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- 17 Jun 2020, 11:58
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
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Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Yep, agreed.
- 17 Jun 2020, 00:35
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
[...] In other places I asked the admins to close the thread for answering for others than me and open a parallel thread where things could be discussed. I missed it this time, because in the beginning there were no comments. Probably we could heal this? [...] You mean a topic closed for replies, j...
- 16 Jun 2020, 22:48
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
And here a result of putting the recorded data into the GPX-Viewer I've linked above to:
nice, isn't it?
nice, isn't it?
- 16 Jun 2020, 22:31
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Exactly this was my intention to document a project inside this forum in this manner. Most projects posted here are one picture of a mini OLED with some temperatures on it and some cable stuck into a breadboard or soldered. Its a pity - ESPEasy is such a mighty tool. I am used to present other docum...
- 16 Jun 2020, 21:50
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
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Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Sooooo, first real RV trip. Intermediate result Navigation using google maps on an Android 9.0 smartphone Calculated distance to target: 239 km Trip reading of vehicles odometer: 234.2 km - aha Total reading of ESPEasy-RV tripcounter: 238.87 km - perfect Speed readings of ESPEasy-RV : The whole trip...
- 16 Jun 2020, 01:23
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Oh, I'm awfully sorry. What I didn't point out in this thread is one outstanding feature of ESPEasy which I am using right now and on which my preliminary thoughts were based on: The devices are able to interact with eachother only by using the unique device id. Currently I have four devices running...
- 15 Jun 2020, 23:37
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Next steps planned: - at first reunion of three test devices to one in production - no further documentation neccessary, question of wiring and cut/paste of rules / configs - determination of the elevation of the satellite dish - getting the actual pressure of the air suspension including alarm when...
- 15 Jun 2020, 22:22
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Please stay honest. On a chart like this one it would look like you have mountains over there. Nice, new view....
- 15 Jun 2020, 17:35
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
OK, trip done. Google maps calculation: 15.8km, odometer reading: 15.4km, trip recorder: 15.79km. Trip profile: 10% in village, 90% highway / overland. Difference odometer reading <-> trip recorder/google -2.5% My app Eco biker completly useless, recorded 3.4km overall. Surprise: the GPS-mouse of my...
- 15 Jun 2020, 14:34
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
And have in mind, that the odometer of a vehicle may have a tolerance of upt to 10%. Already changing winter/summer tyres leads to differences due to different diameters as well as replacing old tyres by new ones, so its only a rough estimation of speed an distance though. Today I will have a look a...
- 15 Jun 2020, 14:16
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Well, I think lowering the update interval may help. In the past, using my old system, I made the experience that constantly counting leads to differences, too. Calculating the distance as it is now implemented makes imho more sense, because its a kind of averaging and reduces errors due to time shi...
- 15 Jun 2020, 13:02
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
To get a clear starting point of my travel I have added four lines to the rule for Tripreset on the GPS device, modified the original post, too: On TripReset Do SendTo 28,'Di,page2.t5.txt="Trip:0.0km"' SendTo 28,'Di,page2.t7.txt="0km/h"' TaskValueSet 2,1,0 TaskValueSet 3,1,%uptim...
- 14 Jun 2020, 17:04
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
And, please:
If someone uses the free services and tools I linked in my posts, don't forget to donate the developers of these tools. Its worth it and I am pretty sure that they have had a lot of work and costs to develop and present the tools and functions.
If someone uses the free services and tools I linked in my posts, don't forget to donate the developers of these tools. Its worth it and I am pretty sure that they have had a lot of work and costs to develop and present the tools and functions.
- 14 Jun 2020, 16:05
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Taking the produced .gpx file onto the page https://www.bernhard-gaul.de/gpxviewer/gpxviewer.php you will get as a result your travelled road track: GPS.JPG I did remove the underlaying map, but if you do it by yourself, you will have a wonderful mapview of your travel. The map with the track on it ...
- 14 Jun 2020, 15:50
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
OK, here we go, next step of my tiny project: Trip recorder. You need: - a GPS device, mine is a Neo6M , others are supported, too. I tok the Neo6M because I ave positive experiences in other automotive projects. Supported devices are documented in the ESPEasy readthedocs - a Wemos D1 - another Wemo...
- 14 Jun 2020, 02:48
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Yes, Sir, it was as accurate as I already posted, -~1-2%. And have a look, using the experimental cache controller, your html-based GPS2csv converter and converting the data to gpx file, importng this to an online OMS-GPX viewer the result looks like this one (I removed the underlaying map): GPS.JPG...
- 13 Jun 2020, 22:22
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
I could send you the complete trip in 100m steps geo data as an excel sheet.
- 13 Jun 2020, 18:46
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
First test. I had to make a trip of 20km, lot of corners, breaking, accelerating, 70 liters of water onboard to have a rough environment for the floater. Everything stayed in its place, readings of waterlevel during driving are useable to make a decision if our next place we are heading for has to h...
