I can't find on google or on the forum how to make an esp8266 based gateway with a local relay connected report the state of the relay back to my controller(which is a vera, but that should't matter). Thanks for the help.
Hi,
nice projet. I am very interested in it.
But why you are using 5 V and not 3.3 V? The ATmea328 works with 3.3 V too and the NRF have to use 3.3 V.
The only restriction on 3.3 V is the clock limitation for the Atmega (8 MHz). But with no crystal it don't care.
For example you could use an HLK-PM03 instead of HLK-PM01 and remove the linear voltage regulator. So you get more space an everything have the same voltage level.
And another point is, it is recommended to use a capacitor (0.1 ยตF) to ground for each voltage pin (Vcc, Avcc, Aref).
I liked domoticz (was very easy to set up and use). Together with dzVents scripting wasn't that difficult either. But I also had some problem with it lately, so I was actually thinking about switching to openhab (2).
Yes i made several reset, exclusions, inclusions, vera reset and clear EPROM but nothing worked...
I made a new sensor and it works perfectly
Strange... I will try again when i will have more time.
Thanks for the help
I figured it out: there is a bug in UI7 where when I press the start button for inclusion mode it never stops and the manual stop button doesn't do anything. It took a lot of luup restarts at the right moment to get it to work. I don't know if this is a bug but I tried this on 2 Veras and it did the same so it's not just for me I think....
I'm using the free version of plot.ly to do plotting from an arduino. Here's a real-time feed, where you can see the effect of last night's irrigation on my soil moisture sensor readings:
https://plot.ly/~WhiteRabbit/997
It's very similar to Xively, but I like how I can easily pan and zoom the data. That's helpful as you get a bigger dataset, like this:
https://plot.ly/~WhiteRabbit/869/
Plot.ly has demo arduino code on their website you can use as a starting point.
Also, I have read how some people are using mysql to collect their data and graph it. I'd like to learn how to do that too, as I think it would be a good data archiving tool, and would provide additional ways to slice and dice the data.
With these solutions, you don't need to be dependent on owning or using a Vera.
I'd be interested to read about what other solutions people are using.
Lol, I didn't even think about that way. I did think it a bit strange to post it here, and not on the Verde forum, but not enough to give it a second thought..