I can get the WaterMeterPulseSensor working.

[Zwollenaar]

Dear all,

i am working to get the Water Pulse meter on Arduino to send the data to Domoticz. (through an RFXtrx322e)

i am rather new to this, but the site looked easy to get this working, but apparently its i bit harder than i thought.
So i am in need of your help.

I use:

• Arduino IDE 1.6.7 (linux 64Bit)
• Mysensors 1.5 Library
• Arduino UNO R3
• RFM69HW (rev2) 433MHz (connected through a 3,3V regulator, including 4,7uF capacitor)

i loaded the sketch, and i only get 'radio init fail'

In MyConfig.h i enabled
#define RFM69_FREQUENCY RF69_433MHZ

i am not sure about enabling, cause till now it did'nt matter
//#define MY_SIGNING_FEATURE

In MyTransportRFM69.h i changed: false in to true
bool isRFM69HW=true

What did i miss, or do i need to change/check.

Thanx in advance.

[mfalkvidd]

Hi @Zwollenaar, welcome to MySensors!
Could you post your sketch and how you wired the radio? It would help in troubleshooting.

[Zwollenaar]

The code would be as i got it from the site, and its wired like this

Only then for an UNO R3, that would look like:

But with the only differences

• it has an 5V to 3,3V regulator and 4.7uF capacitor (instead of directly to 3.3V on the UNO board (wich also doesńt work...))
  (3.3V is supplied to the RFM69HW board, i got that checked / measured)
• GND between ANA and SCK is also connected to ground.

/**
 * The MySensors Arduino library handles the wireless radio link and protocol
 * between your home built sensors/actuators and HA controller of choice.
 * The sensors forms a self healing radio network with optional repeaters. Each
 * repeater and gateway builds a routing tables in EEPROM which keeps track of the
 * network topology allowing messages to be routed to nodes.
 *
 * Created by Henrik Ekblad <henrik.ekblad@mysensors.org>
 * Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Sensnology AB
 * Full contributor list: https://github.com/mysensors/Arduino/graphs/contributors
 *
 * Documentation: http://www.mysensors.org
 * Support Forum: http://forum.mysensors.org
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 *******************************
 *
 * REVISION HISTORY
 * Version 1.0 - Henrik Ekblad
 * Version 1.1 - GizMoCuz
 * 
 * DESCRIPTION
 * Use this sensor to measure volume and flow of your house watermeter.
 * You need to set the correct pulsefactor of your meter (pulses per m3).
 * The sensor starts by fetching current volume reading from gateway (VAR 1).
 * Reports both volume and flow back to gateway.
 *
 * Unfortunately millis() won't increment when the Arduino is in 
 * sleepmode. So we cannot make this sensor sleep if we also want  
 * to calculate/report flow.
 * http://www.mysensors.org/build/pulse_water
 */

#include <MySensor.h>  
#include <SPI.h>

#define DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR 3                  // The digital input you attached your sensor.  (Only 2 and 3 generates interrupt!)
#define SENSOR_INTERRUPT DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR-2        // Usually the interrupt = pin -2 (on uno/nano anyway)

#define PULSE_FACTOR 1000                       // Nummber of blinks per m3 of your meter (One rotation/liter)

#define SLEEP_MODE false                        // flowvalue can only be reported when sleep mode is false.

#define MAX_FLOW 40                             // Max flow (l/min) value to report. This filters outliers.

#define CHILD_ID 1                              // Id of the sensor child

unsigned long SEND_FREQUENCY = 30000;           // Minimum time between send (in milliseconds). We don't want to spam the gateway.

MySensor gw;
MyMessage flowMsg(CHILD_ID,V_FLOW);
MyMessage volumeMsg(CHILD_ID,V_VOLUME);
MyMessage lastCounterMsg(CHILD_ID,V_VAR1);

double ppl = ((double)PULSE_FACTOR)/1000;        // Pulses per liter

volatile unsigned long pulseCount = 0;   
volatile unsigned long lastBlink = 0;
volatile double flow = 0;  
boolean pcReceived = false;
unsigned long oldPulseCount = 0;
unsigned long newBlink = 0;   
double oldflow = 0;
double volume =0;                     
double oldvolume =0;
unsigned long lastSend =0;
unsigned long lastPulse =0;

void setup()  
{  
  gw.begin(incomingMessage); 

