serial reading

[epierre]

Hello,

I've managed to make my first emaitter/receptor !

Now I'm trying to read from the serial port on the controller and get

0;0;4;11;Message available on pipe 1
0;0;4;11;Sent ack msg to 255
0;0;4;11;Rx: fr=255,to=0,la=255,ci=255,mt=4,t=5,cr=136(ok):
255;255;4;5;

serial api documentation says the message is "radioId;childId;messageType;subType;payload\n", but I can't match them all given the sensor is an humidity DHT11.

in a perl script reading the serial interface I get only "255 255 4 5", not the last value, any clue ?

[epierre]

I restarted both, it seems the sensor can't get an id

Sensor:

Started sensor. 0 0 0 0
Relay=0, distance=1 0 0 0 0
No radio id found in EEPROM fetching one 0 0 0 0
from sensor net gateway
Relaying message back to gateway.
Tx: fr=255,to=0,la=255,ne=0,ci=255,mt=4,ty=5,cr=136:
Ack: received OK
Relaying message back to gateway.
Tx: fr=255,to=0,la=255,ne=0,ci=255,mt=4,ty=5,cr=136:
Ack: received OK

Gateway:
0;0;4;11;Arduino startup complete.
0;0;4;11;Message available on pipe 1
0;0;4;11;Sent ack msg to 255
0;0;4;11;Rx: fr=255,to=0,la=255,ci=255,mt=4,t=5,cr=136(ok):
0;0;4;11;Message available on pipe 1
0;0;4;11;Sent ack msg to 255
0;0;4;11;Rx: fr=255,to=0,la=255,ci=255,mt=4,t=5,cr=136(ok):

any hint why the gateway doesn't answer ?

[epierre]

other point: I have the external antenna... and tried the gw.begin(AUTO, RF24_PA_LOW) but I get:

SerialGateway.ino: In function ‘void setup()’:
SerialGateway:50: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘rf24_pa_dbm_e’
SerialGateway:50: error: initializing argument 1 of ‘void Gateway::begin(rf24_pa_dbm_e, uint8_t, rf24_datarate_e, void ()(char))’

any hint ?

I've moved to a standard emitter, same issue as above

[wannabee]

225;255;4;5 is the first message sent from a node at startup if it hasn't a RADIO_ID in it's EEPROM.
255 is the startup ID
255 is node or the arduino it self.
4 is internal message
5 is I_REQUEST_ID

The node expect to get a
255;255:4;5;<RAIDO_ID_THAT_YOU_WANT_TO_ASSIGN_TO_THE_NODE>

It's an automated way to assign RADIO_ID from the controller. usally a Vera or in your case your perl script needs to do that.

Or if I rember correctly you can set the RAIDO_ID in the arduion when compiling the code:
change in the .ino file.
sensors.begin();
to
sensors.begin(<RAIDO_ID_THAT_YOU_WANT_TO_ASSIGN_TO_THE_NODE>);

To decode the messages sent to and from a node check the tables in http://www.mysensors.org/build/sensor_api#the-serial-protocol

/WB

[epierre]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer, this is what I thought but I don't understand why it can't get the node from the gateway ? I flashed it again but with no more success.

The correct method is gw.begin(1) in my case.

Now it answers with all the presentation, but get stuck in sending mesurement unit:

0;0;4;11;Rx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ci=255,mt=4,t=13,cr=73(ok):

[epierre]

it looks like the gateway never answers, any hint ? bad wiring ? other issue ?

[epierre]

similar issue here, I regroup it:

link text

[hek]

Controller normally answer the unit setting requests from sensor. You have to answer manually (or from your perl program).

Check the Troubleshooting section on our website if you're unable to communicate.

[epierre]

@hek right, I've not read thoroughly what @wannabee told me about who sets the ID. I'll know it for the next time.

Should I answer also for the metric ?

I have a strange behavior having commented out the metric line although they are close::

0;0;4;11;Relaying message back to gateway.
0;0;4;11;Tx: fr=0,to=0,la=0,ne=0,ci=255,mt=4,ty=13,cr=52:
0;0;4;11;Ack: receive timeout

[wannabee]

You perl program needs to tell the arudion Gateway if it Imperial or Metric it should you for it's number. The gateway will forward that information to the node

Here is post where I explain how it works.
http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/62/#315

Basicly the arduion gatweway don't controll high level stuff. It only controlls the low level stuff. the raido communication.

