ESP8266 WiFi gateway port for MySensors

[Anduril]

@Yveaux tried with a nano to print out "ß" to serial, no problems. After that I tried that sketch on ESP:

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  const char *pass = "ß1ß";
  Serial.println(" "); //to break line after rubbish at init
  Serial.println(pass);
}

[not readable/copyable stuff]
ß1ß

So in general it should be no problem compiling the char 'ß' even on ESP.. Also in the ESPGateway sketch I don't see anything that is changing the *pass, but maybe you know what is going on with this string in more detail.

edit: it seems to happen even before void setup in the gw sketch. I uncommented everything in setup, loop and output, but still get the distorted serial print of pass.

[Yveaux]

@Anduril I guess it shouldn't make a difference. What happens if you copy/paste the "ß1ß" string from your test sketch into the ESP gateway sketch as password and print that to serial? (make sure to use the same editor on both sketches)

[Anduril]

@Yveaux already tried that. When using my own sketch I get "ß1ß", when using the gw sketch (with really everything commented out, so no functionality) I get "ß1ß". I thought that it might be a problem of UFT encoding, had this issue with transfering LaTeX files created on linux system to windows system and vice versa: the system that creates the file sets the charset.
But I also created a completely new .ino with the gateway-code inside and new created gatewayutil.h with data copied in notepad++, but no succes.
And yes I use Arduino IDE as editor. Is there a good way to use another editor and compile/upload without the IDE?

[Yveaux]

@Anduril I'm still convinced it has something to do with Unicode, but very hard to nail from a distance without the actual files...
Maybe @hek has seen this before?

[hek]

Nope, not the slightest idea.

@Anduril
Couldn't you just temporarily change password on router to rule out other stuff?

[Anduril]

@hek yeah already did this, when leaving out ß it works perfect. So no problem with router or ESP hardware. But changing the wifi password would be the worst case, as I have to reassign that to squeezeboxes, smartphones, laptops, wifi printer,... (and all guest devices of friends/familie) but still possible if all other things fail.
@Yveaux Would it help if I send you the files for verification? Is it possible inside this forum or only via email?

[Anduril]

@Yveaux thank you very much for offering help with verification, but something strange happened during preperation of files: I took an example sketch and modified it to print the "ß1ß" on serial --> working fine.
But after saving the file I tried again, only reading rubbish. Thats strange! So it has something to do with saving the file and maybe setting a special encoding. Maybe thats related to the editor? Could you please try to redo what I explained and see if you get the same results? Thank you. @hek have you ever had such a problem of a sketch behaving differently after saving?

[Yveaux]

@Anduril Ok, did some tests:

Copied your problematic example string from this topic into Arduino IDE (1.6.5), on Windows 10:

Saved the sketch.

Viewed sketch.ino in notepad:

Newlines are f*cked up, but "ß1ß" can clearly be recognized.

Viewed the same sketch in HxD hex viewer:

And there we are! The string is stored as Unicode characters!

Reading it back in Arduino IDE:

Everything looks fine again.

Apparently the unicode string gets compiled directly and shows as multiple, wrong characters in your sketch when used/printed...

Ok, one more idea: you can try to store the ß character as an escaped ASCII character in you string (refer to this ).
This will look strange in the code, but should print correctly to the console:

The ASCII escape sequence for ß is \xE1
Your test sequence "ß1ß" then becomes "\xE11\xE1"

Please try this...

[mkeyno]

@Yveaux
hi
there is problem for sensor library when we intend use the its examples as following
In file included from \libraries\MySensors\MyGateway.cpp:13:0:

\libraries\MySensors\utility/MsTimer2.h:7:2: error: #error MsTimer2 library only works on AVR architecture
#error MsTimer2 library only works on AVR architecture
^
In file included from \libraries\MySensors\MyGateway.cpp:14:0:
\libraries\MySensors\utility/PinChangeInt.h:103:19: fatal error: new.h: No such file or directory
#include <new.h>
^
compilation terminated.
Error compiling.

