[SOLVED] MailTimer Switch not working properly

nizoo91 · February 24, 2019, 7:46am

Platform information:
- Hardware: Raspberry Pi , Arduino Uno, nRF24L01
- OS: Openhabian 4.14.79-v7+ #1159
- Java Runtime Environment: Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_201-b09)
  *Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)
- openHAB version:2.4.0-1
- I am using MySensors via Serial Gateway through the nRF24

Hello guys, I am new to openhab and have learned a lot from the community so far, so thank you all for the great tutorials and help you provide on here! but it seems like I hit a brick wall here and I may need some help As this happened twice in a row now, and would like to know why this is happening.

A little information about what I am doing:
I am trying to monitor two temperature sensors, and if they go above 30 degrees, I get an email alert, so far so good & I have been successful in doing so, however once I started introducing a timer switch in home.items, and once I added it to HABpanel, things started to get crazy, my node stopped communicating with the gateway properly! and had to completely remove my nodes from OpenHab, and even give the same sensors and same Arduino a different node ID for it to reinitialize. Also reinstalled MySensors… not sure which exactly fixed the issue to be honest…
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I will only include the code for 1 of the sensors to minimize confusion, but I had all the rules in the same file. each with its own rule name.

home.items file: please note this is the only switch that is added via the home.items file, everything else is done through PaperUI & HABPanel.

Switch MailTimer_10Mins_Freezer { expire="10m, command=OFF" }

AlertSwitch.rules file:

rule "FreezerAbove30"
when
    Item Freezer_Temp_Temperature received update
    then
    if (Freezer_Temp_Temperature.state > 30|°C && Freezer_Rule_Switch.state != OFF && MailTimer_10Mins_Freezer.state != ON) {
        sendMail("myemail@gmail.com","Freezer Temprature Warning", "The Temprature in the Freezer is: " +Freezer_Temp_Temperature.state.toFullString)
        MailTimer_10Mins_Freezer.sendCommand(ON)
    }
end

I was able to get the email alert button to function properly, however that was before I added the rules for the 10 minute timer switch, which by the way does trigger when temprature goes above 30, however right after this happens, everything breaks

I apologize in advance for the obnoxious long names, and no my freezer and fridge will not be set at 30 degrees Celsius

Udo_Hartmann · February 24, 2019, 9:20am

Maybe the parser has trouble with QuantityTpe and AND. Please try

   if (Freezer_Rule_Switch.state != OFF && MailTimer_10Mins_Freezer.state != ON && Freezer_Temp_Temperature.state > 30|°C) {

or

   if (Freezer_Rule_Switch.state != OFF && MailTimer_10Mins_Freezer.state != ON)
        if(Freezer_Temp_Temperature.state > 30|°C) {

instead.

vzorglub · February 24, 2019, 10:06pm

What are you expecting the rule and timer item to do exactly?
At the moment this timer does nothing apart from expiring

Udo_Hartmann · February 24, 2019, 10:08pm

If I got ir right, the idea is to avoid more than one Mail in ten Minutes

vzorglub · February 24, 2019, 10:10pm

Thanks, away for now. Will have a look in the morning reading rules on a phone screen is not ideal.

nizoo91 · February 25, 2019, 1:04am

Yes exactly, however I want the ability to toggle the option off as well, thats why I added the switch in HABPanel.

I will be demonstrating this to multiple people, so I must be able to toggle the 10 minute timer to off as well.

Isn’t it weird though that, running the above rules, breakers my connection with the node, and I am having to reinitialize the sensors, and use a different node_ID

I tried disabling the .rules file and commenting out the switch from my home.items file, rebooted the RPi3 and still didn’t work.

I am going to try your suggestion above, will report back when I try it.

Thank you

nizoo91 · February 25, 2019, 7:23am

Hello again guys,

so it seems like I am stuck now, can’t get the node back online even though I tried everything I did last time

The line that keeps showing up and I am mostly considered about is this:
[WARN ] [.discovery.MySensorsDiscoveryService] - Cannot automatic discover thing node: 30, child: 255 please insert it manually

2019-02-25 02:20:18.531 [INFO ] [.dashboard.internal.DashboardService] - Started Dashboard at http://192.168.0.18:8080

2019-02-25 02:20:18.534 [INFO ] [.dashboard.internal.DashboardService] - Started Dashboard at https://192.168.0.18:8443

2019-02-25 02:20:19.220 [INFO ] [arthome.ui.paper.internal.PaperUIApp] - Started Paper UI at /paperui

2019-02-25 02:20:19.245 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - BundleEvent STARTING - org.openhab.binding.mysensors

2019-02-25 02:20:19.252 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - BundleEvent STARTED - org.openhab.binding.mysensors

2019-02-25 02:20:19.502 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - ServiceEvent REGISTERED - {org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing.binding.ThingHandlerFactory}={service.id=353, service.bundleid=216, service.scope=bundle, component.name=org.openhab.binding.mysensors.factory.MySensorsHandlerFactory, component.id=212} - org.openhab.binding.mysensors

2019-02-25 02:20:19.856 [INFO ] [b.core.service.AbstractActiveService] - Expire Refresh Service has been started

2019-02-25 02:20:20.183 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - Initialization of the MySensors bridge

==> /var/log/openhab2/events.log <==

2019-02-25 02:20:20.191 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'mysensors:bridge-ser:1d520754' changed from UNINITIALIZED to INITIALIZING

==> /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log <==

2019-02-25 02:20:20.259 [DEBUG] [ensors.factory.MySensorsCacheFactory] - Cache file: given_ids.cached exist.

