MySensors gateway running as a service

[OldSurferDude]

I have an RPi Zerwo 2w that I am running headless. It is running the minimal version of RaspberryPi OS (no GUI). I can run MySensors Gateway (mysgw) in a ssh sesstion. I would like to run mysgw as a service.

Granted, I would get no output, but it is running well.

Well, community, have you ever done this?

[mfalkvidd]

@OldSurferDude everyone who has run make install has it running as a service. See the Install section at https://web.archive.org/web/20220306231732/https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry

https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/pull/1421 adds support for more than one gateway on the same machine. You’ll need to configure them to use different eeprom files though, see my note in the PR.

[OldSurferDude]

I think I got it working.

note: I use UNAME here. Usually its pi
create directory ~/.config
create the file ~/.config/autostart.sh with the contents:

#
# must use full path because at this point in the 
#   process, the user is not logged in

# log the time of boot
date -R >/home/UNAME/lastboot

# wait a little bit to ensure network is up
sleep 5

# Start the gateway
# pipe stdout and stderr to the null file so that loose characters are not flying about
# end with an & to the boot to complete and let the gateway run
/home/UNAME/MySensors/bin/mysgw >>/dev/null 2>>/dev/null &

make this file executable

sudo chmod +x ~/.config/autostart.sh

Get the autostart program to run at boot by modifying

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi

# add this line
# ampersand is very important!
/home/UNAME/.config/autostart.sh &
exit 0

ensure that rc.local is executable

sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local

[OldSurferDude]

@mfalkvidd

Thanks, I didn't see that!

OSD