Relay Node

[fwessels]

@jkandasa I start to play with MyController today looks good what I am seeing so far. However i have a problem with the my relay node. I am running Mysensor beta version 2 on all my nodes. Mycontroller pick the relay up but is I look at the node info it say there is no sensors why will this be the case?

Thanks

Francois

[jkandasa]

i believe we might have issue to display sensors count in node details page. let me have a look. thank you

[fwessels]

@jkandasa do this version support relays and dimmer sensors? As I also don't get my dimmer sensor to work.

[jkandasa]

@fwessels yes this version should support dimmer and relay.

[fwessels]

@jkandasa Are you using the standard sensors sketch or did you changes anything in the sketch as my relays and dimmers sensors are not working

[jkandasa]

@fwessels with standard sketch only. mycontroller will send set type message

[fwessels]

@jkandasa If I look at the Variables mapper I don't see anything for lights (relay) what Sensor type do you use for the relay?

Regards

Francois

[jkandasa]

sensor type S_BINARY and variable type V_STATUS

[fwessels]

@jkandasa I try everything and just cannot get the relay node working what can the issue be?

[jkandasa]

@fwessels can you share your node code?

[fwessels]

Hi @jkandasa here is my code

/**
 * The MySensors Arduino library handles the wireless radio link and protocol
 * between your home built sensors/actuators and HA controller of choice.
 * The sensors forms a self healing radio network with optional repeaters. Each
 * repeater and gateway builds a routing tables in EEPROM which keeps track of the
 * network topology allowing messages to be routed to nodes.
 *
 * Created by Henrik Ekblad <henrik.ekblad@mysensors.org>
 * Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Sensnology AB
 * Full contributor list: https://github.com/mysensors/Arduino/graphs/contributors
 *
 * Documentation: http://www.mysensors.org
 * Support Forum: http://forum.mysensors.org
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 *******************************
 *
 * REVISION HISTORY
 * Version 1.0 - Henrik Ekblad
 * 
 * DESCRIPTION
 * Example sketch for a "light switch" where you can control light or something 
 * else from both HA controller and a local physical button 
 * (connected between digital pin 3 and GND).
 * This node also works as a repeader for other nodes
 * http://www.mysensors.org/build/relay
 */ 

// Enable debug prints to serial monitor
#define MY_DEBUG 
#define MY_NODE_ID 15

// Enable and select radio type attached
//#define MY_RADIO_NRF24
#define MY_RADIO_RFM69

// Enabled repeater feature for this node
//#define MY_REPEATER_FEATURE

#include <SPI.h>
#include <MySensor.h>
#include <Bounce2.h>

#define RELAY_PIN  4  // Arduino Digital I/O pin number for relay 
#define BUTTON_PIN  3  // Arduino Digital I/O pin number for button 
#define CHILD_ID 1   // Id of the sensor child
#define RELAY_ON 1
#define RELAY_OFF 0

Bounce debouncer = Bounce(); 
int oldValue=0;
bool state;

MyMessage msg(CHILD_ID,V_STATUS);

void setup()  
{  
  // Setup the button
  pinMode(BUTTON_PIN,INPUT);
  // Activate internal pull-up
  digitalWrite(BUTTON_PIN,HIGH);
  
  // After setting up the button, setup debouncer
  debouncer.attach(BUTTON_PIN);
  debouncer.interval(5);

  // Make sure relays are off when starting up
  digitalWrite(RELAY_PIN, RELAY_OFF);
  // Then set relay pins in output mode
  pinMode(RELAY_PIN, OUTPUT);   
      
  // Set relay to last known state (using eeprom storage) 
 // state = loadState(CHILD_ID);
 // digitalWrite(RELAY_PIN, state?RELAY_ON:RELAY_OFF);
}

void presentation()  {
  // Send the sketch version information to the gateway and Controller
  sendSketchInfo("Main Bedroom Relay & Button B2", "2.0");

  // Register all sensors to gw (they will be created as child devices)
  present(CHILD_ID, S_BINARY);
}

/*
*  Example on how to asynchronously check for new messages from gw
*/
void loop() 
{
  debouncer.update();
  // Get the update value
  int value = debouncer.read();
  if (value != oldValue && value==0) {
      send(msg.set(state?false:true), true); // Send new state and request ack back
  }
  oldValue = value;
} 
 
void receive(const MyMessage &message) {
  // We only expect one type of message from controller. But we better check anyway.
  if (message.isAck()) {
     Serial.println("This is an ack from gateway");
  }

  if (message.type == V_STATUS) {
     // Change relay state
     state = message.getBool();
     digitalWrite(RELAY_PIN, state?RELAY_ON:RELAY_OFF);
     // Store state in eeprom
     //saveState(CHILD_ID, state);
    
     // Write some debug info
     Serial.print("Incoming change for sensor:");
     Serial.print(message.sensor);
     Serial.print(", New status: ");
     Serial.println(message.getBool());
   } 
}

[jkandasa]

@fwessels I tested with MY_RADIO_NRF24 as I do not have MY_RADIO_RFM69. Everything works perfectly for me. Kindly check your radio and hardware circuits.

if you want to update sensors name by default write like this present(CHILD_ID, S_BINARY, "Relay Sensor");

[greengo]

anyone else noticed that it does not work here?

void receive(const MyMessage &message) {
// We only expect one type of message from controller. But we better check anyway.
if (message.isAck()) {
Serial.println("This is an ack from gateway");
}

server does not respond to a command (message.isAck())

it turns out that there is no certainty that my relays included.
MYCONTROLLER.ORG button in the interface does not show the correct status of the node.

[jkandasa]

@greengo

message.isAck() is all about mysensors framework. If it is ack message returns true otherwise false

[greengo]

@jkandasa
in fact of the matter is that the server does not return the values, although the sensor sends.
before, I used EasyIoT server http://iot-playground.com/download
and there it works.