Posts made by kalle

@mister_ik You can use something like this - it works with a lot of languages

http://voxcommando.com/home/

@tripy yes, you are absolute right - you need to set the flash Mode to DOUT for flashing the newer SONOFF generation (the SONOFF's with the hidden green LED).

@gloob You can also flash first the Wemos with the "eraseEEprom.ino" from the Arduino sketch examples before you upload the gateway sketch

@Nca78 Thanks for the explanation - and yes, I'm also still waiting for the ESP32

@NeverDie To connect to the router take only 1-2 seconds for my wemos devices (static IP), but ok - maybe this is to long.
I think for a switch, it can be run all the time - or do I misunderstand something

@NeverDie Itead said this chip is also for creating wearaible devices - so I think it is possible to use it with batteries. The ESP has a deepsleep function but I have no experience with it and don't know how it works - sorry. I have only "hacked" the Sonoff touch wall switch to use it without the terrible cloud app - I don't use it with the mysensors stuff, but maybe it is possible to use such a switch as ESPgateway node (the chip is powered with 3.3V) and we can try to upload the ESPgateway sketch on the switch.

@Nca78 I have tested both types of switches (EU/US) and they have both the same components inside - so maybe the EU wall switch will fit because it is even smaller. The price for such a switch is amazing (15$), but it is not glass on the top it is acrylic plastic.

@NeverDie
Do you noticed also the PSF-A85 and PSF-A85 boards on the itead website?

https://www.itead.cc/wiki/PSF-A85
https://www.itead.cc/wiki/PSF-B85

These boards contain the new ESP8285. I have seen this ESP8285 (ESP8285 internal Flash is 1MByte = 8Mbit) in the Sonoff Wall-Touch-switch and it was easy to write a Arduino sketch to it with an FTDI programmer (FTDI prg. is only for the first time needed, after that you can update the sketch OTA).

The Board has only ~14mmx14mm - so it is possible to shrink "Wemos D1 mini" based projects.
Here are a picture to see the Wemos size vs. PSF-A85 (red square):

Kalle

@NeverDie

It has also 16M bytes flash instead of 4M bytes and a CP2104 USB-TO-UART IC which is new, there is also a external antenna connector available.

Here are the product webpages if anyone is interested:

WemosD1 mini Pro: https://www.wemos.cc/product/d1-mini-pro.html
Wemos D1 mini: https://www.wemos.cc/product/d1-mini.html

The Wemos D1 mini Pro is slightly more expensive than the Wemos D1 mini

@dynamite Haha, especially for the price

@Nca78 : Decide for yourself

It is the "Bauhaus" Chess printed with the MonoPriceSelectMini.

Hi guys, I have bought the MPselect mini (320 EUR with shipping and customs to germany) and I'm very happy with it. It is even easier to handle this printer as my Arduino Materia printer and the prints are really good - the printer has a heated bed which is fantastic in this price class. The hot-end temp and bed temp are really stable (+-1°C)
The printer works fine with PLA - I don't know if ABS will work also fine, because I don't have it and so far I know you must disable the hot-end fan to get good results with ABS. My printer has the newest firmware on board which activate the printers WiFi functionality. I can post pictures from prints if needed.

here are a good review on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZrqgLj3ag

Kalle

@NeverDie
I use personally different types of mics. Wireless mic, my mobile phone (there is a extra android app availabe "VoxWav") and also a smartwatch (Omate). I have no experience with an microphone array but some user using a boundary mic. Here are a interested post from our forum about the Echo.

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1847.0

@NeverDie said:

I have an Amazon Echo that I like a lot, although I'm vastly under-utilizing it. Is Voice Commando as good as it is at understanding speech? If you mated your IR blasting orb to Amazon echo, I'm sure you'd find a large, receptive audience.

