Hassbian initial configuration on Raspberry Pi MQTT gateway

[Meach]

Hello,

I am struggling to make the initial setup of MySensors with Hassbian. I am running both on same Raspberry Pi 3.

I installed MySensor gateway on the RPi with following configuration

./configure --my-transport=rf24 --my-rf24-ce-pin=18 --my-rf24-cs-pin=24 --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mygateway1-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mygateway1-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1

In Hassbian I installed Mosquitto and this is how my configuration.yaml file look like:

# MQTT gateway
mqtt:
  broker: 127.0.0.1
  client_id: mygateway1
  username: pi
  password: raspberry

# MySensor
mysensors:
  gateways:
    - device: mqtt
      persistence_file: '/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/mysensors.json'
      topic_in_prefix: 'mygateway1-out'
      topic_out_prefix: 'mygateway1-in'
  optimistic: false
  persistence: true
  retain: true
  version: '2.3.1'


# Debug logger
logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    homeassistant.components.mysensors: debug
    mysensors: debug

I followed the instructions from Home Assistant page and made a dummy sensor node with following code:

// Enable debug prints to serial monitor
#define MY_DEBUG

// Enable and select radio type attached
#define MY_RADIO_RF24

// Enable repeater functionality for this node
#define MY_REPEATER_FEATURE

#include <MySensors.h>

#define CHILD_ID 1
#define MY_NODE_ID 1

bool initialValueSent = false;
bool state = false;

MyMessage msg(CHILD_ID, V_LIGHT);

void setup() { }

void presentation()  {
  sendSketchInfo("Relay+button", "1.0");
  present(CHILD_ID, S_LIGHT);
}

void loop()
{
  // Need to send initial values for Home Assistant
  if (!initialValueSent) {
    Serial.println("Sending initial value");
    send(msg.set(state));

    Serial.println("Requesting initial value from controller");
    request(CHILD_ID, V_LIGHT);
    wait(2000, C_SET, V_LIGHT);
  }
  
}

void receive(const MyMessage &message) {
  if (message.isAck()) {
     Serial.println("This is an ack from gateway");
  }

  if (message.type == V_LIGHT) {
    // We got initial values from Home Assistant
    if (!initialValueSent) {
      Serial.println("Receiving initial value from controller");
      initialValueSent = true;
    }
    
    // Write some debug info
    Serial.print("Incoming change for sensor:");
    Serial.print(message.sensor);
    Serial.print(", New status: ");
    Serial.println(message.getBool());
  }
}

I make sure that I send the sensor S_TYPE in the presentation and that I also send an initial value out.

The Arduino console output is the following:

16 MCO:BGN:INIT REPEATER,CP=RNNRA---,REL=255,VER=2.3.1
26 TSM:INIT
27 TSF:WUR:MS=0
34 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
36 TSF:SID:OK,ID=1
37 TSM:FPAR
74 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2081 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
2083 TSM:FPAR
2119 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
4127 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
4129 TSM:FPAR
4165 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
6173 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
6175 TSM:FPAR
6211 TSF:MSG:SEND,1-1-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
8219 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL
8220 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
8222 TSM:FAIL:DIS
8224 TSF:TDI:TSL
18226 TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT

I tried using MySensor log parser and if I understand correctly the node does not get answer from the gateway.

On the Raspberry Pi, I checked the logs from Home Assistant and they seem fine.

2019-09-12 07:39:12 DEBUG (SyncWorker_17) [mysensors.persistence] Loading sensors from persistence file /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/mysensors.json
2019-09-12 07:39:12 DEBUG (SyncWorker_6) [mysensors.persistence] Saving sensors to persistence file /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/mysensors.json
2019-09-12 07:39:12 INFO (MainThread) [mysensors.gateway_mqtt] Setting up initial MQTT topic subscription
2019-09-12 07:39:12 DEBUG (MainThread) [mysensors.gateway_mqtt] Subscribing to: mygateway1-out/+/+/0/+/+, qos: 0
2019-09-12 07:39:12 DEBUG (MainThread) [mysensors.gateway_mqtt] Subscribing to: mygateway1-out/+/+/3/+/+, qos: 0
2019-09-12 07:39:12 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.mqtt] Subscribing to mygateway1-out/+/+/0/+/+
2019-09-12 07:39:12 DEBUG (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.mqtt] Subscribing to mygateway1-out/+/+/3/+/+

