MYSBootloader 1.3 pre-release & MYSController 1.0.0beta

[raptorjr]

@chris83 Yes, as I understand it. But I could be wrong. But it feels logical.

[itbeyond]

How is the upcoming bootloader release (1.3S) going?

I may be wrong but think I need this to push signed firmware to a node. I have a node with soft signing required. The node works but I cannot update it OTA is this 1.3S to support this?

[diogoc]

There are already support for rfm69?

[mbedarff]

tekka, first of all, thank you very much for your efforts and shared results on MYSController and MYSBootloader! :)

I am trying to upload new firmware to battery operated nodes via MYSController 1.0.0beta. But it seems that MYSController does not send an ST_FIRMWARE_CONFIG_RESPONSE message after the node has sent an I_PRE_SLEEP_NOTFICATION before its next smart sleeping. Thus no firmware packages are requested from the node using ST_FIRMWARE_REQUEST messages.

Uploading firmware to nodes that are not sleeping and powered by a power supply basically works. One limitation seems to be that the node has to be restarted while MYSController is connected to the gateway. My guess is that the ST_FIRMWARE_CONFIG_REQUEST message from the node must be received first by MYSController before the assign firmware selection inits a ST_FIRMWARE_CONFIG_RESPONSE message. If the nodes are not sleeping, this can easily be done using the request reboot function of MYSController. In the case of the battery-operated node, this reboot request is not transmitted on the next wake-up respectively pre sleep notification.

I also noticed another bug: After receiving the reboot messages from a node, it is always set as a Sensebender board.

My setup:
MySensors version: 2.3.2
Gateway: ESP8266 with RFM69HW
Nodes: Canique MK2 boards (Moteino clone) with Atmega328P, RFM69HW, 4mbit Winbond W25X40CLSNIG flash chip and DualOptiboot bootloader.

@tekka: I would like to have a look at the code of MYSController to understand the firmware OTA start problem and the wrong detection of the board and to fix it if necessary. Would you be interested in making your code available on GitHub, for example, so that MYSController is developed further together? Please don't bother with code cleaning in advance.

[luizrrocha]

I also have problems with my battery-powered sleeping-most-of-the-time nodes. I actually have to disassemble them and force reset several times until the OTA FW update function starts to work, which pretty much negates its usage.

@Tekka, I echo mbedarff´s words, your job is fantastic but can we all try to add on our efforts and try to make it even better than it already is ?

Cheers from Portugal.

Luiz

[tekka]

@luizrrocha Can you post your sketch and (if available) debug log here?

[vidin]

Hello bootloader support ATMEGA328PB now this uC is cheaper than 328p? Best regards

[A3V]

@vidin You can simply program the 328pb with the standard bootloader using AVRDUDESS.
The pb version is software compatible with the p version.

[Alan Sales]

Hi! Where can I download MYSBootloader 1.3 pre-release & MYSController 1.0.0beta? The given link is not working.

[feanor-anglin]

@Alan-Sales it seems the project is abandoned. But I have it, so please use this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0qls8a251ol4tc/MYSController.zip?dl=0

@tekka maybe you could share the code somewhere? Maybe someone else could make a use of it or develop it further?

[iguaan]

Anyone else experiencing crashing of the application after about 10seconds?

[tplet]

@iguaan The same applies to me. The application crashes after a few seconds after launching (Windows 10). No problem before on the same system, so I suspect a Windows update but I don't know which one.

[Mac65]

Hi all,
I think I have found the problem, the program at startup makes a connection (probably to look for an update) to the following address 162.55.0.134 (port 80) but it fails, this blocks the program for several minutes, unfortunately without the sources it is not possible solve the problem.
BR
Angelo

[iguaan]

There's another somewhat way around:

you just need to open prog and then close when it gets stuck and then clik try to restore or wait button few times:
https://pasteboard.co/GQTHDnaQsawY.png
then you should get this screen at some point and then press ok/ignore and it works
(https://pasteboard.co/9iuz1LC7kgWC.png

needs several tries.

[nfj25]

MYSController is crashing me too... Are there any alternatives to update the firmware of mysensors nodes?

[nfj25]

@Mac65 Good catch! I blocked MYSController from acessing the network in the Windows Firewall and... it works! Only block TCP port 80 if you are connecting to a MySensors TCP gateway.

[iguaan]

@nfj25 said in MYSBootloader 1.3 pre-release & MYSController 1.0.0beta:

om acessing the network in the Windows Firewall and... it works! Only block TCP port 80 if you are connecting to a MySensors TCP gateway.

Can't get it working that way, even if i block all the traffic on Myscontroller.

[iguaan]

@iguaan said in MYSBootloader 1.3 pre-release & MYSController 1.0.0beta:

@nfj25 said in MYSBootloader 1.3 pre-release & MYSController 1.0.0beta:

om acessing the network in the Windows Firewall and... it works! Only block TCP port 80 if you are connecting to a MySensors TCP gateway.

Can't get it working that way, even if i block all the traffic on Myscontroller.

Got it working, I have program on onedrive and seemed that automatically generated path in rules didn't work:
"%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\MYSController\MYSController.exe"
Had to change it to "C:\Users\user\OneDrive\MYSController" and it works now, great success.

[iguaan]

Today I couldn't get it to work again unless I blocked all ports, ran program and then unblock again (to access GW).
Solution was to block myscontroller from accessing only that remote IP on all ports, letting me still connect to gateway without any fiddling in firewall settings on every program start.

Hope this solution stays for good :)

[iguaan]

If anyone is getting "Property 'bootloader.tool.' is undefined" error with arduino 2.x when trying to burn bootloader, then you just have to add another row in bold below to boards.txt file

MYSBL.upload.tool=avrdude
MYSBL.upload.protocol=arduino
MYSBL.upload.maximum_size=30720
MYSBL.upload.maximum_data_size=2048
MYSBL.bootloader.tool=avrdude
MYSBL.bootloader.tool.default=avrdude