pimatic-mysensors controller plugin

[Dheeraj]

@Fredrik-Carlsson said:

think one of the nicest things about pimatic is the graphing functionality. I want to log and and check how the heating is distributed throughout my house and at which consumption depending on heatpump / woodstove set

since i don't have home laptop with me. otherwise , i could have shared the custom sketch with you. but what i remember is that it sends V_WATT message with wattage usage and calculate KW and KWh ( still broken ) at controller end ( pimatic ).

meanwhile, i'm fixing the pulsemeter code which will be compatible with actual sketch, wait for 1 or 2 days. Also, we will be able to see battery status (optional) with sensor devices.

one thing you missed here is that pimatic is browser based also have the "automation by rules" functionality which is awesome. also you can try various plugins available with pimatic. http://www.pimatic.org/pages/plugins/

[Fredrik Carlsson]

@Dheeraj I wait patiently then :)
Yes the more im digging in to pimatic the more i like it and feel that it fits my needs perfectly

[Mad Moo]

Yesterday was great update (0.8.14). Now battery level is connected with device as regular attribute. Great job, @Dheeraj! Thanks a lot!

[Dheeraj]

newer version (0.8.15 ) of plugin release . support Acronym for devices . improves user experience.

[funky81]

@Fredrik-Carlsson info you havent got one, please check my development git

• Pulse sensor ( Watt, KWh and Ampere )
  {
  "id": "EnergySensor,
  "name": "Energy Sensor",
  "class": "MySensorsPulseMeter",
  "nodeid": 3,
  "batterySensor": true,
  "sensorid": 1,
  "appliedVoltage" : 220
  }

[Fredrik Carlsson]

Yes saw it on github, very interesting. Will try as soon as I am home again

[funky81]

@Fredrik-Carlsson please try it, please notice me if you find any bugs.
I'm in the middle of pull request to @Dheeraj

[Fredrik Carlsson]

Hello
haven't had the opportunity to test yet.
will try to find time tomorrow

[Mad Moo]

@Dheeraj said:

newer version (0.8.15 ) of plugin release . support Acronym for devices . improves user experience.

Hello @Dheeraj,

Could you tell me which commit was connected with 0.8.15? I am little bit confused because your github is still contains 0.8.14 but it looks newer when 0.8.15.

[Dheeraj]

@Mad-Moo latest code 0.8.17 is pushed to github. now everything is sync.

[Fredrik Carlsson]

@funky81
Hello. I have had a hard time testing this. Is the future for the pulsesensor implemented in 0.8.17 official plugin?

If not, how get the latest commit in to pimatic? Have tried to git clone the plugin and then npm install inside the folder, but then none of the sensors shows up in pimatic (the plugin is not active)

With official 0.8.17 the arduino sketch just come in to an endless loop where it wants the latest pulsecount = no answer from pimatic

[Panos]

Hello,

Very nice plugin.

Is there any chance in the future to support the ethernet gateway?

It would be great if we could connected simultaneously to a serial and ethernet gateway from the same pimatic server.
so we could cover remote places..!!!!

[Dheeraj]

New version of plugin available. 0.8.21.

and a video to showcase its capability..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXAKitvAdA

[Oitzu]

@Dheeraj
Nice! One question: Could you maybe disconnect your repository from pimatic-plugin-template?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16052477/delete-fork-dependency-of-a-github-repository

With the fork connected its hard to fork. ;)

[Dheeraj]

@Oitzu sure will do it need some time..

[karl261]

Hi, I am using the mysensors-pimatic system and it works great. Now, I am using an optocoupler to simulate some buttons being pressend, and at the moment I am using the relay sketch for that. That works great, but it gives me on/off switches in pimatic. However, I only press the button momentarily. So I would need more a momentary button in pimatic. Something that does not switch but I still can press. So three questions:

1. Is there a way to have an "ordinary" button in pimatic (not on/off)? Something I press only? This on/off switch works (everytime I switch on or off it simulates on button pressed on my optocoupler), but it is not really what I am looking for.
2. Is there some code for a momentary button in mysensors? The relay code I am using works great. I adapted in a way that it swtiches the optocoupler on and 50ms later automatically off. Works great, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way to do it.
3. If there is no code for a momentary button for pimatic, where would I start looking if I'd want to contribute code?

Cheers!

[Oitzu]

Hey karl261,

1.) Yes there is a ordinary button in pimatic. The base-class is called "ButtonsDevice" if i remember correctly.
2.) The MySensors Plugin also seems to implement this.
See: https://github.com/DheerajKhajuria/pimatic-mysensors
Search for: Binary Button
3.) Depends at which point you want to contribute code.
For the mysensors plugin: https://github.com/DheerajKhajuria/pimatic-mysensors
For the Pimatic framework: https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic
Make also sure to read the howto @ www.pimatic.org and visit the forum forum.pimatic.org.

[Dheeraj]

@karl261 using ButtonsDevice as mentioned by Oitzu, you can achieve the point no. 1 . non off/on switch..

{
      "id": "mode",
      "name": "TV Mode",
      "class": "ButtonsDevice",
      "buttons": [
        {
          "id": "PVR",
         "text": "PVR"
        },
        {
          "id": "HTPC",
          "text": "HTPC"
        },
        {
          "id": "Chromecast",
          "text": "Chromecast"
        },
        {
          "id": "testing",
          "text": "RainBowCycle"
        },
      ]
    },

for point no. 2 you can use pimatic IFTTT rules to control (*hidden * relay switch button) moreover you can switch off optocoupler after 50 ms using rules.

3. if you have some special requirement you are welcome to contribute..

[karl261]

Hi guys. Thanks for the replies. This seems to work. I created a button and made a rule "if button XY pressed then toggle AB". So I suppose I leave the relay device as is, just remove it from my pimatic page (out of sight) and move in the button instead. IS that right?

Very cool indeed!

[karl261]

Hi there, I have problem that appears recently. I hope somebody can point me in the right direction.

I had my setup running for the past two weeks without any problems. No changes in hardware. Now the following happened:

Suddenly out of nowhere pimatic stop transmitting/receiving. Just like this. No error message. Pimatic frontend working finde. But no data going out to or coming in from the serial gateway.

I checked all logs: Nothing. I re-started pimatic: No success. All logs normal. I restarted the pi2: Nothing. All logs normal. I unplugged/replugged the arduino nano: Nothing. No success.

Then I shutdown the pi2, I pulled the power cable, I put it back in and voila: Everything worked normally. Still nothing in any logs. Unfortunately, now about 24h later, the same issue.

What is happening there? How can I debug that? I also tried resetting the usb:

echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.5/authorized
echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.5/authorized
Nothing.

What can I do? Why was it running perfectly for two weeks?

I changed back to a super simple pimatic config with just one device, but still the same issues.

What to do? Please advice!