💬 Building an Ethernet Gateway

[scalz]

@LaMB95
For the moment, i don't think there is an howto regarding w5500 as we're mostly using w5100, but maybe you can find some infos in this topic https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2901/my-ethernet-gateway-board-w5500

[KiwiHC16]

Hi All,
I have an ethernet gateway base on arduino Pro mini with NRF24L01 radio and Funding ethernet card with W5100 chips. (As per description of this page)
All works fine when I'm connected to it with Arduino IDE. Works for hours/days.
If I unplug the IDE (disconnect USB) and run it alone it stop working after for minutes or few hours.
I have only one sensor (temperature) to test. It send Temperature and battery level every 10s (testing). Led attached to Gateway to show the traffic lit up twice each time it receive the information from the sensor. The LED lit up twice like half a second when everything is fine. Easy to see.
When the issue starts, the led lit up time to time but very quickly, and even very difficult to see. Some time I can ping the Gateway, some time not.
Any idea from anybody ?

[KiwiHC16]

additional info: Same situation having //#define MY_DEBUG defined or not.

[KiwiHC16]

Looks like the issue is related to the power supply. I just plugged a 5V to the USB and It has been working fine for 24h. Need to review the Power supply in place.

[Sander Stolk]

The first one will not compile since the #include <SPI.h> is missing

[WizarDEAD]

Hello guys,
Can anyone help me with modify this to work with W5500 Ethernet module?
Please advice us what need to be modified and why it needs to be modified.
Thanks you very much.

[mfalkvidd]

@WizarDEAD the information in https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2901/my-ethernet-gateway-board-w5500 might be useful.

[Chucky_69]

Hi Guys,

I'm using a Wiznet W5100 Ethernet module.
The pins are described as following (I added a numbering myself:

The MySensors Gateway uses different terms, am I 'translating' them correctly?

[Cansher]

@Chucky_69
Looks right!

[fifo]

My WizNET (W5100) Ethernet module had to be connected to 5v pin on arduino as the 3.3v would only allow ping but not function properly.

[AndrewZ]

Maybe I just overlooked that, but is it possible to statically define netmask and gateway in the sketch? I'm using ENC28J60.

[mfalkvidd]

@AndrewZ I think you can use

MY_IP_GATEWAY_ADDRESS
MY_IP_SUBNET_ADDRESS

[AndrewZ]

@mfalkvidd , yes I also found this in MQTT GW example, thanks.
This seems to be not working on my ENC28J60 - as I can see the the default gateway setting is not taken into account. I will test with W5100.

Edit: I confirm that these settings work properly with W5100, just tested.

[hoggin]

I just spent a long time troubleshooting my problems trying to set this up and I thought I would share. I followed this tutorial and everything was a breeze except my unit kept rebooting and I couldn't figure out why. I thought for the longest time it was the power supply but it ended up being the version of Arduino IDE I was using. I found some answers https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4628/solved-mysensors-2-0-ethernet-gateway-enc28j60-restart-ip-issue/46 and https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4680/mysensors-2-0-ethernet-gateway-atmega-w5100-restart-all-time that got me down the right path. I downgraded to "Arduino IDE 1.6.11" and that worked. I completely uninstalled arduino from my system and just started over with the older version. I assembled everything as I had done before and it just fired right up. The mysensors library I used was 2.0.0 and again it all worked perfectly. I was amazed. I didnt have to comment out the debug or do anything other than follow the tutorial EXCEPT only use 1.6.11 to upload it all.
Hope this helps someone in the future.

[rejoe2]

@hoggin At least according to my experience, just downgrading the AVR Board Definitions to <=1.6.11 using the Board-Manager within an recent version of the IDE should have done the trick; downgrade of the other libs including mysensors (2.1.1) was not necessary.

In Addition: For the serial Gateways this kind of trouble seems to be solved since version 1.6.18 of the AVR-Board definitions (shipped since several weeks).

[hoggin]

@rejoe2 Perhaps you are correct. I am not nearly as well versed in this stuff as others. I was working on the Ethernet project so I didn't spend much time messing with the serial end of it.

[rejoe2]

@hoggin I don't have experience with the ethernet part and just wanted to point out that your solution may be a little "overdone" (but I'm not sure about that).
Anyhow: Perhaps you should add a remark wrt. to this to your other post doubling the info you wrote here to avoid others doing tho long round instead of the direct way?

[hoggin]

@rejoe2 I think you are suggesting that I create a link between this post and the other one. Here Hopefully this will direct people to more information regarding the rebooting issue i faced.

[rejoe2]

@hoggin The post I had in mind is this one: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/6149/ethernet-gateway-shows-up-on-vera-but-doens-t-want-to-include-devices/17#
I am going to post a similar answer also there.

[hoggin]

@rejoe2 Sounds good.