Posts made by Terrence

@NeverDie I may have to dive into this, as we are expanding our garden and we have plenty of the furry devils.

@NeverDie Great link thanks. That guy has gone all out to fight the legions!

@scalz

I have also another nice design for nrf52 (again, smaller) but actually busy with my job.

Can't wait to see your nrf52 version.

@NeverDie said in Fewer home automation postings? What's behind it?:

The rate of new postings seems much less than in prior years

Similar topic on another forum I hang out in.

https://forums.ghielectronics.com/t/wow-this-place-has-become-quiet/20847

@NeverDie Too funny. Might have to get a can of that.

@NeverDie Please read post in "Harvey Rainmaker" thread about Nordic class in Austin.
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/7403/harvey-the-rainmaker/11

@NeverDie Hey I am signed up for this BLE event to be held in Austin by Nordic. Are you going?

http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Events/Nordic-Tech-Tour

Austin - October 30th, 2017
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (registration from 8:15 AM)
Hyatt Regency, 208 Barton Springs, Austin, TX, 78704
The seminar is an opportunity for embedded application development
engineers to meet the nRF52 Series experts in person.

Topics to be covered*
• Nordic wireless product offerings
• Bluetooth 5: What is it, what can you do with it, and how do you use it
• The nRF52 Series, (nRF52840, nRF52832 and nRF52810):
Enable Bluetooth 5 today with the market leading nRF52 Series SoCs
• 802.15.4 and Thread: Mesh technologies for IoT applications
• Bluetooth Mesh

@NeverDie said in nRF5 Bluetooth action!:

the smaller and cheaper nRF51822 is maybe worth considering.

That is interesting. What sort of range where you getting?

Do you have the 840 dev kit? If so, can you measure range on that guy? Should be 10x I would think.

@mfalkvidd Thanks for the clarification. I just wanted to make sure I did not need to worry about the other person being online when I sent a message. Chat will work.

@Yveaux From the lack of responses here, there may not be a DM option.

@Terrence said in Direct Message others on forum:

I see the ability to chat, but that is too real time.

Thanks Yveaux. I was looking for a direct message format, not chat.

I can't seem to find the way to DM others on the forum. Does this feature exist? I see the ability to chat, but that is too real time.

Thanks.

@NeverDie I know, we filled up on Thursday. 30 min line in Llano - one station had gas. Brady one station. As we get further out from the epicenter of panic things are getting better. Lubbock seems to be normal.

@Abdu-Sahin I was interested in reading your conversation about battery life etc. I hope you will continue the conversation on the forum instead of in private.

Thanks.

@NeverDie I am heading off to New Mexico for a week of cool weather, but when I get back maybe we can meet for lunch or something. I would love to talk about projects. My em is my username at MacTexas dot com

@gohan Well Austin fared very well. We got about 9" of rain and now all is clear.
My brother in Smithville 40 miles SE towards Houston got about 29", water stopped 1" from his door step, neighbors across the road had 8-10" in the house.

@NeverDie How cool. I am down in Sunset Valley.

Is wondering around with no ambition and no where to go, so he is dumping lots of rain on Texas. Most places are happy to have it. Corpus and the coast up to Houston don't really need 20"-30".

We were down in San Antonio for a board meeting Thursday and Friday and the rain was slight.

Headed back up to Austin Friday afternoon, still slight rain.

This morning heavy rain and wind. 5" so far. The creek that closes our road has not crested yet, but I expect it to sometime tomorrow.

@hek Are you using Edge?

@mfalkvidd Interesting, this works in IE.

It looks like the server is doing a redirect to

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1667/a-very-beginner-needs-help-mysensors-and-openhab/23

Must be a security setting, but I can't see anything pertaining to redirects in settings.

@mfalkvidd said in First install on RPI - bash command not found.:

write ./configure before all parameters

Oh, ok, I will try that.

@mfalkvidd

MS Surface 3 pro, running Windows 10, Edge browser.

What do you mean by screen dump? A clip of the error?

