Hello everyone,

MyController was born around August 2015. Currently, version 1.0.0 available for public and before 25, December 2017, version 1.1.0 will be available for the public.

• I see some performance issues with MyController when we have a number of sensors grow.
• We need end user-friendly GUI. I believe for now we have only admin friendly GUI.
• There is no mobile application.
• Supports more databases. H2DB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresSQL. To reduce complexity support only for one DB or maximum two databases.
• and more

To rectify all these issues, I am planning to build MyController 2.x from scratch. With the following technologies.

• Spring boot with Undertow
• Angular 4 front end ReactJS
• Ionic mobile application Reactive native
• Two type databases
  • RDBMS for sensor metadata
  • InfluxDB for metrics
• backup/restore as CSV or JSON file(except metrics data)

Still, I want to keep MyController's primary platform as Rasberry PI.

Kindly share your experience with influxDB and raspberry PI in the long run. Also, share your thoughts on this big move.

With the request https://github.com/mycontroller-org/mycontroller/issues/47 we have introduced an option to add custom buttons with custom payload on dashboard.

We can use this widget for multiple purpose. Here I have showed how to use it as a TV remote control. For this you should have IR send sensor board in front of tv.

Edit dashboard and select add widgets. Select Sensor custom buttons
Now select your IR send type sensor variable.
You have to give 3 types of input

• Minimum height - each button minimum height in px
• Minimum weight - each button minimum weight in px
• JSON - is the buttons/payloads configuration

To create json configuration error free way use http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/

In configuration we can give name, payload, btnType.

• name - (Mandatory) Name of the button. can be in the form of HTML also. HTML or icons(recommended: font awesome icons)
  are mandatory fields.
• payload - (Mandatory) When we click the button what is the payload we have to send
• btnType - (Optional) can be any one of value in the list [default, primary, success, info, warning, danger] when we leave this field field as blank, default will be selected. Each value gives different color

Example json configuration as follows,

[
  {
    "name": "<i class='fa fa-power-off'></i>",
    "payload": "P",
    "btnType": "danger"
  },
  {
    "name": "1",
    "payload": "1"
  },
  {
    "name": "2",
    "payload": "2"
  },
  {
    "name": "3",
    "payload": "3"
  },
  {
    "name": "4",
    "payload": "4"
  },
  {
    "name": "5",
    "payload": "5"
  },
  {
    "name": "6",
    "payload": "6"
  },
  {
    "name": "7",
    "payload": "7"
  },
  {
    "name": "8",
    "payload": "8"
  },
  {
    "name": "9",
    "payload": "9"
  },
  {
    "name": "0",
    "payload": "0"
  },
  {
    "name": "<i class='fa fa-play'></i>",
    "payload": "PL",
    "btnType":"success"
  },
  {
    "name": "<i class='fa fa-pause'></i>",
    "payload": "PA",
    "btnType":"warning"
  }
]

Note: In this example I have added dummy payloads. Real payload of TV remote will be different(TV to TV payload will be different).

Final result:

joaopauloss created this issue in mycontroller-org/mycontroller

closed Remote control buttons in MyController #47

@skywatch Thanks to reporting this problem. I will check it in a few days and let you know.

@seant

var pingDistance = tankDistanceSensor.value; //Water tank level percent

You have to use parseInt(tankDistanceSensor.value), Sensor variable always have String value.
var pingDistance = parseInt(tankDistanceSensor.value); //Water tank level percent

//THESE 2 LINES DO NOT SEEM TO SET THE VALUES
tankLitresSensor.setValue(litres);
tankPercentageSensor.setValue(percentage);

After these two lines add the following lines,

  mcApi.sensor().sendPayload(tankLitresSensor); 
  mcApi.sensor().sendPayload(tankPercentageSensor); 

@BenCranston For now MyController will not support for MySensors RSSI. I have to check development version of MySensors to support this feature for MySensors.
RSSI created for future use. Have plan to support LoRa (TheThingsNetwork.org), there we have RSSI.

@Takero1978 said:

Group Button for dashboard

Please create a request on Github. I will add group button for dashboard.

@blacksheepinc Hi, Yes, I had a look. And looks like we can implement with MyController with some new implementation to support for JSR223 standard(which is used in Java). Kindly create a request on github.com/mycontroller-org/mycontroller/issues When I get time I will work on this. Thank you!

@yd I forget to mention a thing. You have to map your firmware with your node. If there is a reboot, your node will check with controller this is my firmware. Controller will respond as we have new firmware use this, Then node will request each block. This is how firmware update works. So you have to map your frimware with your node on MyController node page.

@Tetnobic This ticket resolved. You can check this on our latest SNAPSHOT version.

@skywatch great! What sensor are you using to measure this?

@Daniele I have modified the script and here is your request,

var myImports = new JavaImporter(java.lang, java.util, org.mycontroller.standalone.utils.McUtils, org.mycontroller.standalone.message.IMessage);

with(myImports) {
  // get your gateway via uuid
  var myGateway = mcApi.uidTag().getByUid("my-test-gateway").getResource();
  
  // Import message type
  var Message = Java.type("org.mycontroller.standalone.message.IMessage")
  
  // create message object
  var message = Message.getInstance()
  
  // update gateway id.
  message.setGatewayId(myGateway.id)
  
  // update message type
  message.setType("Internal")
  
  // update message sub type
  message.setSubType("Reboot")
  
  // set sensor id as 255 for node message
  message.setSensorId("255")
  
  // set acknowledgement status
  message.setAck(0)
  
  // set empty payload, but json conversion throws excepton for empty, so set it as "0"
  message.setPayload("0")
  
  // update your node EUI
  message.setNodeEui(21)
  
  // send Raw Message
  mcApi.sensor().sendRawMessage(message);
}

@Daniele some example to send the payload.
Note: I didn't test this in practice. Please let me know if you face an issue.

var myImports = new JavaImporter(java.lang, java.util, org.mycontroller.standalone.utils.McUtils);

with(myImports) {
  // get your node/sensor/variable via uuid
  var mySensorVariable = mcApi.uidTag().getByUid("abc").getResource();
  
  // set new value
  mySensorVariable.value  = 2
  
  // send paylaod
  mcApi.sensor().sendPayload(mySensorVariable);
}

@RMF69 Do you see any error on the browser console and/or in MyController log file?

@RMF69 Click on the Edit icon on the Level variable and use the id from the URL.

in version 1.5, you no need to hardcode rzModule on mycontroller/www/app.js. We have an option on UI to update angular modules.

@RMF69 Can you report your MyController version? and if you modified the script please report your script.

@RMF69
Have you configured email server?
can you post your complete script?

@Aneantisor We do not have documented anywhere about default settings.
When we do a fresh install we see default settings/values.

@Aneantisor

Where can i find the default setting ?

Settings >> Metrics >> Data Retention Settings

I believe the issue is due to binary data in your old database.

@Aneantisor have you modified default data retention settings?
If you increased the raw data retention settings, you may face this issue.
Also for binary data, reduce the duration.
We do not have any aggregation for binary data.
Binary data will be kept as is.

would it help to move to an mqtt gateway ?

I believe gateway may not be an issue here.
are you using serial gateway?