Posts made by jjwalker

@Salmoides said:

Be very careful. You'll get hooked on this stuff like we are and you'll have sensors and controllers all over the place. It never ends. We can't stop ourselves. You will dream up new circuits in your sleep. Ouch, that soldering iron is hot! There's always something being shipped from China. What am I going to do with the other 99 diodes in that little bag? That rosin smells different than the last roll of solder. Gee, I need one of those fancy bench multi-meters. Aww smack, I dropped that screw again! Yes dear, I'll have dinner ready once I finish this sketch. You'll go to bed and then ask yourself if you turned the soldering iron off. Be careful. You've been warned.

Haha, yeah I'm already there with my home automation stuff, plus all the equipment from my audio production stuff.. I have too many hobbies. The wife's pet peeve is that there's constantly crap on the dining table.

Oh man this is so dope! Can't believe I didn't start this sooner. Got a motion and a humidity sensor going now. Gonna have to search the forums on how to calculate for battery usage.

Oh nice! They're showing up in Vera. Gonna play with this some more later.

@petewill said:

Yes, the grounds are the same. You can also splice the wires. Just make sure if you're doing power you don't exceed the mA.

Right on, thanks for the response. Now I'm trying to figure out including this bad boy. I noticed that if I start serial monitor the MySensors plugin will find the device, but after that I'm stumped. In the middle of cooking dinner for the wife so I'm kinda jumping back and forth.

I think I figured it out. I looked at the data sheet for the dht22 and it takes 3 -6v so I just powered the sensor with 5v from the nano. I guess both grounds are the same? The sketch uploaded and Serial Monitor shows humidity and temp.

I finally got my serial gateway working and now I'm onto making my first sensor. I have a nano hooked up to a NRF24L01 and a DHT22. I'm confused about how to hook up vcc and ground to both. There are 2 ground pins on the nano but only one 3v3. Do splice the necessary jump wires to together? Are both the ground pins on the nano the same thing?

Thanks

Got the Gravitech in the mail today. First try - recognized! Now to build some sensors. Thanks guys for the help!

I ordered the gravitech nano someone had mentioned on the forum. It's expensive, ugh, but I don't time fussing around with this. The saved time will be used on figuring out how to make sensors.

@CaptainZap said:

What USB chip do you have on your Nano ? Is it one of those Chinese ch340 chips ? If it is, you won't be able to get it to work with Vera. If you have an FTDI chip then you might want to try this.

Crap it is the ch340 chip. I've been looking for the FTDI chips but it seems like there's a lot of issues with those as well. What are my other alternatives? Ethernet gateway?

@kalle said:

Did you powered the Nano by the Vera USB plug? Sometimes it can help to power the Nano by an extra power supply when the components are power hungry (like the antenna RF24-chip).

I'm have it plugged in to a powered USB hub. There's also another USB stick plugged in for dataMine which is working.

OK! I'm getting closer. After thinking about it some more, I realized I might have reversed the pinout of the wireless module. I'm using the antenna version and reconnected the jumpers in reverse. Re uploaded the sketch from mysensors website for the gateway, now the L light on the nano is solid red along with the solid green power light. I opened up Serial Monitor in the IDE and it showed me that the gateway started successfully. I plugged the gateway into Vera and checked lsusb in putty and it's now showing a Device 006. I deleted the Arduino device in UI5 and recreated it. Now I'm about to power cycle the vera and see if the gateway will show up in Serial Port Configuration.

EDIT

Still no Serial Port Configuration. I unplugged the gateway, powered off the Vera, plugged the gateway back in, powered the Vera back on.

I didn't want to add another thread to this topic but I didn't want to hijack somebody else thread either. I'm on UI5. I just started today by installing a nano serial gateway. I can't get the gateway to show up in Serial Port Configuration. I've been reading through the forums on and off all day. I can't seem to get a grip on where to start trouble shooting this as this is really new to me. I read somewhere on here where a person typed in lsusb in putty but the I didn't get a Device 006 in the list like he did.
I tried grep Arduino/var/log/cmh/LuaUPNP.log - it's showing me I have to choose a serial port.
What else should I try? Also, I'm totally confused on uploading the 1.4 library to the nano. Am I supposed to do this? If so how? Do I open the zip in the IDE and upload it into the nano? Guess I could just try it.

EDIT

Oh and I get no messages in the Serial Monitor.