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💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

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    ccy
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    #382

    I can run mysgw. But what can I use it for? I want to make it control my light with 2.4G RF. But I don't know what to do next. Please advice Thank you.

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      I can run mysgw. But what can I use it for? I want to make it control my light with 2.4G RF. But I don't know what to do next. Please advice Thank you.

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      @ccy
      You need to provide some more details about your hw and general setup, what have you done so far, log messages, etc.

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        @ccy
        You need to provide some more details about your hw and general setup, what have you done so far, log messages, etc.

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        @gohan Sorry for my typo mistake. I can now run mysgw. But what can I use it for? I am trying to control my light with 2.4G RF.

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          Do you mean your light has already 2.4G RF or do you need to make a relay node with NRF24 that can switch on and of that light? But this is going a little OT in this thread.

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            Do you mean your light has already 2.4G RF or do you need to make a relay node with NRF24 that can switch on and of that light? But this is going a little OT in this thread.

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            @gohan Yes. I want to do that. I am sure my LED controller is 2.4G RF. But I can't detect any signal yet from my nrf24l01+ on raspberry pi. I am not sure what's wrong. Still trying now...

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              @gohan Yes. I want to do that. I am sure my LED controller is 2.4G RF. But I can't detect any signal yet from my nrf24l01+ on raspberry pi. I am not sure what's wrong. Still trying now...

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              @ccy
              Being 2.4G RF doesn't mean it is NRF24L01 compatible also without knowing what channel is using will make it even more difficult. So, unless you want to make a Mysensors LED Controller, I think you are out of luck if you want to directly control your existing one with a RPI and the mysensors gateway. Either way this is OT.

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                @ccy
                Being 2.4G RF doesn't mean it is NRF24L01 compatible also without knowing what channel is using will make it even more difficult. So, unless you want to make a Mysensors LED Controller, I think you are out of luck if you want to directly control your existing one with a RPI and the mysensors gateway. Either way this is OT.

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                @gohan Is there a way to know the channel by doing some sort of scan? If the channel is known, what are the setting to fix the channel for mysgw?

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                  Velo17
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                  Hello everyone!

                  I'm using a Rasp2 (with the 40 pins GPIO header)

                  Has anyone experience with using the NRF module on different pins than default? I'm asking because I wonder if I can connect a GPIO-connected touch TFT (which would use the 2 CE lines for the touch and display interfaces) together with the NRF - by hooking the MISO/MOSI/SCLK to the default pins (and thus sharing them between the TFT and NRF) and defining free pins for the CE and CS lines in the ./configure script when compiling the gateway code...?!

                  Or maybe using the SPI1 by first enabling it as laid out in this blog post - but how to proceed from there? (How to tell the gateway code to use SPI1?)

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                    marceloaqno
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                    @Velo17

                    ./configure --spi-driver=SPIDEV --spi-spidev-device=/dev/spidev1.0
                    

                    (replace the /dev/spidev1.0 with the one you enabled in /boot/config.txt)

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                      Hello Masters,

                      Could you please help me with setting up virtual serial port?

                      I can't see the interface created under /dev.
                      I'm using the instructions and finish with the setup with the following command:

                      pi@raspberrypi:/tmp/MySensors $ ./configure --my-gateway=serial --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
                      [SECTION] Detecting target machine.
                        [OK] machine detected: SoC=BCM2836, Type=Rpi2, CPU=armv7l.
                      [SECTION] Detecting SPI driver.
                        [OK] SPI driver detected:BCM.
                      [SECTION] Detecting init system.
                        [OK] init system detected: systemd.
                      [SECTION] Saving configuration.
                      [SECTION] Cleaning previous builds.
                      [OK] Finished.
                      
                      pi@raspberrypi:/ $ sudo /usr/local/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: Listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:5003
                      mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
                      mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
                      
                      

                      Everything seems to be OK. However, when I check /dev directory, the interface is not created.

                      What could be an issue?
                      Thank you in advacne!

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                        gohan
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                        Why don't you compile it as ethernet gateway?

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                        • gohanG gohan

                          Why don't you compile it as ethernet gateway?

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                          @gohan Etherner Gareway is not supported by OpenHab MySensors binding.

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                            Mqtt? 😀

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                              Mqtt? 😀

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                              @gohan I'm sorry, MQTT is not supported by OpenHab MySensors binding. Ethernet Gateway is not supported on Raspberry PI.

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                                @gohan I'm sorry, MQTT is not supported by OpenHab MySensors binding. Ethernet Gateway is not supported on Raspberry PI.

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                                marceloaqno
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                                wrote on last edited by marceloaqno
                                #396

                                @engy OpenHab2 supports mysensors serial and ethernet gateways:
                                https://github.com/tobof/openhab2-addons/wiki

                                Maybe the build guide may have given you that impression, but ethernet Gateway is supported on Raspberry PI:

                                ./configure --my-gateway=ethernet
                                
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                                • gohanG gohan

                                  @keldandorin just add a capacitor between vcc and gnd on the radio module as I suggested above.

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                                  keldandorin
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                                  @gohan Solved the problem with radio...Thx

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                                    @engy OpenHab2 supports mysensors serial and ethernet gateways:
                                    https://github.com/tobof/openhab2-addons/wiki

                                    Maybe the build guide may have given you that impression, but ethernet Gateway is supported on Raspberry PI:

                                    ./configure --my-gateway=ethernet
                                    
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                                    Thank you guys for prompt reaction. Indeed, Ethernet GW works flawlessly!

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                                      Hi
                                      Is anyone else having this same problem on Rpi3?: Gateway works ok after "sudo make install" with openHAB. With "sudo ./bin/mysgw -d" I can get debug log visible and log works ok.
                                      But if I run "sudo systemctl enable mysgw.service" after "sudo make install", debug log start showing endlessly "mysgw: accept: Bad file descriptor". So debug log function gets destroyed and it can't be used anymore. I have made several clean installations and every time this same happens.
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                                        Hi
                                        Is anyone else having this same problem on Rpi3?: Gateway works ok after "sudo make install" with openHAB. With "sudo ./bin/mysgw -d" I can get debug log visible and log works ok.
                                        But if I run "sudo systemctl enable mysgw.service" after "sudo make install", debug log start showing endlessly "mysgw: accept: Bad file descriptor". So debug log function gets destroyed and it can't be used anymore. I have made several clean installations and every time this same happens.
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                                        @TommiP What I think is happening is that you are running two instances of the gateway.
                                        If you need to get the debug logs, first stop the mysgw service:

                                        sudo systemctl stop mysgw.service
                                        
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                                          @TommiP What I think is happening is that you are running two instances of the gateway.
                                          If you need to get the debug logs, first stop the mysgw service:

                                          sudo systemctl stop mysgw.service
                                          
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                                          @marceloaqno
                                          Ok, now I understand what happened, thanks.

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