gw to node: isalive ?

[marceltrapman]

@epierre I am working on my plugin for Indigo.
This is what these messages look like:

2014-07-16 21:59:18.267	MySensors Debug	Sending command 2;0;3;0;2;Get Version
2014-07-16 21:59:18.267	MySensors Debug	Sending command 2;0;3;0;11;Get Sketch Name

[epierre]

@marceltrapman it did not work for me... but tje sensor is back again to my higjer satisfaction...

@hek it is importantbfor an alarm ti ping its node to know if there is signal jamming...

[marceltrapman]

@epierre said:

@marceltrapman tje sensor is back again to my higjer satisfaction...

Nice.

Looking at Indigo and Z-wave there is the same issue. A node that is asleep can not be awoken from Indigo (or any other controller).
The reason I would like this to be different is so that I know that a sensor has fallen out (battery dead or otherwise).

The problem is that waking a sensor up means that the sensor has to listen.
When a sensor listens it has to be awake (I believe).
Vicious Circle...

[epierre]

@marceltrapman yes...in my case some are not asleep... not to say all... in z-wave the hysteresis management is good, controller ofter fairly manage device that always send something every 2h...

[hek]

A better approach is probably to send in something every time sensor wakes up.

[epierre]

@hek well if sensor sends something I know it is awoken ;-) I'll try implement something on my water sensor on this !

[marceltrapman]

@hek said:

A better approach is probably to send in something every time sensor wakes up.

@hek @epierre
While thinking about this I think I want to add a 'wake-interval' like implemented in z-wave (and exposed in Indigo).
I want to be able to set a wake interval to every 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45 minutes, 1, 2, 4 hours, twice per day, once per day or once per week.

Not sure if this is something for me to do or that this belongs in the libraries...

[hek]

@marceltrapman

This could very well be implemented with the current libraries.

You could for instance request VAR_1 every time the sensor wakes up which contains the sleep time used when putting Arduino to sleep..

This would make sleep time configurable from controller-side.

[marceltrapman]

@hek said:

This could very well be implemented with the current libraries.

You could for instance request VAR_1 every time the sensor wakes up which contains the sleep time used when putting Arduino to sleep..

This would make sleep time configurable from controller-side.

Hah, gonna use that!!!!!!

[epierre]

@marceltrapman @hek that would mean sketched upgrade, but I plus it !