iSpindle Concentrators, Repeaters, Bridges, Hubs

[ZeSlammy]

@ZeSlammy Did you perhaps have a chance to add push to brewpiless functionality yet ?
Cheers for all your efforts !

This one is next on the list.
(the "push2BF" worked all night long, I will definitely publish a release tomorrow)

 

[wd16261]

@ZeSlammy 'OTA' maybe another function to add? Makes is easier to update the firmware.

 

[ZeSlammy]

@ZeSlammy 'OTA' maybe another function to add? Makes is easier to update the firmware.

Might look into it.


Ok pre release is published on both GitHub and BrewFlasher.

Let me know.

 

[wd16261]

I'm just doing some test so will try it now and keep you informed.

 

[wd16261]

@ZeSlammy I need to calibrate 3 ispindels and my idea is to use the ispinHub to help me with this.
I did some test yesterday (but with the preivous version) and I could let the 3 ispindels send their information to the ispinhub easily.
But once I have tried to donwload one of the csv files it started to block everything. It looks like the ispinHub did no longer accepted the information that was send by the ispindels after the failed downloads.
I will try to do these tests again with this latest version.

Another remark that I have already mentioned is the colors that you have used. For me it is impossible to read the small text in the blue color (the ip
address) so I allways need to use my smartphone to zoom in or check the Serial Monitor in the Arduino IDE to find the ip address.

 

[wd16261]

OK the latest version looks much better. I can not now open the csv files or save them locally. Good job
Just noticed a small issue when you delete all the csv files then you receive the following getJSON error at the home page:

Not that big issue because as soon as a new file is created this message is gone.
I configured push2BF also but I think that I have to wait for 15 min before the first info will arrive at BF? --> confirmed it works!

 

[ZeSlammy]

@wd16261 : Thanks ! I will handle the "No Json file" error ASAP. Same for the color for the IP. What would fit best ? Yellow ?

 

[wd16261]

Yellow and Green are OK for me or maybe simply white?

 

[wd16261]

I don't know if it is easy to do but can the SSID of the AP in the ispinHub be changed? For testing I had two versions next to each other but the ispindles were sending the information from time to time to the wrong ispinHub because they use the same SSID.

 

[ZeSlammy]

I don't know if it is easy to do but can the SSID of the AP in the ispinHub be changed? For testing I had two versions next to each other but the ispindles were sending the information from time to time to the wrong ispinHub because they use the same SSID.

I've seen this one. I'll see what I can do.

 

[korev]

@ZeSlammy Good work I have successfully connected to Brewfather from my test iSpindel

I have also been testing to Brewfather and recompiling to the latest version to get the time synced to AET plus daylight saving for Sydney time see below

Please could you add a way to configure to local time zones from the UI
And could the Brewfather key and push frequency be stored somewhere that is not overwritten by a new compiled version?

Cheers

 

[korev]

So I have been logging for a while and it all looked OK as below

BUT when I went to download the csv file - it had stopped for some reason

2021-12-17T00:21:16Z,WHITE_iSpindel,80.8965,23.88,0.0052,28.9766,100.0,-37.0,C,
2021-12-17T00:50:13Z,WHITE_iSpindel,88.7573,24.81,0.0052,32.9417,100.0,-50.0,C,
2021-12-17T01:20:27Z,WHITE_iSpindel,86.7484,24.06,0.0052,31.9320,100.0,-41.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:27:47Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.6924,23.44,0.0052,30.8961,100.0,-35.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:39:21Z,WHITE_iSpindel,69.9225,23.88,3.8999,23.3772,100.0,-47.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:41:00Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.0396,24.88,4.0824,30.5667,100.0,-42.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:42:39Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.0513,24.63,4.0980,30.5726,100.0,-43.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:44:17Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.0699,24.31,4.0980,30.5819,100.0,-42.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:45:56Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.0609,24.13,4.0980,30.5774,100.0,-41.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:47:35Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.0645,23.88,4.0980,30.5792,100.0,-39.0,C,
2021-12-17T12:49:14Z,WHITE_iSpindel,84.0664,23.75,4.0980,30.5802,100.0,-3HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 15
Content-Type: text/plain
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: close
Accept-Ranges: none

File Not Found.
?

