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[Tutorial] Raspberry Pi NRF24l01 direct connection

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  • fetsF Offline
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    fets
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    #28

    Thanks hek, i'll try to use old code but I didn't find anything about raspberry as mqtt client gateway.
    If I succeed, and if not too late, i'll try to implement the new library

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      #29

      If you do want to help out, have a look at the gateway-refactoring-branch. Opening up for different protocols over there (where MQTT should be one of them).

      https://github.com/mysensors/Arduino/tree/gateway-refactoring

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        Fernando Arconada
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        #30

        hi everybody
        @hek are you going to support Rpi + rf24 direct connection? I were playing with https://github.com/mysensors/Raspberry a bit and works (I opened a pair of tickets) but needs to be updated.
        I also think that PiGateway should support MQTT I have created PiGatewayMQTT (It's just a prototype).
        What will be the future of https://github.com/mysensors/Raspberry repo? abandoned in favor of any kind of gateway-refactoring-branch ?

        thanks

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          #31

          (solved)
          Hi. Thanks a lot for this implentation and the helpful posts here!

          I've got the gateway working with a tmp75 temperature sensor on an arduino. The nrf24 is sitting on the raspberry directly (CE pin 22), as a controller i'm using PiMatic. It works very nicely!

          There is one small problem however. The PiGatewaySerial will only work if i have called PiGateway before (and closed it again). With working I mean picking up radio transmissions from my sensor node. Everything else seems normal (/dev/ttyPiGatewaySerial and radio details printout).

          The details of both configurations might give a clue:

          pi@raspberrypi ~/mysensors_rpi $ sudo ./PiGateway
          Starting Gateway...
          ================ SPI Configuration ================
          CSN Pin          = CE0 (PI Hardware Driven)
          CE Pin           = Custom GPIO25
          Clock Speed      = 8 Mhz
          ================ NRF Configuration ================
          STATUS           = 0x0e RX_DR=0 TX_DS=0 MAX_RT=0 RX_P_NO=7 TX_FULL=0
          RX_ADDR_P0-1     = 0xa8a8e1fc00 0xa8a8e1fc00
          RX_ADDR_P2-5     = 0xff 0xc4 0xc5 0xc6
          TX_ADDR          = 0xe7e7e7e7e7
          RX_PW_P0-6       = 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
          EN_AA            = 0x3b
          EN_RXADDR        = 0x06
          RF_CH            = 0x4c
          RF_SETUP         = 0x23
          CONFIG           = 0x0e
          DYNPD/FEATURE    = 0x3f 0x06
          Data Rate        = 250KBPS
          Model            = nRF24L01+
          CRC Length       = 16 bits
          PA Power         = PA_LOW
          [CALLBACK]0;0;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          [CALLBACK]4;0;1;0;0;22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          

          after closing PiGateway and opening PiGatewaySerial i get this:

          pi@raspberrypi ~/mysensors_rpi $ sudo ./PiGatewaySerial
          Starting PiGatewaySerial...
          Protocol version - 1.4
          Created PTY '/dev/pts/3'
          Gateway tty: /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
          ================ SPI Configuration ================
          CSN Pin          = CE0 (PI Hardware Driven)
          CE Pin           = Custom GPIO22
          Clock Speed      = 8 Mhz
          ================ NRF Configuration ================
          STATUS           = 0x0e RX_DR=0 TX_DS=0 MAX_RT=0 RX_P_NO=7 TX_FULL=0
          RX_ADDR_P0-1     = 0xa8a8e1fc00 0xa8a8e1fc00
          RX_ADDR_P2-5     = 0xff 0xc4 0xc5 0xc6
          TX_ADDR          = 0xe7e7e7e7e7
          RX_PW_P0-6       = 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
          EN_AA            = 0x3b
          EN_RXADDR        = 0x06
          RF_CH            = 0x4c
          RF_SETUP         = 0x23
          CONFIG           = 0x0e
          DYNPD/FEATURE    = 0x3f 0x06
          Data Rate        = 250KBPS
          Model            = nRF24L01+
          CRC Length       = 16 bits
          PA Power         = PA_LOW
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
          read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.8
          

          Notice how the CE pins of both SPI configurations are different!

          I'm at the point that i want to daemonize the gateway. Which in fact i did, but the same problem persists. Before i hack the startup script to first run and close PiGateway before PiGatewaySerial, i was hoping that someone has an idea what i'm doing wrong.

          Thanks in advance!

          solved!
          I have two RPIs (a Pi 2 B and a Pi B+), which both worked with the pyRF24 lib of TMRh20, so when i had a look in the source of the radio initialization of PiGatewaySerial and found this:

          #ifdef __PI_BPLUS
          	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_BPLUS_GPIO_J8_15, RPI_BPLUS_GPIO_J8_24, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
          #else
          	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_22, BCM2835_SPI_CS0, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
          #endif	
          

          When i changed it to:

          #ifdef __PI_BPLUS
          	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_22, BCM2835_SPI_CS0, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
          #else
          	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_22, BCM2835_SPI_CS0, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
          #endif	
          

          and recompiled the gateways,it all started to work. After powerup everything runs :).

