Let's Control It

rmtucker

Having spent days reading snippets of information on MQTT and domoticz/espeasy,I am no further forward. It all seems so complicated and way beyond me without a hand holding tutorial on how to put it all together. Domoticz seems to be the problem when using dummy switches because it does not need an ...

rmtucker

Hi
Thank you for your input on this.
My problem with that idea is that The esp could be unplugged or not working and domoticz will not throw any kind of error because it is a dumb connection.
Yes the feedback switch wouold show off but still no error.

rmtucker

Having searched this forum and Googling i have still no idea how to get an ack back from the espeasy node.
I see that it can be done with mqtt but i really did not want to learn mqtt.
So basically if i send on/off from domoticz to my boiler relay,There is no ack to say it has received it or not.

rmtucker

I have been playing with the relay example in the wiki and realised that there is no feedback to domoticz about the status of the relay. For instance using the example it works fine, the relay switches on and off when pressing the switch in domoticz. But if I the esp misses an instruction to turn on...

rmtucker

Just thought i would mention here that i made some code changes to the si7021 code because it did not work on the htu21d module either. Changed this:- if (resolution == SI7021_RESOLUTION_11T_11RH) delay(4); else if (resolution == SI7021_RESOLUTION_12T_08RH) delay(5); else if (resolution == SI7021_RE...

rmtucker

The mysensors support is a nice idea, but honestly I think it's mostly a workaround for the lack of full support for virtual sensors in domoticz. I would like to stick to MQTT, as it's much more generic than the mysensors API - however with the current limitations in domoticz with regards to events...

rmtucker

Found the problem.
The delays after conversion are not correct in the source code.

rmtucker

Mine will not even show up in the scanner.
But it works perfectly on the arduino pro mini and mysensors?

rmtucker

HTU21D Humidity and Temperature Sensor
Anyone got this sensor working?
I thought it was compatible with the SI7021 but i can not get it too work.

rmtucker

I really did not expect this to progress so quickly,Thanks martinus :D Just a thought though to keep things simple instead of multiple gateways. Is it not possible to have 1 ESP gateway with multiple ESP nodes? I know you are trying to stay away from a separate gateway but Why,it is only an extra ES...

rmtucker

The remote address is the ip address of the esp8266 and the port number i presum is prob 5003.

rmtucker

Wow That sounds very promising.
Are you saying you have connected an ESP to A Mysensors Arduino ethernet gateway?

rmtucker

Martinus I have just purchased the kit for mysensors out of curiosity,Because of robs comments on domoticz and the fact he will never fully support ESP virtual devices :( . So far i am quite impressed except for the wires everywhere and i dont think the range is as good. I tried the ESP8266 Mysensor...

rmtucker

Unless something has changed which i have not noticed? The ESP8266 Gateway with an nrf radio attached allows you to pass data from other nrf Mysensor node or from any directly attached sensor. But importantly it does not cater for ESP to ESP Gateway connections.This can still only be done with Virtu...

rmtucker

I think loglevel 4 will show everything.
I had the same problem with domoticz MQTT so went back to HTTP.
I thought it was just me as it was the first time i had used MQTT.
Also when i switched back to HTTP it bricked the ESP so i had to re flash it from scratch.

rmtucker

Just wondering if the Domoticz http plugin is looking for the correct response? From the domoticz plugin code:- if (line.substring(0, 15) == "HTTP/1.1 200 OK") From the Domoticz wiki:- All responses include a status which is either OK on success or ERR on failure { "status" : &qu...

rmtucker

I have been using deep sleep on a battery powered temperature device for the last 2 months.
It is waking every 5 mins and sending data.
If it falls down i will let you know.

rmtucker

Yes thank you for that. Yes i realise it works in blocky but we are getting back to my original discussion that we are having to work around problems because we are using virtual devices because espeasy is not fully integrated into domoticz. As you have stated it will notify you every 5 mins which i...

rmtucker

Ah yes it does work with switches but not temperature or voltage etc.

rmtucker

I am totally confused now

https://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8843

rmtucker

I don't understand Email from Gizmocuz "Okay, but you use a dummy hardware device to push the data this is indeed not working i think you can use mysensors.org with the ESP2866 correct? then you can add it as native hardware (mysensors) and then all should work problem with virtual updates, it ...

rmtucker

At the moment ESPeasy is supported through dummy or virtual devices in Domoticz. This now is showing some problems,like notifications are not supported on virtual devices in Domoticz. After speaking to Rob he reckons it will never be supported because it would involve too much work. So i wonder if i...

rmtucker

I had the same problem here:-
http://www.esp8266.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=184
Seems to be a problem for just a couple of people not sure why?
But i now just do as you have and install v30 then v38.

rmtucker

"I reboot the power and remove the pin 0."
I assume you removed the pin 0 then rebooted otherwise it is in flashing mode?

rmtucker

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/588 ... syTool.ino

press 'e' to erase
press 's' to show contents

rmtucker

I have multiple sensors running on one esp8266 with no problems.
But i recently bought a few on ebay which would only work in 9bit mode (I think they were fakes).
Luckily the seller returned my money.

