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jkandasa

@jkandasa Thanks for that.

The latest Java version has go me going as far as server access goes, but I am having issues opening the serial port it seems.

I am trying to run in parallel with Domoticz, but I maybe having an issue trying to access the same port I am guess.

Suggestions on how to get around that?

I guess you cannot share same port for two different applications. We may go with some third party tools to share serial port across applications. But, I do not have any experience on it.

In this case to run MyController server, stop MyController server and Domoticz controller, then start MyController server, it will work.

diggs

@jkandasa Thanks

Have now done all that. Stopped the Domoticz server, started Mycontroller. I get the webpage up now, but still no nodes showing up and for some reason nothing is being written to my logs the past few hours at all.

What can I look at?

davidbd

@diggs

stop the server
connect to your serial port and see if you get any response from gateway ( minicom/miniterm etc ... )
If above work , check your config for correct serial ports settings.
If above doesnt work not check your serial gateway

diggs

@davidbd Thanks for the reply.

Yep, can connect to the port and see the node / gateway data in the line.

Still nothing though in the Mycontroller

All my settings seem pretty standard, so not sure what the issue would be or what to check next.

#========================================================================
# MySensors Gateway settings
# Select Type of gateway will be used, Only one gateway will be used
# Types -> serial, ethernet, mqtt
#========================================================================
mcc.ethernet.gateway.type=serial

#========================================================================
# MySensors Serial port settings
# In this section select: Driver, port name and baud rate
# Available drivers -> [pi4j, jssc, jserialcomm, auto]
#========================================================================
mcc.serialport.driver.type=auto
mcc.serialport.name=/dev/ttyACM0
mcc.serialport.baud.rate=115200

#========================================================================
# MySensors Ethernet Gateway settings
# Update host name/ip and port number, Default: 192.168.178.6:5003
# Keep alive check frequency in seconds
#========================================================================
mcc.ethernet.gateway.host=192.168.178.6
mcc.ethernet.gateway.port=5003
mcc.ethernet.gateway.keep.alive.frequency=60

#========================================================================
# MySensors MQTT Gateway settings
# Update broker host name/ip and port number, Default: 192.168.178.6:1883
# Root topic name of broker
# Note: MQTT_TRANSLATE_TYPES will be not supported
# Disable MQTT_TRANSLATE_TYPES in your MQTT gateway
#========================================================================
mcc.mqtt.gateway.broker.host=192.168.178.6
mcc.mqtt.gateway.broker.port=1883
mcc.mqtt.gateway.broker.root.topic=MyMQTT

#========================================================================
# Database
# Where do you want to keep your database.
# It is highly recommended  to take a backup of this db on upgrade. 
# Database: H2DB, location and name, example:/tmp/mycontroller
#========================================================================
mcc.h2db.location=../conf/mycontroller

#========================================================================
# Web files, will be located under ../www by default
# For web used angularjs
#========================================================================
www.file.location=../www/

#========================================================================
# Web Application server configuration
# bind.address - interface to bind. 0.0.0.0 - all available interfaces
# You can use either http or https, enable.https - https is enabled
# if https is enabled specify keystore file details
# It is highly recommended to use https also change default keystore file
#========================================================================
bind.address=0.0.0.0
enable.https=true
http.port=8443
ssl.keystore.file=../conf/keystore.jks
ssl.keystore.password=password
ssl.keystore.type=JKS

#logger configuration - logback.xml

davidbd

@diggs Have no idea but you can try to change your serial port driver

jkandasa

@diggs said:

@davidbd Thanks for the reply.

Yep, can connect to the port and see the node / gateway data in the line.

Still nothing though in the Mycontroller

All my settings seem pretty standard, so not sure what the issue would be or what to check next.

@diggs just now I tested with RPI native port(~~/dev/ttyACM0~~ /dev/ttyAMA0) and gives some issue, let me find out the root cause,

diggs

@jkandasa OK thanks

At least I am not going crazy :)

jkandasa

@jkandasa said:

@diggs just now I tested with RPI native port(/dev/ttyACM0) and gives some issue, let me find out the root cause,

@diggs Just now I confirmed that issue is not with MyController server. I didn't disable default kernel console access of serial port. Hence I couldn't not access inbuilt RPI serial port from MyController server.
I followed this page to gain user access for RPI default serial port.

