Hi All
I am new here; just wanted to say I am glad I have stumbled over this site as I am currently working on my PhD project that is aiming to see if a smart home can be used to help improve the independence of adults with autism. I am using openHAB with, at the moment, Insteon to communicate but I have had a number of issues. I am looking for a possible replacement and I thought I would have a go at creating my own sensors. I have a number of Ardunios, 4 Unos, 1 Yun, 1 mega and 2 RPi, 1 A and 1 B. I have just ordered a bunch of NRF24L01+ to see what I can achieve myself rather than using a different system. I need to work out what info I can get from my various bits of kit and see how I can use this info in openHAB but I am looking forward to playing!

@mfalkvidd
I have swapped it amd still no good. The one that I swapped with has been working in the past as part of a motion sensor. Bit annoying, going to set another one up with a new capacitor. I don't have any more 4.7, will try a 10, not because I think that is an issue, just because I have to try something and that is the closest to 4.7 i have at the moment. I have a new bag on the way from HK. Will let you know what happens!

@hek @bkl
Just want to say a REAL BIG THANKS for this binding and for the whole mysensors system.

I have been trying to use openhab 1.8 for my PhD project and I initially setup insteon and had so many headaches I gave up in disgust. I was pointed in the direction of mysensors as a possibility and I thought I had nothing to lose.
Not only is the binding a success, I have two motion sensors running, one on a pro mini with 2xAA batteries running it as a test and one on a uno, I have persistence running and successfully logging the status of my devices on each and every update! I am using mongodb for the persistence methods as I love nosql, even though I have to teach relational databases at the moment, (trying to turn the Uni onto the light side).

Anyway, for those interested, here is a log from the db:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("574acbe1e4b0cd9ed18ada26"),
"item" : "DiningRoom",
"realName" : "DiningRoom",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-05-29T11:00:49.761Z"),
"value" : "ON"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("574acbe3e4b0cd9ed18ada27"),
"item" : "DiningRoom",
"realName" : "DiningRoom",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-05-29T11:00:51.136Z"),
"value" : "OFF"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("574acc25e4b0cd9ed18ada2a"),
"item" : "DiningRoom",
"realName" : "DiningRoom",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-05-29T11:01:57.823Z"),
"value" : "ON"
}

the .items file looks like this, (so you can see the naming strategy)

Switch DiningRoom "DiningSensor [%s]" <motion> (GF_Dining) {mysensors="1;1;V_TRIPPED"}
Switch LivingRoom "LivingSensor [%s]" <motion> (GF_Living) {mysensors="2;1;V_TRIPPED"}

.All in a brilliant success. Now to play with the rules and add lots of new sensors.
THANKS AGAIN!!!!!

Thanks @hek Downloading now!

Well, it is working with a new nrf with a 10 uf cap soldered on. Can't understand why swapping for a known good one didn't work but puting in a new one did. The annoyances of building your own stuff I suppose. I will use the original one in something else and see if I can persuade it to work.

@mfalkvidd
Thanks! I have now set a value of 1 and lo and behold sensor 1 is now talking to the gateway. I vaguely remeber testing eeprom storing values by using a button that advanced a value by one and then stored it. It must have been this Uno I did it on and I must have hit the button 105 times

Are you using a controller? I had the problem with find parent a few days ago. If you are testing with only the gateway you need to manually give the nodes unique node id. In the sensor sketch, look for gw.begin in the setup function. You need to put the ID in as a parameter. I have

gw.begin(NULL,1,true);

to set the sensor value to 1. @mfalkvidd helped me out with this problem today. have a look at

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/3885/where-do-i-set-the-sensor-id/5

for the thread that I asked about node id in.
Mark

@hek @bkl
Just want to say a REAL BIG THANKS for this binding and for the whole mysensors system.

I have been trying to use openhab 1.8 for my PhD project and I initially setup insteon and had so many headaches I gave up in disgust. I was pointed in the direction of mysensors as a possibility and I thought I had nothing to lose.
Not only is the binding a success, I have two motion sensors running, one on a pro mini with 2xAA batteries running it as a test and one on a uno, I have persistence running and successfully logging the status of my devices on each and every update! I am using mongodb for the persistence methods as I love nosql, even though I have to teach relational databases at the moment, (trying to turn the Uni onto the light side).