[Yveaux]

@mkeyno did you change anything to the gateway code, and which version of MySensors are you running?
I've ported the gateway code to ESP8266. That doesn't mean any sensor code will also automatically run on an ESP.
Packaged with MySensors are a lot of libraries that will not compile on ESP, so if you try to use one (pinchange int or timers) it will likely fail to compile.

[Anduril]

@Yveaux SUCCES!!! Thank you very much, your way worked nearly perfect. ONly small change: "ß" is represented by hexcode DF, so using \eDF gives the correct wifi password for me.
Now a last thing as bonus: how to setup a fixed ip and not using dhcp? My dhcp is not very usable as it reassigns all IPs on reboot (stupid firmware by Deutsche Telekom).

[Yveaux]

@Anduril Great to hear you got it to work!

how to setup a fixed ip and not using dhcp?

Google'd a bit. Seems like Wifi.config requires 3 parameters:

    // static ip, gateway, netmask
    WiFi.config(IPAddress(192,168,1,100), IPAddress(192,168,1,1), IPAddress(255,255,255,0));

Make sure to call it after WiFi.begin().

Btw. ESP8266 Arduino port follows the Arduino WiFi library API.

[hek]

You can set static ip in the dev-branch.

[Yveaux]

@hek said:

You can set static ip in the dev-branch.

Even better :+1:

[mkeyno]

@Yveaux no buddy I used the last update of your repository, my question is , are you aware that your esp8266 sample sketch call library that wont work with esp architecture? I've compare last update with previous library and I've find the for couple of header file following code has been added
#ifdef AVR
#include <avr/interrupt.h>
#else
#error MsTimer2 library only works on AVR architecture
#endif

and I was wondering why your sample sketch call such file into the compiling

[D_dude]

Hi @Yveaux

could you please assist in the error.

ESP8266 MySensors Gateway
Connecting to HoUsEoFcLoWnS
scandone
f 0, scandone
.add 0
aid 5
pm open phy_2,type:2 0 0
cnt 

connected with HoUsEoFcLoWnS, channel 11
dhcp client start...
.ip:192.168.0.23,mask:255.255.255.0,gw:192.168.0.1
.Connected!
IP: 192.168.0.23

 ets Jan  8 2013,rst cause:4, boot mode:(3,7)

wdt reset
load 0x4010f000, len 1264, room 16 
tail 0
chksum 0x42
csum 0x42
~ld

The gateway just keeps looping and connecting.
I'm using a NodeMCU with a NRF ( both from ebay),
Using the Regular library, and default sketch with SSID/pass updated.

i tried checking the error "rst cause:4, boot mode:(3,7)" but wasn't able to find something.

I even tried to power it using a USB cellphone charger, but i was unable to telnet so that rules out the power issue

Thanks in advance

[D_dude]

update,
the error changed to "rst cause:4, boot mode:(3,6)" once i added a capacitor.

[Yveaux]

@D_dude said:

These ESP's seem to walk in mysterious ways...
A lot of people have them, running without any issues (including myself and hek) and some people can't seem to get them to run stable.
On the net, a lot of stability/reset issues are are claimed to have a relation to power supply.

I even tried to power it using a USB cellphone charger, but i was unable to telnet so that rules out the power issue

There are a lot of assumptions in this sentence ;-)
What current rating is the cellphone charger? I'd advise one with at least 1amps, and a stable output.
Not being able to telnet to the gateway can have more issues then just the ESP crashing...

[D_dude]

@Yveaux
Thank you for the response.

As for the cell phone charger, I'm using a tablet charger Specifically original HP stream 7 charger, and it is able to provide more that 1amp. I Will try to use other charger/power supply to see if that helps.

PS: I reloaded the gateway sketch and the error went back to boot mode (3,7) even with cap present.

[Yveaux]

@D_dude I searched the net for a description of reset causes and boot modes but failed to find one.
I have no clue of what they mean.