Now I can access default RPI serial port without any trouble. Hope you are also facing same issue.

diggs

@jkandasa Checked my settings and they were already set as per that article, so I don't believe that is the trouble I am facing. From the logs I sent you, anything else you think could be causing the issue. Was the port being opened OK in the system?

jkandasa

@diggs said:

@jkandasa Checked my settings and they were already set as per that article, so I don't believe that is the trouble I am facing. From the logs I sent you, anything else you think could be causing the issue. Was the port being opened OK in the system?

@diggs Can you check on your RPI do you have /dev/ttyAMA0?

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -lh /dev/ttyA*
crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 204, 64 Jan  1  1970 /dev/ttyAMA0

If you have /dev/ttyAMA0 try MyController server with /dev/ttyAMA0. I hope it should work. Kindly post your RPI hardware and software details.

diggs

@jkandasa I do have an AMA0, but it does not work on that one either. The gateway is definitely connected to ACM0. Which is the one it works on when I have Domoticz connected up.

Something odd is happening with the PI USB side of things. Tried switching to another port but no luck there either.

As a side, I installed on windows and it works fine, so I know the gateway is OK, but I really want it running on the PI at some point

jkandasa

@diggs said:

@jkandasa I do have an AMA0, but it does not work on that one either. The gateway is definitely connected to ACM0. Which is the one it works on when I have Domoticz connected up.

Something odd is happening with the PI USB side of things. Tried switching to another port but no luck there either.

Are you using USB to ttl connector or native RPI tx/rx pin? can you post your RPI hardware and software details?

As a side, I installed on windows and it works fine, so I know the gateway is OK, but I really want it running on the PI at some point

diggs

@jkandasa as discussed on chat, but thought I would put the info her as well.

Using one of the 4 USB ports on the PI.

Versions

Linux raspberrypi 4.1.6-v7+ #810 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 18 15:32:12 BST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

bpair

This is fantastic. Thank you!

I am very grateful but I do have a feature request. I am collecting data in a greenhouse (and in the gardens) with mysensors. The more automation, the better. However, there are some instruments we still use manually, record data in a notebook, maybe copy to excel and manually create charts. It is very tedious and isolated form the automated sensor data.

It seems with your controller I can add a custom sensor (or use any of the other sensors) and with the Action board send data to the sensor. The feature I want is to enter data and have it appear as if the sensor sent the data. This data would then be logged along with all the automated data.

For example, we manually measure Nitrites. If I could add a custom sensor (a Manual Entry Sensor) and the action board allowed receiving data from the sensor it would provide a huge benefit. (No send data for this type of sensor is needed, only receive).

I am not sure how much work would be needed but it could also be used to test rules and other configurations.

Thanks for your work.

TD22057

@bpair said:

This is fantastic. Thank you!

I am very grateful but I do have a feature request. I am collecting data in a greenhouse (and in the gardens) with mysensors. The more automation, the better. However, there are some instruments we still use manually, record data in a notebook, maybe copy to excel and manually create charts. It is very tedious and isolated form the automated sensor data.

It seems with your controller I can add a custom sensor (or use any of the other sensors) and with the Action board send data to the sensor. The feature I want is to enter data and have it appear as if the sensor sent the data. This data would then be logged along with all the automated data.

For example, we manually measure Nitrites. If I could add a custom sensor (a Manual Entry Sensor) and the action board allowed receiving data from the sensor it would provide a huge benefit. (No send data for this type of sensor is needed, only receive).

I am not sure how much work would be needed but it could also be used to test rules and other configurations.

Thanks for your work.

IMO, That's one of the good reasons to use MQTT as the communication system. MySensors gets translated to MQTT messages by the gateway and that's all the controller sees. Then adding more "readings" from manual sources or any other source is just a matter of sending a message into the system from that source. There are any number of GUI and command line tools (mosquitto_pub) you can use to post a message that would make entering manual readings very easy.

bpair

@TD22057 I do like MQTT but I wish the topic format was more standardized for sensor networks. I could certainly even see using something like dweet.io for publishing these messages to the world (beyond the mqtt broker).

