Posts made by MatrixIII

Hi Guys,

I got into mysensors about 1.5 year ago and have built many sensors that are working flawlessly in my house. This project and specially the community has served me well. The problem is that I went all out to buy too many raw materials - either intentionally or unintentionally at the time because of how these are sold and now have no need for them. I am looking to sell a stockpile of these these things if anyone is interested. Most are bought from china from links provided here, some from amazon because sometimes I didn't feel like waiting a month for them to get here and some casings from home depot or radio shack. Everything works 99% and majority of the stuff has not been opened and is still in sealed packaging. I am not looking to sell 1-2 items at a time but everything at once that is perfect for something who is considering mysensors and this has enough parts to build numerous sensors. This will be shipped from United States.

I have taken an inventory of all the times on the below eBay page and I am still finding more items to add to this (price will not go up).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201506632920?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

The kit also includes 1 fully functional vera controller and 3-4 fully functional sensors (relay switch, temperature, motion).

Please let me know if you have any questions.

I figured this out. In the sketch it was getting stuck on the following line since writeEthernet is a callback and was getting called but is not initialized yet.

gw.begin(RF24_PA_LEVEL_GW, RF24_CHANNEL, RF24_DATARATE, writeEthernet);

I switched the order to initialize the Ethernet shield first and it works like a charm now

Ethernet.begin(mac, myIp);

// give the Ethernet interface a second to initialize
delay(1000);

// Initialize gateway at maximum PA level, channel 70 and callback for write operations 
gw.begin(RF24_PA_LEVEL_GW, RF24_CHANNEL, RF24_DATARATE, writeEthernet);

I bought the 4.7 uF using the link on the store here. The others I have bought from here http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZG71H4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Yup, that and the Ethernet.h uncommenting change in the main sketch. Unfortunately, I have read the documentation 10 times in hopes to catch something that I may have missed but can't figure this one out.

Yes, the IP address is changed in both mysensors sketch and example webserver sketch. I have not changed the MAC address. I can ping the ip on the example webserver sketch but not in the mysensors Ethernet sketch.

I have my gateway working with UNO R3 and controlling one relay switch with ENC28J60 Ethernet. I got a W5100 Ethernet shield that sits/fits on top of the UNO for a cleaner install. I reflashed the UNO with the modified gateway code as per instructions and I get a "Gateway Startup Complete" but I can't ping the W5000 shield. All the lights on the shield are lit and the light on the router port is lit showing an active link. I used the arduino stock Ethernet Webserver example sketch and can ping the shield fine and the test page showing the analog input comes up which makes me think this is not a hardware problem. I did not connect any wires for the pins to the shield since the shield directly plugs on top of UNO so does any PIN numbers need to changed in the sketch?

Anything that I have missed or I can try to troubleshoot this further?

thanks!!

I tried with several.Up to 100uf it didn't help. The next uf up I had 330uf and that worked. Well it now works 95% of the times. I don't know if that high of the capatience will cause issues but it mostly works now.

Thanks. I have ordered some higher uF capacitors and will Test with those when they arrive tomorrow and report my results.

Thanks, that helps to know that radios are not connecting to each other. I understand they are two different issues and sorry for merging them in the same thread. This all worked pretty good a couple of days ago. I will try other power supply. Come to think of it, I believe I added the capacitors later and it was working better before adding the capacitors. What other cap size I can try? - sorry I am a newbie here. Is the goal to see if the radio has a stable close to 3.3v using a multi-meter? - I am just not sure how to test if its any better (radio stability).

@m26872 said:

runtime 1-4 weeks

So this gives a runtime of 1-4 weeks? I am just starting out and wanted to confirm this. There are other posts claiming 6 months but I suspect that is in theory and the reality is 1-4 as you have experienced. Also, are any of your sensors interrupt driven that only wake up on outside feedback such as door switch? - I wonder if that will have more battery life.

