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    hawk_2050
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    @marceloaqno The mechanism for assigning the pty serial port the specified group ownership doesn't appear to be working. The pty port is always created with root:root ownership. Can you (or anyone else) confirm whether this is working for you? I'm on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspian Jessie. Thanks.

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      @marceloaqno The mechanism for assigning the pty serial port the specified group ownership doesn't appear to be working. The pty port is always created with root:root ownership. Can you (or anyone else) confirm whether this is working for you? I'm on a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspian Jessie. Thanks.

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      marceloaqno
      Code Contributor
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      #72

      @emc2 I appreciate the offer for the adapter, but my country's post is a little complicated (to say the least).

      @hawk_2050 /dev/ttyUSBMySensorsGateway (or any other parameter you pass to --my-serial-pty) is a symbolic link:

      $ ls -lah /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
      lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 16 12:39 /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway -> /dev/pts/2
      

      In this case it is pointing to /dev/pts/2 but can vary, and it's the one who holds the specified group ownership.

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        @emc2 I appreciate the offer for the adapter, but my country's post is a little complicated (to say the least).

        @hawk_2050 /dev/ttyUSBMySensorsGateway (or any other parameter you pass to --my-serial-pty) is a symbolic link:

        $ ls -lah /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
        lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 16 12:39 /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway -> /dev/pts/2
        

        In this case it is pointing to /dev/pts/2 but can vary, and it's the one who holds the specified group ownership.

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        emc2
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        @marceloaqno Up to you. I don't mind giving it a shot, if I send you the pcb alone it will fit in a regular letter and should not even have to go through customs etc. Worst case scenario it won't reach you.

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          @ericvdb That's right. I hope to add support for RFM69, Serial and software signing very soon.

          To use, clone the raspberryPi port for MySensors 2.0:

          git clone https://github.com/marceloaqno/MySensors.git
          cd MySensors
          

          To configure it, take a look at the options available within configure:

          ./configure --help
          

          For other options, you may have to edit the sample file example_linux/mysGateway.cpp, and uncoment what you need.

          Once done, run:

          make
          sudo make install
          

          To run the gateway you need to be root or use sudo:

          sudo msyGateway -h
          

          For wiring, follow this guide:
          https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2437/step-by-step-procedure-to-connect-the-nrf24l01-to-the-gpio-pins-and-use-the-raspberry-as-a-serial-gateway-mysensors-1-x

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          ikkeT
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          #74

          @marceloaqno , I assume your link for the wiring pinout behind the link is for Raspi 1 A+ with 26 pin header? Or for which version?

          I'd like to try this with raspi 2 B, would you have instructions how to wire it?

          Raspi2:
          raspi2 pinout
          Raspi1:
          raspi1 pinout

          Thanks

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            ikkeT
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            No, looking it again, it's vice versa, so yours is for Raspi2, right?

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              ikkeT
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              So this 1.6 pinout would still apply? https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2437/step-by-step-procedure-to-connect-the-nrf24l01-to-the-gpio-pins-and-use-the-raspberry-as-a-serial-gateway-mysensors-1-x

              pinout

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              • ikkeTI ikkeT

                No, looking it again, it's vice versa, so yours is for Raspi2, right?

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                marceloaqno
                Code Contributor
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                @ikkeT yes, these are the default pins.
                (SCK = 23, MISO = 21, MOSI = 19, CS = 24, CE = 22)

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                  ikkeT
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                  Yahooo! It works, finally. I bet my problem was Raspi1 all along. I never realized the pinouts in github were for raspi with 40 pins, b+/2/3. Thanks!

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                    Yahooo! It works, finally. I bet my problem was Raspi1 all along. I never realized the pinouts in github were for raspi with 40 pins, b+/2/3. Thanks!

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                    marceloaqno
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                    @ikkeT it should also work for Raspi1, I got one running fine here.

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                      ikkeT
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                      OK, then I just screwed up something. Thanks for the info, so I know I can do this also with my old raspi one day.

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                        marceloaqno
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                        #81

                        Update: Added support for status leds (RX/TX/ERR), you can enable it in examples_linux/mysGateway.cpp file.

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                          ikkeT
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                          Continuing the learning here, new questions... Thanks so far, I've now got the temp/hum/door messages sent and received from sensebender micro to raspi2. The next thing I would like to do is to send the messages as mqtt to the next box hosting some controller.

                          How to get the mysGateway to send the stuff forward as mqtt? I tried to look into Makefile, MyConfig.h and such, but didn't quite figure out yet how to do that. Any pointers?

                          So I'd like to have the following: sensebender -> radio -> raspi2 -> some box hosting the controller. Perhaps even outside of home, so routable traffic e.g. to OpenShift.com.

