Announcement: ESPimaticRF coming soon

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@koffienl Having problems using a Nodemcu v3 and v2…

The “homeduino” is v2, node is v3.

v2 sends the code but the v3 does not respons and the esp8266’s led stays blue, is that normal?

Looks to me that it is stuck. It could be due to shitty usb cables…

log;

16:32:58.747 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "UDP Packet 0 done"
unknown message received: UDP Packet 0 done
16:32:58.878 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "UDP Packet 1 done"
unknown message received: UDP Packet 1 done
16:32:58.919 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "UDP Packet 2 done"
unknown message received: UDP Packet 2 done
16:32:58.935 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "UDP Packet 3 done"
unknown message received: UDP Packet 3 done
16:33:03.355 [pimatic-homeduino] Sending Protocol: switch2 houseCode:5 unitCode:5 all:false state:false Pin:4 Repeats:7
16:33:03.384 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "ACK"
16:33:03.450 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "54830095{"buckets":{"0":"306","1":"957","2":"9808","3":"0","4":"0","5":"0","6":"0","7":"0"},"repeats":"7","pulse":"01100110010101100101011001100101011001010110010102","protocol":"switch2,switch3,switch4","unit":"5","id":"5"}"
unknown message received: 54830095{"buckets":{"0":"306","1":"957","2":"9808","3":"0","4":"0","5":"0","6":"0","7":"0"},"repeats":"7","pulse":"01100110010101100101011001100101011001010110010102","protocol":"switch2,switch3,switch4","unit":"5","id":"5"}

Also your tweakblog posts states that “homeduino” mode has an API entry, but i guess you didnt update that post? Because only “node” has an API key entry…

Did you test with the homeduino and node within a short range of each other? Could be loosing the UDP packets.
Can you test with the 2 ESP’s in a range of 1 meter, or increase the UDP repeats?

@koffienl said in Announcement: ESPimaticRF coming soon:

loosing

Hm no. About 10 meters and 2 walls away. Will try later, gonna buy some decent usb kabels first to rulwe that out. Will also try to increase udp.

@koffienl i guess the usb cable did the trick. Swapped and now it is working with UDP repeat set to 2.

I did have one issue later on. We have a crappy wifi signal from ziggo so we have an extender in the kitchen. I paired the nodemcu’s to the extender that is running dd-wrt firmware.

After about 30 minutes the node’s were down. After powercycling the node it reset it self. Having the ESPimaticRF ssid. After rebooting the master through ssh, it also got reset.

One more question though, could you make it possible to set an static ip for the node and master?

Also, setting the “homeduino” to both doesnt seem to work?

Is the installation of arduino ide not automatically installing the usb drivers for the esp8266? When I connect the ESP at my win10 pc it is not recognized. I only see my normal comm1 port.

The arduino IDE doesn’t have drivers for all the various usb-serial bridges the various clones comes with. CP2102 or CH341 are most commonly used, google should get you some drivers

@beikeland thank you. Found drivers at silicon labs. Will try them later on today.

Driver worked! With my first ESP everything went fine. After copying the SPIFFS map reconnected and I was looking at the menu. Now the second ESP I copy all the files from the SPIFFS map but after the reconnect "Couldn’t connect to network
Can’t find what is going wrong or what I did different as with the first ESP. I tried twice now with the same result
For webfiles only!!Multiple files possible

Files on flash:
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@Frans said in Announcement: ESPimaticRF coming soon:

Driver worked! With my first ESP everything went fine. After copying the SPIFFS map reconnected and I was looking at the menu. Now the second ESP I copy all the files from the SPIFFS map but after the reconnect "Couldn’t connect to network
Can’t find what is going wrong or what I did different as with the first ESP. I tried twice now with the same result
For webfiles only!!Multiple files possible

Files on flash:
/config.json 133B , 133
/css/bootstrap.min.css.gz 18.78KB , 19228
/js/bootstrap.min.js.gz 9.33KB , 9559
/css/bootstrap-extra.css 1.72KB , 1762
/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css.gz 2.77KB , 2841
/bwlist.html 11.62KB , 11896
/bwlist.json 2B , 2
/config.html 15.65KB , 16028
/edit.html 23.96KB , 24531
/empty.txt 54B , 54
/filemanager.html 9.32KB , 9543
/firmware.html 6.26KB , 6410
/js/insert.js 322B , 322
/js/jquery.min.js.gz 31.57KB , 32323
/js/menubar.js 1.37KB , 1398
/protocols.json 1.88KB , 1921
/fonts/regular.eot.gz 19.60KB , 20074
/fonts/regular.svg.gz 24.92KB , 25513
/fonts/regular.ttf.gz 22.46KB , 22996
/fonts/regular.woff.gz 22.67KB , 23214
/fonts/regular.woff2.gz 17.65KB , 18070
/root.html 5.36KB , 5487

Maybe entered the wrong ssid/pass?
Clear EEPROM, you can find that in the arduino examples. Then retry.