- 13 Jun 2020, 16:35
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
[...] You can use a flowmeter and count what you use. [...] Yes, ofcourse. But how do I get the current amount of water when filling the tank only partly? I have been at many places where I get the water not directly but have to carry it in a jerry can. And believe me, pouring rain and 250m to walk...
- 13 Jun 2020, 13:29
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
The tank with its (on the road heavily slushing) mass has to be fixed as tight as possible. No way to use these kind of sensors.
- 12 Jun 2020, 03:06
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
I forogot - as always - two things: 1. the readings of the water level has - between ~8l and 95l - an accuracy of 1 liter, in a tank of 32 cm of height 2. the levelling system I described before is that sensible, that it told me after filling 50 liters of water into the tank (this is placed in the l...
- 12 Jun 2020, 02:37
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
OK, next step is done. This "thing" went inside my freshwater tank after being - more or less accurate - calibrated last night by using a bowl and some liters of water: Floater1.1.jpg Now its inside of the tank and I will show you, why I did these efforts (despite the fact that with some m...
- 09 Jun 2020, 15:48
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
[...} As for thé float, on a long stick, you will need to think about slushing in the tank, water bar is incredible in what it can do. [...] Thats exactly what I am still worried about, fast moving water has incredible forces. And thats why I didn't trust a waterproofing only by floating on the sur...
- 09 Jun 2020, 04:01
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Thank you, but my first floater tests are surprisingly good. In a 15 l bowl today I was able to estimate the water level in a range of 1cm. For a motorhome user thats a spot landing. Never forget:We are talking about a vehicle, which is constantly in movement, at least by the movement of persons ins...
- 08 Jun 2020, 17:16
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
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Re: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
I got a preliminary build from TD-er with event GPS#travelled and as eventvalue the calcuulated distancein meters. Works perfectly, better and more accurate than expected. You have to take in mind, that the distance only can be calculated as a straight line between two geo points. So there will be a...
- 08 Jun 2020, 01:16
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Ah, and btw.: I am using an ultrasonic sensor in my cisterne. My experience: a Spider on the sensor or a.drop of condensed water make it useless. Not so important in my cisterne, somewhen the spider would walk away and the drop of water will be vaporized. But in a height of 32 cm for 100 l of water ...
- 08 Jun 2020, 01:07
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
It could have been so easy, yes. But the tank itself has a height inside of 32 cm. The sensors I've found in the past are beginnig at 300 mm to work, so that would be kind of useless. And don't forget: the moments the water has a calm surface are pretty rare. Two days ago someone posted here a water...
- 07 Jun 2020, 16:10
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Next part of the project, water level in frishwater tank. My motorhome isn't the youngest one and the old system to show the water level inside the freshwater tank has only four leds to show full / medium / low / empty. But if it shows "empty" there is still somewhat of 40 liter of water i...
- 06 Jun 2020, 21:12
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: NTC THERMISTOR MF52-103 10Kohm
- Replies: 12
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Re: NTC THERMISTOR MF52-103 10Kohm
Eeehm, having a look at the table: -5°C = 42.8 kOhm 0°C = 98.96 kOhm ?????? +5°C = 25.58 kOhm Following the physics of any NTC, thats not possible. I suppose, you don't have a problem but the guy who produced the table. Your multimeter reading fits pretty good the overall behaviour of the thermistor...
- 04 Jun 2020, 18:30
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Step 2: Putting the readings of the Gyro to Nextion. At first I am creating two tasks, every needed axis gets one: Murphy_Gyro3.JPG Murphy_Gyro4.JPG Additionally I am creating a dummy device to be able to calculate averages and a dummy device to be able to switch on / off sending the data to Nextion...
- 04 Jun 2020, 15:34
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
OK, up to now it wasn't very exciting, easy going because ESPEasy and its sensor connections is really, really, easy, wiring and configuring the sensors to get them run is pretty good documented in the ESPEasy Wiki . To give an idea: the state I reached with my current project, to display some GPS d...
- 03 Jun 2020, 15:45
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: NTC THERMISTOR MF52-103 10Kohm
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19019
Re: NTC THERMISTOR MF52-103 10Kohm
In the past dealing with NTC to get temperatures I used normal physics: One calibration point has been ice water (0°C), the second calibration point has been boiling water (100°C). You have to wait quite a while to get stable readings. Gave me a wide range and worked almost at the point. Recommendat...
- 03 Jun 2020, 15:22
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
Re: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
Here the very first pictures of the display, much more data and pages to come: Murphy1.jpg Using a MPU6050 I am finally able to level the motorhome form drivers seat by moving the vehicle and / or alter the pressure in the air suspension. Has been in the past sometimes really painful to get the vehi...
- 03 Jun 2020, 15:18
- Forum: ESP Easy: Projects / Applications
- Topic: ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
- Replies: 65
- Views: 109081
ESPEasyRV Electronical Upgrade of a Motorhome
I started a project to replace my 16 years old self built onboard "computer" of my motorhome (I was / am using a Tiny Tiger) by something little bit more modern. Some pictures of the old electronics, self-soldered, the battery sensor self designed and built on selfmade pcb board, read usin...
