Is there anyone using MQTT as gateway for connecting to openHab running on another Rpi. If so please help with any links, post or any information to direct me on the right path.
@Boots33
Thanks a lot for the quick response.
I now have my Nano running as a serial gateway and it is connected via a USB cable directly to my controller (Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant / Hass.io).
I added a local motion sensor to the Nano gateway HW and pasted the mysensors MotionSensor example code to the setup(), presentation() and loop() functions as well as to the definitions in the top of the GatewaySerial example code.
I disabled the radio definitions as I currently have no radio capability in my gateway (not sure if this was necessary).
In Home Assistant / Hass.io I updated the configuration.yaml with the following text (as described on the Home Assistant integration help):
mysensors:
gateways:
- device: '/dev/ttyUSB0'
And it works
In Home Assistant Developer Tools under States I can now see my motion sensor go on and off by the flick of my hand.
I had expected a bit more bumps on the road just to get this far, but wow - I am obviously walking in the foot prints of people who have worked hard to make it easy for the rest of us.
I am sure I will hit bumps on the way when the radios have to send results to the gateway (thick concrete walls with lots of steel), but for now I will enjoy this big success.
Thanks again Boots33
@kunall the best recommendation against openhab for me was ugly interface and problems with running it (java). I was using domoticz since early version with own interface on arduino,now I've switched everything for MySensors.
It still lacks some functions but Inwait for further development as even programmers of domoticz start to use MyS hardware
@micah said:
@sundberg84 said:
Hard to say. St:fail generally means that you don't get ack from the receiver. This is normally range, power or hardware. There is not a general fix for this but you need to try and learn... i admit its strange I worked for some days. Maybe a radio fried ?
Don't have the radios to close to eachother. Try a.couple of meters.
Sorry I'm out of more solid ideas.
Hey sundberg84, quick question for you.
If you look at my debug logs above it looks like the gateway is infact receiving the message but the node thinks it fails. Con you confirm my interpretation of the following two lines?
NODE DEBUG
send: 42-42-0-0 s=1,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,st=fail:20.0
GATEWAY DEBUG
0;255;3;0;9;read: 42-42-0 s=1,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5,sg=0:20.0
If that's correct, could that change what the issue might be?
Yes, I saw that - it seems to work one way but the ack (return) does not reach back. So its on the edge.
But this should update the value in your controller.
