Broken gateway with local sensors on MQTT ESP8266 GW

[mrumpf]

Setup (IDE: VSCode@MacOSX):

• Node: Arduino Pro Mini (Clone)
  • BME280 - Temperature & Humidity & Pressure
  • BH1750 - Light
  • nRF24L01 - Radio
  • PL-2303HX (replaced 5V by DTR) -- Connection
• Gateway: NodeMCU ESP8266 (Amica)
  • BME280 - Temperature & Humidity & Pressure
  • BH1750 - Light
  • nRF24L01 - Radio
  • ESP8266 USB -- Connection

[tekka]

@mrumpf Could be a power issue or one of the included libraries interfering with the SPI. The full debug log (from the beginning) may give additional hints - please upload them here (as .zip)

[mrumpf]

Here are the logs.
Again, after 930000 seconds the gateway did a re-init and after that the 2 devices could communicate.

Uploading a file gives me an error that only image types are supported!?

OK, please try to extract the image. It has a zip appended :)

$ unzip -l 1551391305174-archive.zip.png
Archive:  1551391305174-archive.zip.png
warning [1551391305174-archive.zip.png]:  59815 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
    31016  02-28-2019 22:18   gateway.serial.log
        0  02-28-2019 22:19   __MACOSX/
      210  02-28-2019 22:18   __MACOSX/._gateway.serial.log
    18271  02-28-2019 22:18   node.serial.log
      210  02-28-2019 22:18   __MACOSX/._node.serial.log
---------                     -------
    49707                     5 files

[tekka]

@hek Is there a pic-only limitation with the file uploader?

@mrumpf said in Broken gateway with local sensors on MQTT ESP8266 GW:

Here are the logs.
Again, after 930000 seconds the gateway did a re-init and after that the 2 devices could communicate.
[0_1551388989628_Archive.zip](Uploading 100%)
Uploading a file gives me an error that only image types are supported!?

[mrumpf]

My current assumption is that there is a incompatibility with the BH1750 sensor library. When I set the symbols "LOCAL_SENSORS" and "LOCAL_SENSORS_BME280" it works. I will continue tomorrow evening...

[tekka]

@mrumpf From the GW log:

21822 MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=0

I see the RF24 sanity check failing and this is likely due to the BH1750 initialization code meddling with the RF24 SPI. Most probably you can fix the issue by moving the sensor setup code to preHwInit(), i.e.

#define MY_DEBUG
#define MY_BAUD_RATE 57600

#define MY_RADIO_RF24
#define MY_GATEWAY_MQTT_CLIENT
#define MY_GATEWAY_ESP8266
#define MY_MQTT_PUBLISH_TOPIC_PREFIX "mygateway1-out"
#define MY_MQTT_SUBSCRIBE_TOPIC_PREFIX "mygateway1-in"
#define MY_MQTT_CLIENT_ID "mygateway1"
#define MY_WIFI_SSID "*****"
#define MY_WIFI_PASSWORD "*********************"
#define MY_HOSTNAME "mygateway1"
#define MY_CONTROLLER_IP_ADDRESS 192, 168, 178, 58
// #define MY_CONTROLLER_URL_ADDRESS "test.mosquitto.org"
#define MY_PORT 1883


#define LOCAL_SENSORS
#define LOCAL_SENSORS_BH1750
#define LOCAL_SENSORS_BME280

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <MySensors.h>

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS
#include <i2cdetect.h>
#include <Wire.h>

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BH1750
#include <BH1750FVI.h>
// light
#define CHILD_ID_LIGHT 0
BH1750FVI lightSensor(13, BH1750FVI::k_DevAddress_L, BH1750FVI::k_DevModeContHighRes);
MyMessage lightMsg(CHILD_ID_LIGHT, V_LIGHT_LEVEL);
#endif

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BME280
// temperature & humidity & pressure
#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <Adafruit_BME280.h>
#define CHILD_ID_TEMPERATURE 1
#define CHILD_ID_HUMIDITY 2
#define CHILD_ID_PRESSURE 3
#define CHILD_ID_DEWPOINT 4
Adafruit_BME280 bme;
MyMessage temperatureMsg(CHILD_ID_TEMPERATURE, V_TEMP);
MyMessage humidityMsg(CHILD_ID_HUMIDITY, V_HUM);
MyMessage pressureMsg(CHILD_ID_PRESSURE, V_PRESSURE);
#endif

