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Dilbert66 / esphome-dsckeybus

Esphome custom configuration for interfacing to a DSC POWERSERIES alarm system
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Integration fails to update suddenly #46

Closed Waylonf closed 2 years ago

Waylonf commented 2 years ago

I am having a challenge getting my alarm interface to work again. Everything was working 100% for a while and then suddenly stopped working or updating any sensors in Home Assistant.

At the time the issue first occurred I had made no changes to the firmware on my board, but there may have been a Home Assistant update that has caused this.

Have there been any broken changes in HA that could affect the DSC integration? If I could get confirmation on this it would allow me to focus my efforts on other possible causes.

Any insights will be greatly appreciated and should I need to provide logs or any other info that may help shed light on my issue, please let me know. I relied quite a bit on this integration, any insights at all would be amazing :-)

Dilbert66 commented 2 years ago

I have not experienced or heard of these issues but then again I'm not running the latest HA version. I do use the latest epshome 2022.5.0. HA does have issues sometimes and there are two things can you do. Go to Configuration,Devices & Services. Find your device in the ESPHome integration, click on the three vertical dots to open a menu. there you can try first to do a Reload. If that does not work, then the last option is to Delete it and then do a "+ Add integration" to add it again. Before you do that though, have a look at your ESPHome logs and ensure that you are seeing traffic and updates to the sensors. If you dont' see that then the issue is with your device and not HA. If your device is acting up, try resetting it.

Also indicate which branch you are using. The master branch is the older stable branch. The dev is a development branch and can be buggy. The "new" branch is my active development branch where I am rewriting a lot of code to add full multi partition support and full LCD panel emulation. It is still in heavy development and still experimental but works quite well so far. I do recommend using an ESP32 with it though due to the larger memory useage of this branch. The ESP32 is a much better and powerful device.
I would recommend a D1 Mini Pro (ESP32 version of the d1 mini) which can match the same pinout as the esp8266 version and makes for an easy upgrade.

Glazzanz commented 2 years ago

@Dilbert66 what board do you recommend to go with the PCBs that are already designed. All the D1 Mini Pros that I can find are 8266 powered...

I currently have a heap of the NodeMCU boards.... but the pin out doesnt work with an esp32 dev board :(

Dilbert66 commented 2 years ago

I would recommend a d1 mini pro esp32. It's basically an esp32 that can fit in the same footprint as a d1 mini so works fine in pcb's designed for the d1 mini esp8266 version. You just use the inside rows of pins. I use the one below:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32858054775.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.5d5f283dBskdXk&algo_pvid=f077df51-490c-4a83-a3ff-3ef3c48153a1&algo_exp_id=f077df51-490c-4a83-a3ff-3ef3c48153a1-1&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000021656141438%22%7D&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21CAD%21%214.96%21%21%211.36%21%21%40210318bb16531016307901961e0e6f%2112000021656141438%21sea

Glazzanz commented 2 years ago

Thanks - having a look at that, it looks like I would end up using pin IO22, IO21 and IO5, if installing on this board?

https://github.com/Dilbert66/esphome-dsckeybus/tree/master/PCB%20Layouts/WemosD1%20Mini/SMD

No issues with that?

Dilbert66 commented 2 years ago

No issues at all. I have one like that. Just set dscWritePin to 5 , dsClockpin to 22 and dscReadPin to 21.