Adressing LEDs – NodeMCU vs. Espruino

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Oct 302016
 

Previously I made LEDs on/off via Lua. The pin-order was 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 0, 6, 7, 8 in NodeMCU: 6 red LEDs, and a RGB LED.

Using Espruino (specifically version 1.87), the order turns out to be: D2, D0, D4, D5, D14, D16?, D12, D13, D15. D1 seems to turn the WiFi LED on/off, which is a bit odd.

 

Update:

Espruino has a nice feature to convert NodeMCU pins into Espruino pins:

for (var i=1; i<11; ++i) { console.log(NodeMCU["D"+i])}
D5
D4
D0
D2
D14
D12
D13
D15
D3
D1

Or easier, just use NodeMCU.D1 for what was D1 in NodeMCU. It also helps to know that the Espruino numbers are simply the GPIO numbers of the ESP8266 (Espruino D5 = ESP8266 GPIO 14 = NodeMCU D1)

Espruino on ESP8266

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Oct 302016
 

Lua is neat, but learning Lua and JavaScript and NodeJS. Although Lua and especially NodeMCU is similar (not only in name) to NodeJS, it would be nicer to use only one language.

Here the recipe:

  1. Download espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266.tgz
  2. Write flash (note: might use 80m and qio, but my old one does dio): 
    ./esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 write_flash --flash_freq 40m --flash_mode dio --flash_size 32m \
0x0000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/boot_v1.6.bin \
0x1000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/espruino_esp8266_user1.bin \
0x3FC000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/esp_init_data_default.bin \
0x37E000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/blank.bin
  3. Verify it: 
    ./esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 verify_flash \
0x1000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/espruino_esp8266_user1.bin \
0x3FC000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/esp_init_data_default.bin \
0x37E000 ~/Downloads/espruino_1v87.tve_master_b3dc05b_esp8266/blank.bin
  4. Connect at 115200bps.
  5. Connect to your AP: 
    var wifi = require("Wifi");
wifi.connect("your_sid", {password:"your_password"}, function(err){
 console.log("connected? err=", err, "info=", wifi.getIP());
});
wifi.stopAP();
wifi.save();
  6. In the Espruino IDE add the IP address
  7. When you reconnect via Espruino IDE, you should now have 2 choices: serial or TCP/IP via WLAN

 

Node-RED: Functions

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Oct 162016
 
Node-RED: Functions

My light sensor (actually just a LDR connected to the single ADC pin on the ESP8266) tends to be a bit jumpy and the graphs looked anything but smooth. Quick fix: averaging samples. Node-RED has functions for this. And here is one to average 4 samples:

// jshint esversion: 6

const oldDataMax=4;
let lastData;
let count = context.get('count')||0;
let oldData = context.get('oldData')||[];

// Need to shift all numbers one left if array full
// Circular buffer would be nice, but overly complex for such small buffers

if (count==oldDataMax) {
 for (let i=1; i<oldDataMax; ++i) {
 oldData[i-1]=oldData[i];
 }
 lastData=oldDataMax-1;
} else {
 lastData=count++; 
}
oldData[lastData]=parseInt(msg.payload);

// Calculate the average

let avg=0;
for (let i=0; i<=lastData; ++i) {
 avg+=oldData[i];
 }
avg=avg/(lastData+1);

context.set('count', count);
context.set('oldData', oldData);

let avgMsg = { payload: ""+avg };

return [ msg, avgMsg ];

Much less jumpy graphs now!

 

BME280, DS18B20 and DHT22

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Oct 022016
 

With only one sensor, its value is as accurate as can be: I got no other value to compare to.

Since I got a BME280 and a DS18B20 and both can measure temperature, I have something to compare. Both have a quite high resolution (0.01 resp. 0.0625 degree), but less accuracy (±0.5 degree at 25°C or ±1 degree from 0…65°C for the BME280, ±0.5 degree from -10..+85°C for the DS18B20), I was curious how they compare. Here is the result:

screenshot_20161002_095312

The upper one is the BME280, the lower one is the DS18B20. Difference is about 0.75 degree.The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but hard to say without proper calibration. Unfortunately the BME280 is  for air usage only which makes calibration against e.g. ice water or any other liquids challenging.

I have another DHT22 (AKA AM2302) sensor , which shows temperatures between above. Unfortunately its humidity sensor seems to be broken.