@peerv in my situation, if i click on any of my child devices, like temp, lux, humidity, etc. i can see the battery level. so i have to create a new sensor, in this case i'm creating computer_room_15_0, and i pull the value from child 1, i could pull it from 2,3 or 4, but i chose 1. and the value that i'm pulling is an attribute of child 1 called battery_level
now that i have created that sensor. i can place it where ever i want.
so the newly created sensor computer_room_15_0 is my entity_id that can go in a card or whatever.
before you do that, i would trouble shoot in the following way.

1. pick a child device and open it, ensure you can see the battery level.
2. create a new sensor based on the template above (restart after)
3. go into the the states dev tool page and ensure it's there and has the correct value.
4. if yes, then open the standard states based screen see if it shows up at the top in the circle.
5. if yes, put that entity in your lovelace ui as you see fit, if no, go back and figure out where it's not working.
   you can also tail the log file and you restart and look for any error messages that may offer a clue to why.
   here is my states screen for the battery sensor.
   

then under groups
computer_room_group:
name: Computer Room
entities:
- sensor.computer_room_15_0
- sensor.computer_room_15_1
- sensor.computer_room_15_2
- binary_sensor.computer_room_15_3
- sensor.computer_room_15_4

@peerv said in sendBatteryLevel not showing up in HA dasboard:

@mfalkvidd
Thanks, yes your solution could work. Also a voltage divider with a seperate child-id could work.

But my point is that the Arduino battery_level value is already available in the mysensors.json in Home Assistant.

"type": 17,
        "sketch_name": "N60Breed",
        "sketch_version": "1.0",
        "battery_level": 91,
        "protocol_version": "2.3.1",
        "heartbeat": 0

I just don't know how to get the battery_level value presented in the HA UI.

you have to use a template.
under the sensors section

• platform: template
  sensors:
  computer_room_15_0:
  unit_of_measurement: "%"
  entity_id: sensor.computer_room_15_1
  icon_template: mdi:battery
  value_template: >-
  {%- if states.sensor.computer_room_15_1 != None -%}
  {{states.sensor.computer_room_15_1.attributes.battery_level}}
  {%- else -%}
  0
  {%- endif -%}

FYI looks like on the 2.3.1 beta the transport has been changed to rf24 instead of nrf24

@mvader said in queuing and sending messages:

I want to be able to issue commands (reboot, firmware update, etc) and when they wake up to transmit via motion or ti

can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have several battery powered nodes. I want to be able to issue commands (reboot, firmware update, etc) and when they wake up to transmit via motion or timed sending of data. they receive and execute whatever command i have sent. so far i can't get this to work. if i send a reboot command from the controller during the OTA wait period. the node receives the request and reboots.. if the OTA period is over, then the node never follows the command. even after waking up. it still never executes said command.
so it seems the gateway is not queuing up the command or it's not sending when the node wakes up.

what is the correct approach to implement this and how can i troubleshoot if the GW is receiving, queuing and sending commands for a sleeping node?
running lib 2.2.0
and the gw is 2.2.0 on a RPI3

Thanks!

@tbowmo said in Sensebender Micro:

@mvader

Is it the default dualoptiboot bootloader? Then the bootloader itself does not support OTA FW. You need to put a sketch on it, that supports OTA. (Default sensebender micro sketches doesn't)

yes it's the default bootloader. yes i have OTA added to the sketch. it works if i reset the device via manual reset. but what i'd like to do is send the reboot command from myscontroller. but it seems to do nothing ever. does the bootloader support reboot? or is that something i also have to add to the sketch?

situation: i have about 15 sensors all over the house. if i update, i'd like to be able to assign the firmware, and then issue the reboot command. so upon reboot, they take the assigned firmware. what i don't want to do is have to go to each one and manually press the reset button to get it to take the firmware. i'm sure it's healthier to run up and down 3 flights of stairs. but i'm lazy

Am I able to remote reboot the sensebender micro? I can send an OTA firmware if i manually press the reset button.
but can i use the reboot command in MYScontroller? it doesn't seem to do anything when issued.

@user2684 said in NodeManager:

@mvader thanks for the feedback, I've added this issue on Github so to fix this in the next dev release https://github.com/mysensors/NodeManager/issues/344

Thanks!! here is the setup and loop part from the sketch

setup
pinMode(7, OUTPUT); // “power pin” for Light Sensor
digitalWrite(7, LOW); // switch power off

loop
  digitalWrite(7, HIGH); // switch power on to LDR
  sendLight(forceTransmit);
  digitalWrite(7, LOW); // switch power off to LDR

and the function
/*
 * Sends Ambient Light Sensor information
 * 
 * Parameters
 * - force : Forces transmission of a value
 */

void sendLight(bool force) // Get light level
{
  if (force) lastLightLevel = -1;
  int rlightLevel =  analogRead(LIGHT_PIN);
  int lightLevel =  (analogRead(LIGHT_PIN) / 10.23) ;
  if (lightLevel != lastLightLevel) {
   gw.send(msgLight.set(lightLevel));
    lastLightLevel = lightLevel;
  }