When searching the forums, the links returned...

https://forum.mysensors.org/post/17974

result in an error when I click on them.

Internal Error.
Oops! Looks like something went wrong!

I am new to the Linux/Bash world.

I have cloned the dev branch.
I have cd into MySensors directory.

Now when I issue any of these commands
--my-transport=rfm69 --my-rfm69-frequency=868 --my-is-rfm69hw
I get these errors.

bash: --my-rfm69-frequency=915: command not found
bash: --my-is-rfm69hw: command not found

What am I missing?

@NeverDie Ya, that really sucks. It would have been great to mix and match.

Many of you know Charles from his Ultra Low Power Node work.
https://hallard.me/bp-ulpnode/

Check out what he is doing over on TheThingsNetwork (LoraWan radios)
Full arduino mini lorawan and 1.3ua sleep-mode

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/full-arduino-mini-lorawan-and-1-3ua-sleep-mode/8059

Some Nordic guidance might help.

Building Bluetooth-Connected IoT Wireless Sensor Prototypes with Minimal Effort

https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2017/jul/building-bluetooth-connected-iot-wireless-sensor-prototypes

@NeverDie VS Code with the Arduino Extension is your friend.

@NeverDie Wow, that it really good news. I was following Tony's videos on mpy on the ESP chips, but had not checked back lately.

@Carywin Wow, those look really great, please keep us posted on your progress.

@openhardware.io Very cool. Lego parts coming together

@NeverDie I to am in the same boat, controller shopping.

I have heard that Home Assistant is super efficient at getting new components added.

https://home-assistant.io/components/

@NeverDie >>1100-Meters Long-Distance

That would be impressive.

@NeverDie

@NeverDie why are you asking? Does this lens seem better than the one you are currently working with?

@openhardware.io So, I have been looking for a way to determine if a door lock was locked. Is this that?

@NeverDie said in nRF5 Bluetooth action!:

Meanwhile, I changed this thread's title to match your catch phrase

Perfect.

@NeverDie Good work, I am glad you have successfully programmed a chip from the DK.

Do you think we should open a new thread devoted to all of this Bluetooth action?

@gohan Yep

@openhardware.io Great to have your board...on board

@NeverDie Here is a repo from Seeed showing master and slave comms.

https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/Bluetooth_Shield_Demo_Code/tree/master/examples

Oh and it looks like Kris posted his dev board on ohw.io
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/7160/nrf52-development-board

@NeverDie Here is Kris's great looking board over on Tindie for $40
https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/nrf52832-development-board/

And his great GitHub repo showing how to program it.
https://github.com/kriswiner/nRF52832DevBoard

And Sandeep Mistry's Arduino core lib
https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-nRF5

I am going to try and contact Kris and see if he will come over and join us.

I have been using Visual Studio Code to develop all arduino projects. It seems so much better than the Arduino IDE.

Here is a blog post about it.

https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Visual-Studio-Code-Your-Arduino?WT.mc_id=dlvr_twitter_ch9

Visual Studio Code is NOT Visual Studio
It is a super light weight code editor for all languages.
https://code.visualstudio.com/

@NeverDie said in Minimalist SAMD21 TQFP32 Pro Mini:

Nearly everything has bluetooth these days, so leveraging that would seem to make a lot of sense. I just don't know where to start

I agree.
I have done a little bit of BT programming. It seems pretty complex, but I am sure that will change once we immerse our attention in it.

Interesting article about IOT sensors on the battlefield and low power consumption.

N-ZERO “seeks to extend unattended sensor lifetime from weeks to years, cut maintenance costs and reduce the need for redeployments.”

N-ZERO is also aiming to potentially cut the battery size for a typical ground-based sensor by a factor of 20 or more but maintain its operational lifetime.

The ability to sense and classify cars, trucks and generators in ... both rural and urban backgrounds from a distance of a little over 5 meters away and being able to do that with almost 10 nanowatts of power consumption is a big accomplishment in phase one of the program

https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2017/06/military-iot-darpa-s-n-zero-initiative-aims-conserve-power-iot-sensors

Guys, when you start using these 832 chips are you going to be programming via Bluetooth or just using the radios in some other way?

