Cannot setup DHT22 Room Humidity Sensor, but setup as Chamber Humidity Sensor works

[denisfrench]

Hi; I've noticed on the device setup page (http://brewpiless.local/setup.htm) that I cannot setup a DHT22 as a Room Humidity Sensor in the first instance. The device stays when I hit "apply", but the sensor value shows 255 continiously, and the temperature sensor does not show up when devices are refreshed.

I am able to work around this by setting the DHT22 as a Chamber Humidity Sensor first, and then change it to a Room Humidity Sensor. This then works okay, but the sensor continues to be reported in MQTT as fridgeHumidity not roomHumidity.

I'm compiling version 4.4 https://github.com/vitotai/BrewPiLess/commit/ce1428821f12e2aa687425625735fb9e7f9b4627 using the esp32-oled default build environment and config.

Thanks for your work on this!

[vitotai]

I missed a few lines of code for Room humidity sensor which I never tested. Sorry for that.

[denisfrench]

Confirmed fixed at my end; thanks! 🙏

[denisfrench]

I was too quick!

Adding DHT22 as room sensor now works, except it is still being reported within MQTT as fridgeHumidity.

Before this fix using the workaround it was reporting a value via MQTT, even through the topic was incorrect. Now it is reporting random single keyboard symbols (eg ,*-.).

Nearly there!

[vitotai]

Yeah, the tag was wrong. However, I don't get it how the value was wrong.

[denisfrench]

Hi; is the latest commit (b05b25a4809ac255990bb0366f5019efd97b34ab) ready for testing?

I'm getting an error when compiling esp32-oled as follows:

src/MqttRemoteControl.cpp: In member function 'void MqttRemoteControl::_reportData()':
src/MqttRemoteControl.cpp:165:59: error: expected primary-expression before ',' token
             if(rh <= 100) lastID=_publish(KeyRoomHumidity,,rh);
                                                           ^
*** [.pio\build\esp32-oled\src\MqttRemoteControl.cpp.o] Error 1
================================================================================================== [FAILED] Took 20.17 seconds ==================================================================================================
Environment    Status    Duration
-------------  --------  ------------
esp32-oled     FAILED    00:00:20.166

[koekie]

I fixed it in the following way: if(rh <= 100) lastID=_publish(KeyRoomHumidity, rh, 0); (When you leave out the 0 the _publish method assumes the value is a char, which it not really is).

I have fixed some of the issues already in my forked version of this repo (for which I might prepare a PR for in the future if @vitotai is up for that, but I will reach out when I have the time to do so), check the following:

https://github.com/koekie/BrewPiLess/blob/master/src/MqttRemoteControl.cpp#L162-L171

[denisfrench]

@vitotai release version 4.4 (https://github.com/vitotai/BrewPiLess/commit/a37150fe4a5f7133d463e3fc8708bed54a1140c1) fixes the roomHumidity topic, but the MQTT data now randomly sends either " or ! for some reason.

@koekie your latest commit (198ab1339e3f14395a2c712c4382bfa95d7126a7) fixes this issue in toto, thanks!