NodeManager: plugin for a rapid development of battery-powered sensors

grau

Thank you very much. BTW: Is it possible to use Nodemanager with two, three or even four door sensors on a single ESP8266 (as Gateway without NRF radio)? Any help very appreciated!

user2684

@grau the current door sensor implementation (SensorDoor class) leverages attachInterrupt(); not sure how many interrupt pins are there on a ESP8266 but if there are enough it should work

RPunkt

@user2684 Hello all of You,
this topic is quite old, but hopefully someone is reading this.
I could not figure out, what to do if the NRF24 is wired to different pins.
I have a board with nrf24 on board, but this are connected like:
// Enable and select radio type attached
#define MY_RADIO_NRF24
#define MY_RF24_CE_PIN 7
#define MY_RF24_CS_PIN 10
#define MY_SOFT_SPI_SCK_PIN 11
#define MY_SOFT_SPI_MOSI_PIN 12
#define MY_SOFT_SPI_MISO_PIN 13
How can this be inplemented in the nodemanager?

user2684

@rpunkt just use those directives in your sketch, no differences with NodeManager, those will be seen by the MySensors library and applied. Thanks

RPunkt

@user2684 Thanks a lot. I should have tried this, before to post a question, but sometimes the brain is sticky.

RPunkt

Hello all of You,
if have a flight time sensor VL53L0X, that is running so far.
It should measure the water level in a rain tank.
But now i want to customize my sensornode in that way, that two other values will be transmitted.
It should be
V_level, that represents the percentage of my water tank
and
V_volume, that represents the available volume of water
V_level and V_volume could be calculated from the sensor value of the distance sensor (VL53L0X).
But somehow I could not manage to to get this running. I don't know where to insert what.
Cant someone point me to the right direction, help appreciated

/*
* 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) 2013-2017 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.
*/

/**************************
Template

This sketch can be used as a template since containing the most relevant MySensors library configuration settings, 
NodeManager's settings, all its the supported sensors commented out and a sketch structure fully functional to operate with
NodeManager. Just uncomment the settings you need and the sensors you want to add and configure the sensors in before()
*/

/**********************************
 * MySensors node configuration
 */

// General settings
#define SKETCH_NAME "NodeManager"
#define SKETCH_VERSION "1.0"
//#define MY_DEBUG
#define MY_NODE_ID 8

// NRF24 radio settings
#define MY_RADIO_NRF24
#define MY_RF24_CE_PIN 7
#define MY_RF24_CS_PIN 10
#define MY_SOFT_SPI_SCK_PIN 11
#define MY_SOFT_SPI_MOSI_PIN 12
#define MY_SOFT_SPI_MISO_PIN 13

// Advanced settings
#define MY_BAUD_RATE 9600
#define MY_SPLASH_SCREEN_DISABLED

/**********************************
 * MySensors gateway configuration
 */
 
// Common gateway settings
//#define MY_REPEATER_FEATURE

/***********************************
 * NodeManager configuration
 */

#define NODEMANAGER_DEBUG ON
#define NODEMANAGER_INTERRUPTS ON
#define NODEMANAGER_SLEEP ON
#define NODEMANAGER_RECEIVE OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_DEBUG_VERBOSE OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_POWER_MANAGER ON
#define NODEMANAGER_CONDITIONAL_REPORT OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_EEPROM OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_TIME OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_RTC OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_SD OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_HOOKING OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_OTA_CONFIGURATION OFF
#define NODEMANAGER_SERIAL_INPUT OFF

// import NodeManager library (a nodeManager object will be then made available)
#include <MySensors_NodeManager.h>

/***********************************
 * Add your sensors
 */

//PowerManager power(5,6);
 
#include <sensors/SensorBattery.h>
SensorBattery battery;

//#include <sensors/SensorConfiguration.h>
//SensorConfiguration configuration;

#include <sensors/SensorSignal.h>
SensorSignal signal;

#include <sensors/SensorVL53L0X.h>
SensorVL53L0X vl53l0x(9);

/***********************************
 * Main Sketch
 */

// before
void before() {
	
  /***********************************
   * Configure your sensors
   */
  // 
  // EXAMPLES:
  // report measures of every attached sensors every 10 seconds
  nodeManager.setReportIntervalSeconds(10);
  void setADCOff();
  nodeManager.setSleepSeconds(10);
  // call NodeManager before routine
  nodeManager.before();
  }