Your perl program needs to do all the higlevel stuff like responed to request from the network about raido_id, metric system, storing the data,etc. This is what the vera does. you are replacing the vera with your program so now you have to do all the stuff. a quick way forward is to translate https://github.com/mysensors/Vera/blob/master/L_Arduino.lua to perl. You have to build some more function since the Vera is doing stuff like storing data and configuration hat is not in the lua-file.

This is what I have done in python see https://github.com/wbcode/ham and it transform the mysensor api to/from openhab api.

/WB

[epierre]

perfect, this is what I was searching for...

I'm too much accustomed to RFX433 or z-Wave that handles many things themself, I now understand that only the basic is here.

I can read easily lua, logic can be simple, afterward I have my scripts, in fact I thought of doing the bidirectionnal integration with domoticz and/or cosm/xively for I've got already many of it. For the first, I guess some local logic must be implemented, discovered devices can be created through JSON, and then updated/queried as you already know, so the glue is possible ;-)

[jendrush]

@epierre +1 for Domoticz integration

Do you want to make gateway working in the same way as RFX433?

[epierre]

@jendrush could be a possibility... but to have it exaclty the same, the gateway should do all the work meaning push when a new node is discovered, give all values... the whole vera programm should be built inside the arduino... I don't know how it would fit, but in the meantime some outside scripts can do it.

[epierre]

@wannabee I'm desesperatly (as a newbee ) trying to send the message back, but it doesn't seem to work with

echo -en '1;255;4;13;M' > /dev/ttyUSB0

any idea ? my script doesn't seem to write too, strange...

[hek]

@epierre

Don't forget the newline character.

[epierre]

@hek right the -n option removed newline, but I have still the same behavior. Can both gateway and sensors on the same machine usb port make a difference in this ?

So this one should be good, but no behavior change (same when writing from perl to the port):

echo -e '1;255;4;13;M' > /dev/ttyUSB0

does reading through perl locks it ? well I'm new on this ...

[epierre]

Looks like one got to the sensor:

Sent ack msg to 0 0 0 0 0
Rx: fr=0,to=1,la=0,ci=255,mt=4,t=13,cr=57(ok): M 0 0 0 0
Message addressed for this node. 0 0 0 0
675 Relaying message back to gateway.
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=1,mt=1,ty=0,cr=216: 20.0

Relaying message back to gateway. 0 0 0 0
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=1,mt=1,ty=0,cr=216: 20.0 0 0 0 0
676 Ack: received OK
T: 20.00
Relaying message back to gateway.
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=0,mt=1,ty=1,cr=162: 56.0
Ack: received OK
H: 56.00

Relaying message back to gateway. 0 0 0 0
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=1,mt=1,ty=0,cr=216: 20.0 0 0 0 0
676 Ack: received OK
T: 20.00

Relaying message back to gateway.
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=0,mt=1,ty=1,cr=162: 56.0
Ack: received OK
H: 56.00

707 Relaying message back to gateway.
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=0,mt=1,ty=1,cr=84: 55.0
Ack: receive timeout
H: 55.00

Relaying message back to gateway. 0 0 0 0
Tx: fr=1,to=0,la=1,ne=0,ci=0,mt=1,ty=1,cr=84: 55.0 0 0 0 0
Ack: receive timeout 0 0 0 0
H: 55.00 0 0 0 0

then nothing...

I unplugged the node, plugged it back and it is asking again the metric...

[epierre]

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[epierre]

I'm getting closer, since I launched the arduino console log my scripts works, and is able so write back the answer...

Starting
1 255 0 17 1.3b3 (67f4ca1)
1 255 4 7 0
1 255 4 14 Humidity
1 255 4 15 1.0
1 255 4 13 0
W : 1;255;4;13;M
1 1 1 0 21.0
1 0 1 1 52.0

looks like it is sleeping forever ?

[epierre]

Hello,

Looks like it's good, in one hour I've had 12 metering values, given I modified the timer in the sensor to 10 instead of 30. It is reporting only changed values which is smart (should be documented, extra value !)

1 1 1 0 21.0
1 0 1 1 52.0
1 0 1 1 53.0
1 0 1 1 54.0
1 1 1 0 20.0
1 1 1 0 21.0
1 1 1 0 20.0
1 0 1 1 55.0
1 0 1 1 54.0
1 0 1 1 55.0
1 0 1 1 54.0
1 0 1 1 55.0
1 1 1 0 21.0