Oh wow, it has been a while since i was last here, and i truly apologize for this but it has been a very, very, very busy year for me.
New job, writing a technical book, attending conferences, etc.. etc... it does not mean the project was at a standstill but has been progressing slower then anticipated. We have been expanding our team with a real UX and UI designer and will provide the PiDome backend engine to be used in a charity program.
We have also been upgrading our support system to Jira and we have started to follow a more agile approach in the continuous development. The web interface has been cleaned up, our android app is finally in the play store (as alpha so you must be a tester), next to the android app there is an embedded (raspi), magic mirror and photo frame app in development. And not to forget, we also started with IOS.

A while ago I gave the community time to come up with feature requests in a couple weeks period. I'm currently in process of implementing all these features and mature existing functionalities (like proper http2 support and move to secure only connections).

With all the above i wanted to let the mysensors community know that you have not been forgotten. A big portion from the PiDome user base was/is coming originated from the mysensors community whom should not be let down as the dedication which is being put into it is awesome! I will soon start working towards supporting mysensors 2.0. I have to be honest, it will not be immediately, but it will happen ASAP.

Cheers,
John.

I should have paid better attention because i would have definitely joined!

But to possible make it up a little bit, I will be present at the Eindhoven mini maker fair this weekend (10th and 11th) in case some want to shake hands.

Cheers,
John.

Yes, but this is mainly visuals, the routines all stay the same.

Cheers!

Sorry for the late response, have you tried to change the datatype to string with the codes as the values?

@bjornhallberg Thanks for the change!

P.S. i recently also added support for local /dev/tty* serial ports which weans that also the GPIO gateway solution is available (http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2389/added-support-for-local-mysensors-rpi-direct-radio-connection). I know changes are a bit scattered but also is my implementation schedule, sorry ;).

Cheers!

All though this topic is related to the development branch, has the topic structure been fixed (except for prefix)?

In my opinion this would be fritzing http://fritzing.org/home/

Maybe handy to post a schematic of your wiring.

Recently i added support for custom created serial ports. This also means support for the local MySensors RPI<->NRF connection using the RPI GPIO pins is supported. I have just tested it and can confirm it working, follow the screenshots below as a small howto for the connection.

First, get the nrf working on the Raspberry Pi and make sure it talks to nodes.

1. Add the custom port
   As PiDome works with libudev and is triggered an hardware added/disconnected signalling it also means that if you add a custom port (for example with /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway) which does not trigger hardware added signalling, the port is not recognized.
   So an option is added to PiDome to add a custom serial port.
   Go to Management > Peripherals
   

2. Click on the "Add custom port" button
   The server will traverse the /dev/ directory and look for /dev/tty* ports and show them in the drop down menu. Here you can select the MySensors local serial port and give it a name. It's like naming your own hardware
   

3. Click create Hardware (Future naming will be Create port link)
   The port reference is now created, it will get a yellow label with the text "Attentions/Settings" Which is normal as you need to supply connection settings. If /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway would be triggered automatically you step 1 and 2 where not needed but you would also get the yellow label.
   

4. Set your connection settings
   Click on the newly added MySensors port you have created with the yellow label, a popup with connection settings will appear. Set the connection settings as shown in the screenshot with of course the created port. And yes select the USB driver as it is compatible.
   

5. Press Set and start
   If all goes well you will see the same as below with a green success label.
   

6. Check the settings
   Not really an added step but handy to know you can check the connect settings by clicking on added mysensors driver. You will see something like shown below. P.S. This window is also used to disconnect the hardware. Just in case you had some wrong settings you can click disconnect and reconnect later on.
   

7. Check stuff works
   Got to Management > Drivers and click on the MySensors driver. When you see "Gateway Startup complete" You have made a successful connection. If not check your wiring and/or connection settings.
   

I have tested it with the PingPong sketch and the screenshot below conforms it working

There are two things:

1. It is possible you will be seeing that the server load is 100% as a message in the web interface. This is due to the /dev/mysensorsgateway. When you connect the server with serial settings the load will lower.
2. PiDome only works with the gateway when the gateway works. So if there is any issue, first check the gateway unless you have seen gateway started.

Cheers!

P.S. PiDome will remember the custom added port and the configuration is written to config/hardconf/cust_serial/. Normally the server would remove these links from it's configuration of they are non-existing. So when you reboot your PI the port reference still exists.

If you want it all to go automatically after reboot make sure the pigateway is started before PiDome is started. Otherwise you have to set the connection settings manually again.

Hi @bjornhallberg,

We have been updating our website from wordpress to a self hosted platform on http://pidome.org, This means the url pidome.wordpress.com will be obsoleted and http://pidome.org is the new location.

Could you update the url?

Thanks in advance and cheers,
John.