code badly. Resolder and added wait-code, inverted the on-off 0-vs-1 and I have a good working sensor. The duplicate is also installed and working reliably.
A 6-relay board is also working nicely and Domoticz is great. My old system is nearly replaced and I couldnt be happier.

Respect and thanks all around!

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