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robatbentley

Thanks for that. I can now see all three parameters worth of MQTT subscriber values via MQTT.fx. Giess the deep sleep on the other device stopped the problem.
Looks like I'm back in action again.
Cheers

robatbentley

I have two BMx280 devices on seperate ESP8266 devices, both setup in pretty similar ways. i.e. The working device uses deep sleep mode, the other doesn't. I use OpenHAB MQTT to send the device readings (temperature, pressure and humidity) to a third device to present the readings on an LCD. One of t...

robatbentley

Updated all devices to ESP_Easy_mega-20181204_normal_ESP8266_4096 but now the weather has warmed up again. I'll confirm on the next frosty night.

robatbentley

I'm using mega-20181107 on the LCD device but don't have the version on the device with the sensor as it's located outdoors. ...but suspect it may be a few weeks older than the LCD. Just upgraded the LCD device to ESP_Easy_mega-20181204_normal_ESP8266_4096 but temperature above freezing so can't tes...

robatbentley

Hi, I have a BMx280 sensor displaying temperature on a 4x20 LCD displays via MQTT Import. As it was the first really cold night last night, I was surprised to see that the temperatures displayed via MQTT Import had a value of '1' deg C whereas the temperature displayed on Domoticz (from the same sen...

robatbentley

Many thanks to TD-er. Works a treat.

robatbentley

Yes, I meant LCD 4x20 I agree with Domospaiens results and also managed to get build ESP_Easy_mega-20181101 working. I think that my updates, in the mean time, to my other LED ESP8266 devices used saved settings so never actually had to update the lines 1 to 4. ...but I wanted to change something on...

robatbentley

Having some strange problems with setting up an LED device which I've done many times before. Sure I've had this problem before but can't locate any related threads. When I add some commands to any of the LED device lines 1-4, such as "%sysweekday_s% %systm_hm% %sysday%-%sysmonth%-%sysyear%&quo...

robatbentley

No problem - I'll check it out tomorow. Not quite tomorrow... Just had a look at my battery (VCC and BME280) node and it's setup with 2 controllers: "Domoticz HTTP" and "OpenHAB MQTT" - the latter used to send my THP data from the BME280 node to my LCD nodes displaying the THP in...

robatbentley

Further to this https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5629 post ("VCC and BME280 Device Problem on recent builds"), I've applied the latest build ESP_Easy_mega-20180809_test_ESP8266_4096_VCC to my node_mcu device, with a BME280 THP device attached (along with voltage ...

robatbentley

Thanks for looking into it.
The recent builds (none VCC) do work fine on another of my BME280 devices. Seems to be some connection there.
Regards, Rob

robatbentley

I've been using the VCC feature to measure battery voltage for my remote battery powered BME280 temperature, humidity and pressure device for a few months. The build that last worked (for me) was the ESP_Easy_mega-20180522_test_ESP8266_4096_VCC.bin. Since then, my experience with more recent builds ...

robatbentley

Thanks for that. I've found the Vcc enabled .bin files and will give them a try tomorrow. Excellent!

Update: installed firmware including activated Vcc. Works a treat. Thanks for building the feature as it'll be very useful.
Rob

robatbentley

Tried to put as much in the title to get some interest in the problem I'm having. I'm attempting to measure and monitor the battery voltage of my remote BME280 temperature sensor which runs off a parallel set of 4 x 18650 batteries. ...and instead of finding the settings not being updated on Domotic...

robatbentley

This post is related to the post below called "LED Dimmer using curl cmd in LUA script - problem with os.execute?" but think I'm going about looking for a solution in the wrong way. The other post is suffering from my lack of understanding of various tools such as LUA scripts, os.execute c...

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I've been trying to implement an LED dimmer (based on post https://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=20583&p=176190#p176190 ) using a Domoticz switch, ESPEasy (12E) and a LUA script. The problem is that the LUA script builds a command but doesn't seem to be executing it successfull...

robatbentley

Thanks. As per my updated previous post, I've managed to get it working with an ESPeasy device on both ends of the link.
Really nice solution.

robatbentley

Is the solution then to replace the sonoff-tasmota by a ESPeasy conncted to the BME280 so that it's another ESPEasy device sending the MQTT topic? I've just answered my own question, and yes, you can. It works wonderfully. Wish I'd known about MQTT import before trying out some alternative platforms...