Anyway, for those interested, here is a log from the db:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("574acbe1e4b0cd9ed18ada26"),
"item" : "DiningRoom",
"realName" : "DiningRoom",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-05-29T11:00:49.761Z"),
"value" : "ON"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("574acbe3e4b0cd9ed18ada27"),
"item" : "DiningRoom",
"realName" : "DiningRoom",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-05-29T11:00:51.136Z"),
"value" : "OFF"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("574acc25e4b0cd9ed18ada2a"),
"item" : "DiningRoom",
"realName" : "DiningRoom",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-05-29T11:01:57.823Z"),
"value" : "ON"
}

the .items file looks like this, (so you can see the naming strategy)

Switch DiningRoom "DiningSensor [%s]" <motion> (GF_Dining) {mysensors="1;1;V_TRIPPED"}
Switch LivingRoom "LivingSensor [%s]" <motion> (GF_Living) {mysensors="2;1;V_TRIPPED"}

.All in a brilliant success. Now to play with the rules and add lots of new sensors.
THANKS AGAIN!!!!!

Found it! I had the .items entries wrong and if I had read things properly I would have worked it out before

2016-05-28 18:22:35.565 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Refreshing model 'test.items'
2016-05-28 18:22:35.649 [DEBUG] [ySensorsGenericBindingProvider] - New Item "Motion (Type=SwitchItem, State=Uninitialized)" based on configuration "1;1;V_TRIPPED"
2016-05-28 18:22:46.463 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:0
2016-05-28 18:22:46.488 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Motion = OFF
2016-05-28 18:22:46.504 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - internalReceiveUpdate(Motion,OFF) is called!
2016-05-28 18:22:52.541 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1
2016-05-28 18:22:52.552 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - internalReceiveUpdate(Motion,ON) is called!
2016-05-28 18:22:52.562 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Motion = ON
2016-05-28 18:23:11.590 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Gateway Version: 1.5.4
2016-05-28 18:23:58.676 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:0
2016-05-28 18:23:58.688 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - internalReceiveUpdate(Motion,OFF) is called!
2016-05-28 18:23:58.698 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Motion = OFF
2016-05-28 18:24:05.045 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1
2016-05-28 18:24:05.058 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - internalReceiveUpdate(Motion,ON) is called!
2016-05-28 18:24:05.067 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Motion = ON
2016-05-28 18:24:08.746 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read and forward: 4-4-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
2016-05-28 18:24:09.134 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: send: 0-0-4-4 s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,st=fail:0
2016-05-28 18:24:11.594 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Gateway Version: 1.5.4
2016-05-28 18:25:11.141 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:0
2016-05-28 18:25:11.155 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - internalReceiveUpdate(Motion,OFF) is called!
2016-05-28 18:25:11.165 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Motion = OFF

Nice. I am likely to need something like this for my project. Nice idea.

Hi
I have setup openhab on my pi 2 and I can see the gateway and a motion sensor with the following output in the openhab log:

2016-05-28 16:13:05.519 [INFO ] [.o.core.internal.CoreActivator] - openHAB runtime has been started (v1.8.3).
2016-05-28 16:13:23.624 [INFO ] [o.o.i.s.i.DiscoveryServiceImpl] - mDNS service has been started
2016-05-28 16:13:24.471 [INFO ] [o.o.i.s.i.DiscoveryServiceImpl] - Service Discovery initialization completed.
2016-05-28 16:13:29.131 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'test.items'
2016-05-28 16:13:56.064 [INFO ] [penhab.io.rest.RESTApplication] - Started REST API at /rest
2016-05-28 16:14:02.165 [INFO ] [.o.u.w.i.servlet.WebAppServlet] - Started Classic UI at /classicui/openhab.app
2016-05-28 16:14:09.952 [DEBUG] [ySensorsGenericBindingProvider] - New Item "Motion (Type=SwitchItem, State=Uninitialized)" based on configuration "3; 2;V_TRIPPED"
2016-05-28 16:14:10.139 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - activate
2016-05-28 16:14:10.456 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.gateway.Serial] - Serial port '/dev/ttyUSB0' has been found.
2016-05-28 16:14:10.530 [INFO ] [.service.AbstractActiveService] - MySensors Refresh Service has been started
2016-05-28 16:14:12.181 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: gateway started, id=0, parent=0, distance=0
2016-05-28 16:14:12.194 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Gateway Ready
2016-05-28 16:14:35.120 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1
2016-05-28 16:14:35.136 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - No item configured for "1;1;V_TRIPPED"
2016-05-28 16:14:49.747 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=15,pt=2,l=2,sg=0:0
2016-05-28 16:14:49.760 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - No item configured for "1;255;I_REQUEST_SIGNING"
2016-05-28 16:14:49.771 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=255,c=0,t=18,pt=0,l=5,sg=0:1.5.4
2016-05-28 16:14:49.836 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - New MySensor node found: node-id=1 ( REPEATER )