- 03 Jun 2020, 00:12
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24376
Re: GPS#Travelled already included?
OK, configuration is working so far. Thanks a lot @TD-er for the solution provided. Its nice to get the data directly into Excel for further processing. I will describe my caravan project in a seperate thread. I followed the recommendation to add a rule triggered by GPS#long, configuered the distanc...
- 30 May 2020, 21:00
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24376
Re: GPS#Travelled already included?
@TD-er:
Where should I place my observations for you as reminder concerning bugs / wishes / needs in GPS plugin and Cache Controller?
Where should I place my observations for you as reminder concerning bugs / wishes / needs in GPS plugin and Cache Controller?
- 30 May 2020, 18:23
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24376
Re: GPS#Travelled already included?
OK, Gotit and got it working.
Hey guys, its playtime now....
Hey guys, its playtime now....
- 30 May 2020, 14:53
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24376
Re: GPS#Travelled already included?
Wow, thats cute, looks as if this is exactly what I would need. Hints (for me): My nodes never ever will have a direct access to the Inet. May I download the lodash.min.js as a file to the filesystem of the node and use it from there? And if yes (I am not very familiar with html programming and java...
- 30 May 2020, 01:41
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24376
Re: GPS#Travelled already included?
Thank you, Thomas. Your comment ecourages me to give this project a try. Maybe, it could be the first automotive project using ESPEasy? I didn't find anything similar. Yesterday I have ordered a Neo 6M, I do have experiences already with this nice, pretty fast locking GPS sensor in another automotiv...
- 29 May 2020, 01:44
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24376
GPS#Travelled already included? [SOLVED]
I want to replace my 16 years old Tiny Tiger onboard "computer" of my caravan which I designed decades ago to track my travels in 100m detail by storing geo points, set start/end points of my trips, observe battery capacity, ambient temperatures aso. It has done its job pretty well over th...
- 24 May 2020, 13:13
- Forum: ESP Easy: General Discussion
- Topic: How enable ILI9341 i ESP EASY
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8064
Re: How enable ILI9341 i ESP EASY
Sorry, I replied in the wrong thread, have a lok at it.
- 24 May 2020, 13:11
- Forum: ESP Easy: General Discussion
- Topic: ILI9341 seems to work in new firmware
- Replies: 66
- Views: 47963
Re: ILI9341 seems to work in new firmware
Looking at the release notes:
I think in this case you have to build ESPEasy by your own....[ILI9341] Move to custom build due to build size
- 21 May 2020, 20:31
- Forum: ESP Easy: Software
- Topic: Notify using ssl/tls
- Replies: 21
- Views: 19043
Re: Notify using ssl/tls
Ah, OK. Currently no problem for me at all as long as smtp2go still works.
Any roadmap for ESP32 using encryption?
Any roadmap for ESP32 using encryption?
- 18 May 2020, 12:31
- Forum: ESP Easy: Software
- Topic: Notify using ssl/tls
- Replies: 21
- Views: 19043
Notify using ssl/tls
Is there any plan to use ssl/tls for smtp notifying?
- 18 May 2020, 12:29
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16449
Re: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
OK, yes, your'e right, I am wrong. I should have had in mind that depending on the project the energy source may be much smaller than the ones I use.
- 18 May 2020, 01:08
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16449
Re: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
Thank you for your thoughts. I am measuring the voltag using an INA219 which is powered by a GPIO directly. Works fine and shuts off the power supply of the INA during deep sleep. Easy going, 100% efficient way. In another project I am using a pretty energy consuming ultrasonic device. This one is b...
- 17 May 2020, 01:36
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16449
Re: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
Now I've had a deep look into the datasheet of the MP1584EN linked by ThomasB which names a quiescent current of 100µA. I stopped already the tests with the LT1763-3.3 and ordered some of the MP1584EN, seems as if it will be my favourite DC-DC power supply in 12V applications/projects. Just for comp...
- 16 May 2020, 06:11
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16449
Re: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
OK, now I understood what you were talking about. And in theory, you have posted a perfect solution for getting an alarm on bad battery conditions - useful for a stationary installation in a lot up in the mountains with solar panels and attached battery. But: no, I don't want to get only a warning i...
- 16 May 2020, 03:20
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16449
Re: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
Additional information about my application to whom is interested: I made the same modifications on the Wemos board as already described here . The used INA219 for monitoring battery voltage is powered directly by a GPIO, high on awakening, low on sleep. Works so far. I robbed a small alloy heatsink...
- 16 May 2020, 02:45
- Forum: ESP Easy: Hardware
- Topic: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16449
Re: Design for power supply from source >12V low quiescent current
. . . 10 mA is roughly 8 times less, so that should last over 2 months, if no other items in the car draw current (e.g. stand-by of the car stereo) . . . Sorry, I've seen your post too late. My problem is, that the car sometimes isn't used for two month or so. A quiescent current of 10mA would disc...