robatbentley

Hi, I'm trying to get my BME280 THP sensor values displayed on an LCD. I've tried using the GlobalSync config but no longer appears to be working. So, to get around this, I'm now trying to use the sensor values (attached to the E12 sonoff/tasmota device) sending sensor values via MQTT to my ESPEasy ...

robatbentley

I've uploaded the latest firmware version ESP_Easy_v2.0-20180228_normal_ESP8266_4096 on both my LCD and sensor nodes but still the same problem.
Can anyone else duplicate this issue? ...as, so far, it seems to be just me with the problem.

robatbentley

Sorry TD-er, didn't see your update. I'll give it a test tonight. Update: I rebuilt 2 x 8266 nodes (loaded with zeros and then the latest build of ESP_Easy_v2.0-20180221_normal_ESP8266_4096), one for the LCD (192.168.1.10) and the other for the BME280 (192.168.1.8) sensor. I managed to get the globa...

robatbentley

...and a thanks from me too!
Can you let me know when there's something to try out?

robatbentley

Re "If you exchange settings, are always the same physical devices causing problems?" - The same physical devices change behaviour when settings are modified. However, any initialised device that doesn't go through the 20 sec countdown seems to have more problems re global sync. ...and det...

robatbentley

I've experimented with a number ESP8266 nodes for the LCD nodes, flashing them from scratch. i.e. Flashing them with zeros and then with the ESPeasy build. Summary of analysis: Having done the testing outlined below, I suspect the following... * Firmware at or around v2.0.0-dev12 then global sync do...

robatbentley

Right...! Think I've followed your instructions. I've now configured the nodes RobsLCD (aka the display) and BoxedTHP (aka the sensor) to UDP 61234. I've left the other two sensors as they were (Optical Sensor and IndoorTHPSensor) with UDP 65500. The resulting Main/Node List reflects the two groups ...

robatbentley

Re "You have GlobalSync enabled and set a common port to both devices, right?" ...Yes, tick box selected in Tools/Advanced and all nodes using common UDP of 65500. Re "This list is there and correct (IP Asdresses)?" ...Yes, I can see all 4 IP adresses of all 4 nodes. ...and same ...

robatbentley

Updated all sync'd nodes to ESP_Easy_v2.0-20180212_normal_ESP8266_4096. ...but still not fixed the problem. I've also noticed that there is no Global Sync tick-box in the LCD_THP task settings, as per attached screen-shot. Not sure if there used to be but there are for all the other sensor nodes glo...

robatbentley

Re "Space in the name of your node? ... Robs LCD in your last pic". Removed space in unit name. Now called RobsLCD. Re "RobsLCD as Node name and as Task name?" Renamed LCD device to LCD_THP. Powered-down/up sequence for all nodes but no change. Re "When in doubt, disable DST...

robatbentley

Re Apple using UDP 65501... I've reset all sensors and the LCD to using 65500. ...followed by a power-up and down.
Re slaved devices not enabled... I agree, and can confirm that all slaved devices are not enabled, as per screen-shot below.
However, still no sensor data appearing in LCD node.

robatbentley

Re data being broadcast on that port using a sniffer... I don't know as I've never used a sniffer before. However, the data does appear to be shared between the 3 sensors (all on different ESPEasy nodes) as per my initial post. i.e. They can all "see" each others sensor data. It's only the...

robatbentley

Yes... Advanced/Global sync: enabled for both LCD and BME280 devices. ...and common UDP port of 65501 also set for both. Global sync enabled for BME280 device (Task settings/global sync). ...and numerous power-down and ups for all nodes.

robatbentley

Thanks for the feedback. Checked that NTP selected for all, and it was. See attached. ...but the DST wasn't selected for all of the, It is now. As far as I can tell, the NTP and DST options are identical. ...and the node time seems to be consisent across all devices. Did a power-up and down cycle on...

robatbentley

My problem is that I'm unable to display BME280 x 2 and TSL2561 device on a globally sync'ed 20x4 LCD device. I've had this working previously but since migrating to more recent ESPEasy-2.0 builds I started having problems where (e.g.) only the TSL2561 device couldn't be shared but more recently the...

robatbentley

I'm experimenting with using deep sleep as my weather station batteries only last about 3 days. I've selected Sleep enabled, Sleep delay of 60 seconds and tried variants with and without Sleep on connection failure, and also set Message Delay (Tools) to xero. The device never seems to then communica...

robatbentley

GlobalSync must be activated in the sensor's settings (Task Settings)

