Noob problem with NodeMCU and OneWire



  • Ciao to all,
    I'm moving to MySensors network in my home to be used with Domoticz... after a first phase made by a gateway on a raspberry PI2, a rain (on/off), I'm now approaching to reorganize the entire network and move to a nodeMCU (12e) gateway which include the rain sensor and I would like to add a DS18B20 too (to gather external temp)
    While the gateway and the on/off switch works pretty fine, I'm having a bad problem with OneWire: even if the sketch is compiled with no error, I see no device, nr presented, nor updated, no device at all

    Wirings are ok: using D1 pin (no luck with other pins), with a 4k7 resistor... 3.3v are provided from an external 5v (2A) power supply and a AMS1117 3.3
    I checked the same sketch on a ATMega328p nano and it works... seems to be a NodeMCU device issue
    does anyone experienced the same?
    Is there a solution for this (which does not include to move to DHT22 😛 😛 )
    thanks
    ciao
    M


  • Mod

    @emme welcome to the MySensors community. Are you still stuck on this? If so, could you post your sketch and describe all your wiring?



  • still unsolved, but workaround by replacing the onewire with a DHT22 😛 😛

    this is my sketch:

    // Gateway MySensors on NodeMCU with some Devices 
    // OneWire for DS18B20 
    // Bounce for S_DOOR (Rain Sensor)
    #define MY_DEBUG
    #define MY_BAUD_RATE 115200
    #define MY_RADIO_NRF24
    
    // #define MY_GATEWAY_SERIAL
    #define MY_GATEWAY_ESP8266
    #define MY_ESP8266_SSID "myWiFi"
    #define MY_ESP8266_PASSWORD "******"
    #define MY_ESP8266_HOSTNAME "sensor-gateway"
    #define MY_PORT 5003
    #define MY_GATEWAY_MAX_CLIENTS 3
    #include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
    
    #define MY_INCLUSION_MODE_FEATURE
    
    #include <MySensors.h>
    #include <SPI.h>
    #include <DallasTemperature.h>
    #include <OneWire.h>
    
    #define COMPARE_TEMP 1 // Send temperature only if changed? 1 = Yes 0 = No
    #define ONE_WIRE_BUS D1 // Pin where dallase sensor is connected 
    #define MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20 5
    
    unsigned long temp_Sleep = 30000; // Sleep time between reads (in milliseconds)
    unsigned long temp_nTime;
    
    OneWire oneWire(ONE_WIRE_BUS); // Setup a oneWire instance to communicate with any OneWire devices
    DallasTemperature sensors(&oneWire); // Pass the oneWire reference to Dallas Temperature. 
    float lastTemperature[MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20];
    int numSensors=0;
    bool receivedConfig = false;
    bool metric = true;
    // Initialize temperature message
    MyMessage msgTemp(0,V_TEMP);
    
    #include <Bounce2.h>
    // RAIN Sensor Definitions and settings
    #define CHILD_ID 10
    #define BUTTON_PIN D4  // Arduino Digital I/O pin for button/reed switch
    Bounce debouncer = Bounce(); 
    int oldValue=-1;
    MyMessage msgRain(CHILD_ID,V_TRIPPED);
    
    unsigned long cTime;  // Current Time
    void before()
    {
      // Startup up the OneWire library
      sensors.begin();
    }
    
    void setup()  
    { 
      // requestTemperatures() will not block current thread
      sensors.setWaitForConversion(false);
    
      pinMode(BUTTON_PIN,INPUT);
      digitalWrite(BUTTON_PIN,HIGH);
      debouncer.attach(BUTTON_PIN);
      debouncer.interval(5);
    }
    
    void presentation() {
      // Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
      sendSketchInfo("Temperature Sensor", "1.1");
    
      // Fetch the number of attached temperature sensors  
      numSensors = sensors.getDeviceCount();
    
      // Present all sensors to controller
      for (int i=0; i<numSensors && i<MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20; i++) {   
         present(i, S_TEMP);
      }
      
      present(CHILD_ID, S_DOOR);  
    }
    
    void loop()     
    {
      cTime = millis();  // Get current Timing
    
      if ((cTime - temp_nTime) >= temp_Sleep) {     // this is supposed to replace the sleep function 
        sensors.requestTemperatures();
        for (int i=0; i<numSensors && i<MAX_ATTACHED_DS18B20; i++) {
          float temperature = static_cast<float>(static_cast<int>(sensors.getTempCByIndex(i)));
          #if COMPARE_TEMP == 1
          if (lastTemperature[i] != temperature && temperature != -127.00 && temperature != 85.00) {
          #else
          if (temperature != -127.00 && temperature != 85.00) {
          #endif
            send(msgTemp.setSensor(i).set(temperature,1));
            lastTemperature[i]=temperature;
          }
        }
        temp_nTime = millis();
      }
      
      debouncer.update();
      int value = debouncer.read();
      if (value != oldValue) {
         // Send in the new value
         send(msgRain.set(value==HIGH ? 1 : 0));
         oldValue = value;
      }
      
    }
    

    if I enter a

    Serial.print("Sensors Count over 1W bus: ");
    Serial.println(sensors.getDeviceCount()); 
    

    I got 0 😞

    wirings are ok... I checked with the tester and I get correct voltage (3,3) and impedence (4,7k)
    DHT works fine at first try on the same PIN

    thanks for the help
    ciao
    Marco



  • Hello,
    I have exactly the same issue with ESP8266 nodemcu as Gateway + sensor DHT22.
    I tested with 2 different libraries DHT22.
    And I also tested with mySensors 2.1.0 and 2.1.1

    Console serial write out: Failed reading from DHT

    Otherwise the gateway works well without sensor (so alone) and with the DHT22 sensor on a node (arduino nano)


  • Mod

    I'm moving to I2C sensors to avoid these kinds of problems 😀


  • Hardware Contributor

    I tried with two different Dallas Onewire and checked out the library at github. Have build these sensors before but got -127 all the time. Just adding this here if it pops up alof of people having issues...


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