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Send a request message using Mysensors bindings

andreground last edited by

Hi guys!

I’m happily using the openHAB connectors to control my sensors through both openhab1 and openhab2.

Today, while I was developing a new sketch, I realized that I needed to periodically send a request message to my sensor to receive back in updated value.

I didn’t find a way to sort this out!

Is there anything I can do to have either openhab1 or 2 managing this?

Thanks in advance!
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TimO Hero Member last edited by @andreground

Hi @andreground !

Have a look at expert mode in the OH2 binding:
https://github.com/tobof/openhab2-addons/wiki/Expert-mode-(rule-based)

This way you may send what you want.
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andreground last edited by @TimO

@TimO

Thanks!
This should fit for OH2!

Do you know if something similar exists also for OH1?
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TimO Hero Member last edited by TimO @andreground

@andreground

I can't help you there, sorry.
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Hi, sorry for the delay in replying, I got caught up on other things... I (think?) I'm using the MQTT2 binding in OH. In the PaperUI --> Add-ons --> Bindings, the only one showing as installed is "MQTT Binding (binding-mqtt - 2.5.4)". I'm running separate Docker containers for MySensors Gateway, Mosquitto and OpenHab. Since people seem to be using text files for configuration successfully, I'm going that route too (version control, scripted/automated builds, etc). These are the configuration files I've got so far (sanitised as appropriate): $ cat openhab/conf/things/mysensors.things Bridge mqtt:broker:Mosquitto "Mosquitto" [ host="192.168.10.114", port="1883", secure=false, clientID="OpenHAB", username="mqtt_user", password="mqtt_password" ] { Thing topic nodePrototype1 "Prototype Node" @ "Portable" { Channels: Type number : temp "Temperature" [ stateTopic="mysensors-out/1/0/1/0/0", unit="°C" ] } } $ cat openhab/conf/items/mysensors.items Number Prototype_Temp "Temperature" <temperature> {channel="mqtt:topic:Mosquitto:nodePrototype1:temp"} OH is successfully displaying the temperature in PaperUI, but I haven't tried to do anything with it yet...
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@itbeyond I'm glad to hear you finally found the cause! The current jar is published via the download link on the wiki page: https://github.com/tobof/openhab2-addons/wiki/Installation And via eclipse marketplace. There is currently no active development, I only try to ensure the binding is running fine with the most current release of Openhab2.
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Thank you @hard-shovel! It works. It doesn't store the value between reboots but I guess that's a different topic which I will look into. Cheers
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OpenHAB • • Ilikepeanuts

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OK got it !!! It was a combination of more failures - with the main one not having read the name of the status message carefully enough : ItemStateChanged(!!!)Event. So as long as battery level is the same ...
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I have tried this on my test system and i get the same results as you using the VAR1 -- VAR5 with the cover (RollerShutter) thing. However if you add CustomSensor thing to your node then using the VAR1-VAR5 work as expected with the mapping. With numbers to and from the node. things cover Mock_Cover [nodeId=254, childId=6 ] text Mock_info [nodeId=254, childId=7 ] Items Rollershutter Mock_Cover_State "Mock Cover State [%s]" <rollershutter> (test254) { channel = "mysensors:cover:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Cover:cover" } Number Mock_Info_Var1 "Mock Info Variable 1 (number) [%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var1" } String Mock_Info_Var1s "Mock Info Variable 1 (string) [%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var1" } Number Mock_Info_Var1m "Mock Info Variable 1 (number) [MAP(curtains.map):%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var1" } String Mock_Info_Var1sm "Mock Info Variable 1 (string map) [%s]" (test254) { channel="mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var1" [profile="transform:MAP", function="curtains.map"] } Number Mock_Info_Var2 "Mock Info Variable 2 (number) [%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var2" } Number Mock_Info_Var3 "Mock Info Variable 3 (number) [%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var3" } Number Mock_Info_Var4 "Mock Info Variable 4 (number) [%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var4" } Number Mock_Info_Var5 "Mock Info Variable 5 (number) [%s]" (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:var5" } Node #define CHILD_ID_COVER 6 #define CHILD_ID_CUSTOM 7 present(CHILD_ID_COVER, S_COVER, "Roller Shutters"); present(CHILD_ID_CUSTOM, S_CUSTOM, "Reasons"); Or you if you want to send strings you could use String Mock_Info_Text "Mock Info text sting [%s] " (test254) { channel = "mysensors:text:gatewayWIFI3:Mock_Info:text" }
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OpenHAB • • syntacrsc