Oh, crap! I didn't see the GlobalSyn tick box in the task. Yup, all working now.
Off to eat some humble pie... Just didn't see it. I'll put my glasses on next time.
Thanks for the guidance

robatbentley

I've rebuilt the Dev code (24 June 2017) and can now see the the other nodes in the node list, all using the UDP 65500. The LCD title formatting (i.e. "In : C %" - see LCD device config screen-shot below) is no longer regularly replaced by numbers appearing. However, I still can't get the ...

robatbentley

Having just built a dev build (19June2017), I find that I can't sync my data from my 2 x BME280s to my remote LCD. The data from the 2 BME280s looks good and is visible in the devices and Domoticz. The only issue is that I can't see the data on my remote LCD. i.e. The formatting is fine, but just no...

robatbentley

Sorry for my ignorance here, but do I delete some of the ino files or lib folders or both? Update: I went ahead and deleted a number of ino files which I hoped were not used in my INA and LCD application. Lucky guess I think, and managed to free-up some more RAM to about 20k. I'll delete a few more ...

robatbentley

Had a look at the system info page and I think it's the "Free Mem: 19952 (26408)" bit I need to look at. ...which, in this case, appears to be just under 20k. How do I go about removing unwanted modules? Unit: 17 Uptime: 0 days 1 hours 28 minutes Load: 34% (LC=8615) Free Mem: 19952 (26408)...

robatbentley

Thanks to the guys that fixed the LCD problem for my INA219s. I've just rebuilt the ESP Easy Mega and, despite the config being quite slow to respond (don't know if it's my end or not), but I now have a working 4x20 LCD working. :) I'm still using the rules to display the details in Domoticz so this...

robatbentley

Just implemented the rules for the INA devices and it works really nicely. Thanks for that. The pressure's off from my side now that I have that great work-around. It'd be nice to have the LCD device working again but at least I can see my data in Domoticz.
Cheers...

robatbentley

Not had time to investigate the BME280 as just blown all my 4 INA219s while moving the circuit spaghetti. Hmm! Finally replaced and improved the test-bed layout and now back to 4xINA219s and an LCD4x20. The problem is that using the latest home-grown build from yesterday, I can no longer create an L...

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I've tried creating a new Domoticz device and assoicated IDX reference, and configured one of my 4 INA ESPEasy devices but doesn't update the single IDX with anything but the single measurement type, in my case it's voltage. So, the selected value is getting through to Domoticz but can't (without in...

robatbentley

Okay, just found something new in the INA219 device setup in my latest home-built version of the flash bin file (5pm on 12th June 2017). It's the drop-down list of Measurement Types, which used to be only Voltage, Current and Power. ...but now there's an additional Voltage/Current/Power option. I've...

robatbentley

Aaaah! Rebuilding from scratch and'll get back once I've sorted which zip to download and rebuild. Thanks Update1: I've rebuilt and flashed what I think is the correct source code. I can see the same setup as your friend and configured mine to look the same. ...and the figures look sensible now. ......

robatbentley

I'll re-download and clear everything out and start afresh just in case. I have a feeling that I did catch the file update as the selection of IDX returned, but it's worth another go. ...and report back. I don't mind putting in the time to test the dev builds but it's incredibly frustrating when the...

robatbentley

With a home built dev_10, even the 2nd and 3rd elements of a value (such as volts) seem to be all over the place. i.e. In the 2nd element, I multipled the %value% by 10, and in the 3rd by 100. ...but the values don't make any sense and they appear to be purely random. There's a serious problem here ...

robatbentley

Had a few wiring problems to power-up the 0x45 INA device, but sorted now. i.e. I can see all 4 devices in the I2C Scan. ...and links to Domoticz reflect this so at least that bit's working. However, all 4 devices are reading spurious values which appear to be in the 4.0 to 4.5 range for volts as we...

robatbentley

Sorry but I don't know how to compile the git source code. I either need someone to describe how to do this (I have Visual Studio installed) or build an executable for me. Update 1: Okay, just found the tutorial on installing Atom (et al) and will install the build environment. Let you know how I ge...

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Hi, I'm using Release v2.0.0-dev10 and trying to configure my INA219 devices but am unable to select the IDX value from Domoticz. ...though I'm pretty sure that this was avalailable in Release v2.0.0-dev08. Consequently, my Domoticz displays are all red for these devices. Please see attached screens...

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