Thanks and yes VoxCommando has a lot of more advantages as the Amazon Echo but it is hard for me to list it all here. I'm sure the Amazon Echo has also its authority, but I don't really know how the Amazon Echo works. VoxCommando do not need a internet connection to communicate to a device and for me it is important to know that my spoken commands will not send over the net to an cloud server. You can use any kind of prefix to start VoxCommando to listening for a command if you don't like "Alexa"
You can try VoxCommando, because it has a full working trial version http://voxcommando.com/home/downloads/

PS: VoxCommando has also a python API to communicate to mysensors device

Haha, good question and here is the answer:
We have created a IR/RF Blaster
The video and description show you not the newest version, but it give you an idea of it.

http://voxcommando.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=IR/RF_Device

I was inspired by mysensors member "blacey" - https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1402/ir-blaster-progress
because he never finished his project

Kalle

I have bought all my Wemos D1 (30 pcs) from the original seller to get sure they work and they do.

https://de.aliexpress.com/store/1331105

Here are also some similar power supply and they ship really fast

https://kutop.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=power+supply

Maybe this will help:

https://www.neatorobotics.com/resources/programmersmanual_20140305.pdf

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/hbrobotics/zKz_33SD7ys/NSV1gjhiIj4J

Maybe you can use the parking sensor example

http://www.mysensors.org/build/parking

@mvader - If you can get some cheap Android phones/tablets, you can use the VoxWav app on it and mount this devices in each room. The VoxWav app act as a wireless microphone and remote for VoxCommando http://voxcommando.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=VoxWav

here is a nice demo video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RCZ7aGGaro

I use this app also on a android smartwatch to control things

which you can see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMPstHDvnM8

I hope this give you an idea

@mvader said:

@kalle any suggestions on setting up a whole house mic system?

Yes it is possible but not easy and maybe not cheap

Here is a solution of one of our members: http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1757.msg16418#msg16418

Hi guys,

yes VoxCommando works with mysensors devices

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1921.msg18069#msg18069

There is a free trial version of VoxCommando available: http://voxcommando.com/home/downloads/

If anyone need help to get start with MySensors + VC, ask me for help

"Is this the same component? and could I use those in the same way as the regular mosfets?"

If you are use a 5 meter strip (300 LED and each LED can consume 60mA in "bright white"), you need a MOSFET with ~18A in theory. The IRLL014 has 2.7A which looks like it is not enough. SOT223 is a small size and if you are a beginner it is hard to solder it on a PCB

@Cliff-Karlsson Fritzing should be a good start for a beginner and as FotoFieber said - export your design as "Gerber" files (fritzing has these function on board), zip the gerber-folder and upload it to oshpark.com.

Maybe this will help you: http://www.mysensors.org/build/display

@LastSamurai

http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2057872.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xkemo+gehäuse.TRS0&_nkw=kemo+gehäuse&_sacat=0

Sorry, I didn't find a sot-23 Mosfet with a higher limit, but maybe you have enough space to use TO-220. There are a lot of Mosefet's with a higher limit available - like this one.

http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/162869/MOSFET-International-Rectifier-IRLZ24NPBF-HEXFET-Gehaeuseart-TO-220-ID-18-A-UDS-55-V?ref=searchDetail

haha, yes indeed

How many LEDs do you want drive with this controller, because the MOSFET has a limit of 4.6A.
A full bright white LED (like a SMD5050) can have ~60mA current - so you can drive save 70 LEDs on a strip with this controller.

But anyway, nice design

you can close/connect the 3.3V pad with the middle pad to get 3.3V or the 5V pad with the middle pad to get 5V.
I suggest to bought a FTDI with a jumper.

Your question is also answered in the second post above, because it showing exact the platinum V2.1 FTDI

Wow, 20.000 Sensors in a room!
You will find here some information about the mysensors network: http://www.mysensors.org/about/network

"A MySensor radio network can consist of up to 254 different radio nodes and each radio node can report data for 254 attached child sensors. This means that you can, in theory, manage data for up to 64516 sensors in a single radio network. If this isn't enough, you can create another parallel radio network on a different channel and there are 126 available channels."

