@chrishiscox said in OH3 Serial Gateway Problem:
I tried and tried with my serial gateway, and never got it to function porperly. The serial port was working I could see it and data, but OH3 just refused to recognise the data. After a week, I decided to abandon the serial and flashed a esp8266 attached the nRF to it and bobs my uncle as we say. It goes via MQTT, so takes a little more settting up but works fine. If you want more info I will dig out the pages I used to make it work.
Hmmm, the pi OH is running on already has an active MQTT broker. So you got me thinking: Wouldn't it be possible to use the MQTT gateway instead of the serial gateway? It should be able to translate radio messages (Hope RF69 in my case) to mqtt messages which are already recognized by OH. I'll have to find a spare pi and try it.
Replying myself after more reading and testing.
*MQTT vs ETH probably is equivalent in my system, if the choice if given I think MQTT is preferred.
*NRF24 or RFM69, maybe both as I already have a bunch of NRF24 radios home and can start build directly.
*PC based MQTT could be an idea, but probably its as easy to work through an Arduino-example using the serial monitor in an Arduino-environment.
My way forward will be:
Remove the RPi-GPIO-gateway (I built a basic node and tested it, but could not communicate with the GW) and replace it with ESP8266-based WIFI/MQTT/Radio-gateway (one with NRF24 and eventually one with RFM69).
I believe that will be an easier way into mySensors-world also limiting the amount of required Linux-related knowledge. It will be easier to debug the system from Arduino IDE-serial console. Ie start and confirm OH3 to MySensors-MQTT-gateway, then proceeding with sensor to gateway communication etc.
