Problems with first sensors

[blebbens]

@Tore-André-Rosander
Have tried out different sample-sketches from library, e.g. motion and air quality.

It is... so... frustrating. There has to be a stupid mistake causing the sensors to report their availability as repeater node.

[tekka]

@blebbens I totally understand your frustration but I'm afraid, your issue seems HW/radio-related. The logs look normal, also the repeater node message (which is actually emitted from the GW, see your domoticz screenshot and GW log). If you can get a different pair of nRF24L01+ (the P-version), I'd retry with those.

[Tore André Rosander]

Is it just me or does it look like the repeater node is not the actual sensor node?

If you look at the logs " Gateway INTERNAL C_PRESENTATION NO S_ARDUINO_REPEATER_NODE 2.0.0" "New child discovered, node id=0, child id=internal" and "Update child id=255, type=S_ARDUINO_REPEATER_NODE"

How about try to define the node id manually?
And just to be sure the clear eeprom config sketch in the mySensors examples.
You can also try the RF24 library ping-pong examples to test your radios.

[SGi]

Ok so connections appear to be my major problem.... my dupont cables seem to be a bit dodgy... now wired with solid jumpers i can get the 'gettingstarted' sketch of the RF24 library working.

Now i have the following log from the sensor which is encouraging but still weird:

Anything obvious now? The sketch on the sensor is the basic motionsensor one from the examples of 2.0.0 and the gateway is the serialgateway sketch... both no changes

[nielsokker]

@SGi

I am not an expert but i had the same problem. I think a controller determines the id. But since you have none, it can't be done this way. Set a static ID with

#define MY_NODE_ID 11 

or something

[SGi]

@nielsokker Yea you are probably right, no problem now though since as soon as i hooked it up to my controller everything works fine :) dodgy wires on the gateway was the issue all along.... using the very basic node sketch i can now see it in Domoticz and watch it turn on/off every 10 secs :)

[tekka]

@SGi Excellent, have fun 👍

[blebbens]

Think, I do not understand yet.
The motion sketch uses #define CHILD_ID 1.
Where do I have to insert #define MY_NODE_ID 1 ? Just into the skecht of the motion sensor ?

[Tore André Rosander]

@blebbens i think you can just put it over "define child id"

[nielsokker]

@Tore-André-Rosander said:

define child id"

I think so too.

These are probably just minor mistakes, changing from MySensors versions.

[blebbens]

So, I have to delete CHILD_ID und change it to MY_NODE_ID?

Okay, reaching home today, perhaps. Hope, this works.

[Tore André Rosander]

No, just add the define node id.

[nielsokker]

@blebbens

The old define, might become useless, but it wont be in the way either. It is your choice.

[scalz]

@blebbens use MY_NODE_ID to define the id of your node. the child id is for your sensors id, not the node id.

[Tore André Rosander]

@blebbens I just replaced my RPi Gateway (the direct connection to GPIO) with the Serial Gateway, and the Repeater node you are seeing must be your gateway. Before i connected any nodes i got the same repeater node listed as hardware as you did, so it is probably your node that is the problem.

[Fabien]

I have exactly same error after loading new sketch (sensebender with BMP085). It was working fine for few days and suddenly it doesn't work. After verting my modification it doesn't work. Clear EEPROM doesn't solve the problem. RFM69W and static ID.
Gateway work fine with other sensors (sensebender without mods).

TSM:INIT
TSM:RADIO:OK
TSP:ASSIGNID:OK (ID=100)
TSM:FPAR
TSP:MSG:SEND 100-100-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=bc:
TSM:FPAR
TSP:MSG:SEND 100-100-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=bc:
TSM:FPAR
TSP:MSG:SEND 100-100-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=bc:
TSM:FPAR
TSP:MSG:SEND 100-100-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=bc:
!TSM:FPAR:FAIL
!TSM:FAILURE
TSM:PDT

[Fabien]

Sorry, I made a mistake when updating my sketch with (deleting bad zero to change 100 to 10 ...)
#define MY_RFM69_NETWORKID 100
#define MY_NODE_ID 100
Works fine now !

[blebbens]

hi,

Was not at home for about 2 weeks now (driving home in 2 days), but AliExpress delivered 10 NRF2401 non-amplified without antenna. Is it still necessary to define low power and data rate of 1mbps?

#define MY_RF24_PA_LEVEL RF24_PA_LOW
#define MY_RF24_DATARATE RF24_1MBPS

Do I have to set the node ID still manually?

[SGi]

I thought my problem was dodgy Dupont cables but after more experimenting all issues have now gone by soldering a 80mm aerial to the radio :) like a magic fix....

[SGi]

Still cant get the stutus LED's working tho... hmmmm any suggestions? i have checked the polarity and connections are good to pins 4,5,6