Door, Motion and Temperature Sensor

[BulldogLowell]

@CaptainZap

what does the Serial output show during execution of the sketch?

[CaptainZap]

@BulldogLowell Unfortunately I don't have a way to test that yet... I'm uploading the sketch using an arduino uno, and I have no idea how to do that with it. I do have an FTDI serial adapter but is not picked up by the IDE, it was at some point but no longer... probably fake :|

[m26872]

I don't know what's the issue, but I'd still prefer a normal timing code instead of just the gw.wait(). The fetching of temperatures in every loop makes no sense to me.

[CaptainZap]

@m26872 If you have time, could you please tell me how to do that, I know you've posted a link a few post back but I didn't do much with it :(

[robosensor]

@CaptainZap You should not query dallas sensor temperature every 750 ms. This heats up sensor itself and quite useless.

Use something like this:

unsigned long SLEEP_TIME = 30000; // Sleep time between reports (in milliseconds)
unsigned long lastRefreshTime = 0;

void loop()
{
	gw.wait(100);
  
	boolean bNeedRefresh = (millis() - lastRefreshTime) > SLEEP_TIME;
	if (bNeedRefresh)
	{
		lastRefreshTime = millis();

		DallasSensors.requestTemperatures();
		gw.wait(750);
		float tempC = DallasSensors.getTempCByIndex(1);
		float difference = lastTemperature - tempC;
		if (tempC != -127.00 && abs(difference) > 0.5)
		{
			// Send in the new temperature
			gw.send(tempMsg.set(tempC, 1));
			lastTemperature = tempC;
		}
	}
}

[CaptainZap]

@robosensor Thanks so much, I highly appreciate your comments. Will test this tomorrow, and hopefully, soon share my hardware designs :D

[CaptainZap]

Just uploaded the new sketch to my nodes, one built on a pro mini, and one built on a nano (got one to view serial output), however both nodes have the same behavior when added to the Vera unit... the repeater node doesn't show up (is this somehow related to UI7 ?), and the weird thing is that temperature value is never populated.

Regarding the repeater, looking into the user_data output I can see that a repeater node is created, but it's not used as a parent device for the sensors... as all sensors have as parent the gateway. I'm using this version of the plugin :
https://github.com/mysensors/Vera/tree/UI7

This is the serial monitor output from the nano :

repeater started, id 13
send: 13-13-1-0 s=255,c=0,t=18,pt=0,l=5,st=ok:1.4.1
send: 13-13-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=1,l=1,st=ok:1
send: 13-13-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=12,st=ok:Multi Sensor
send: 13-13-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,st=ok:1.1
send: 13-13-1-0 s=1,c=0,t=0,pt=0,l=0,st=ok:
send: 13-13-1-0 s=3,c=0,t=6,pt=0,l=0,st=ok:
send: 13-13-1-0 s=2,c=0,t=1,pt=0,l=0,st=ok:
send: 13-13-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=2,l=2,st=ok:0

This is the updated sketch:

//This sketch is for Door & Motion & Temp Sensor
//rev3 - changed temp pin to 5 & temperature logic re-worked


#include <MySensor.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <DallasTemperature.h>
#include <OneWire.h>
#include <Bounce2.h>

#define CLIENT_ID AUTO  // Sets MYSensors client id
#define RADIO_CH 76  // Sets MYSensors to use Radio Channel
#define TRIGGER	3	// used to connect motion sensor
#define BUTTON_PIN  4 // used to connect door/window sensor

//Temp Sensor bits
#define ONE_WIRE_BUS 5 // Pin where dallas sensor is connected - on Rboard this is A0(D14)
OneWire oneWire(ONE_WIRE_BUS);
DallasTemperature DallasSensors(&oneWire);
float lastTemperature ;
#define CHILD_ID_T1 3 //CHILD ID for temp


//Door/Window bits

#define CHILD_ID_D1 1 //CHILD ID for door/window

//Trigger Sensor Bits
#define CHILD_ID_S1 2 //CHILD ID for Motion sensor
boolean lastTripped = 0;

unsigned long SLEEP_TIME = 30000; // Sleep time between reports (in milliseconds)
unsigned long lastRefreshTime = 0;

MySensor gw;

Bounce debouncer = Bounce(); 
int oldValue=-1;

// Change to V_LIGHT if you use S_LIGHT in presentation below
MyMessage msg(CHILD_ID_D1,V_TRIPPED);
MyMessage triggerMsg(CHILD_ID_S1,V_TRIPPED);
MyMessage tempMsg(CHILD_ID_T1,V_TEMP);

void setup()
{
	// Startup OneWire Temp Sensors
    DallasSensors.begin();
    DallasSensors.setWaitForConversion(false);

	// Initialize library and add callback for incoming messages
	 gw.begin(NULL, AUTO, true);
	
	// Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
	gw.sendSketchInfo("Multi Sensor", "1.1");

	// Register all sensors to gw (they will be created as child devices)
	gw.present(CHILD_ID_D1, S_DOOR);
	gw.present(CHILD_ID_T1, S_TEMP);
	gw.present(CHILD_ID_S1, S_MOTION);

	// Setup the button
        pinMode(BUTTON_PIN,INPUT);
        // Activate internal pull-up
        digitalWrite(BUTTON_PIN,HIGH);
  
        // After setting up the button, setup debouncer
        debouncer.attach(BUTTON_PIN);
        debouncer.interval(5);
  
        // Register binary input sensor to gw (they will be created as child devices)
        // You can use S_DOOR, S_MOTION or S_LIGHT here depending on your usage. 
        // If S_LIGHT is used, remember to update variable type you send in. See "msg" above.
	
}


void loop()
{
	// Alway process incoming messages whenever possible
	gw.process();
	
	
	// Check for motion change value
		boolean tripped = digitalRead(TRIGGER) == HIGH; 

		if (lastTripped != tripped ) {
			gw.send(triggerMsg.set(tripped?"1":"0")); // Send new state and request ack back
			Serial.println("Tripped");
			lastTripped=tripped;
		}
		
	//  Check if digital input has changed and send in new value
                debouncer.update();
              // Get the update value
                int value = debouncer.read();
 
                if (value != oldValue) {
                    // Send in the new value
                     gw.send(msg.set(value==HIGH ? 1 : 0));
                     oldValue = value;
                }
                
    gw.wait(100);
  
    boolean bNeedRefresh = (millis() - lastRefreshTime) > SLEEP_TIME;
    if (bNeedRefresh)
    {
        lastRefreshTime = millis();

        DallasSensors.requestTemperatures();
        gw.wait(750);
        float tempC = DallasSensors.getTempCByIndex(1);
        float difference = lastTemperature - tempC;
        if (tempC != -127.00 && abs(difference) > 0.5)
        {
            // Send in the new temperature
            gw.send(tempMsg.set(tempC, 1));
            lastTemperature = tempC;
        }
    }  		

}

Any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks.

[hek]

All devices has the gateway as parent (Vera does not support a multi-level device hierarchy).

[CaptainZap]

Can anyone share their thoughts ? I've been running two identical nodes, with no temperature output for a few days now :(

[Dwalt]

@CaptainZap Did you delete the original devices from Vera after you changed the code? I had something similar happen when I rewrote a sketch to modify battery monitoring and Vera would not show the new data. I deleted the node and child devices and reincluded them from scratch and then it worked.

[m26872]

I think you have to redo inclusion of the sensors if you want them to use the repater in their routing. At least it looks like this when I setup my Vera and sensors.

[CaptainZap]

@Dwalt @m26872 Thanks for the feedback, I did do that on the Vera unit. I've even removed the plugin files and re-did everything. I even, and this is a bit extreme, cleared the eprom on the gateway and reflashed it. None of it worked, I really have no clue what to do next. I'm open to every suggestion :D

[Dwalt]

@CaptainZap It your sketch you have this line:
#define ONE_WIRE_BUS 14

What pin is your Dallas sensor connected to?

[m26872]

First make sure a pure repeater node is working. With only the gw.process() to run, it should be fast to enough catch any new inlusion before the gateway. With a proper range of course. Clear the sensors eeprom and Vera-device before reinclusion, but you should not need to do anything with the gateway.

[CaptainZap]

@Dwalt said:

@CaptainZap It your sketch you have this line:
#define ONE_WIRE_BUS 14

What pin is your Dallas sensor connected to?

One sensor is connected to A0(14) the other is connected to D5 as it can be seen in my last sketch. Temperature reporting worked on, in my original sketch, however the sketch wasn't perfect so I improved it based on feedback.

@m26872 The sensor is on a breadboard 5cm from the gateway, and I'm not sure about the repeater part...

[CaptainZap]

Well since nobody knew what the problem is I thought I would re-flash my first sketch which was working properly... however after doing it it no longer works... this is blowing my mind away. I don't understand why that would be, as the only changes I've done are listed in this thread, major one was that I upgraded lib to 1.4.1 from 1.4. Anyone has any ideas cause this is driving me crazy now :(

[Moshe Livne]

@CaptainZap would suggest to clear the eeprom

[m26872]

Did you ever get a repeater-only node to work in your mys network ?

[CaptainZap]

@Moshe-Livne @m26872 : I did clear the eprom, I've tried everything I could think of... I'm not quite sure if the repeater works, so far everything is at the breadboard state, so I was pretty much prototyping.

[m26872]

@CaptainZap said:

@AWI Yes I want all my nodes to be repeaters,

Why?
Unless you plan expand your network in the near future, think the increased complexity just will give you trouble.