💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[Anduril]

Do I read that correctly, does this gateway also gives a ethernet link to a serial-only controller? How do I have to configure ip and port? In the build section I see no option to set them.

[LaMB95]

@LaMB95 said:

@ericvdb

Okay what could be the problem? :3

[marceloaqno]

@Reza There are many guides on the web teaching how to connect and use rs485 with the RPi. I recommend you start with them and when you are sure it is working, you add MySensors to the equation.

[Reza]

@marceloaqno said:

There are many guides on the web teaching how to connect and use rs485 with the RPi. I recommend you start with them and when you are sure it is working, you add MySensors to the equation.

ok thank you :(

[Tag]

@Anduril
you will get all the build options for the mysgw with the command

./configure -help

Here you can configure all options like serial and ethernet

[Anduril]

just cloned and read the --help, but still I don't know how to use.
To make it a litte less abstract: I have a ethernet gateway (ESP8266) running at 192.168.38.19 with port 5003 to connect to. I want to have this accessible by a serial-only controller on the raspberry.

I tried to do this config and make afterwards, but starting gave only FAILs...

./configure --my-gateway=ethernet --my-controller-ip-address=192.168.38.19 --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway

~/MySensors$ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d
mysgw: Starting gateway...
mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.0
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG---,VER=2.1.0
mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=2
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=3
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=4
mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT

I think my config is wrong and it tries to connect to a nrf24 at the rpi. So what's the correct config for my case?

Thanks in advance.

[gohan]

@Anduril
Why are you using an esp8266 as a serial gateway? Wouldn't it be easier to use a normal UNO?

[Anduril]

I'm using a ESP8266 as ethernet gateway and want to have this connected as virtuall serial port to my raspberry pi so my controller can connect to that.

[lakshmc]

I using RPi2 and NRF24 for this. I followed the instructions, to clone the repo, and then added config
./configure --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1 --my-transport=nrf24

make

when i run with sudo ./bin/mysgw -d, it is failing to connect to MQTT. Can you please help?

mysgw: Starting gateway...
mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.0
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG---,VER=2.1.0
mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
mysgw: Attempting MQTT connection...
mysgw: connect: Connection refused
mysgw: failed to connect
mysgw: Attempting MQTT connection...
mysgw: connect: Connection refused
mysgw: failed to connect
mysgw: Attempting MQTT connection...
mysgw: connect: Connection refused
mysgw: failed to connect
mysgw: Attempting MQTT connection...
mysgw: connect: Connection refused
mysgw: failed to connect

[gohan]

@Anduril

Have you aver considered Using the GatewayESP8266MQTTClient? What controller are you trying to connect?

[Anduril]

I use pimatic which does not have a native compatibility to ethernet or mqtt. Thats why my question came up on how to configure it to do this...

Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

If you are running a controller on the Raspberry Pi that doesn't support communication with the gateway through ethernet, you can use a virtual serial port:
./configure --my-gateway=serial --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway

[mfalkvidd]

@Anduril you might be able to use nodered or socat to convert the tcp connection to a serial port.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/socat
https://nodered.org/

[Anduril]

that's what I tried in the past and am using now (socat), but it does not reconnect and has some other drawbacks. Reading of an officially supported way sounded interesting

[pete1450]

@lakshmc Make sure you don't have the daemon running already

If not, I'm getting the same problem on the 2.1.1 that was just released. 2.1.0 was working "fine"(besides my suspecting a bug that doesn't let any inclusion happen, hence I tried the new version). Time to go back to the serial gateway right into the vera.

[marceloaqno]

@pete1450 @lakshmc
Make sure you are not using an old version of mosquitto (or any other broker you're using):

$ mosquitto -h
mosquitto version 1.4.10 (build date 2016-09-20 11:02:07-0600)

It's working fine with the 2.1.1 release:

[alarm@pi3 mysgw]$ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d
mysgw: Starting gateway...
mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.1
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG---,VER=2.1.1
mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
mysgw: Attempting MQTT connection...
mysgw: connected to 127.0.0.1
mysgw: MQTT connected
mysgw: Sending message on topic: mysensors-out/0/255/0/0/18
mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,2-2-0,s=1,c=1,t=17,pt=7,l=5,sg=0:108.12
mysgw: TSF:MSG:ACK REQ
mysgw: TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-2-2,s=1,c=1,t=17,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:108.12
mysgw: Sending message on topic: mysensors-out/2/1/1/0/17
mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,2-2-0,s=2,c=1,t=17,pt=7,l=5,sg=0:48.31
mysgw: TSF:MSG:ACK REQ
mysgw: TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-2-2,s=2,c=1,t=17,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:48.31
mysgw: Sending message on topic: mysensors-out/2/2/1/0/17
mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,2-2-0,s=3,c=1,t=17,pt=7,l=5,sg=0:362.86
mysgw: TSF:MSG:ACK REQ
mysgw: TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-2-2,s=3,c=1,t=17,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:362.86
mysgw: Sending message on topic: mysensors-out/2/3/1/0/17

[pete1450]

@marceloaqno I should have specified, I'm getting the connection errors with the ethernet gateway.

[marceloaqno]

@pete1450 Could you send the debug log with the connection errors?

[lakshmc]

@marceloaqno After installing broker and gateway fresh, seems to be working. Thanks for your help.

[pete1450]

@marceloaqno
Ran as root and made sure I didn't have mysgw already running:

rm -r MySensors/
git clone https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors.git --branch master
cd MySensors/
./configure --my-controller-ip-address=192.168.1.136 --my-port=5003 --my-rf24-irq-pin=15
make

root@raspberrypi:~/downloads/MySensors# ./bin/mysgw -d
mysgw: Starting gateway...
mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.1
mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG--Q,VER=2.1.1
mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT
mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
mysgw: connect: Connection refused
mysgw: failed to connect
mysgw: Eth: connect

[b0rmann]

every few days mysgw randomly dies :(

Jan 19 06:40:01 pi mysgw[17960]: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=21,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:0
Jan 19 06:40:01 pi mysgw[17960]: Sending message on topic: mysensors/out/1/5/255/3/0/21
Jan 19 06:40:01 pi mysgw[17960]: TSF:MSG:READ,0-5-255,s=255,c=3,t=20,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
Jan 19 06:40:01 pi mysgw[17960]: TSF:MSG:BC
Jan 19 06:40:01 pi systemd[1]: mysgw.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
Jan 19 06:40:01 pi systemd[1]: Unit mysgw.service entered failed state.