myscontroller with ethernet gateway
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Hi everyone!
I currently try to setup my first MySensors network.
I have a sensor and an ethernet gateway sitting on a breadboard and I try to get the sensor data into my database with NodeRed.
NodeRed is running in a docker container on my database server.
But I am not able to get the NodeRed myscontroller to work.
Here is my test flow:[ { "id": "16a94524.a7f49b", "type": "tab", "label": "MySensors", "disabled": false, "info": "" }, { "id": "5ee1d371.4bf144", "type": "myscontroller", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "database": "6211fee5.94057", "name": "", "handleid": true, "timeresponse": true, "timezone": "Europe/Berlin", "measurementsystem": "M", "mqttroot": "mys-out", "x": 870, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "8fd52d51.33df68", "dfec2cf6.42e45" ] ] }, { "id": "c9f3dd7.76aa4a", "type": "tcp in", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "MySensors Gateway In", "server": "client", "host": "mysensors-gateway", "port": "5003", "datamode": "stream", "datatype": "utf8", "newline": "", "topic": "", "base64": false, "x": 280, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "dc2b7145.4ea57" ] ] }, { "id": "dc2b7145.4ea57", "type": "mysdecode", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "database": "6211fee5.94057", "name": "decode", "mqtt": false, "enrich": true, "x": 460, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "5ee1d371.4bf144", "d63bd8aa.d34ef8" ] ] }, { "id": "9e6d49f6.34fef", "type": "tcp out", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "host": "mysensors-gateway", "port": "5003", "beserver": "reply", "base64": false, "end": false, "name": "MySensors Gateway Out", "x": 1490, "y": 180, "wires": [] }, { "id": "8fd52d51.33df68", "type": "mysencode", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "encode", "mqtt": false, "mqtttopic": "", "x": 1260, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "9e6d49f6.34fef" ] ] }, { "id": "d63bd8aa.d34ef8", "type": "mysdebug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "", "x": 670, "y": 300, "wires": [ [ "4170e76.d577f98" ] ] }, { "id": "4170e76.d577f98", "type": "debug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "request", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "payload", "targetType": "msg", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 660, "y": 380, "wires": [] }, { "id": "dfec2cf6.42e45", "type": "mysdebug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "", "x": 1070, "y": 300, "wires": [ [ "5653b23b.03664c" ] ] }, { "id": "5653b23b.03664c", "type": "debug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "response", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "payload", "targetType": "msg", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 1080, "y": 380, "wires": [] }, { "id": "6211fee5.94057", "type": "mysensorsdb", "name": "mysensorsnodedb", "file": "/data/mysensorsnode.db" } ]For me it looks like the controller receives messages from the gateway and response to them within the flow but the messages don't go to back to the gateway.
I tested my setup with the MyController controller just to be sure my hardware works and everything worked instantly.
I'm not very familiar with NodeRed so I guess I made some mistake. Can someone point me to the right direction?
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@JohnDoe2991
I'm wondering if you have to decode before going to myscontrollerSo like this
[ { "id": "16a94524.a7f49b", "type": "tab", "label": "MySensors", "disabled": false, "info": "" }, { "id": "5ee1d371.4bf144", "type": "myscontroller", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "database": "6211fee5.94057", "name": "", "handleid": true, "timeresponse": true, "timezone": "Europe/Berlin", "measurementsystem": "M", "mqttroot": "mys-out", "x": 870, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "8fd52d51.33df68", "dfec2cf6.42e45" ] ] }, { "id": "c9f3dd7.76aa4a", "type": "tcp in", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "MySensors Gateway In", "server": "client", "host": "mysensors-gateway", "port": "5003", "datamode": "stream", "datatype": "utf8", "newline": "", "topic": "", "base64": false, "x": 280, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "dc2b7145.4ea57" ] ] }, { "id": "dc2b7145.4ea57", "type": "mysdecode", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "database": "6211fee5.94057", "name": "decode", "mqtt": false, "enrich": true, "x": 460, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "5ee1d371.4bf144", "d63bd8aa.d34ef8" ] ] }, { "id": "9e6d49f6.34fef", "type": "tcp out", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "host": "mysensors-gateway", "port": "5003", "beserver": "reply", "base64": false, "end": false, "name": "MySensors Gateway Out", "x": 1490, "y": 180, "wires": [] }, { "id": "8fd52d51.33df68", "type": "mysencode", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "encode", "mqtt": false, "mqtttopic": "", "x": 1260, "y": 180, "wires": [ [ "9e6d49f6.34fef" ] ] }, { "id": "d63bd8aa.d34ef8", "type": "mysdebug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "", "x": 670, "y": 300, "wires": [ [ "4170e76.d577f98" ] ] }, { "id": "4170e76.d577f98", "type": "debug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "request", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "payload", "targetType": "msg", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 660, "y": 380, "wires": [] }, { "id": "dfec2cf6.42e45", "type": "mysdebug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "", "x": 1070, "y": 300, "wires": [ [ "5653b23b.03664c" ] ] }, { "id": "5653b23b.03664c", "type": "debug", "z": "16a94524.a7f49b", "name": "response", "active": true, "tosidebar": true, "console": false, "tostatus": false, "complete": "payload", "targetType": "msg", "statusVal": "", "statusType": "auto", "x": 1080, "y": 380, "wires": [] }, { "id": "6211fee5.94057", "type": "mysensorsdb", "name": "mysensorsnodedb", "file": "/data/mysensorsnode.db" } ]
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@electrik
Thanks for the reply, I think I've figured it out now:
If i connect the myscontroller directly with the TCP connections, it won't send any messages. More importantly it looks like the whole gateway stops working correctly then. I don't receive any messages from the TCP connection.
I have to add an decode and encode on each side of the myscontroller and restart the gateway so it will work properly.I guess when I tried my first flow yesterday I connected the myscontroller directly to the TCP connections and crashed my gateway this way. I didn't noticed that and thats why my second flow with the decode and encode didn't work either.
So, all in all, it was just a "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" problem.
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Good to hear you solved it!
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Well, I'm back again, because it broke again ... and I fixed it somehow again.
I was playing around with my sensor to get it up and running the way I want it to and resetted its node id.
It couldn't get a new node ID and I was back where I was yesterday.
Deleted everything, rebuild the complete flow, restarted everything. Nothing helped. So I added debug messages everywhere and also had a look into the raw Serial protocol here: https://www.mysensors.org/download/serial_api_20
It looks like you don't need the encode and decode, at least for me the encode after myscontroller totally destroyed the payload. Why did it work yesterday? I have no idea.
The payload looked fine now without the decode and encode according to the protocol, but it still didn't work. I noticed that the incoming TCP payload always ended with a linefeed "\n", so I added a custom function between the myscontroller and tcp output to also add a linefeed to the outgoing payload and it's working again.
