Posts made by ninkasi

@raptorjr said in Looking for waterproof connectors:

I wonder if anyone have a good suggestion on waterproof connections? Preferably with different number of pins, like 2,3,4 or 5 pins. I want to use them for outdoor sensors, and sometimes as power supply connection for outdoor sensors.

I found these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/12-Sets-2-Pin-Waterproof-Wire-Connector-Plug-Electrical-Connection/401442407633?epid=10009606705&hash=item5d77d504d1:g:GS8AAOSwLjxaXPq8&vxp=mtr

They are available with different amount of pins, but they turned out to be pretty useless. So I'm looking for some better solution and hope that I can get some suggestions.

No such beastie as waterproof, only water resistant to different levels. Soldering joints is of course best, but I'll admit that plug/sockets are really convenient.... If you can protect the connection itself you can use pretty much anything - I'm a fan of RJ12 or RJ45 plugs/sockets for sensors I might be moving around a lot. To make it all waterproof - sorry, water resistant - you can wrap it with heat shrink tape. If it's going to go under water, silicon sealant or even hot glue can do the trick - but I'd consider putting the join inside a water resistant box and sealing that instead.

Hi all.

For what it's worth, my gateway is a WeMos D1 R2 V2. Advantages over an arduino include it having wifi built in (so no shield required), it's low cost, it has a faster processor, and has more memory. I was using a number of them as discreet sensors uploading data to thingspeak, but have now migrated everything over to mysensors, with the data going to my new Vera.

Basically, I really like the little beasties. You can also get the WeMos D1 mini, but I like the fact that standard shields will fit the D1R2. Anyhow, can get it here: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/WeMos-D1-WiFi-uno-based-ESP8266-for-arduino-Compatible/1331105_32455782552.html

I also like to get these cases for them: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Uno-MEGA328P-Case-Enclosure-Transparent-Acrylic-Box-Clear-Cover-Compatible-with-Arduino-UNO-R3-Diy-Free/32497563872.html - just need to snap one of the plastic strips if you need to use the micro usb port to power it.

Cheers

Thanks for the suggestions @mfalkvidd, and @chippey5 - thanks for the update - I had exactly the same issue, and could not work out why I was getting that 'millisWait' error. All good now!

@Lior-Rubin said:

Hi, when I'm try to upload the sketch GatewayESP8266 I got the following error:

In file included from /Users/liorrubin/Documents/Arduino/libraries/MySensors-2.0.0/MySensors.h:299:0,
                 from /var/folders/l0/kxrb9wmd6rj651nw4gld5nx00000gn/T/arduino_modified_sketch_982538/GatewayESP8266.ino:137:
/Users/liorrubin/Documents/Arduino/libraries/MySensors-2.0.0/core/MyMainESP8266.cpp:4:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
 #include “Schedule.h”
          ^
In file included from /Users/liorrubin/Documents/Arduino/libraries/MySensors-2.0.0/MySensors.h:299:0,
                 from /var/folders/l0/kxrb9wmd6rj651nw4gld5nx00000gn/T/arduino_modified_sketch_982538/GatewayESP8266.ino:137:
/Users/liorrubin/Documents/Arduino/libraries/MySensors-2.0.0/core/MyMainESP8266.cpp:13:26: fatal error: core_version.h: No such file or directory
 #include <core_version.h>
                          ^
compilation terminated.
exit status 1
Error compiling for board NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module).

Even when i try to comment the "Include Schedule.h" then i got an error about the "core_version.h" file.

anyone ?

Just started playing with mysensors - in my case trying to use a WeMos D1R2. I was getting the same errors - although I can happily compile other sketches on the boards so I knew it wasn't me.... well, probably not entirely. I think maybe because I've only recently started using it perhaps I don't have older libraries installed as well as the current ones? Anyhow, horrible hack is as follows:

1. Go to https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
2. Download the core branch
3. Open the zip file and go to the cores/esp8266 directory (yes you can also download just the files below individually, but I have found in the past you can have issues with corrupted files doing it that way - feel free to give it a go if you want)
4. Copy the files Schedule.cpp, Schedule.h, and core_version.h and put them into your arduino\libraries\MySensors-master directory

Compile away and hopefully it will work this time! Did for me......

Note - if you decide to use your board for sensors as well you may have to copy over other supporting files.

Cheers

Update - for some weird reason errors came back, and I could not trace the cause easily. Decided to do a clean install - backup up my sketches, and removed the Arduino IDE along with the libraries. Note that on my mac there was a library folder both in my documents as well as in username\Library. Anyhow, reinstalled, re-downloaded everything, and my sketches compiled without an issue.