// presentation
void presentation() {
  // call NodeManager presentation routine
  nodeManager.presentation();
}

// setup
void setup() {
  // call NodeManager setup routine
  nodeManager.setup();
}

// loop
void loop() {
  // call NodeManager loop routine
  nodeManager.loop();
}

#if NODEMANAGER_RECEIVE == ON
// receive
void receive(const MyMessage &message) {
  // call NodeManager receive routine
  nodeManager.receive(message);
}
#endif

#if NODEMANAGER_TIME == ON
// receiveTime
void receiveTime(unsigned long ts) {
  // call NodeManager receiveTime routine
  nodeManager.receiveTime(ts);
}
#endif```

user2684

@rpunkt my recommendation would be to create a custom sensor in NodeManager which is implementing the logic you like. Feel free to copy from https://github.com/mysensors/NodeManager/blob/master/sensors/SensorVL53L0X.h and create your own or make your own class by inheriting directly from SensorVL53L0X.

RPunkt

@user2684 Seems to be to difficult for a rookie :sob:
On the conventional MySensors library it is possible with my abilities, but then the power management is a issue.
For me the NodeManager was the choice, because it saves so much battery energy.
Other way of solution:
A friend of mine, convinced me off doing all the calculations in the home- automation (in my case FHEM).
Now I only use the node transmitting the distance and calculating the "volume of water" and "percentage of water" as a "user reading".

justfra

Hello @user2684 et al,

I'm trying to use this library on an ESP32 board. I'm trying this sketch out (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mysensors/NodeManager/master/examples/AnalogLightAndTemperatureSensor/AnalogLightAndTemperatureSensor.ino)

My problem is that if I just try to use the 1.8 version of NodeManager it will use as a dependency a version of MySensors which do not work with ESP32 and I get a known error regarding re-definition of app_main. Because of that I need to use the development version of MySensors but it seems not compatible with NodeManager 1.8 as I get the following error:

In file included from .pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/MySensors/MySensors.h:43:0,
                 from .pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/NodeManager/MySensors_NodeManager.h:43,
                 from src\main.cpp:60:
.pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/MySensors/MyConfig.h:288:2: warning: #warning MY_RADIO_NRF24 is deprecated, use MY_RADIO_RF24 instead. [-Wcpp]
 #warning MY_RADIO_NRF24 is deprecated, use MY_RADIO_RF24 instead.
  ^
In file included from .pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/NodeManager/MySensors_NodeManager.h:87:0,
                 from src\main.cpp:60:
.pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/NodeManager/nodemanager/Sensor.cpp: In member function 'void Sensor::presentation()':
.pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/NodeManager/nodemanager/Sensor.cpp:135:54: error: invalid conversion from 'uint8_t {aka unsigned char}' to 'mysensors_sensor_t' [-fpermissive]
   present(child->getChildId(), child->getPresentation(), child->getDescription(), nodeManager.getAck());
                                                      ^
In file included from .pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/MySensors/MySensors.h:433:0,
                 from .pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/NodeManager/MySensors_NodeManager.h:43,
                 from src\main.cpp:60:
.pio/libdeps/nodemcu-32s/MySensors/core/MySensorsCore.cpp:375:6: note:   initializing argument 2 of 'bool present(uint8_t, mysensors_sensor_t, const char*, bool)'   
 bool present(const uint8_t childSensorId, const mysensors_sensor_t sensorType,
      ^
*** [.pio\build\nodemcu-32s\src\main.cpp.o] Error 1

I have also tried using the development version of NodeManager with the development version of MySensors although I get the same result.
I'm stuck and I would really appreciate any input.

Thanks in advance!

user2684

@justfra thanks for reporting this issue, I believe there is some sort of library conflicts which is arising across MySensors/Nodemanager versions...something which has to be investigated carefully, I'll track this bug with https://github.com/mysensors/NodeManager/issues/491

ghiglie

Oh, I hate saying I've noticed this great piece of software just now! :( It would have saved me countless hours of software tinkering, giving more eyecare for better soldering...!

user2684

@justfra realizing only now the issue you reported was not ESP32 related but due to a compatibility issues between MySensors v2.3.2 and NodeManager just fixed in the development version with https://github.com/mysensors/NodeManager/pull/508. Either try the latest development version of NodeManager or use MySensors v2.3.1. Thanks

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