                          Should I now somehow configure and build mysGateway to send stuff as MQTT, or pipe the traffic somehow to mqtt like mosqitto? How is this normally done if the controller server is not running on the gateway Raspi?

                          Thanks for the patience, I'm just getting into all this interesting stuff :)

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                            Continuing the learning here, new questions... Thanks so far, I've now got the temp/hum/door messages sent and received from sensebender micro to raspi2. The next thing I would like to do is to send the messages as mqtt to the next box hosting some controller.

                            How to get the mysGateway to send the stuff forward as mqtt? I tried to look into Makefile, MyConfig.h and such, but didn't quite figure out yet how to do that. Any pointers?

                            So I'd like to have the following: sensebender -> radio -> raspi2 -> some box hosting the controller. Perhaps even outside of home, so routable traffic e.g. to OpenShift.com.

                            Should I now somehow configure and build mysGateway to send stuff as MQTT, or pipe the traffic somehow to mqtt like mosqitto? How is this normally done if the controller server is not running on the gateway Raspi?

                            Thanks for the patience, I'm just getting into all this interesting stuff :)

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                            mfalkvidd
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                            @ikkeT I haven't tried but using nodered should be fairly simple and very flexible. This discussion might be useful: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2802/flow-to-turn-serialgateway-into-mqtt-serialgateway/

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                              Continuing the learning here, new questions... Thanks so far, I've now got the temp/hum/door messages sent and received from sensebender micro to raspi2. The next thing I would like to do is to send the messages as mqtt to the next box hosting some controller.

                              How to get the mysGateway to send the stuff forward as mqtt? I tried to look into Makefile, MyConfig.h and such, but didn't quite figure out yet how to do that. Any pointers?

                              So I'd like to have the following: sensebender -> radio -> raspi2 -> some box hosting the controller. Perhaps even outside of home, so routable traffic e.g. to OpenShift.com.

                              Should I now somehow configure and build mysGateway to send stuff as MQTT, or pipe the traffic somehow to mqtt like mosqitto? How is this normally done if the controller server is not running on the gateway Raspi?

                              Thanks for the patience, I'm just getting into all this interesting stuff :)

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                              hawk_2050
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                              @ikkeT you can build the Raspberry Pi mysGateway as either Serial, Ethernet or MQTT by using appropriate commandline parameters with the configure script. Just do ./configure --help and you'll get a list of all the options available. Once you've chosen your options and run configure then you 'make'. An example of a set of options that will generate an MQTT Gateway is:
                              ./configure --my-debug=enable --my-gateway=mqtt --my-rf24-channel=100 --my-rf24-pa-level=RF24_PA_LOW --my-controller-ip-address=127,0,0,1 --my-port=1883
                              --my-mqtt-client-id=MyGW2 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix="MyGW2out" --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix="MyGW2in"

                              In this case my MQTT Broker is Mosquitto and is on the same Raspberry Pi hence the use of 127,0,0,1 for the specified --my-controller-ip-address. Change that as appropriate to your intended setup.

                              Hope that helps.

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                                @ericvdb That's right. I hope to add support for RFM69, Serial and software signing very soon.

                                To use, clone the raspberryPi port for MySensors 2.0:

                                git clone https://github.com/marceloaqno/MySensors.git
                                cd MySensors
                                

                                To configure it, take a look at the options available within configure:

                                ./configure --help
                                

                                For other options, you may have to edit the sample file example_linux/mysGateway.cpp, and uncoment what you need.

                                Once done, run:

                                make
                                sudo make install
                                

                                To run the gateway you need to be root or use sudo:

                                sudo msyGateway -h
                                

                                For wiring, follow this guide:
                                https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2437/step-by-step-procedure-to-connect-the-nrf24l01-to-the-gpio-pins-and-use-the-raspberry-as-a-serial-gateway-mysensors-1-x

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                                wergeld
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                                @marceloaqno I have been trying to build this out by first building the RF24 library using the following:

                                git clone https://github.com/TMRh20/RF24.git
                                cd RF24
                                make
                                sudo make install
                                

                                However, this fails on the make command:

                                Makefile:17: Makefile.inc: No such file or directory
                                [Running configure]
                                [SECTION] Detecting arm compilation environment.
                                  [OK] arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc detected.
                                  [OK] arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ detected.
                                [SECTION] Detecting target machine.
                                [OK] machine detected: SoC=BCM2836, Type=RPi2, CPU=armv7l.
                                [SECTION] Detecting DRIVER
                                  [OK] DRIVER detected:RPi.
                                [SECTION] Detecting OS.
                                  [INFO] OS detected:LINUX.
                                [SECTION] Preparing configuration.
                                [SECTION] Saving configuration.
                                [OK] Finished.
                                arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread  -c RF24.cpp
                                cc1plus: error: bad value (cortex-a7) for -mtune switch
                                Makefile:40: recipe for target 'RF24.o' failed
                                make: *** [RF24.o] Error 1
                                

                                I am not sure what to do here. Looks like the gcc does not support the cortex-a7? I am trying to run this on my RPi 2 B.