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Solved it by changing the definition (typeId) of both V_VAR1 and V_VAR2 in the binding file for S_Cover (.XML file in folder /usr/share/openhab -> org.openhab.binding.mysensors-2.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -> ESH-INF/thing/S_Cover.xml) from "var1-channel" resp. "var2-channel" to "cover-channel" (see XML excerpt below). This allows me to setup two additional rollershutter items to control the tilt of the cover blade (V_VAR1 = single tilt and V_VAR2 = tripple tilt at a time) and to send back the position of the tilt blades stored in the node to openHAB. Items: Rollershutter BueroRalphJalousieAufAb "Auf/ab" { channel="mysensors:cover:gateway:BueroRalphJalousie:cover", Rollershutter BueroRalphJalousieTilt "Tilt" { channel="mysensors:cover:gateway:BueroRalphJalousie:var1" } Rollershutter BueroRalphJalousieTilt3X "3x Tilt" { channel="mysensors:cover:gateway:BueroRalphJalousie:var2" } **Binding .XML file in folder /usr/share/openhab -> org.openhab.binding.mysensors-2.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -> ESH-INF/thing/S_Cover.xml I changed from: <channel id="var1" typeId="var1-channel" /> <channel id="var2" typeId="var2-channel" />** to <channel id="var1" typeId="cover-channel" /> <channel id="var2" typeId="cover-channel" /> like this: <thing:thing-descriptions bindingId="mysensors" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:thing="https://openhab.org/schemas/thing-description/v1.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="https://openhab.org/schemas/thing-description/v1.0.0 https://openhab.org/schemas/thing-description-1.0.0.xsd"> <thing-type id="cover"> <supported-bridge-type-refs> <bridge-type-ref id="bridge-ser" /> <bridge-type-ref id="bridge-eth" /> <bridge-type-ref id="bridge-mqtt" /> </supported-bridge-type-refs> <label>RollerShutter</label> <description>RollerShutter</description> <channels> <channel id="cover" typeId="cover-channel" /> <channel id="var1" typeId="cover-channel" /> <channel id="var2" typeId="cover-channel" /> <channel id="var3" typeId="var3-channel" /> <channel id="var4" typeId="var4-channel" /> <channel id="var5" typeId="var5-channel" /> <channel id="battery" typeId="battery-channel" /> <channel id="lastupdate" typeId="lastupdate-channel" /> </channels> <config-description> <parameter name="nodeId" typ... mySensors code (excerpt): // Prepare Messages: Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusAufAb.setSensor(Jalousien[i - 1].RaumNummer); //ChildID Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusAufAb.setType(V_PERCENTAGE); //UpDown-Position Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusTilt.setSensor(Jalousien[i - 1].RaumNummer); //ChildID Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusTilt.setType(V_VAR1); //Tilt-Position Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusTilt3X.setSensor(Jalousien[i - 1].RaumNummer); //ChildID Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusTilt3X.setType(V_VAR2); //Tilt3x-Position ... ... // Neuen Zustand an Controller melden / Send cover and tilt positions back to controller: send(Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusTilt.set((Jalousien[i - 1].StatusTilt / Jalousien[i - 1].TiltSchritte), 2), false); send(Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusTilt3X.set((Jalousien[i - 1].StatusTilt / Jalousien[i - 1].TiltSchritte), 2), false); send(Jalousien[i - 1].MessageStatusAufAb.set(Jalousien[i - 1].StatusAufAb, 0), false); Make sure to send the V_PERCENTAGE last since V_VAR1 and V_VAR2 for some unknown reason (and as far as I feel totally unnecessarily) still updates V_PERCENTAGE! Result:
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I came across this post while looking for some information, and I realize this post is quite old, but I wanted to resurrect it for a couple reasons: It looks like OP made a few posts and then never came back since 2018, so maybe they gave up (I know I have been there, more than once). I have come across a lot of posts like this while looking things up and I always find it quite sad that they never so much as received a single reply. There are almost 600 views, so clearly I am not the only one looking for this information. Therefore, @FredRoot, if you read this, just curious if you ever got it sorted. And for anyone else reading, OpenHAB has changed a bit in the meantime, but I am pretty familiar with it, and so I could post a working example should anyone need it. Although this is really more of an OpenHAB question, and therefore perhaps more appropriate for their forums.
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@waspie said in Is MySensors Binding needed in addition to MQTT Binding (in OpenHAB 2.5.5)? (aka request() node state via MQTT): I had initial problems with the 2.4 binding and went MQTT only. Pretty much my exact experience as well. I've been really happy with the plain vanilla Ethernet / MQTT gateway (without MySensofs binding) so far this time around. But I'm easing into it slowly and lightly, bit by bit this time. But so far, so good! I probably have dug into the MQTT and MySensors protocols, as well as pure textual configuration of OpenHAB well enough to probably figure out the issue I originally posted about. But then I realized I probably don't need to get state from the controller... This node will be a 3 relay node to control my HVAC (fan, compressor, heat) and so it really doesn't need state on startup. They can just start up always off, and then when temperature, humidity or other settings / rules demand it, controller will just tell the relays to turn on. I think I was at the end of like a 14 hour bender of reading and working on stuff when I made that post. Some times, you should just go to bed, instead. One thing I guess I am still curious on is: what functionality exactly does the OpenHAB binding provide, other than auto-discovery and (probably much) easier node management and creation? Because I struggled a bit at first, but now that I am over that hump, I am actually really glad all my config is in plain text files instead of some hidden automagical database deep inside the bowels of Java and OpenHAB.

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