Cannot control the gateway (maybe due to new firmware?)

[quyetvk]

Hi @igdr

Thank you for your developing nodes. I am using nodes to control the gateway. The node can connect to Gateway but it seem it cannot control it (only receive event from Gateway) For example, I use function to change the light of gateway:

let cmd = {
    "rgb": 440038609
}
msg.payload = cmd;
return msg;

After that, the node show received message but the Gateway's light is not controlled

{"fromip":"NodeRED_IP:9898","ip":"NodeRED_IP","port":9898,"payload":{"sid":"xxxxxxxxxx","cmd":"write","model":"gateway","data":{"rgb":440038609,"key":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}},"_msgid":"c214c09f.ded6e"}

If I use Mi Home to control light, I received the event from Gateway (report event):

{"fromip":"Gateway_IP:4321","ip":"Gateway_IP","port":4321,"payload":{"cmd":"report","model":"gateway","sid":"xxxxxxxxxx","short_id":0,"data":{"rgb":0,"illumination":1292}},"_msgid":"1093628b.43d86d"}

I guess due to gateway's firmware is changed, the command format is changed. Do you have any idea?

Thank you!

[igdr]

Hi, I am using the last one firmware and everything works fine. Here is my example with sound which I have just tried. Can you check it up?

[quyetvk]

Thank you for your reply.

I tried the same thing but cannot receive the the confirmation packet ("report" packet) and there is no sound.

The sent message from your NodeRED server is same format as mine?

[igdr]

[quyetvk]

Your first message is same as mine. But I did not receive second message (write_ack). I don't know why.

[igdr]

Just double-check sid of your gateway, you can find it in mobile app

[quyetvk]

I think SID is no problem. I found that SID is MAC address of my gateway. And SID of gateway is auto determined by node (there is no SID configuration in node configurator)

[ghost]

I get a message when I try to control the color and brightness of the gateway

works every other time - sometimes it turns on the desired color normally, sometimes it gives an error

what's wrong?

[michaelblight]

I can't get this to work either for sound or rgb. I'm not getting an error, but do get the output msg suggesting it was sent.

I saw on another issue there may be a conflict with the hub set up in both Home Assistant and Node Red. When I have it configured in Home Assistant, I can play a ringtone from HA. However, never from Node red, even if I remove the HA config and restart HA.

Also, when I do play a ringtone from HA, I would expect the Node Red instance to show the event, but it does not.

[mobamoba]

In order to make this problem go away, I had to disable the Mi Home app completely as in freeze/disable it because otherwise it autostarts itself. I think the gateway runs into trouble when it's receiving commands from more than one place.

Also, I found I needed to wait a good minute after startup/re-deploy and also insert 10 seconds delays between commands, like if I want the LED to change color AND have an alarm go off those need a little spacing.

I'm not saying it works perfectly 100% of the time, but disabling the app (or uninstalling it or putting it on a device you never turn on and only using it if you decide to add another sensor/light/whatever) helped a lot in my case.