#endif // LOCAL_SENSORS

void setup()
{

}

void preHwInit()
{
#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BH1750
  Wire.begin(D3, D4);
  //Wire.setClock(100000);

  Serial.println("Init: BH1750 (Light)");
  lightSensor.begin();
#endif

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BME280
  Serial.println("Init: BME280 (Temperature, Humidity, Pressure)");
  if (!bme.begin(0x77)) {
    Serial.println("Could not find a valid BME280 sensor, check wiring!");
    while (1);
  }
#endif

#endif
}

void presentation()
{
#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS
  // Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
  sendSketchInfo("Light/Temperature/Humidity/Pressure Gateway", "1.0");

  // Register all sensors to gateway (they will be created as child devices)
#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BH1750
  present(CHILD_ID_LIGHT, S_LIGHT_LEVEL);
#endif

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BME280
  present(CHILD_ID_TEMPERATURE, S_TEMP);
  present(CHILD_ID_HUMIDITY, S_HUM);
  present(CHILD_ID_PRESSURE, S_BARO);
#endif
  
#endif
}

void loop()
{
#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS
  i2cdetect();

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BH1750
  // light
  uint16_t lux = lightSensor.GetLightIntensity();
  Serial.print("Light: ");
  Serial.println(lux);
  send(lightMsg.set(lux));
#endif

#ifdef LOCAL_SENSORS_BME280
  // humidity
  float humidity = bme.readHumidity();
  Serial.print("Humidity: ");
  Serial.println(humidity);
  send(humidityMsg.set(humidity, 2));

  // temperature
  float temperatureC = bme.readTemperature();
  Serial.print("Temperature: ");
  Serial.println(temperatureC);
  send(temperatureMsg.set(temperatureC, 2));

  // pressure 
  float pressure = bme.readPressure() / 100.0F;
  Serial.print("Pressure: ");
  Serial.println(pressure);
  send(pressureMsg.set(pressure, 2));
#endif

  wait(10000);
#endif
}

This also explains why the GW "recovers" after 930000ms ~= 15mins, which happens to be the GW transport sanity check interval followed by a successful transport re-init:

920856 !TSF:SAN:FAIL
920859 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
920863 TSM:FAIL:DIS
920867 TSF:TDI:TSL
...
930871 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
930876 TSM:INIT
930884 TSM:INIT:TSP OK 

[mrumpf]

Thanks for your analysis! I used the BH1750FVI library which is listed in the Arduino 1.8.8 IDE under Manage libraries. The MySensors wiki however references the claws library.
The name of the include file is different "BH1750FVI.h" (PeterEmbedded) to "BH1750.h" (claws).
After switching to the claws library everyting works as expected!

Maybe this could be added to the Wiki to make sure people use the right library!
Thanks for your time!

[tekka]

@mrumpf Thanks for your feedback - just for reference, did you try the BH1750FVI library and the sensor init code in preHwInit()?

[mrumpf]

@tekka No, but I can do that...

It works as well. Thanks again!

Here is the code:

// Before radio initialization
void preHwInit() 
{
  Serial.begin(57600);
  Serial.println("preHwInit()");

  Wire.begin(D3, D4);
  i2cdetect();

  Serial.println("Init: BME280 (Temperature, Humidity, Pressure)");
  if (!bme.begin(0x77)) {
    Serial.println("Could not find a valid BME280 sensor, check wiring!");
    while (1);
  }

  Serial.println("Init: BH1750 (Light)");
  lightSensor.begin();
}

setup() is empty.

[mfalkvidd]

@mrumpf said in Broken gateway with local sensors on MQTT ESP8266 GW:

Thanks for your analysis! I used the BH1750FVI library which is listed in the Arduino 1.8.8 IDE under Manage libraries. The MySensors wiki however references the claws library.
The name of the include file is different "BH1750FVI.h" (PeterEmbedded) to "BH1750.h" (claws).
After switching to the claws library everyting works as expected!

Maybe this could be added to the Wiki to make sure people use the right library!
Thanks for your time!

Great work!

The wiki says ”This example uses the external BH1750 library found here. Please install it and restart the Arduino IDE before trying to compile.” and links to the library. Do you have any siggestions on how we could make it clearer?

[mrumpf]

How about adding some warning message (highlighted) that the default Arduino IDE library requires the initialization in the preHwInit() function and not in the setup() function.
My mistake was missing the sentence "This example uses the external BH1750 library found here. Please install it and restart the Arduino IDE before trying to compile."
I was just using the library that comes with the IDE.