Topics created by Psilin

I am well aware of the facts that all these wonderful stuff is created by volunteers. If it was not clear: I really want to thank all of the people who made this possible. It is a great and remarkable project. That said: since I am at the very very ( did I mention very?) early stage of playing with the MySensors, I am not in the position to create, add or edit any content at this moment. But I hope since this all is new to me, that if I find something strange, or something that I cannot find, to mention it. It is not criticism, but a honest view of what a newbie like me faces when starting with the project. Perhaps in a later stage I will try to add/change for example the documentation. But that goal for now are a few yards too far away. So also,I really want to thank the people who are replying to, perhaps perceived as dumb questions', at this forum. That information really got me some further. To read the fields used in the serial protocol in the receive function of the node: serial field format: node id;child_sensor_id;command;ack;type;payload void receive(const MyMessage &message) { //child_sensor_id message.sensor; //command message.getCommand(); //ack message.isAck(); //type message.type; //payload message.getBool(); //in case of variable type boolean } Regarding using of Sonoff's: I've seen some video's on youtube. It is absolute an incredible featured device with the correct firmware on it. Perhaps in the future I will be using it, but for now I want to focus on the open structure of the mySensors. Next step is to try to connect a controller mechanism. Because of the fact I want to use only MQTT as transport protocol, mainly to keep things open, I thought of putting MyController and OpenHab together. Primary to use OpenHab as controller ( also my knowledge of this system is about zero), and use MyController only to be able to upload new firmware. After reading the suggested forum threads, I am scared this won't work because of the fact that when a node ask something to the controller, the node would get up to 2 answers. Only the answer of OpenHab should be used, but as far as I know right now there is no filter or selection option possible.

Last night I downloaded a mqtt client on my phone. And guess what: first attempt was working directly. So after I knew at least the node is working, and the topic that I figured out was correct, I returned to mqtt.fx this morning. That was a really facepalm moment. Quite embarrising I must confess...... In mqtt.fx in the publish tab, there is a really great white box right beneath the topic field. And exactly in that great white field I can enter the boolean payload I need. So my help question is answered in the mean time. For now I can continue to explore the mysensors possibilities, and try to let it work together with Openhab. After that, I will look to mycontroller.org to get it glued together by the mqtt layer. Although I’ve read somewere that a pure translation/retransmission between mycontroller to a mqtt broker not seems possible.