Let's Control It

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I checked this document: https://espeasy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ESPEasy/ESPchips.html Here it says ESP32-C6 Not yet supported. Sparkfun DEV 22924 is based on ESP32-C6. I've not yet marked the ESP32-C2 and -C6 as being supported for 2 reasons: - We plan on changing the flash layout, so better not ...

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When using a SD card, please be aware not all SD cards are created equal and also the used file system and partition table can make a huge difference whether it will work or not. As a rule of thumb: Older cards are often the better choice for these kinds of projects. - Smaller (preferrably < 4 GB as...

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Looks like it is some kind of MBus telegram style data?
Do you happen to have a document on the protocol?

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That's an 1M build. I guess you don't need to build for a node with only 1M of flash, do you? So please try using a 4M build. Also why using "beta"? That's using the latest Arduino code, which may have some issues regarding WiFi and memory usage. Better just use to top one "Custom_274...

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But which PlatformIO env do you select to build?

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Which custom build do you try to build?
Isn't an 1M build right?

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Right now we can't use font files, so it has to be embedded in the binary. A first step would be to allow to use fonts from the file system and of course a manual/tool to simply create them and test them to see no parts (thin lines or thin openings) are missing. I think adding a lot of fonts is maki...

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Fonts are a bit tricky for lots of reasons. Maybe it is even better if we document how to make fonts yourself and embed those. One of the most tricky parts is.... you have to be really really careful to only use "free" and "open" fonts. And also scaling fonts is also quite hard a...

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OK, so maybe we should also try to use any PSRAM for this if available, so you don't need to load stuff from the file system when needed.

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In there you need to prefix the defines with "-D"
Thus in C++: (in Custom.h file)

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#define FEATURE_SD 1

Or in the Python file:

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custom_defines=[
"-DFEATURE_SD=1", # add this ???
"-DCONTROLLER_SET_ALL",
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Looks nice

Didn't know ESPEasy was capable of generating such nice dashboards.
Or have you been really creative with BMPs?

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In short, see the command "let" This can also be used to perform calculations. To access those variables, you can use either [var#1] or [int#1] or %v1% Where "1" is the variable nr. The difference between those is that "int" returns the integer representation of the val...

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Yes those film keypads are only for occasional use. They are also not as "weatherproof" as they are advertised to be. On the other hand they are quite cheap, so keep that in mind when designing an enclosure for them to design it in such a way you can actually replace it without having to r...

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Ah... (a bit "too bad"

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Fixed as in no more reboots?

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The minimum send interval for MQTT controllers can be much lower as the connection is kept open So 100 msec is fine, but 10 msec probably is too :) Making it longer will only cause the controller to use more RAM in the queue. On the latest GH Actions builds I was hoping the amount of free RAM would ...

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Yep, PWM with fade has changed and that's indeed not related to this. As your unit seems to be working without the MQTT controller enabled, I think it probably doesn't have anything to do with the 1Wire implementation at all. I guess we need to look a bit closer at the MQTT/controller settings? I kn...

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OK, and what are the voltages of those pins when you power the relay board with 5V and not having the ESP connected to those pins?
So the voltage between GND and IN1 for example.

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Could it be that there is some controller setting which is a bit more timing critical, now is acting up?
After all the timing critical reading of the 1Wire sensor does temporarily disable interrupts.

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It might be this NaN is causing some issues, however I have no clue yet why.
Can you see if it gets disconnected from the MQTT broker before it crashes?

Maybe also try to not send it to the broker, to see if this makes a difference.

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Maybe you can try some numerical value other than NaN.
If that doesn't make a difference please try "ignore".

Have to get dinner now, but will look into this a bit more later this evening.

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But what will then be the voltage on the "INx" pins when you don't have it connected to the ESP?

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And one other thing....
What have you set as "error value" ?
One of the few changes in those builds is how task values are being dealt with and P004_Dallas is one of the few that might have to deal with NaN values.

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Do you have multiple DS18b20 on the same bus? Do you have multiple set on the same task? Do you have multiple 1-wire tasks with multiple sensors per task? Can you share some of the stats as shown on the task config page? Like this: 1Address: 28-ff-2a-43-bb-22-02-f4 [DS18B20] Resolution: 12 Parasite ...

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Which exact build filename did you use?
I can't remember there has been a lot of changes on ESP8266 regarding this.

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On the sysvars page there are some conversion examples at the bottom. For example %c_m2hcm%(482) (minutes to hh:mm) You can use %syssec_d% to get the number of seconds of today (takes DST and timezone into account) let,1,%syssec_d%/60 // Convert to minutes let,1,[int#1]+60 // Add +1 hour offset let,...

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OK, so the diodes are clearly visible. That's good. If I'm not mistaken, this board has optocouplers to switch the relais. So from the ESP it isn't anything other than switching LEDs. Maybe you can power the relay board with 5V and I think you may need to change something where there is the green ju...