• Example item: 1;255;I_BATTERY_LEVEL - Use this to report the battery level 0-100 (%)
• Example item: 1;255;I_SKETCH_NAME - Sketch name that can be used to identify sensor
• Example item: 1;255;I_SKETCH_VERSION - Sketch version that can be reported to keep track of the version of sensor
  2016-05-28 16:14:49.851 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:0
  2016-05-28 16:14:50.016 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: send: 0-0-1-1 s=255,c=3,t=6,pt=0,l=1,sg=0,st=ok:M
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.780 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=11,pt=0,l=13,sg=0:Motion Sensor
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.792 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - No item configured for "1;255;I_SKETCH_NAME"
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.806 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=255,c=3,t=12,pt=0,l=3,sg=0:1.0
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.821 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - No item configured for "1;255;I_SKETCH_VERSION"
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.832 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=0,t=1,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.847 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - New MySensor sensor found (Motion sensor): node-id=1, sensor-id=1 with type S_MOTION
• Example item: 1;1;V_TRIPPED - Tripped status of a security sensor. (Tripped/Untripped)
• Example item: 1;1;V_ARMED - Armed status of a security sensor. (Armed/Bypassed)
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.861 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1
  2016-05-28 16:14:51.868 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - No item configured for "1;1;V_TRIPPED"
  2016-05-28 16:15:10.721 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - Gateway Version: 1.5.4
  2016-05-28 16:15:43.284 [DEBUG] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - I_LOG_MESSAGE: read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:0
  2016-05-28 16:15:43.298 [INFO ] [.b.m.internal.MySensorsBinding] - No item configured for "1;1;V_TRIPPED"

"no item configured fo "1;1;V_TRIPPED" seems to be confusing me. I have entered the motion sensor into the items file as in the example so can you point me in the direction to correct this please?
I am very impressed so far, easier to get to this stage than it was using insteon!

@jkandasa
I have had a look at the demo site; what kind of rules can you set up with your project? I am looking for a suitable controller for my project and at the moment I am looking at openhab as the rules system is quite wide ranging.

You might find Vera is a good choice for you:
https://www.mysensors.org/controller/vera

Thanks! Should have searched a bit more. Sorry

Just a quick question; can someone tell me what the serial outputs mean in this?

0;0;3;0;9;read: 1-1-0 s=1,c=1,t=16,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1

s=1 I is sensor number and s:g=0:1 is when my motion sensor has been tripped. But what about the others? I am trying to work out what openHAB needs to read in to tell that something has happened.

Thanks

Are you using a controller? I had the problem with find parent a few days ago. If you are testing with only the gateway you need to manually give the nodes unique node id. In the sensor sketch, look for gw.begin in the setup function. You need to put the ID in as a parameter. I have

gw.begin(NULL,1,true);

to set the sensor value to 1. @mfalkvidd helped me out with this problem today. have a look at

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/3885/where-do-i-set-the-sensor-id/5

for the thread that I asked about node id in.
Mark

Well, it is working with a new nrf with a 10 uf cap soldered on. Can't understand why swapping for a known good one didn't work but puting in a new one did. The annoyances of building your own stuff I suppose. I will use the original one in something else and see if I can persuade it to work.