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                                  @marceloaqno I have been trying to build this out by first building the RF24 library using the following:

                                  git clone https://github.com/TMRh20/RF24.git
                                  cd RF24
                                  make
                                  sudo make install
                                  

                                  However, this fails on the make command:

                                  Makefile:17: Makefile.inc: No such file or directory
                                  [Running configure]
                                  [SECTION] Detecting arm compilation environment.
                                    [OK] arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc detected.
                                    [OK] arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ detected.
                                  [SECTION] Detecting target machine.
                                  [OK] machine detected: SoC=BCM2836, Type=RPi2, CPU=armv7l.
                                  [SECTION] Detecting DRIVER
                                    [OK] DRIVER detected:RPi.
                                  [SECTION] Detecting OS.
                                    [INFO] OS detected:LINUX.
                                  [SECTION] Preparing configuration.
                                  [SECTION] Saving configuration.
                                  [OK] Finished.
                                  arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread  -c RF24.cpp
                                  cc1plus: error: bad value (cortex-a7) for -mtune switch
                                  Makefile:40: recipe for target 'RF24.o' failed
                                  make: *** [RF24.o] Error 1
                                  

                                  I am not sure what to do here. Looks like the gcc does not support the cortex-a7? I am trying to run this on my RPi 2 B.

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                                  marceloaqno
                                  Code Contributor
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                                  #86

                                  @wergeld I'm not sure why you are having this error, perhaps your version of gcc it's old? Did you try to update it?
                                  You can skip the installation of TMRh20/RF24, it is no longer necessary to build RPi port.

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                                    @wergeld I'm not sure why you are having this error, perhaps your version of gcc it's old? Did you try to update it?
                                    You can skip the installation of TMRh20/RF24, it is no longer necessary to build RPi port.

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                                    @marceloaqno said:

                                    @wergeld I'm not sure why you are having this error, perhaps your version of gcc it's old? Did you try to update it?
                                    You can skip the installation of TMRh20/RF24, it is no longer necessary to build RPi port.

                                    I have tried to update gcc but apt-get says it is already at latest version. I am upgrading to Jessie now as it has gcc 4.9 (I was running Wheezy with gcc 4.6).
                                    Is there an updated build instruction set? I am planning on using this as a serial gateway with Domoticz on same RPi.

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                                      @ikkeT you can build the Raspberry Pi mysGateway as either Serial, Ethernet or MQTT by using appropriate commandline parameters with the configure script. Just do ./configure --help and you'll get a list of all the options available. Once you've chosen your options and run configure then you 'make'. An example of a set of options that will generate an MQTT Gateway is:
                                      ./configure --my-debug=enable --my-gateway=mqtt --my-rf24-channel=100 --my-rf24-pa-level=RF24_PA_LOW --my-controller-ip-address=127,0,0,1 --my-port=1883
                                      --my-mqtt-client-id=MyGW2 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix="MyGW2out" --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix="MyGW2in"

                                      In this case my MQTT Broker is Mosquitto and is on the same Raspberry Pi hence the use of 127,0,0,1 for the specified --my-controller-ip-address. Change that as appropriate to your intended setup.

                                      Hope that helps.

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                                      ikkeT
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                                      @hawk_2050 thanks for the reminder! I recalled it was somehow configurable, but I forgot it was through . /configure options. I'll try after getting pir working also.

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                                        @marceloaqno said:

                                        @wergeld I'm not sure why you are having this error, perhaps your version of gcc it's old? Did you try to update it?
                                        You can skip the installation of TMRh20/RF24, it is no longer necessary to build RPi port.

                                        I have tried to update gcc but apt-get says it is already at latest version. I am upgrading to Jessie now as it has gcc 4.9 (I was running Wheezy with gcc 4.6).
                                        Is there an updated build instruction set? I am planning on using this as a serial gateway with Domoticz on same RPi.

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                                        marceloaqno
                                        Code Contributor
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                                        @wergeld I updated the building instructions:
                                        https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2759/mysensors-raspberry-port-suggestions/26

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                                          @wergeld I updated the building instructions:
                                          https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2759/mysensors-raspberry-port-suggestions/26

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                                          @marceloaqno said:

                                          @wergeld I updated the building instructions:
                                          https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2759/mysensors-raspberry-port-suggestions/26

                                          Success! Upgraded to Jessie and build worked fine. Now to reconnect my radio to the RPi pins directly to test.

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