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.

@Avamander Thanks for the pointer. Discourse needs more resources than NodeBB. We do not have that much budget.
So, for now, we do not have any plans to upgrade.

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.

@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.

@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); 

@Takero1978 said:

Group Button for dashboard

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

@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.

@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!

@skywatch can you please email the error log?
and paste a screenshot of the node page.

How do I know which GW has id5?

On the node page gateway, details will be.
also on the gateway detail page, you can click node count to get all the nodes listed under the gateway

@Daniele
Have you tried to restart MyController OS once?
Do you remember anything you did recently on your router, something like block ports?
any firmware upgrade happened recently on your router?

@fdlou147 I assuming that you want to turn ON two relays and turn OFF one relay after some seconds,

Assume,
Main relay: R1
Secondary relay: R2

If so you can do in the following steps.

Create two Operations:

• Turn ON R2

• Turn OFF R2 with delayed option (delay in seconds)

Create a rule,

• When your Primary relay turned ON
• Execute the operations created on previous steps

Note: Ignore Sensor names here. I took it from my setup to make this example.

@skywatch

When I look under resources->nodes however, I only see one gateway. I assume this is because they both get/have node EUI0?

It should not be. Still, it has different gateway references both will be shown. Have you applied any filters?
Do you see any error log on MyController?

@Joost Other way

mcApi.http().get("http://deepblack:9000/status.html?p0=pause")

@Daniele Hi, Sorry for the delayed response.
Your sketch looks ok. I do not see any issue to repeat a message

Possible causes:

• Your gateway response might not reach easily to your temperature node, hence your temperature node keeps repeating the same message and gateway sends to MyController.
• Restarting MyController operating system might fix this

@Daniele Can you post your sketch?

@Daniele How often are you sending the temperature value from your node? Looks like receive multiple messages in a single milliseconds?

@Avamander Thanks for the pointer. Discourse needs more resources than NodeBB. We do not have that much budget.
So, for now, we do not have any plans to upgrade.

@Avamander I have updated the log and instance.
But I do not know other plugins. Can you please guide me to get those plugins for NodeBB?