However in this case I plan to have different students and classes adding sensors, manually taking measurements, etc.. If the MyController Action board was an easy 1 stop place for this, making it easy to add new "manual sensors" without the problems of how to format the topic or how to post an mqtt message from the command line it would be great.

I have thought about formalizing this manual entry with Node-Red but MyController is better than what I could create.

jkandasa

@bpair Thank you to give a try with MyController! I understand that you want to create a chart(automatically by MyController) for your custom data and you want to disable send payload option for some sensors.

Can you give some example how your data will be looking? Is it pure numeric data? And what is the custom variable have you used?

To disable send payload we have ticket, I'm working on it https://github.com/mycontroller-org/mycontroller/issues/5

jkandasa

@TD22057 said:

IMO, That's one of the good reasons to use MQTT as the communication system. MySensors gets translated to MQTT messages by the gateway and that's all the controller sees. Then adding more "readings" from manual sources or any other source is just a matter of sending a message into the system from that source. There are any number of GUI and command line tools (mosquitto_pub) you can use to post a message that would make entering manual readings very easy.

@TD22057 The current MQTT gateway supports only limited features and a big drawback is we cannot use it directly on internet as it does not have any security option and limited to number of connections

For this reason I'm implementing MQTT broker support in MyController server. Here we can connect our mysensors gateway (serial/Ethernet) to MyController. Connect all our MQTT client to MyController with authentication

https://github.com/mycontroller-org/mycontroller/issues/7

bpair

@jkandasa Wow, quick replies.

Actually the charts are not that critical but it would be very simple charts showing the value with a custom unit (for example mg/L) over time. The unit should be specified when adding the sensor to MyController.

There will never be a physical sensor connected to MyController for these custom sensors. These are virtual sensors. Because there is no physical sensor connected to MyController a person would be manually entering the data (the person is the sensor).

An example may help:

We have a fish tank with sensors for measuring water temperature, pH, and water level. The data from these sensors is easily sent to a controller as well as to thingspeak or a local database.

Data for ammonia, nitrates and nitrites is also recorded but we have no sensor recording this data. A person manually records these measurements in a notebook.

I do not want the person to record this data in a notebook. I want this person to record the data in MyController. Then all of the data from the sensors and all of the data manually entered would be in the same place.

So I would add a custom sensor to MyController with a name of "Tank A Nitrates" and a unit of "mg/L". The Action Board shows the new sensor and lets me enter a sensor reading - 1.5 mg/L.

Does that make sense?

jkandasa

@bpair said:

@jkandasa Wow, quick replies.

Actually the charts are not that critical but it would be very simple charts showing the value with a custom unit (for example mg/L) over time. The unit should be specified when adding the sensor to MyController.

@bpair For now if you use the variable which is returning (somewhat matches for you V_LEVEL)

return PAYLOAD_TYPE.PL_DOUBLE;

you will get graphical report. Check in the code

And you can add your own custom unit. Under Action Board on your custom sensor click on the image edit and update your unit.

In document you can see under the section 4.10 Edit

There will never be a physical sensor connected to MyController for these custom sensors. These are virtual sensors. Because there is no physical sensor connected to MyController a person would be manually entering the data (the person is the sensor).

An example may help:

We have a fish tank with sensors for measuring water temperature, pH, and water level. The data from these sensors is easily sent to a controller as well as to thingspeak or a local database.

Data for ammonia, nitrates and nitrites is also recorded but we have no sensor recording this data. A person manually records these measurements in a notebook.

I do not want the person to record this data in a notebook. I want this person to record the data in MyController. Then all of the data from the sensors and all of the data manually entered would be in the same place.

So I would add a custom sensor to MyController with a name of "Tank A Nitrates" and a unit of "mg/L". The Action Board shows the new sensor and lets me enter a sensor reading - 1.5 mg/L.

Does that make sense?

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