Please kindly check my contribution in the git issue. Maybe it will help to clarify your issues.

@LastSamurai said in openHAB 2.2 binding:

@gonzalonal said in openHAB 2.2 binding:

Yes, sure. I'll do that to keep track.

By the way, I have RGBW led strip and I am using it with mysensors with no issues. Would you mind telling me what's wrong so I can recreate the scenario?

You can find the issues here. Basically you (I ;)) can't set RGBW nodes to display pure white colors via openhab, dimming is not working (error confirmed by TimO) and most importantly ACK isn't working properly (for me at least). If you can help with any of this (especially the conversion HSB <=> RGBW) you are most welcome.

Yes, sure. I'll do that to keep track.

By the way, I have RGBW led strip and I am using it with mysensors with no issues. Would you mind telling me what's wrong so I can recreate the scenario?

Hi @TimO and @andreacioni.
Back in the day link we discussed about request type of messages being supported by the binding and the complex scenario it created.
Are there any plans to continue developing this feature?

Today brand new setup with fail results.

I have installed a brand new OH2 snapshot build #1047 and the latest relese of the binding available.

I am using just a single node as ethernet gateway. After a couple of minutes the binding stops sending the messages to the node. It logs as it would send them but nothing is really sent out. I have sniffed the connection with wireshark.

Sometimes, while looking the binding debug logs at OH2 console, it hangs and I have to restablish the connection. This last issue seems more related to OH2 itself but maybe something wrong in the binding is causing it. Again, the is not a single clue in the logs about this.

I have just installed the OH2.1 stable release with the latest release of the binding and everything runs great yet.

Anyone with a similar experience?

Hello.

Is there an easy way to send a message from the gateway (or nodo also) to the controller as a log message? That meaning internal message type and I_LOG_MESSAGE.

I am looking for something like:

send(log, "My log message here");

thanks!

@TimO you just need to toggle the DTR line.

Try:
serialPort.setDTR(true);
Thread.sleep(500);
serialPort.open();
serialPort.setDTR(false);

@mfalkvidd actually looking at the code of mysbootloder, it does support STK500 protocol. I haven't test if it really works...maybe it doesn't.

Hi @gohan

@gonzalonal said in Concept: Proxy Node: multi protocol proxy:

Hi @gohan.

Yes I know about protocols, I'm a teco engineer.
That same congestion you talk about, is already present in the current networks we are building. So, I don't believe it's a real limitation.

There are critical task in home automation that needs messages confirmation or to resend (as TCP does), but there are many more, the vast majority, that doesn't need confirmation. Who would bother to lose a humidity reading.

Offcourse. We agree. Those mode critical messages/commands should be send with the ack bit enabled so as to receive delivery confirmation, and if not, to resend.

@wallyllama said in Concept: Proxy Node: multi protocol proxy:

I think most of the problems could be overcome, but they will take time and effort, which would take away from other projects unless a volunteer comes forward. Im not ready for something like this yet, so I should propbably keep my mouth shut.

@gohan said in Concept: Proxy Node: multi protocol proxy:

Right, since this is community driven project it is difficult to put all that effort into it given that developers have their lives like everybody else 😀

Again, we agree. It's just a concept that I would like to share. Nothing else. We all have many things to do in life and in MySensors as well😀, but I believe talking about this kind of things, slowly builds the idea in our heads, and may be prone to guide the platform development into it or some other great ideas.

What today seems overkill or impossible, tomorrow we'll see.
Thanks for your comments.

Hi @gohan.

Yes I know about protocols, I'm a teco engineer.
That same congestion you talk about, is already present in the current networks we are building. So, I don't believe it's a real limitation.

There are critical task in home automation that needs messages confirmation or to resend (as TCP does), but there are many more, the vast majority, that doesn't need confirmation. Who would bother to lose a humidity reading.

Hi @gohan . Thanks for showing interest on the topic.

It's sure a hard thing to accomplish, but keeping in mind that daughter networks should be kept as small as possible (around 3~5 nodes) and that, for instance, nrf24l01 has its own fifo buffer, and atmegas has it's own uart buffer (for RS485 example) I believe it would be posible. Maybe creating a software fifo queue.