Here are the specifications from the NRF24 without antenna

http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/2.4GHz-RF/nRF24L01#Specification

Is the NRF24 connected to externel 3.3V power or to the 3.3V from the Nano? The NRF24 antenna version has a higher power consumption as the version without antenna.

Congratulations

Ok, now with connected batteries without any soldering

Nice work and maybe you can power up your arduino with one of the pin from inside the Washing machine (LED panel) to the Nano raw pin. Normaly it is really easy to disamble the plate one the top of the machine to gain access

It is possible to use iRule (http://www.iruleathome.com/irule-builder/the-software) for your poject, it has support for zwave devices and a cloud based builder - but not cheap.

LCARS with iRule on iPad2 (better video quality) – 00:52
— Kalle Brandts

Good catch
Maybe I can build something with copper. There is a bit space to fit it in.

part 2:

here is my first 3D print for the sensbender micro, printed with Arduino Materia 101 printer - STL files available if needed.
I think it is also possible to fit a motion sensor in the top - will try

here is the link: http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1402/ir-blaster-community-feedback-requested

@blacey Thanks, I hope I can build my RF/IR blaster in a similar design, because it looks fantastic!

by the way, you can set me to the buyer list for one

Here is a short video of our new project, all feedbacks welcome

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38oIZgV_cU

Ok, here we go a short video demonstration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38oIZgV_cU

Yes there are many possibilies and I like the design of the board (looks great). We have create a similar device (only on a breadboard at the moment), which has also include RF433 receive and transmit function and we can controlled it by voice. Each IR code is stored in a txt file on a SD card (raw code). A bit hard for me to explain it here with words, but I can record a video how it works in real if anyone will see it in action.
It has only one disadvantage - you need two Nano or Mini on a PCB board.

update: I got my 3 pcb from pre-order today (germany) and it works fine - really great design!

Maybe a vibration sensor do the trick

like this one or similar: http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=79#.VYM0i6O0N8E

No problem, here is the arduino sketch:

RGBdimmer_1_6.ino

my 3 boards also

Ahh ok, know I understand it - so it looks like you have successfully merged this funktion in the sketch.
Is it possible to share the sketch which has include the ack?

Thanks
Kallle

Hi Marcus, you will find here how you can differentiate the messages:

http://www.mysensors.org/download/serial_api_14

Type Value Comment
presentation 0: Sent by a node when they present attached sensors. This is usually done in setup() at startup.
set 1: This message is sent from or to a sensor when a sensor value should be updated
req 2: Requests a variable value (usually from an actuator destined for controller).
internal 3: This is a special internal message. See table below for the details
stream 4: Used for OTA firmware updates

This is exact the way how we manage the message to deal with VoxCommando in our python code - example code snippet below:

elif msgType=="0":
#PRESENTATION Message
log( "PRESENTATION Message")
#registerID(sensorID)
presTypeNum=dataParts[4]
presType = presTypes[presTypeNum]
log( "presType: "+presTypeNum+": "+presType)
vc.triggerEvent("MySensorsPres."+presType+"."+friendlyID+"."+msgPayload, List[str]([dataParts[0],dataParts[1],msgPayload, presType]))

elif msgType=="3":
    #INTERNAL Message
    #log( "INTERNAL Message" )
    IntsubTypeNum=dataParts[4]
    if IntsubTypeNum=="14":
        #gateway is ready!
        vc.triggerEvent("MySensors.GatewayReady",None)
    IntsubType = IntsubTypes[IntsubTypeNum]
    log( "Internal Message subType: "+IntsubTypeNum+": "+IntsubType )
    vc.triggerEvent("MySensorsIntsub."+IntsubType+"."+friendlyID+"."+msgPayload, List[str]([dataParts[0],dataParts[1],msgPayload, IntsubType]))
    if sData=="255;255;3;0;3;" :
        log( "Sensor has requested a new ID" )
        assignFreeID()

If anyone is interested in the arduino sketch / python code or PCB Board file (only as fritzing file) let me know.
VoxCommando is available as free trial which works just like the paid version. The trial never expires, but you are limited to 40 commands before you must close and then restart the program. http://voxcommando.com/home/downloads/

The python code works as interface between Voxcommando and MySensors serial gateway.