So then I stopped MySensor gateway service and run it myself using the command

cd MySensors
sudo ./bin/msgw

This is what I have as output

pi@hassbian:~/MySensors $ sudo ./bin/mysgw
Sep 12 10:12:32 INFO  Starting gateway...
Sep 12 10:12:32 INFO  Protocol version - 2.3.1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGL---,REL=255,VER=2.3.1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:LRT:OK
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSM:INIT
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:WUR:MS=0
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSM:INIT:TSP OK
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSM:INIT:GW MODE
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG MCO:BGN:STP
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG connected to 127.0.0.1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSM:READY:NWD REQ
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=20,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG connected to 127.0.0.1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG connected to 127.0.0.1
...
(infinite amount of reconnect message)
...
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG connected to 127.0.0.1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG connected to 127.0.0.1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:MSG:READ,1-1-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:MSG:BC
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:MSG:FPAR REQ,ID=1
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:CKU:OK,FCTRL
Sep 12 10:12:32 DEBUG TSF:MSG:GWL OK
Sep 12 10:12:33 DEBUG !TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-1-1,s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=NACK:0
Sep 12 10:12:33 DEBUG GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
Sep 12 10:12:33 DEBUG connected to 127.0.0.1
...

I would assume the problem comes from the gateway that do not stay connected and constantly reconnect but I am out of clues of what I am doing wrong.

Any idea is appreciated, thanks!

[Meach]

I made some more tests and I think it doesn't work because when I setup Mosquitto, I created a user/password but didn't do it when building MySensor gateway.

I looked at the list of options from this page and added the next 2 configuration options:

--my-mqtt-user=pi
--my-mqtt-password=raspberry

(pi / raspberry being the same user / password I set my Mosquitto user during the installation)

But when I configure the MySensor gateway I see this in the console:

[WARNING] Unknown option detected:--my-mqtt-user=pi, ignored
[WARNING] Unknown option detected:--my-mqtt-password=raspberry, ignored

Is there any other way I could try to build the gateway with user/password than this? Or is this a bug? Those 2 options are clearly written in the configuration options page for the Raspberry Pi gateway.

[mfalkvidd]

@meach that's strange. Which version of MySensors are you using?

If you are unsure of the version, delete the MySensors folder and download latest stable by following the instructions on https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry from the top

[alphaHotel]

@meach Configure is not seeing the = in your command line properly - so I'm assuming a cut+paste issue with character strings.

Ie. It's seeing the configuration option --my-mqtt-user=pi instead of --my-mqtt-user and a value of pi.

Try to retype that part of the command line manually and try it again.

A

EDIT: As an aside, I usually put my configure command line into a script and then just run the script. Handy when you come back to it 6-8 months later and wonder what configure options you used the last time you ran it.

[mfalkvidd]

This is what the configure command looks like on my system. The username and passwords work

pi@raspberrypi:~/MySensors $ ./configure --my-mqtt-user=pi --my-mqtt-password=raspberry
[SECTION] Detecting target machine.
  [OK] machine detected: SoC=BCM2836, Type=rpi2, CPU=armv7l.
[SECTION] Detecting SPI driver.
  [OK] SPI driver detected:BCM.
[SECTION] Gateway configuration.
  [OK] Type: ethernet.
  [OK] Transport: rf24.
  [OK] Signing: Disabled.
  [OK] Encryption: Disabled.
  [OK] CPPFLAGS: -DMY_RADIO_RF24 -DMY_GATEWAY_LINUX -DMY_DEBUG -DLINUX_SPI_BCM -DLINUX_ARCH_RASPBERRYPI -DMY_MQTT_PASSWORD="raspberry" -DMY_MQTT_USER="pi"
[SECTION] Detecting init system.
  [OK] Init system detected: systemd.
[SECTION] Saving configuration.
  [OK] Saved.
[SECTION] Cleaning previous builds.
  [OK] Finished.

[alphaHotel]

What I had noticed and was trying to point out was that the error was:

[WARNING] Unknown option detected: --my-mqtt-user=pi, ignored

not:

[WARNING] Unknown option detected: --my-mqtt-user, ignored

[Meach]

You were right, there was a character problem when copy/pasting the command to the terminal.
Now I can build MySensor with username and password and it works fine.

Thanks for the help!