 

[wd16261]

Yes I've also noticed this yesterday and for me the information on the display is still up to date the same as in BF. This is an example of my csv file with the same kind of text at the end:

2021-12-16T19:42:31Z,iSpindel003,48.7911,23.38,4.0198,10.9864,20.0,-42.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:42:52Z,iSpindel003,48.7804,23.44,4.0250,10.9816,20.0,-42.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:43:13Z,iSpindel003,48.7752,23.31,4.0146,10.9792,20.0,-41.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:43:34Z,iSpindel003,48.7736,23.44,4.0250,10.9785,20.0,-40.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:43:55Z,iSpindel003,48.7776,23.31,4.0250,10.9803,20.0,-40.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:44:16Z,iSpindel003,48.7757,23.38,4.0250,10.9794,20.0,-40.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:44:37Z,iSpindel003,48.7966,23.31,4.0198,10.9889,20.0,-41.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:44:58Z,iSpindel003,48.7951,23.44,4.0250,10.9882,20.0,-48.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:45:19Z,iSpindel003,48.7872,23.38,4.0250,10.9846,20.0,-38.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:45:40Z,iSpindel003,48.7845,23.38,4.0250,10.9834,20.0,-41.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:46:01Z,iSpindel003,48.7846,23.31,4.0250,10.9835,20.0,-38.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:46:22Z,iSpindel003,48.7903HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 15
Content-Type: text/plain
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: close
Accept-Ranges: none

File Not Found.

After deleting the csv file it starts logging again for a while but the strange text appears again and then it stops logging again.

 

[korev]

@wd16261 Yes the same behaviour for me

 

[korev]

I have made a modified 128 * 128 screen layout using at the top the Orbitron font. I wanted to get, what I consider to be, the key information as large as possible on the small screen.

I changed the Voltage to a V that changes colour to show the status -similar to the signal strength indication. I would be interested in what others think that the trigger setting value should be, I have gone with 3.8V based on experience with my Panasonic batteries.

if(voltage > 3.8) {tft.setTextColor(TFT_GREEN,TFT_BLACK);}
if(voltage < 3.8) {tft.setTextColor(TFT_ORANGE,TFT_BLACK);}

Huge thanks to @ZeSlammy for making all of this possible.
Cheers

 

[ZeSlammy]

I might just get rid of the file download all together
I'm banging my head on the wall for this one to find a correct way to do it. Might be that there just isn't enough room on the ESP8266 to handle all this.

Anyway I got my to do list

• BrewPiless
• Change colors (ultimately allow people to make their own screens without recompiling)
• Handle error on "No Json file"
• Handle config to be persistent in between flashes
• Handle TimeZones
• Maybe handle file downloading

 

[wd16261]

I don't think that it is a space issue because yesterday I had 3 ispindels reporting to my ispinHub and it worked fine:

But what I've noticed is the number of lines is must bigger then the lines I can see when I open the csv file, this is what I have for iSpindel003.csv:

2021-12-16T19:57:34Z,iSpindel003,48.7440,23.38,4.0250,10.9651,20.0,-44.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:57:55Z,iSpindel003,48.7799,23.44,4.0198,10.9813,20.0,-46.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:58:16Z,iSpindel003,48.7707,23.44,4.0250,10.9772,20.0,-42.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:58:37Z,iSpindel003,48.7640,23.44,4.0250,10.9741,20.0,-39.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:58:58Z,iSpindel003,48.7075,23.44,4.0250,10.9486,20.0,-39.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:59:19Z,iSpindel003,48.7691,23.50,4.0198,10.9764,20.0,-44.0,C,
2021-12-16T19:59:40Z,iSpindel003,48.7684,23.38,4.0250,10.9761,20.0,-40.0,C,
2021-12-16T20:00:01Z,iSpindel003,48.7985,23.44,4.0198,10.9898,20.0,-45.0,C,
2021-12-16T20:00:22Z,iSpindel003,48.7596,23.44,4.0198,10.9722,20.0,-42.0,C,
2021-12-16T20:00:42Z,iSpindel003,48.7807,23.44,4.0198,10.9817,20.0,-43.0,C,
2021-12-16T20:01:03Z,iSpindel003,48.7763,23.44,4.0146,10.9797,20.0,-44.0,C,
2021-12-16T20:01:24Z,iSpindel003,48.777HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 15
Content-Type: text/plain
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Connection: close
Accept-Ranges: none

File Not Found.