I know we are very hardware limited, but as hardware evolves, this may become a easily doable task. Not sure if it's doable in a atmega328p but for sure in the newer SAMD platform.

Let me know what you think.
Regards!

What happened with this project? Has been abandoned or finished successfully?
Have you tried automatic calibration?

Hi everyone.

The last couple of days I've been thinking in a new concept for our nodes that would enhance flexibility of our networks.

Nowadays we have Gateways and Nodes. The nodes sends messages by air(nrf24l01/RFM69/RFM65) or by wire(RS485) to the gateway and the gateways then translates those messages into another protocol understood by the controller, could be wifi, ethernet, serial.

The proxy gateway/node concept is based upon the idea of having a gateway talking two different languages, as it does now, but choosing what it talks way down (downlink) the network and way up (uplink) to the main gateway.
Nothing better to comprehend and idea than an image:

In the previous figure, the Proxy node would behave as a nrf24l01 gateway with nodes in its daughter network talking RS485. It would be the gateway of its own daughter network.

The idea came up while designing a network where it would have many nodes very close to each other and it seemed overkill having each node with its own wireless link. I believe a better it's better having just one node talking wirelessly to the gateway and all the others piggybacking in a rs485 bus. For example, a huge three piece window with motorized internal blinds and motorized rollershutters on the outside. This setup would need 6 rollershutter nodes, with 6 RF links. Having just on RF link with a RS485 bus for the rest 5 child nodes seems better.

I believe this concept enables unlimited network expansion without physical nor transport layer limitations.

Let me know what you think about it, and if you feel it's doable.
Regards.

Hello everyone.

I am doing some debug tools for mysensors where I am trying to get some statistics about sensors network.
I am doing all this using serial API

At first I was sending I_HEARTBEAR_REQUEST to nodes, and receiving I_HEARTBEAT_RESPONSE. That worked nice.

Now I want to use I_PING and I_PONG. Maybe I misunderstood the beahavior of this messages, but if I send for example, a ping to node 1, (1:0:3:0:24:1), should'nt I receive 1;255;3;0;25;2?

Should'nt the payload be increased by 1 unit?
By now, i don't get any response from nodes.

Thanks, regards

Hi @andreacioni . Thats a great feature.
But for the moment, I think I prefer doing it manually, by rules, because of the way in which I can show my offline nodes in my sitemap and configure custom notifications for them.

For each node, I have a datetime item showing the time of last heartbeat response received. If more than 25' have passed (5 heartbeats request, 1 heartbeat request each 5 mins) without response, I fire up a notification telling that that specific node has gone offline.

So, back to my original question. Is there any way to get Node Ids at the rules engine?

Do you believe we can customize this kind of behavior with the beta feature proposed?

Thanks, regards.

Hi @TimO, @andreacioni.

I am doing some "expert mode" rules where I need to get the NodeId of a specific sensors, or at least, to get all the configured Nodes Ids. Is that possible?

I would like to cron a rule where every X minutes, heartbeat request message is sent to all configured nodes, so as to see wether they are alive or not.

Thanks, regards.

Hi @kalina. Sorry for rebumping this topic with an unrelated concern.

I am interested in the enclosures you've made for this design and for your gateway.
I have finished a design of my own and now I want to design the enclosure, but I have found that is very expensive to have a custom case built for this prototypes boards, specially when dealing with low volumes.

How do you deal with this issue? Have you found a cheap plastic case manufacturer?

Thanks!

Hi everyone. Have there been any developments regarding CAN Bus Controller integration to MySensors Library?
Thanks.

Sorry @tbowmo. I can't find those files in mysensors library. Are those files included or will be included with the release of your GW?

thanks

HI @tbowmo
I am developing a similar GW board with a different SAMD chip.
Just one silly question. Could you point me in the right direction regarding which files are the ones that need to be modified so as to tell the compiler that W5100 will be connected at SERCOM1 and RFM69 at SERCOM2 for example.
Thanks, regards.

Great news to hear @TimO .
I will be testing the binding in a couple of hours. It's really usefull the new RAW messenger things.
Thanks!