For the gateway I was powering both the ENC28J60 and the Radio with Auduino Nano 3.3v onboard power. What I noticed was that the Ethernet shield (ENC28J60) was powering but but not communicating with "check wires" message on the console. Putting a multi-meter on the Ethernet shield and the radio - they were only receiving about 1.5v - 2.0v. I also had a UNO and used that with the same exact setup - powering both with UNO's 3.3v onboard which fixed the issue and both Ethernet shield and the radio were now receiving around 3.3v and the gateway powered up and I was able to connect it to Vera.

My question is that - is this a known issue with Nano? It would make sense that the Ethernet shield be powered separately from a 3.3v supply but I didn't see any notes on the Ethernet Controller page so wanted to check. I am assuming that UNO was able to provide more stable power to these devices.

Also, before I re-flashed both gateway and sensor, I played with Humidity, Door/Window switch, Light Relay.
I removed all these devices from Vera and restarted.
Then I cleared only the sensor EEPROM and flashed with Humidity sensor again.
When added to Vera, it found 2 Repeaters and 1 Door/Window switch (not Humidity) which makes me believe some ID's are somewhere getting cached.

Hi @hek ,

That didn't work. I restarted the Vera. When devices are deleted from Vera, is the routing also deleted from the Gateway (or is that not an issue even if it is not deleted)? While testing with various sensors using the same boards - if the sensor was originally ID 1 and was a humidity sensor, then its EEPROM cleared, now the same sensor is maybe ID 1 again but is a relay/switch. Even though it was removed from Vera, would there be challenges on the gateway side?

I went ahead and cleared EEPROM of both gateway and sensor and re-flashed them. Removed all related devices from VeraLite and restarted. At this point I have 1 gateway and 1 sensor (relay light switch) in the same room. I have added the capacitor on both radios to rule out communication issues. Sensor and Geteway sketches are untouched other than changing the IP address on gateway.

This is the log from the sensor and gateway.
[[[[Sensor]]]]...
send: 255-255-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:
req node id
send: 255-255-255-0 s=255,c=3,t=3,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:
repeater started, id 255
req node id
send: 255-255-255-0 s=255,c=3,t=3,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:
req node id
send: 255-255-255-0 s=255,c=3,t=3,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:
req node id
send: 255-255-255-0 s=255,c=3,t=3,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:
req node id
send: 255-255-255-0 s=255,c=3,t=3,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:
req node id
send: 255-255-255-0 s=255,c=3,t=3,pt=0,l=0,st=fail:

[[[[Gateway]]]]...
0;0;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
0;0;3;0;5;1
0;0;3;0;5;1
0;0;3;0;9;read: 255-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0:
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,st=fail:0
0;0;3;0;9;read: 255-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0:
0;0;3;0;9;send: 0-0-255-255 s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,st=fail:0
0;0;3;0;5;0

Any ideas? I am a bit puzzled as all of this worked yesterday and me re-flashing the sensor board again and again while testing with other sensors caused the issue. Is there a page where the meaning of the above communications is explained?

Hi Guys,

Just starting out with this and hats off to you for building the library and the support community.

Is there anything stored on Gateway's EEPROM? I am asking because I am currently testing with different sensors using the same arduino board.

I have built an Ethernet Geteway using latest stock code.
VeraLite is successfully connected.
Humidity/Temperate Sensor worked and the values showed up on VeraLite UI5.

Then I deleted the Humidity/Temperate Sensor and proceed with the relay example -

1. I deleted the devices from Vera
2. Used the Clear EEPROM Config sketch
3. Updated the Relay Sketch to Sensor
4. Tried to include the new sensor to Vera
5. What happens in that sometimes Vera finds the 2 sensors - Repeater and Light Switch (it worked once and I was able to command the on/off clicks from Vera Dashboard). Then I proceeded with a new Ardunio board to finalize this sensor to put it in a box. I did steps 1-4 again. Now, 98% for the times after doing steps 1-4 this new sensor does not get included (0 sensors found) or just the Repeater gets included (1 sensors found) or 0 sensors found but 3-4 Repeaters gets added (Repeater 0, Repeater 29, Repeater 31) to Vera's dashboard? - possibly because I have repeated these steps several times.

What can I do to completely remove these from the Controller, Gateway and Sensor that I am not currently doing?

Thanks for any help in advance.