Hi All,

Just knocked up a case for @sundberg84 's Newbie PCB with Dimmer module. Thanks to @sundberg84 for the great PCB's.

This is the first version, and the clearances are rather generous which makes the case bigger than it needs to be. Further revisions will try and get this down to make the overall size smaller.

As you can see in the photos, the print around the aperture is a little scabby, but I think that has more to do with my poor placement of supports rather than the model itself.

The case is a press fit with snap clasps.

Files over on thingiverse here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3135667

Enjoy!

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In your next rev, perhaps you increase the spacing between the voltage regulator and the MOFSET to accommodate heat sinks? The minimum would be 2.54mm.

Howdy,

I'm loving the NodeManager for my temperature, humidity and repeater nodes. I've just built a battery power meter node and noticed some weird behavior. I'm using the latest version 1.7.

The pulse sensor can interrupt < 1 second. That is to say, the pulse frequency can be less than 1 second at certain periods of the day. I find that I can't get the sensor to report because the node interrupts and then sleeps and then interrupts again before the sleep expires and wakes to send the report. So in the debug, all you see is the interrupt processing and never a send.

Just for debug, I've set both the sleep and report interval to 1 second and I've seen this behavior. What I would like to do is to set the sleep and report interval to 5 minutes, but I don't think that it would ever report.

Any thoughts?

Hi All,

Thanks Sundberg84 for creating a board where I can knock out sensors in the matter of minutes instead of hours.

That being said, I actually spent many hours on the weekend trying to get my first board to work so I thought that I'd share so it could benefit others.

I was setting up a 3v3 board with 2 x AA batteries with the battery pad jumpered and using the 3v3 booster. I triple checked the board for continuity.

I was suffering from !TSM:FPAR:FAIL messages when firing up the node using the FTDI adaptor. I found that the board didn't work when both the battery and FTDI were supplying power.

Here are my lessons:

• You need to have a battery connected. This is required to power the radio, as it radio isn't powered by the FTDI adapter
• You need to remove power from the FTDI adapter. I couldn't disable power on my FTDI adapter so I had to use jumper wires for CTS, DTR, RXD, TXD, and GND between the adapter and the ProMini.

Thanks again, and I look forward to knocking out some nodes super quick.

Cheers,
Simon.

Awesome...thanks.

@Nca78

Ok....That sounds reasonable. I am assuming that is set with the #define MY_RF24_CHANNEL?

Howdy,

Title says it all. I'd like to have the ability to build and debug sensors with a test gateway and have a way to present to the production gateway when they've been tested.

I am mostly using SenseBenders in my production setup, with a few Nano's as repeaters.

Any ideas on how to be able to run up a sensor without it presenting to the production gateway?

Why do I want to do this? I've had issues when using HomeAssistant keeping the state of test child sensors that change while I'm still working and debugging the sketch. I'd like to run a test HomeAssistant with the test gateway.

Thanks,
Simon.

I'm an idiot.......

I just noticed a binary_sensor.nodemanager_113_3 was created in the dev-state page.

Howdy,

I have added a new SenseBender NodeManger which is visible in the dev-states screen. However one of the children sensors is not showing in the dev-states screen in HA . Specifically the door sensor which is child sensor #3. Below is a copy and paste from the dev-states screen.

sensor.nodemanager_113_1	24.99	battery_level: 100
child_id: 1
description: 
device: /dev/ttyACM1
node_id: 113
V_TEMP: 24.99
unit_of_measurement: °C
friendly_name: NodeManager 113 1
sensor.nodemanager_113_2	69.01	battery_level: 100
child_id: 2
description: 
device: /dev/ttyACM1
node_id: 113
V_HUM: 69.01
unit_of_measurement: %
friendly_name: NodeManager 113 2
sensor.nodemanager_113_200	SLEEPING	battery_level: 100
child_id: 200
description: 
device: /dev/ttyACM1
node_id: 113
V_CUSTOM: SLEEPING
friendly_name: NodeManager 113 200
sensor.nodemanager_113_201	3.34	battery_level: 100
child_id: 201
description: 
device: /dev/ttyACM1
node_id: 113
V_VOLTAGE: 3.34
unit_of_measurement: V
friendly_name: NodeManager 113 201

I'm successfully running a number of other NodeManager SenseBender nodes on HA with just temp and humidity.

The mysensors.json file appears to be showing the correct number of children sensors, including sensor #3 which is the door sensor:

"113": {
    "sensor_id": 113,
    "children": {
      "1": {
        "id": 1,
        "type": 6,
        "description": "",
        "values": {
          "0": "24.99"
        }
      },
      "2": {
        "id": 2,
        "type": 7,
        "description": "",
        "values": {
          "1": "69.01"
        }
      },
      "3": {
        "id": 3,
        "type": 23,
        "description": "",
        "values": {
          "16": "1"
        }
      },
      "200": {
        "id": 200,
        "type": 23,
        "description": "",
        "values": {
          "48": "SLEEPING"
        }
      },
      "201": {
        "id": 201,
        "type": 30,
        "description": "",
        "values": {
          "38": "3.34"
        }
      }
    },

I know that the door sensor is working as child sensor #200 shows the change to the wake / sleeping state when the NodeManager wakes up from the door sensor interrupt. Also, I can see that the NodeManager is sending the message in the serial console on change to the door sensor,

Any thoughts as to why child sensor #3 is not showing in HA?

Thanks,
Simon

@simbo said:

I was never able to sort out the programming issue using the stock Linux Arduino IDE package.

I spent some time installing the PlatformIO package on Arch Linux which allowed me to reliably upload to the sense bender. It was a bit of mucking about to get it installed, but it seems to work for me. Plus give me the command line any day over an IDE!