Sensebender Micro

[Mitja Blazinsek]

i try at least three different radios with and without capacitors gw an sensors are close (20cm) and like i said sensbender worked fine till i try to upload program on it

[gohan]

Did you try a completely different radio module from another manufacturer?

[Anticimex]

@mitja-blazinsek how do you supply power to the radio module?

[Mitja Blazinsek]

yust plug in socket on sensbender micro

[Mitja Blazinsek]

is it possible that si some problem with my arduino IDE maybe some library tomorrow i will try to reinstall arduino

[dklinkman]

@MITJA BLAZINSEK - So I built my first Sensebender Micro this weekend and it works great. Radio works at distance (>10Meters). Advertises temp and hum at proper intervals. Plus battery level occasionally. And I can update the firmware via Arduino IDE (v1.8.1) and USB. Everyone's path and experience is different so here's what I did.

The build was simple. I just added the socket for the radio. Oh and a piece of right angle pin header for the FTDI interface.

For powering I currently use a FTDI Basic 3v3 from Sparkfun. Provides power plus USB serial for programming and debugging. I have a few 2xAAA cell holders on order for powering from battery.

Once built I also plugged in a radio. I have tried the generic NRF24 low and high power versions with no problems either way. The high power is the PA LNA type with the external antenna. The low power is what is in the picture down below.

Setting up the Arduino IDE was a bit of a chore but the instructions at > link < are very good.

At the end make sure you use the Boards Manager to install the MySensors AVR Boards (add MySensors to the search) so you can choose the "Sensebender Micro" as your 'board'. This last step isn't explicitly mentioned on the link. If that board isn't selected your results will be disappointing. I know from experience.

For the MySensors library be sure to install the latest release which is 2.2.0. I had to use the drop down list for the MySensors library in the Library Manager to install that version. But I l already had a lower version installed, plus a development release installed manually, and this was right around the official 2.2.0 release date, so who knows.

I run Windows 7 Professional SP1 and the Arduino IDE version 1.8.1. Updating the firmware via USB works fine. I have not tried OTA updates yet though I plan to. That should be interesting.

Your mileage may vary. I hope this helps anyone dipping their toe for the first time.

-d

[Mitja Blazinsek]

i did all this i try even downgrade my sensor library and its same the interest thing that even other boards not working (arduino nano) a had some assembled and programmed nano that i play with about 6month ago and it work fine, then try to upload relay code on it and nothing everything (didn't touch wiring) i try to program it doesn't work even if it was working before, so i think it must be something with my arduino ide

[Mitja Blazinsek]

reinstal arduino, libary, clear eprom nothing gonna lose my mind i think i'm gonna throw everything in trash :rage:

[Anticimex]

@mitja-blazinsek how do you power your board? USB from pc? That might not work. Try a USB power supply instead. Or a different pc. Or a completely different power source, like batteries.

[Mitja Blazinsek]

i just try this and its same
is it possible that is anythig with gw i'm using official sensebender gw

[tbowmo]

@Mitja-Blazinsek

Just to be sure, you haven't used a customized channel / network address on the gateway, that you forgot to set on the nodes?

[hek]

You could also try moving the node further away (5-10 m) from the gateway.

[Mitja Blazinsek]

i try new serial gw on nano but same problem i delete all nodes and when i turn on some sensors my controller find it only one node without name. My only working sensor (one of the woking sensebender out the box) display 2 nodes one without name and node with sensebender micro name what for is that first node ID 0
screen shot how it display every sensor:

[Mitja Blazinsek]

now even sensbender micro that it work on sensbender gw don't work on my gw it work only if i connect sensbender gw

[Mitja Blazinsek]

look like everything that i programmed not working about half years ago when i start with my sensors everything that i try work bu when i have time to play with mysensors again nothing worked make me crazy i have full box of sensors and boards but nothing cant get to work only sensbender gw and sensbender micro that i didn't touch i think that must be something with arduino ide

[Mitja Blazinsek]

ok my gw now work sorry i forget to connect radio vcc :relaxed: but everything else not working every sensor i try triple check wiring bothing :rage:

[gohan]

without any debug info nobody can help you

[Mitja Blazinsek]

16 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RNNNA---,VER=2.2.0
25 TSM:INIT
26 TSF:WUR:MS=0
33 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
35 TSF:SID:OK,ID=56
37 TSM:FPAR
73 TSF:MSG:SEND,56-56-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2081 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
2083 TSM:FPAR
2119 TSF:MSG:SEND,56-56-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
4127 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
4129 TSM:FPAR
4165 TSF:MSG:SEND,56-56-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
6173 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
6175 TSM:FPAR
6211 TSF:MSG:SEND,56-56-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
8219 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL
8220 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
8222 TSM:FAIL:DIS
8224 TSF:TDI:TSL
18226 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT```

[gohan]

ok, and gateway?

[Mitja Blazinsek]

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