Choosing the right controller, how

[blebbens]

At the moment, domoticz seems to be very easy. My installation looks a bit ugly, the screenshots are much nicer.

Few days ago I found a wiki page about combining a Raspberry with a serial gateway itself at GPiO without an arduino, but could not find it anymore.

Can anyone compare domoticz to vera and PiMatic? Would be helpful.

[Tore André Rosander]

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2437/step-by-step-procedure-to-connect-the-nrf24l01-to-the-gpio-pins-and-use-the-raspberry-as-a-serial-gateway

You can also add custom themes, right now im setting up this one for my wall mounted tablet(search the domoticz forum for FLatz frontpage)

[blebbens]

Looks nice...

Connected a serial gateway via USB to an raspberry pi 3 running domoticz and configured it as described. Uploaded the serialgateway.ino-Sketch to the arduino nano. I installed a decoupling capacitor.

Afterwards I have build a mysensors motion sensor (HC-SR501, NRF24L01, Arduino nano) and uploaded an arduino-mysensors-sketch.

But, domoticz->hardware does not show any node/child.
Wanted to see success - did I understand anything wrong ?

[Tore André Rosander]

@blebbens Can you see it in setup -> devices?

When you connect your node, does the log show anything?

[blebbens]

Mysensors: Gateway ready (version 1.5.4). This shows me the log.
Can´t the the node.

I uploaded sketches, but did not changed them. The arduino nano connected to the motion sensor is powered by a small power bank. The leds on the nano are off until I press the power bank button.

[blebbens]

Is there a way to test the gateways function ?
domoticz is showing the hardware, but does this mean, all is set up and connected correctly ?

[Tore André Rosander]

@blebbens This should mean that the gateway is responding "Mysensors: Gateway ready (version 1.5.4)."

What does the serial monitor say if you start the node when connected to the computer?

In domoticz -> setup -> settings, is "allow new hardware" activated?

[blebbens]

I am at work for the next 12 hours... I think you are right, think it is not activated.
Isn´t there a button for allowing new hardware for the next 5 minutes ?

Okay, trying it in the evening, thanks.

One more question please: (perhaps I should ask in domoticz forum)
Domoticz is running on my RPi3. I would like to add a raspberry 7" touch screen and install it on the wall. The screen should show a dashboard, But, at the moment I let the RPi boot into console for saving resources.
Is there a way to show a dashboard without starting the whole KDE GUI ? The screen should deactivate after 5 minutes without action - and activate on finger tip.

[blebbens]

Activated allowing new hardware.
Mysensor serial gateway 2.0 finds an unknown node version 1.0 with one child. Child is named s_arduino_repeater_node 2.0.
The log shows this: : MySensors: Update command received for unknown node_id: -1, child_id: 255

Could someone help?

Just uploaded an unmodified sketch from mysensors to a combination of motion sensor, NRF24L01 and arduino nano.

[Tore André Rosander]

I know this one works on my nano:

/**
 * 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
 * 
 * DESCRIPTION
 * Motion Sensor example using HC-SR501 
 * http://www.mysensors.org/build/motion
 *
 */

// Enable debug prints
// #define MY_DEBUG

// Enable and select radio type attached
#define MY_RADIO_NRF24
//#define MY_RADIO_RFM69

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

unsigned long SLEEP_TIME = 120000; // Sleep time between reports (in milliseconds)
#define DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR 3   // The digital input you attached your motion sensor.  (Only 2 and 3 generates interrupt!)
#define INTERRUPT DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR-2 // Usually the interrupt = pin -2 (on uno/nano anyway)
#define CHILD_ID 1   // Id of the sensor child

// Initialize motion message
MyMessage msg(CHILD_ID, V_TRIPPED);

void setup()  
{  
  pinMode(DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR, INPUT);      // sets the motion sensor digital pin as input
}

void presentation()  {
  // Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
  sendSketchInfo("Motion Sensor", "1.0");

  // Register all sensors to gw (they will be created as child devices)
  present(CHILD_ID, S_MOTION);
}

void loop()     
{     
  // Read digital motion value
  boolean tripped = digitalRead(DIGITAL_INPUT_SENSOR) == HIGH; 
        
  Serial.println(tripped);
  send(msg.set(tripped?"1":"0"));  // Send tripped value to gw 
 
  // Sleep until interrupt comes in on motion sensor. Send update every two minute. 
  sleep(INTERRUPT,CHANGE, SLEEP_TIME);
}

[Adam Novak]

hi,
i haven't find anywhere yet, but is it possible to use mysensors mqtt gateway with domoticz?

[blebbens]

At the moment I have running a Raspberry Pi 3 with domoticz and a VeraEdge UI7.

After a long time my ethernet gateway (arduino nano) seems to be running... To verify the connection between the gateway and a node I wanted to build a air quality sensor using a MQ-135 sensor.

I noticed that Vera needs special .xml and .json-files for this. Otherwise Vera does not recognize the sensor/node.

It took several weeks to walk around many errors (mysensor was not compiling using IDE > 1.6.9, 1.6.8 works, in 1.6.10 you have to delete avr-gcc to get this working).

I would like to ask:
Does domoticz need special files/settings for each sensor ?
Does Vera really need special files for recognizing mysensors sensors ?

[hek]

@blebbens said:

Does Vera really need special files for recognizing mysensors sensors ?

Vera (by default) does not support all the sensor types available in MySensors. But i has the standard stuff, like switch, temp, humidiy etc.

If you want to use a none-standard device, like the distance sensor, you have to install a couple of device files (provided in the Vera github repo) which describes how it should presented GUI wise.

[blebbens]

Ok, thanks.

And, how does domoticz handle this? Does it need special files, too?

[hek]

@blebbens said:

Does it need special files, too?

No, I don't think so.

[blebbens]

I really do not know which one to choose: VeraEdge or Domoticz...
But, I am running several Homematic (eq-3) devices. It would be so great to access this devices via the controller. None of them supports Homematic.

Homee supports homematic, but homee does not support mysensors.

[hek]

Haven't heard of homee before. Is it popular in germany?

[blebbens]

It is very popular. Was on kickstarter I think.
Homematic is very famous/big in germany. A controller, which can handle homematic and mysensors would be the best solution.