No not the wrong ssid/pass because i enter the page to upload the spiffs files, therefor I have to connect to my network.
You mean the examples in the IDE?! I will have a look! Thanks.

@Frans said in Announcement: ESPimaticRF coming soon:

No not the wrong ssid/pass because i enter the page to upload the spiffs files, therefor I have to connect to my network.
You mean the examples in the IDE?! I will have a look! Thanks.

Yeah you are right. Try to reflash

Ok, thanks to the support on this site I have a Homeduino and Node working. At least I get some bulbs burning in the living During startup I have seen the following; is that pin 0 right???

22:13:43.466 [pimatic] info: Listening for HTTP-request on port 80…
22:13:43.965 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "PING"
22:13:44.587 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "ready"
22:13:44.893 [pimatic-homeduino] info: Connected to homeduino device.
22:13:45.172 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "ACK"
22:13:45.233 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: Receiving on pin 0

The lamp is burning but the logfile is telling me:
22:19:10.770 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: Sending Protocol: switch1 id:23456781 unit:4 all:false state:true Pin:4 Repeats:4
22:19:10.800 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "ACK"
22:19:11.128 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "UDP Packet 0 done"
unknown message received: UDP Packet 0 done

Why is it a unknown message?

@Frans said in Announcement: ESPimaticRF coming soon:

The lamp is burning but the logfile is telling me:
22:19:10.770 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: Sending Protocol: switch1 id:23456781 unit:4 all:false state:true Pin:4 Repeats:4
22:19:10.800 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "ACK"
22:19:11.128 [pimatic-homeduino] debug: data: "UDP Packet 0 done"
unknown message received: UDP Packet 0 done

Why is it a unknown message?

I also have that and everything works fine. I guess it is an message from the ESP that cant be handled by homeduino. If you would restart your node you would see in the pimatic log that it output “… Connecting to. Ssid” so yeah, it is just the esp output.

As for your question about pin 0, this is homeduino based, you can ignore it:

“The pimatic-homeduino plugin has mandatory settings for the receiverPin and transmitterPin. Unfortunately, the plugin has hardcoded limitations (receiverPin must be either 0 or 1, transmitterPin must be between 2 and 13). Becayse of these limitations ESPimaticRF can’t used the pin numbers provided by the pimatic-homeduino plugin. Just use some default pin numbers in the pimatic-homeduino configuration and enter the correct pin numbers in the ESPimaticRF”

Wie kan mij op weg helpen?

Ik wil mijn smartmeter uitlezen, via een P1>Usb kabel naar een ESP (wemos-d1-mini-v2 met EspimaticRF) verzonden naar Pimatic met homeduino en smartmeter2 plugin. Op het internet heb ik een dergelijke setup nog niet kunnen ontdekken.

Bij voorbaat hartelijk dank.

@RomSys Je maakt het jezelf met deze combinatie wel erg lastig denk ik.
Wat je feitelijk krijgt is:
P1 meter (serieel) --> Kabel (serieel naar USB converter) --> USB --> USB naar serieel converter --> serieel.
Ik zou het hele USB stuk bypassen en direct de P1 op de serial input aansluiten zoals de meesten doen

De homeduino voegt in deze configuratie overigens niets toe.

@Rene-Arts Hallo Rene, bedankt voor de snelle reactie. Ik denk,dat ik hiermee wel weer even verder kan.

Ik weet overigens niet of/hoe de smartmeter plugin(s) overweg kunnen met input vanuit een ESP/websocket. Ik heb zelf een custom firmware op een ESP draaien die de gegevens via de HTTP API naar pimatic stuurt.

@koffienl recently pimatic freezes up without any relevant debug data. After toggling a switch i get:

16:06:49.612 [pimatic-homeduino] Sending Protocol: switch5 id:3 unit:3 all:false state:true Pin:4 Repeats:7

And thats it. After 10 seconds i get a timeout message from the GUI. Any idea?

Perhaps you did a very fast doubletap? There are some timing issues between the ESP and the serial if you ‘flood’ the ESP with quick doubltaps on on/off switches.
You can simply restart pimatic to reestablish the connection (the homeduino plugin can’t reconnect after some ‘miss’ so restarting pimatic is the only solution).