I personaly find this feature very interesting especialy for calibration so I would be disapointed if you get rid of it, but maybe focus on other features first

 

[korev]

Your todo list looks pretty good. I was wondering if the logging problem could be a function of what is set in the platformio
ie eagle.flash.4m3m.ld perhaps 4m2m.ld?

My assumption is, and I may be wrong, is that iSpindHub, would be able to forward to both Brewfather and BrewPiLess?

Cheers

 

[ZeSlammy]

When I say "space issue", I mean "space to handle the file download". But yes, it is an interesting feature. I put it on the back burner.

 

[ZeSlammy]

Your todo list looks pretty good. I was wondering if the logging problem could be a function of what is set in the platformio
ie eagle.flash.4m3m.ld perhaps 4m2m.ld?

It's not a logging issue, it's more a "generate a download" issue

My assumption is, and I may be wrong, is that iSpindHub, would be able to forward to both Brewfather and BrewPiLess?

Yes. The idea is to push to all targets for which we have a configuration.

 

[wd16261]

When I say "space issue", I mean "space to handle the file download". But yes, it is an interesting feature. I put it on the back burner.

Yes you are probably right because its always limited to about 13 a 15 lines. See all the examples above.
And thanks to keep it on the list

 

[wd16261]

Can you try and connect with cables and not directly as a shield ?
D4 on shield to D8 on Wemos
3V on shield to 3.3V on Wemos
D5 to D5
D7 (the one between D6 and D8 flagged D4) to D7 on Wemos
D3 to D3 on Wemos
RST to D2 on Wemos
G to G on Wemos

@ZeSlammy I just received some TFT 1.4 (green tab version) together with some D1 mini and I would like to plug the screens directly onto the D1 (like a shield) instead of using wires.
But now I have noticed in this topic that it does not work this way or you've never tested it?
Is there a way to get this working?
I would like to put the iSpinhub into a small box but the D1 mini does not have any holes to screw it on to something. It would be much easier when it is plugged on the screen because in the 1.4 TFT I do have four holes to screw it into a small box.
In the first post of this topic there is a picture where it looks like the D1 mini is directly plugged onto the TFT screen and it is working but when I tried this I only have a blanc screen but the webserver works fine.

 

[korev]

@wd16261 If you can I suggest try disconnecting the back light

 

[DuncB]

@korev
The refonting you did is it possible to do this on the 2.0 TFT?

How do I go about doing the change, currently the output only occupies the top third of the display so I could have a bigger font or even 2 spindels displaying at once.

 

[korev]

@DuncB Yes I think so as I have played about with formatting a 1.8 screen for a weather station using much bigger fonts. I have also further refined my 1.4 screen display using the larger fonts. I can send you the files if you like. pm me your email.
Cheers

 

[wd16261]

@korev I don't think that its just the blacklight?
When I use it with wires then it works perfectly but as a shield some of the connections are not correct.
In the table below I tried to show the differences:

A solution could be cutting the pins D4 and RST on the shield and then use 2 wires to connect them to the pins D8 and D2 on the wemos.
But the shields was made to be plugged in directly so it would been cleaner if the correct pins were used in the program?
I did a quick look in the source files and maybe its just adding an additional screen version?

On the shield I also noticed that I could change the functions of the pins but I can not assign RST tor D2.

 

[ZeSlammy]

@DuncB Yes I think so as I have played about with formatting a 1.8 screen for a weather station using much bigger fonts. I have also further refined my 1.4 screen display using the larger fonts. I can send you the files if you like. pm me your email.
Cheers

I'm interested, obviously

@wd16261 : I will try and compile a version to be plugged in (might just be a change in the .ini file). Should be able to do it today.

 

[ZeSlammy]

@wd16261 : Ok done. It's working.
Available at the GitHub or through BrewFlasher.
Let me know.
I tested it with a Red Tab plugged directly.

 

[wd16261]

Great news! I've tested the new version with the Green Tab (D1 plugged directly) and it also works now.

 

[DaveS]

@ZeSlammy Cheers for adding brewpiless as a target,have been off the board for a while.

Could be me but when installing the plugged in version using brewflasher,the 2nd file is not sent to the D1 mini,I assume this is the littlefs file?
Resulting in a hello world in my browser when going to it IP address.
The "wired" versions still working well.
Will use pyflasher in the meantime.
Cheers