  // initialize our digital pins internal pullup resistor so one pulse switches from high to low (less distortion) 
  pinMode(DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR, INPUT_PULLUP);
  
  // Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
  gw.sendSketchInfo("Water Meter", "1.1");

  // Register this device as Waterflow sensor
  gw.present(CHILD_ID, S_WATER);       

  pulseCount = oldPulseCount = 0;

  // Fetch last known pulse count value from gw
  gw.request(CHILD_ID, V_VAR1);

  lastSend = lastPulse = millis();

  attachInterrupt(SENSOR_INTERRUPT, onPulse, FALLING);
}


void loop()     
{ 
  gw.process();
  unsigned long currentTime = millis();
  
    // Only send values at a maximum frequency or woken up from sleep
  if (SLEEP_MODE || (currentTime - lastSend > SEND_FREQUENCY))
  {
    lastSend=currentTime;
    
    if (!pcReceived) {
      //Last Pulsecount not yet received from controller, request it again
      gw.request(CHILD_ID, V_VAR1);
      return;
    }

    if (!SLEEP_MODE && flow != oldflow) {
      oldflow = flow;

      Serial.print("l/min:");
      Serial.println(flow);

      // Check that we dont get unresonable large flow value. 
      // could hapen when long wraps or false interrupt triggered
      if (flow<((unsigned long)MAX_FLOW)) {
        gw.send(flowMsg.set(flow, 2));                   // Send flow value to gw
      }  
    }
  
    // No Pulse count received in 2min 
    if(currentTime - lastPulse > 120000){
      flow = 0;
    } 

    // Pulse count has changed
    if ((pulseCount != oldPulseCount)||(!SLEEP_MODE)) {
      oldPulseCount = pulseCount;

      Serial.print("pulsecount:");
      Serial.println(pulseCount);

      gw.send(lastCounterMsg.set(pulseCount));                  // Send  pulsecount value to gw in VAR1

      double volume = ((double)pulseCount/((double)PULSE_FACTOR));     
      if ((volume != oldvolume)||(!SLEEP_MODE)) {
        oldvolume = volume;

        Serial.print("volume:");
        Serial.println(volume, 3);
        
        gw.send(volumeMsg.set(volume, 3));               // Send volume value to gw
      } 
    }
  }
  if (SLEEP_MODE) {
    gw.sleep(SEND_FREQUENCY);
  }
}

void incomingMessage(const MyMessage &message) {
  if (message.type==V_VAR1) {
    unsigned long gwPulseCount=message.getULong();
    pulseCount += gwPulseCount;
    flow=oldflow=0;
    Serial.print("Received last pulse count from gw:");
    Serial.println(pulseCount);
    pcReceived = true;
  }
}

void onPulse()     
{
  if (!SLEEP_MODE)
  {
    unsigned long newBlink = micros();   
    unsigned long interval = newBlink-lastBlink;
    
    if (interval!=0)
    {
      lastPulse = millis();
      if (interval<500000L) {
        // Sometimes we get interrupt on RISING,  500000 = 0.5sek debounce ( max 120 l/min)
        return;   
      }
      flow = (60000000.0 /interval) / ppl;
    }
    lastBlink = newBlink;
  }
  pulseCount++; 
}

[Zwollenaar]

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[mfalkvidd]

The wiring instructions say "NOTE: The NSS, MOSI and SCK are not 5V tolerant on RFM69. You will need to use a level converter if you're using a 5V Arduino." The Uno is 5V. So you might have fried your radio Except that everything looks fine to me but I haven't tried the RFM69 myself.

[Zwollenaar]

@mfalkvidd
i have the RFM69 HW connected through a 3,3V regulator (including capacitor), so there was never 5V on de Radio board.
iĺl add it to the first post aswell.

[mfalkvidd]

@Zwollenaar The signals (pin 2, 10, 11, 12, 13) from the Uno are also 5V.

[Zwollenaar]

ouch, i need to look in to that, but then it might me true the board is damaged...
(Some other sketches seem to report data to the serial monitor, but i am not sure if the RFM69HW module is working.)