See this page: http://www.mysensors.org/build/esp8266_gateway
Did anyone already try this? And more important: Can it be used with pimatic? I lack the mysensors and pimatic knowledge to be able to judge this.
Crossover topic: Mysensors wifi gateway using ESP8266
See this page: http://www.mysensors.org/build/esp8266_gateway
Did anyone already try this? And more important: Can it be used with pimatic? I lack the mysensors and pimatic knowledge to be able to judge this.
Not natively, but you could try this:
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/817/mysensors-plugin-configured-for-ethernet/9
or
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/878/mysensors-wifi-gateway/18
Thanks.
I found the first topic but strange enough not the second. I have by now enough esp’s lying around and hope my new sensors arrive before the weekend.
@Harry-van-der-Wolf I’m trying to get this stable at the moment. I use socat to connect a serial device at my rpi with the ESP. That’s not very stable, but I’m on the way to get a kind of “auto reestablish”.
Haven’t looked at the code, but perhaps the gateway code can be implemented in ESPimatic ?
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@Oitzu maybe, but I don’t have a lot of experience but I’m getting better at coffee script/pimatic.
Have to look how it works. It’s some kind of serial over TCP? Don’t know if there is a node library for it.
@sweebee said:
It’s some kind of serial over TCP? Don’t know if there is a node library for it.
Nah… i think it is just a simple plain TCP-Socket.
Maybe i also look at some point at it… the day i’m not totally frustrated with coffeescript… oh… wait.
@Oitzu yea i had the same, but my editor (coda) was configured wrong so I got a lot of wrong indents. But now I can work fine with it.
mysensors has also a MQTT gateway which is essentially an ethernet gateway with an MQTT broker.
ESPEasy can easily use MQTT and so can pimatic. This might be an option as well.
Never tried it, but If you use the mqtt version of mysensors. Does nodes like the pulsemeter(kWh) Work? The controller saves the pulsecount and the sensor asks for it.
And there is this: ESP Easy mysensors and ESP Easy MySensors Edition.
We are not the only ones.
Just found this: https://github.com/rakeshpai/mysensors-controller
This node library can use the Ethernet gateway. Let’s have a look at the code how he does it
FYI I think I got my solution working: I created 2 scripts to get a stable connection to my ESP8266 gateway.
First one is to get the status of my gateway. It simply checks for the serial device and is visualized by a shellpresencesensor.
#!/bin/bash
detect=$(ls /dev/tty* | grep ttyMS-Gateway)
# check if detect is unset or empty
if [ -z "$detect" ];
then
echo "0"
else
echo "1"
fi
Second is to restart pimatic, restart socat tunnel and check for succes.
#!/bin/bash
pimatic.js stop
for ((I=1; $I<=10;I++)); do
/usr/bin/socat -d -d pty,link=/dev/ttyMS-Gateway,raw,echo=0,waitslave tcp:192.168.38.19:5003 &
sleep 10
detect=$(ls /dev/tty* | grep ttyMS-Gateway)
if [ -z "$detect" ];
then
echo "Versuch $I erfolglos"
else
echo "geschafft! $I"
break
fi
done
pimatic.js start
I’m still testing this and those echos are only to tell me at which number of tries it was succesfull when doing it manually. I will add a dummyswitch in pimatic and do an auto-restart if the shellpresencesensor shows offline for too long.