rmtucker

Having closely monitored my gas and electricity pulsecounters over the last 10 days i have observed the following:- I am using R38 and it is absolutely rock solid,No missed pulses or re-boots. The only time i have observed any problem lost pulses etc has been with the connection to domoticz. This ma...

rmtucker

I think what worries me about the above are the constraints on the memory space available etc. Even the 4mb esp12e versions only allow 1mb for everything and the remaining 3mb is for spiffs. Some discussion on where the project is headed would be a good thing as it works perfectly for most applicati...

rmtucker

I have managed to send the extra 30 pulses through the Domoticz api/url so they are both matching again. But this makes me wonder if the pulsecounter should be sending the total count in some way. I know if it goes down it would lose count but surely we can read the domoticz count if the esp is rese...

rmtucker

Well after approx 112,000 pulses it seems to have slipped up somewhere as Domoticz is reporting 30 pulses less than the pulsecounter in ESPEasy. I can only imagine that it has had a connection problem to my domoticz server and then disappeared out of the log after a while so i can not prove it. It w...

rmtucker

Yes it posts seperately to the api for each Task. I have noticed a massive problem with emoncms recently dropping updates,very Flakey (even though the response is "ok" after the status update.) For this reason i have set up my own local server with domoticz and a raspberry pi. You could al...

rmtucker

Just an update on this.
Yes it does show some discrepancies on the web front end but it is working perfectly!.
It has recorded about 37,000 pulses and never missed a beat so

Well done that developer

rmtucker

I can not see anything wrong in the screen shot?
I presume you have 2 nodes with 3 sensors attached to each?

rmtucker

Strange thing is though after a reset and letting it run for a while,you can see the totals are correct but the count is off?

rmtucker

Just to prove it:-

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rmtucker

I have a one Tsl257 photodiode connected to gpio12 and gpio13 detecting pulses from an electricity meter. I have set up two tasks using pulse counter one for watts and one for kwh. The first on gpio12 and the second on gpio13. On average it is recording about 50 pulses in 5 mins. But sometimes the s...

rmtucker

We could always forget about the smaller versions (less memory) and only cater for the bigger memory versions? I don't think the extra small amount of money you pay would be an issue. And from my own experiance the Esp-01 versions because they are unscreened are very susceptable to interference from...

rmtucker

Do you have the idx/variable set in your device task to match the field number in thingspeak?
Ie. idx set to 1 would send to thingspeak as field1.

rmtucker

This is after R30 upload. ªU0 0 INIT : Incorrect PID or version! Reset! FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLASH: Erase ok FLAS...

rmtucker

This is after Re-power and reset. RESET: Reboot count: 1 ctx: cont sp: 3ffec8d0 end: 3ffecb50 offset: 01b0 >>>stack>>> 3ffeca80: 00000002 4000410f 3ffecac0 00000121 3ffeca90: 3fffc718 40004a3c 00000114 00114000 3ffecaa0: 3fffc718 40101dcc 00000114 402186c4 3ffecab0: 00000114 4020824a 00000113 402082...

rmtucker

This is serial output after R38 Upload. ªU PID:0 Version:0 INIT : Incorrect PID or version! RESET: Cold boot ctx: cont sp: 3ffec8d0 end: 3ffecb50 offset: 01b0 >>>stack>>> 3ffeca80: 00000002 4000410f 3ffecac0 00000121 3ffeca90: 3fffc718 40004a3c 00000114 00114000 3ffecaa0: 3fffc718 40101dcc 00000114 ...

rmtucker

Martinus Thank you for checking anyway. When i try to use R38 on a fresh unit it does not erase the flash sectors and does not save any flash settings as in your screen. Which results in incorrect pid and version number because they have not been saved to flash? Anyway as long as i can get round it ...

rmtucker

Put you thingspeak apikey into the controller password if i remember right.
It's been a while!

rmtucker

I have just gone through this on two fresh out of the factory boards.
Exactly the same results,can not install R38,have to install R30 first.
Then install R38.

rmtucker

Well This is strange.
Used espeasy tool and erased the flash.
Installed R30 and at last it works !!!!!!
Then it allowed me to upgrade to R38.
Something has altered since R30 that will not allow a clean install on a new Esp-12.

rmtucker

Still struggling!!
It works with my other esp-12 module but not the new ones.
I ran the espeasy tool and erased the flash then re flashed with espeasy.
It will still not run.
So i ran espeasy tool again and read the flash and it is completely empty.
No version number or PID,nothing

rmtucker

That did not help
Still getting the same result.
Is there a way of determining the Flash size on an esp-12E as it is covered in a metal can.?

rmtucker

Two new ESP-12 modules arrived today and i can not get them to work with ESPEasy??? I can flash with other Arduino programs and they work no problem but i get the following with ESPEasy:- load 0x4010f000, len 1264, room 16 tail 0 chksum 0x42 csum 0x42 ~ld ªU PID:0 Version:0 INIT : Incorrect PID or v...

rmtucker

After adding the Emoncms Plugin R35 i thought a few notes might Help Setup:- Click on config. 1.Change the protocol to emoncms 2.Change the controller IP to 80.243.190.58 3.Change the controller port to 80 4.Change the controller password to your emoncms write apikey 5.Change the unit number if desi...

rmtucker

I have committed the changes too add emoncms as a controller.
It still needs a little work though.
Fingers crossed.

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