I’m running Home Assistant with NRF24L01 with no problems at all.
But I have manually installed it on Raspbian for that exact reason. You could do nothing by yourself when using HASSIO.
It’s extremely easy to install it manually but not sure how easy it would be to migrate your existing environment.
It may be worth it though. You get your freedom to do whatever you want with your Raspberry, back.
OK, got it working.
It was probably an error on the compilation of the mysgw binary. I recompiled it and everything works as expected. Probably the guide I was following was messing around with the default channel and me, as a noob did not notice it.
So everything sorted now. Thanks for the help!
Thank you @mfalkvidd
So basically this is a communication problem then, right?
On Arduino I'm de-coupling the NRF just fine and I'm also powering it from my bench power supply so I do not expect any issues there. On the Raspberry side, I do not have a cap yet and also I'm using the onboard 3.3V regulator to power the NRF.
I might be having an issue there BUT I tried ruling out the connectivity or other electrical problem by using the "maniacbug" library that I know for certain that it works. And indeed, raspberry and Arduino can both talk to each other, just fine. The two are just 1 meter apart, btw.
Which should mean that there are not any issues with power, but on the other hand you never know.... I will use an external regulator and have the NRF decoupled as proper and will revert back.
BTW, where in the source code can I see the values the nRF gets initialized with?
Hi everyone,
I know my questions must have been repeatedly answered in the past, but I'm afraid I'm so newbie in mysensors that I can not make if all the replies I found match my case or not.
As with most people, I also plan to integrate a Raspberry Pi Openhab2 with a couple of sensors using NRF24L01. I followed the guide on how to create a Raspberry Pi gateway, using serial gateway.
It seems the GW is running fine and able to "talk" to the NRF24L01:
Jan 29 14:16:54 INFO Starting gateway...
Jan 29 14:16:54 INFO Protocol version - 2.3.0
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG Serial port /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway (115200 baud) created
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGL---,VER=2.3.0
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG TSF:LRT:OK
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG TSM:INIT
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG TSF:WUR:MS=0
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG TSM:INIT:TSP OK
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG TSM:INIT:GW MODE
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG MCO:BGN:STP
Jan 29 14:16:54 DEBUG MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
and from time to time I see these messages:
Jan 29 14:31:54 DEBUG TSF:SAN:OK
Jan 29 14:36:54 DEBUG TSM:READY:NWD REQ
Jan 29 14:36:54 DEBUG TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=20,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
Jan 29 14:46:54 DEBUG TSF:SRT:OK
Jan 29 14:46:54 DEBUG TSF:SAN:OK
Jan 29 14:56:54 DEBUG TSM:READY:NWD REQ
Jan 29 14:56:54 DEBUG TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=20,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
Jan 29 15:01:54 DEBUG TSF:SAN:OK
Jan 29 15:16:54 DEBUG TSM:READY:NWD REQ
Jan 29 15:16:54 DEBUG TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=20,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
Jan 29 15:16:54 DEBUG TSF:SRT:OK
Jan 29 15:16:54 DEBUG TSF:SAN:OK
I then loaded an Uno (and a NANO just rule out the possibility of a faulty Arduino) with an example sketch (BinarySwitchSleepSensor) and connected it to the NRF24L01 as per the guides.
When I start the sketch I see:
16 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RNNNA---,REL=255,VER=2.3.1
26 TSM:INIT
27 TSF:WUR:MS=0
33 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
35 TSF:SID:OK,ID=1
37 TSM:FPAR
73 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2080 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
2082 TSM:FPAR
2118 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
4126 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
4128 TSM:FPAR
4164 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
6172 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
6174 TSM:FPAR
6210 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
8218 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL
8219 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
8221 TSM:FAIL:DIS
8223 TSF:TDI:TSL
At this point I see nothing on the gateway. No new messages, no nothing.
So 1st Question. Is this normal? Should the GW be showing something on the logs or the terminal (I usually run the mysgw manually from command line and not as a service, so the messages should be dumped on the terminal) or not?
Searching around I found that since I have no controller yet (the openhab2 although installed I choose to disable it for now and concentrate on ensuring communication is working) I get no response for a Parent iD. So (again by searching) found some entries that will make my configuration static:
#define MY_NODE_ID 1
#define MY_PARENT_NODE_ID 0
#define MY_PARENT_NODE_IS_STATIC
After re-uploading the sketch to the Uno/Nano now I have the following:
16 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RNNNA---,REL=255,VER=2.3.1
26 TSM:INIT
27 TSF:WUR:MS=0
33 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
35 TSM:INIT:STATID=1
37 TSF:SID:OK,ID=1
39 TSM:FPAR
40 TSM:FPAR:STATP=0
43 TSM:ID
44 TSM:ID:OK
45 TSM:UPL
81 !TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:1
2089 TSM:UPL
2126 !TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=1,st=NACK:1
4133 TSM:UPL
4170 !TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=2,st=NACK:1
6177 TSM:UPL
6214 !TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-0-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=3,st=NACK:1
8221 !TSM:UPL:FAIL
So 2nd question. There seems to be NACK messages, but who is not acknowledging them? is it the GW or the (not yet existent) Controller?
In the bottom line, how do I check the communication between the GW and the NODE? is this the problem I'm having?
Note that both NRF24L01 are checked and if I use manicabug RF24 library on both the Arduino and the Raspberry I do see them communicating just fine. On the exact same pins and the exact same hardware.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you