ESPimatic 0.2.0 is coming ..

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Working hard on ESPimatic 0.2.0
As allready dropped a few times the 2 biggest changes will be moving all the configuration settings from EEPROM to a config.json and splitting all the sensors stuff into ‘plugins’.
Still a few things to be done before I can release it.
With the new plugin system everyon can easily create a plugin for ESPimatic without need to alter the main code. There will be a plugins page where you can see all the available plugins and enable or disable them from there.
The NavBar menu is nowdynamic, only enabled plugins will ne in the menu.
Still have to figure out how to set values/status of enabled plugins on the homepage (without crashing due to memory limit)

Current settings will be automaticly converted from EEPROM to new config.json. When this project is finished I can take some time to focus on some feature requests an bugs.

Wow, great work! Certainly looks very promising.
When ready, I will surely try to implement a P1 meter plugin

And I will see whether I can write mDNS as a plugin.

What about actual progress of this awesome project?
Don’t want to press someone, but would be cool to see something from actual state.

… and would be cool if it could support these small and cheap china I2c OLED Displays, have some of them working with esp-03 and some more waiting for new nodes.

Having (huge) trouble with stability
The way I’m using the ArduinoJson lib is constantly calling the watchdog or stack dumps. Rewriting a lot right now on that part.

The joy of trying to code when you’re not a programmer

uhhh… sounds good
That’s why it’s your hobby, it should waste the time …

@koffienl :
Just out of curiosity: Why didn’t you simply create a branch for your 0.20 version? Are you doing everything off-line or did you make your 0.20 repository private on github? Or…? Or…?

I know I should’ve create a dev branch, but dind’t.
At this moment the code is to scattered to work and thus there is no reason to publish something.
So, yes I’m doing everything offline on local PC.

Focus is to bring 0.2.0 working and stable to publish. After that I can concentrate on new features, better branches etc.

@koffienl

hi

how far away is the new version?

where can i read the new features? regard

Working slowly …
Most of the crashes are gone, but had to rewrite a lot of stuff differente. Updating the plugins one by one. When finished I will publish as beta release first to hear field-experience.

Yeah, as I want to use it for my ws2812b wifi night light.

Guys, I need your help.
The JSON part is still not stable for the new version. I’m pulling every hair out of my head to find the problem, but I’m stuck
I have opened a issue on the ESP8266 Arduino github : https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/1835
Please take a look and see if you find anything weird in my code (lol, should be weird looking for some real developpers )

Push

Read about your issues on the above github thread. Still in the need of help?
c’mon guys!!

Just had a quick look at it, I posted a question at the Github Issue thread Maybe I’m able to test some stuff myself tomorrow.

i just got the time to test the stripped down sketch.
as i postet on git i dont get any error.
the serial output is ok and the dog is nearly to explode now xD
maybe we can test another thing for you if you need more input for debug.

here’s my unspectacular pastebin output from the serial port
http://pastebin.com/RZVGfY2t

I like ESPimatic a lot but I’m currently using ESPEasy as I can’t use 2 of the same sensors on ESPimatic. If have 2 ds18b20 sensors (*) (and also a PIR sensor) on ESPEasy.
I can’t connect 2 ds18b20 sensors on the Espimatic. Will that be possible with your new plugin structure on version 0.2?

(*): I use CAT-5 network cable with the ends cut off and one end partially with 1½ meter stripped off mantle. It has 8 wires. Ideal for multiple sensors.

@koffienl

You have the crashes in your espimatic 2.0 for which you filed that issue.
You are using the arduinojson library on an esp8266.
Please read this thread.
Maybe you have the same 2byte arduino to 4byte espimatic integer issue in your millis() > (60000 * 5) part.

Thanks, will look in that!

Hi,
ESPimatic looks awesome, I like the gui and the way to configure it. It is really simple.
But I am really missing the possibility to connect a sensors multiple times as @Harry-van-der-Wolf.
Is there a chance to get this feature with the next release?

Hi,
first i want to say a big big thanks… it’s awesome that so many of my suggestions are now implemented…

i was absent for a few month now… but the next few weeks i’ll have time to spend on ESPimatic… finaly

last night i was able to dig out my nodemcu module… sticked a 4-relais module and a ds18b20 to it… and all worked out of the box

now i will replace the crappy 433mhz remote sockets…

if you need a beta tester or so… just message me…