Kalle

We have create a RGB MySensors Node which can control a RGB strip by voice

VoxCommando RGB Controller – 11:59
— Kalle Brandts

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1921.msg17517#msg17517

@hek said:

Just ordered 6 for myself. I wouldn't want to miss out on the first batch. Only around 100 left.

Talked to Itead today. They had to source the ATSHA204A from overseas and will start production when they arrive.

bought also 3 pieces

Here is the description:

http://www.mysensors.org/build/advanced_gateway

It looks like your node will stream the temperature to your gateway, but it fails. Did you use a capacitor on the NRF24 chip?

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).

Wow, great work!

Maybe it is a solution for you to downgrade to UI5, because it works fine with MySensors:

http://download.mios.com/rt3662_betafirmware/rt3662_Luup_ui5-1.5.672-en-mios.squashfs

"Then from SETUP > Firmware under : Advanced: URL for Vera custom firmware: paste it and press on download.
Save a back-up when you are prompted and start the upgrade.
The upgrade can take up to 15-20 minutes and you should be on the same location with the unit when you do it."

Take a look here http://www.mysensors.org/download/sensor_api_14#the-full-api
the default channel is 76

Take a look here, I hope that make it more clear.

Maybe this is your problem, which also described at the building page.
"The tap point could be bypassed with a 0.1 uF capacitor to keep the noise level low, at this otherwise high impedance point. "

Did you power the nRF24 direct from the 2AA batteries?

I used the instructions from this video and everthing working fine

Unbrick Arduino FTDI FIX (Driver Update Win7 Arduino Nano FT232R USB UART) – 03:33
— MoMakeMore

Nice to hear everything works fine.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

What is your progress? Now it works?
It is better to use a power supply instead of USB power with the Ethernetshield.

Im not sure it is a typo or you tried to ping different IP's

In the third post you write "but no ping to 192.168.0.66" instead of 192.168.0.166 which is written in the sketch, maybe this is the problem.

Please show us a picture of wiring on the radio chip. The radio wiring at the nano (color) looks ok.
Maybe you can test a other sketch (temperature).

http://www.mysensors.org/build/connect_radio#connecting-a-decoupling-capacitor

Hi Edward, big thanks for your work - great job.

@meanpenugin

Thanks Edward, I can wait and maybe I will ask you later for some boards.

Really great work!

Kalle

Did you tried to reboot your vera first (disconnecting the power supply) without the gateway and then plug the gateway in and reload the UI, maybe this will help.

@meanpenugin
Wow, great work and exact for what I'm looking for.
Does the board working well?
It would be great if you can share the files or is it possible to order/buy some of the pcb-boards?

Kalle

@Bandra maybe here are some cases on ebay which you can use

http://stores.ebay.de/Elektronik-Bastler/KEMO-Gehause-/_i.html?rt=nc&_fsub=6&_sid=191168675&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1513&_pgn=1

You will find the API/Sensor/Gateway info here:

http://mysensors.org/build/sensor_api

I hope it is for what you searched

http://mysensors.org/build/battery

@Hacker007
Hi, you use a 47uF Cap?
I've soldered a 4.7uF capicator for decoupling directly between the GND and VCC PIN's on the NRF24 chip which works great. The description on http://www.mysensors.org/build/connect_radio says 4**.**7uF, but you use a 47uF capicator, maybe that is the problem.

Hi Dan, maybe this will help you. I run in the same problem but reverse and this post helped me to solve the problem.

http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/334/issue-with-temperature-units/23

I've downloaded the MySensors library from github and now everything works fine.

here is a video on youtube for easy understanding - how you can bring your fake FTDI chips back to work. This work also on Windows 8.

Unbrick Arduino FTDI FIX (Driver Update Win7 Arduino Nano FT232R USB UART) – 03:33
— MoMakeMore