MySensors 1.5 Released

[Francois]

Great work thanks for all the hard work you putting in to this Hek and team

[Qu3Uk]

When you say backwards compatible does this include a 1.5 sensor talking to a 1.4 gateway? I'm assuming not.

Can't wait to update though. I'm working on an RGB light so this is cool.

[epierre]

@hek I hope you haven't change fields order this time, backward compatibility is a must !

[Didi]

@hek said:

Master branch on github is now 1.5!

Great work

[diggs]

looking forward to trying the new release.

One question, it mentions the new sensors, where would I find the "multimeter" sensor? Had a look but could not see anything

New sensors: RGB, RGBW, Color, Multimeter, HVAC, Sprinkler, Water leak, Sound, Vibration, Moisture

[hek]

@diggs
I haven't made sketch-examples for all new sensor types yet. The community needs to help me with that. :)

[Dheeraj]

@hek and team. congratulation on new milestone.

[John]

Congratulations to you and all contributors! I will try to update the plugin asap.

[RJ_Make]

Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaaw :bowtie:

[epierre]

@hek I have them all already:

Water leak,Moisture : my leaf wetness
Sound: I have stopped by waiting to have a real decibel algorithm... but I need FFT for that...
Vibration: done it too ;-) help yourself !

https://github.com/empierre/arduino/blob/master/FloodSensor.ino
https://github.com/empierre/arduino/blob/master/LeafWetnessSensor.ino
https://github.com/empierre/arduino/blob/master/SoundSensor2.ino
https://github.com/empierre/arduino/blob/master/VibrationSensor.ino

[hek]

@epierre

Thanks, I'll take a look at them and possibly lift them into the examples folder.

For the flood sensor, what kind of conductivity probe are you using.

[epierre]

@hek: two conductors ;-) well anything you want here it is binary logic, you don't need to mesure the resistance to know how wet it is ...

[oded00]

What is the best practice to upgrade from 1.4?
i'm using vera

[hek]

As said above.. you don't need to update everything in one big bang unless you want to use the new features. Add new sensors with the updated library if you want.

[epierre]

@hek seems there is something to correct http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1729/updated-support-to-serial-version-1-5

[hek]

@epierre

Already talked to @John. Will update documentation more clearly that V_DIMMER and V_LIGHT has been deprecated for the more general wording V_PERCENTAGE and V_STATUS.

The old sketches will still work fine as I've introduced an alias.

[John]

@hek, @epierre

I think i was too fast with committing my updates which creates new downloads automatically (sorry if it was too quick), so I had to do a post just in case of some "eager to update" user i have.

[sebas]

Very nice. How do I find out how the new sensor types work? Specifically the RGB and RGBW sensors.
I've browsed through the source code but haven't found it yet. What file should I be looking into?

[gbfromhb]

Very cool. The timing was perfect. I was just about to jump into the deep end and start deploying the development branch. Thanks everyone for the hard work.

[hek]

@sebas

Guess I'll have to toss an RGB example together some day. But basically the payload should be a ascii hex string describing the color components. I.e "FF0000" for red.