2019-02-25 02:20:20.264 [DEBUG] [ensors.factory.MySensorsCacheFactory] - Cache (given_ids) content: [0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10]

2019-02-25 02:20:20.295 [DEBUG] [col.serial.MySensorsSerialConnection] - Enabling connection watchdog

2019-02-25 02:20:20.300 [DEBUG] [col.serial.MySensorsSerialConnection] - Connecting to /dev/ttyUSB30 [baudRate:115200]

2019-02-25 02:20:20.312 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - ServiceEvent REGISTERED - {org.eclipse.smarthome.config.discovery.DiscoveryService}={service.id=364, service.bundleid=216, service.scope=singleton} - org.openhab.binding.mysensors

2019-02-25 02:20:20.314 [DEBUG] [.discovery.MySensorsDiscoveryService] - Starting MySensors discovery scan

2019-02-25 02:20:20.316 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - Initialization of the MySensors bridge DONE!

2019-02-25 02:20:21.380 [DEBUG] [col.serial.MySensorsSerialConnection] - Serial port event listener started

2019-02-25 02:20:21.382 [DEBUG] [col.serial.MySensorsSerialConnection] - Successfully connected to serial port.

2019-02-25 02:20:21.409 [WARN ] [col.serial.MySensorsSerialConnection] - Skipping I_VERSION connection test, not recommended...

2019-02-25 02:20:21.420 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Message from gateway received: 255;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.

2019-02-25 02:20:21.431 [DEBUG] [ensors.factory.MySensorsCacheFactory] - Writing on cache given_ids, content: [0,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,10]

2019-02-25 02:20:21.434 [INFO ] [col.serial.MySensorsSerialConnection] - Successfully connected to MySensors Bridge.

==> /var/log/openhab2/events.log <==

2019-02-25 02:20:21.437 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'mysensors:bridge-ser:1d520754' changed from INITIALIZING to ONLINE

==> /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log <==

2019-02-25 02:20:21.440 [WARN ] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Exception on reading from connection

java.text.ParseException: class java.lang.NumberFormatException : For input string: "Gateway startup complete."

	at org.openhab.binding.mysensors.internal.protocol.message.MySensorsMessage.parse(MySensorsMessage.java:342) ~[216:org.openhab.binding.mysensors:2.4.0.201812040738]

	at org.openhab.binding.mysensors.internal.protocol.MySensorsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader.run(MySensorsAbstractConnection.java:338) [216:org.openhab.binding.mysensors:2.4.0.201812040738]

	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [?:?]

	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [?:?]

	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:?]

	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:?]

	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:?]

2019-02-25 02:20:21.462 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Message from gateway received: 0;255;0;0;18;2.3.1

2019-02-25 02:20:21.496 [DEBUG] [rs.internal.gateway.MySensorsGateway] - Presentation Message received

2019-02-25 02:20:22.296 [DEBUG] [ensors.factory.MySensorsCacheFactory] - Writing on cache given_ids, content: [0,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,10]

2019-02-25 02:20:22.301 [WARN ] [.discovery.MySensorsDiscoveryService] - Cannot automatic discover thing node: 0, child: 255 please insert it manually

2019-02-25 02:20:22.306 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Message from gateway received: 30;255;0;0;17;2.3.1

2019-02-25 02:20:22.309 [DEBUG] [rs.internal.gateway.MySensorsGateway] - Presentation Message received

2019-02-25 02:20:22.316 [DEBUG] [ensors.factory.MySensorsCacheFactory] - Writing on cache given_ids, content: [0,1,2,3,5,6,7,8,10,30]

2019-02-25 02:20:22.321 [WARN ] [.discovery.MySensorsDiscoveryService] - Cannot automatic discover thing node: 30, child: 255 please insert it manually

2019-02-25 02:20:22.326 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Message from gateway received: 30;255;3;0;6;0

2019-02-25 02:20:22.330 [DEBUG] [rs.internal.gateway.MySensorsGateway] - I_CONFIG request received from M, answering: (is imperial?)false

2019-02-25 02:20:22.335 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Message from gateway received: 30;255;3;0;11;Temperature Sensor

2019-02-25 02:20:22.342 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsReader] - Message from gateway received: 30;255;3;0;12;1.1

2019-02-25 02:20:22.342 [DEBUG] [rsAbstractConnection$MySensorsWriter] - Sending to MySensors: 30;255;3;0;6;M

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nizoo91 · February 28, 2019, 1:04pm

Thanks guys for the help, I spent a few days troubleshooting this, and couldn’t get it to work!

Unfortunately I only figured it out after I removed “openhabian” and went ahead with a full manual install of OpenHab :)…

The issue is a little embarrassing, but I will share it anyway, IT WAS A LOSE DATA SENSOR WIRE!!! but heey, I ended up with a fresh install

btw, my rules code worked fine, I didn’t test the other yet but I will as they look better and easier to read.

vzorglub · February 28, 2019, 8:21pm

If it should work, always check the hardware first