@d00616 Thanks.

@NeverDie Yes, I got to thinking about that after I pulled the trigger.

@NeverDie Thanks for the nrf link, but I liked the units with coin cell better. I purchased 2.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/NRF52832-5-Bluetooth-module-PCBA-Bluetooth-indoor-positioning-to-undertake-the-project-Adult-supplies/32818011255.html?spm=2114.12010108.1000013.1.jSrF4y&traffic_analysisId=recommend_2088_1_82199_new&scm=1007.13339.82199.0&pvid=d299b2c3-7d8c-4704-8765-59c82338fbb8&tpp=1

am reading your findings with great interest. Thanks for the updates.

@NeverDie said in Minimalist SAMD21 TQFP32 Pro Mini:

Contrast that to what, for example, cypress semiconductor has

Wow, cypress is knocking it out of the park on helping us. You would think Nordic would pick up the pace.
Thanks. I will check those videos out.

@NeverDie why won't it be helpful?

@openhardware.io Very cool.

@NeverDie I can't open it either. Here is the error message.

@LastSamurai Thanks, it looks great.

@NeverDie I prefer it over the Arduino platform, not VS Micro.

It is a super lightweight editor, but really powerful with added extensions.
In Windows Explorer, right click a folder and click on "Open with Code' and the folder and all code files are there.

I have been using Visual Studio for work for a decade. It is a very heavy capable environment, but too heavy for simple ino projects.

I used VS Micro 3 years ago or so, but I can't compare the two.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Here is a snip showing the Arduino extension.

@scalz said in Minimalist SAMD21 TQFP32 Pro Mini:

And the cherry, with VS Micro, and multiple serial monitors in same ide

Guys I have been developing with VS Code (free) for Arduino type coding. been very happy with it. It does not have multi serial monitors (not that I know of).
Anyone else using VS Code?

@NeverDie said in Minimalist SAMD21 TQFP32 Pro Mini:

most of what I learn with the 832 will be applicable to the 840

Right. I have been trying to get my head around the BT communication pattern. It is a different beast indeed.

@NeverDie said in PIR AM312/412/612:

I'm not even noticing any significant blind spots

That's great news.

@Yveaux You are correct, use what is available, not what will be in the future.

@scalz Wow, that looks really exciting. I guess this explains why you have been so quite, you have been very busy.

@NeverDie I was about to pull the trigger on some of those, but I can't seem to get my mind off of the potential long distance of the 840. I wonder when the world will be blessed with those modules?

Looking forward to your experience with the Adafruit BLE boards.

@mfalkvidd > Seems like leds are only able to convert about 10% though.

10% !! What a bummer. For being so efficient, can you imaging how low power the next step in lighting will be?
Time to invent the next version of LED.

@LastSamurai Very cool. Can you place a pencil or coin next to it for scale?
Thanks.

@iahim67 Simon Monk's Programming Arduino: Getting Started... book is pretty good.

Look at the table of contents.

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Arduino-Getting-Started-Sketches/dp/1259641635/

@tbowmo Very cool effects.

@gohan Thank you for pointing that out. Just getting started in MS.

@evertos I can't help but notice there is no code in your setup or loop.

@Sweeman Thank you for posting this. I will be attempting to put a mo into practice soon.

@dbemowsk It looks great Dan, I will look forward to reading your posts.

@NeverDie
The nRF52840 PDK is a versatile single board development kit for Bluetooth 5, Bluetooth low energy, ANT, 802.15.4 and 2.4GHz proprietary applications using the nRF52840 SoC. This kit supports development for the nRF52840 SoC.

http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF52840-Preview-DK
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/blogs/1093/

Cool drone video of 840 long range.
Nordic Semiconductor – Bluetooth 5 Long Range Test with nRF52840 – 04:03
— Nordic Semiconductor

@scalz said in Minimalist SAMD21 TQFP32 Pro Mini:

same RF perf as 832, but less memory

but no long range right?