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I don't see why not. (like 5x4 should work with a 4x4 keypad)

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Can you take a look at if the ESP board maybe reboots? Some relay boards have a really bad power supply and relais draw quite a lot of power. Also if you made the boards yourself, please make sure to have a diode over the relay in "opposite" direction to protect electronics controlling the...

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You can order the T-ETH-Lite-ESP32S3 as the SPI Ethernet chip uses less GPIO pins and the S3 does have more GPIO pins to begin with.
See here for a list of those boards: https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGO-T-ETH-Series

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Those are indeed included in the latest build on the webflasher: https://td-er.nl/ESPEasy/latest/ However I have not tested those as I simply do not have boards with them. Please let me know the results. N.B. I also added support for 3 SPI Ethernet devices, so now other ESP32-variants can be equippe...

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chromo23 wrote: ↑21 Feb 2024, 16:40 [...]
What are the green things with what it seems red and black buttons on your control board?

Looks like buttons to control rail switches to direct a train to a different section of the track.
Marklin has them in blue with red and green buttons (at least those old ones I had)

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@bidrohini Maybe best to not mention "eCO2" as a feature as it is confusing to say the least. I would rather call it a misleading unit of measure as it implies something to do with CO2. But it doesn't. Those VOC sensors measure volatile organic compounds and it is really hard to distinguis...

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What Ton tried to explain is that in PlatformIO you have several build environments. In VS Code you can see this on the left panel when you select this alien-like symbol. There are several build envs like "custom_274_ESP8266_4M1M" etc. A few of those have "IR" in their env name l...

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Well as far as I know is this a modbus sensor. So in theory you can have multiple connected to the same serial bus and each should be assigned an unique modbus address. However I don't know for sure is the ESPEasy implementation of it does address the sensor at its specific address (or the standard ...

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Yep, if you're sending to a controller that requires network, then a bad WiFi signal can cause these crashes.

I've seen that DNS lookups are prone to causing crashes when those fail.

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What kind of task do you have running at position 3 and 4? Which build are you running? (exact filename, see sysinfo page) The reason I'm asking about task 3 and 4 is that this decoded message had once a one-off "bug" so depending on the build it could mean task #3 or #4 :) Anyway the Exte...

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Have you looked at the sysvars page? (tools->System Variables button) On there you can see %sunset% and %sunrise%, but also variants like %sunset-1h% and %sunrise+10m% N.B. for correct sunset/sunrise times, it is important you have your DST & timezone and your GPS position set on the Tools->Adva...

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There is no actual planned timeline for SNMP. The most important things for now: (not a specific order) - Home Assistant Auto Discovery - Wifi stability - Matter/Thread support (IPv6 is already working) - Power optimization (and support for power controller chips like AXP2101 as used in M5Stack Core...

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I guess this is intended as a for of provisioning? If so then it is possible to trigger via rules to fetch settings files (and even new firmware) from a HTTP server. Not sure if changing core settings of a controller is very practical via rules as it is a good way to get you disconnected as you prob...

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Looks more like solder pads and PCB silkscreen
So no sensor in this revision too...

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Just curious, is there actually a sensor mounted behind the "eye" on the top of the display (when in portrait mode)? (left on the picture)

On the older revisions of those the datasheet and schematics mentioned some presence sensor there, but there was none.

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The data could be corrupted due to wrong ground levels, wrong termination or collisions and if you try long enough even corrupted data can have a matching checksum.
And corrupted communication can let systems crash

But glad it was resolved and even more glad it doesn't need any code changes

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Which ESPEasy build are you using? Do you have the GND also connected for the RS485 connection? Do you use a terminator resistor or might there be multiple present in your bus (>2) ? Is there a single master or multiple? If multiple, then I think you can better use an ESP32 with "collision dete...

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Updated the build on https://td-er.nl/ESPEasy/latest/

N.B. I also updated to the latest flasher software, so it may take slightly longer to detect a board as it tries a bit harder to get the IMPROV string from the board stating any installed firmware.

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The platforms for which the same build type is available is listed in [...] Thus if it states your platform in that list then you can select it to be flashed. N.B. In about 10 minutes I will update the build in 'latest' to the new one I just made. So you may need to refresh the page to see today's d...

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That's exactly what I am working on right now. (as in literally now at this moment) You can already try yesterday's build: https://td-er.nl/ESPEasy/latest/ Still a problem in that build when you disconnect wifi it might sometimes crash (working on) and switching WiFi off via command ("wifimode,...

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I'm not sure what you exactly mean?
Do you have problems flashing ESPEasy firmware onto the ESP board?

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What I meant is that some of the supported radio modules hardly do anything themselves other than just outputting "pulses" after mixing down from the tuned frequency. So if it is only registering the time since last pulse and recording it to a pre-allocated array of memory, then it isn't b...

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Maybe Ton can explain this a lot better as he is the one who extended the possibilities of the MQTT import plugin. But I can already try to explain the basics to you so it can already sink in a bit till Ton is back from work :) MQTT is all about publishing messages to a topic and subscribing to topi...

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