So scalz it is your understanding that the coding will be the same on the 832 and when we start getting the 840, but the distance will just increase?

I have this Solar Powered IoT Device Kit from Cypress....but have not started using it yet. though I would post it in case you might find the BOM useful.

http://www.cypress.com/documentation/development-kitsboards/s6sae101a00sa1002-solar-powered-iot-device-kit

@NeverDie I think the 832 would be a good start until the 840 is available. I think all programming will be the same for when we switch over the 840. I am not 100% sure though.

I have been looking at the AdaFruit 832 since it came out, but have not pulled the trigger yet, as I have not yet opened my 840 dev kit.

We can definitely program the AdaFruit 832 with Arduino.

I agree with you that BT5 long range is the way to the future due to it's low energy, great built in security, long range and no additional chip required.... and >>because regular bluetooth is already baked into everything.

@NeverDie I love the new 51840 (the one that does the long distance, the 832 is the High throughput chip) Please work with the 840.

I have the nRF52840 Preview DK, but have not fired it up yet. Still trying to understand how to code Bluetooth.
http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF52840-Preview-DK.

SiLabs has an interesting Gecko BT5 chip as well.
http://www.silabs.com/products/wireless/bluetooth/blue-gecko-bluetooth-smart-socs

@NeverDie No, Adafruit is the maker/seller and before just recently you had to buy them from them and pay the shipping and slow order fill process.

I have Amazon Prime, so shipping is "free" and they show up in 2 days.

I have never seen them for lower than MSRP.

@scalz I think there is HUGE interest in a good working PIR solution. That gets my vote.

@scalz Are you still working on that great looking PIR board?

@scalz >>Unfortunately, regarding Mysensors use, there are no flash for ota (in case for future), no signing, no eeprom for routing table in mysensors, no sma connector ...

Well so one of you brilliant guys will come up with a FeatherWing that will add all of that functionality right?

@NeverDie I love the Feather boards. Currently working with the RFM69 feather. Build in battery connector/charger is very nice to have.

@NeverDie It is an interesting exploration. It seems you don't see it until you get there.

@kellers76 Wow, that is a lot of sensors. What and where will you be measuring? Just a general grouping.

@NeverDie NRF or RFM?

@NeverDie Event though there seem to be many benefits to going narrow, what about enclosure sizes, where longer may not be as good as a smaller square?

@NeverDie >> I'm now thinking the Hackaday guy had the right idea with making his entire node the width of a USB connector:

Really good idea. Just plug it into your box.

@scalz Any update on your great looking PIR board/s?

Weird, so this functionality works on my computer at work. I will do some more research tonight.
Thanks.

When I search for a topic in the forums, the resulting links do not work.

Also, if you go to the links to your posts in your profile, the links are in the same unusable format.

https://forum.mysensors.org/post/36401

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

@Nca78 Yes, I have been following along, that is why I posted the link. Maybe this one is comparable or hopefully better?

@NeverDie Shows you how good my search was. I think I looked at that, but didn't snap that it had the coin cell on it.
Thanks.

@NeverDie I have seen reference to the Olimex version of the TI ref design in the past on other forums, but I have never seen a link to it. I have scoured the web for something that will point me to it. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Also, the LoRa modules are expensive compared to 69s.

BoRRoZ over on TheThingsNetwork (LoRaWAN network) posted this PIR.

Working Current: 15uA

http://www.keyestudio.com/keyestudio-pir-motion-sensor-for-arduino.html

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/the-bargain-basement-part-2/5977/4

I to am in search of the Holy Grail (long lasting coin cell powered RFM69 PIR node). I am a software guy so I can't contribute much here but links.

@NeverDie I see that Olimex has a version of TI's reference design. Currently $16 on Amazon, with Prme delivery. Coincell powered, small, but no enclosure.

I have looked on AZ, but can't find this version of TI's ref design. Can you provide a link?