          The Rpi that is connected now is the Pi 2 B. So i guess either i have my nrf25 wired differently then defined in this lib, or the precompiler was thinking i have a B+ connected. Or both.
          I will find out when i get this also working on my B+.

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            Hi all,

            I just followed the guide in the 1ste post, but i'm not able to compile this correctly.
            Here's the output:

            g++ -Wall -fPIC -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -march=arm                                                                  v6zk -D BCM2835_PERI_BASE=0x -c RF24.cpp
            gcc -Wall -fPIC -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -march=arm                                                                  v6zk -D BCM2835_PERI_BASE=0x -c bcm2835.c
            bcm2835.c: In function ‘bcm2835_init’:
            bcm2835.c:1207:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1208:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1209:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1210:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1211:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1212:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1213:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1214:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1228:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1232:81: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1236:81: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1239:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1242:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1246:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1249:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            bcm2835.c:1253:79: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
            Makefile:52: recept voor doel 'bcm2835.o' is mislukt
            make: *** [bcm2835.o] Fout 1
            g++ -c -o MyGateway.o MyGateway.cpp -Wall -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -lpthread -g -D__Raspberry_Pi -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -D_TTY_NAME=\"/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway\" -D_TTY_GROUPNAME=\"tty\" -march=armv6zk -I. -Ilibrf24-bcm/
            g++ -c -o MySensor.o MySensor.cpp -Wall -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -lpthread -g -D__Raspberry_Pi -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -D_TTY_NAME=\"/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway\" -D_TTY_GROUPNAME=\"tty\" -march=armv6zk -I. -Ilibrf24-bcm/
            g++ -c -o MyMessage.o MyMessage.cpp -Wall -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -lpthread -g -D__Raspberry_Pi -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -D_TTY_NAME=\"/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway\" -D_TTY_GROUPNAME=\"tty\" -march=armv6zk -I. -Ilibrf24-bcm/
            g++ -c -o PiEEPROM.o PiEEPROM.cpp -Wall -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -lpthread -g -D__Raspberry_Pi -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -D_TTY_NAME=\"/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway\" -D_TTY_GROUPNAME=\"tty\" -march=armv6zk -I. -Ilibrf24-bcm/
            g++ -c -o PiGateway.o PiGateway.cpp -Wall -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -lpthread -g -D__Raspberry_Pi -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -D_TTY_NAME=\"/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway\" -D_TTY_GROUPNAME=\"tty\" -march=armv6zk -I. -Ilibrf24-bcm/
            g++ -o PiGateway MyGateway.o MySensor.o MyMessage.o PiEEPROM.o PiGateway.o -Wall -Ofast -mfpu=vfp -lpthread -g -D__Raspberry_Pi -mfloat-abi=hard -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -D_TTY_NAME=\"/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway\" -D_TTY_GROUPNAME=\"tty\" -march=ar                                                                  mv6zk -I. -Ilibrf24-bcm/ -lrf24-bcm
            /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrf24-bcm
            collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
            Makefile:60: recept voor doel 'PiGateway' is mislukt
            make: *** [PiGateway] Fout 1
            
            Done!
            

            I'm using the 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy version complete with:

            rpi-update
            apt-get update
            apt-get upgrade
            

            Can anyone tell me what is going wrong.

            Thx in advance.

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              ericvdb
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              #33

              I got it working, and by adding ser2net in the mix, you have a MySensors raspberry pi ethernet gateway.
              The trick is not to update the RPi, just use the latest image.

              Does anyone know if it is possible to connect the status LEDs to the RPi?

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                Anduril
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                #34

                Hi @ericvdb ,
                could you please post your config for ser2net? I also tried to use my NRF24L01 connected to my RPi as ethernet gateway for MYSController, but all I got was an 'unable to bind port'.

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                  in /etc/ser2net.conf i used:

                  9003:raw:600:/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
                  

                  where 9003 is the tcp port your controller needs to connect to.

                  Remember, this allows only 1 connection, so if you want to play with multiple controllers, you can, however 1 at a time.

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                    Anduril
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #36

                    Don't see any difference to my old entry... but pasted yours and now it works. Thank you very much @ericvdb

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                      ericvdb
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                      you're welcome ;)

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                      • Vladut GrecuV Vladut Grecu

                        [EDIT] - I uploaded a script in the next post that does everything I explained below

                        I have installed MINImal raspBIAN which is a raspBIAN without a gui. So this should work for you guys.

                        First of all you have to
                        1. Undo your Overclock. If you have any. (SPI does not like Overclocked pi's)

                        2. Enable SPI

                        Details:

                        On a normal raspbian image this can be done either on a fresh install (when you config your pi) or you can type in terminal sudo raspi-config
                        From there you go into ADVANCED OPTIONS -> SPI

                        On a minimal image you don't have the luxury of raspi-config. You have to manually activate it.
                        (I already had it enabled but you can check)
                        (If you don't have sudo installed on your image just run apt-get install sudo)

                        sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

                        Make sure there IS a # before blacklist spi-bcm2708, so it looks like this…
                        #blacklist spi-bcm2708

                        If there is no line like that, you can add it. It won't do any harm.
                        CTRL+O - Save
                        ENTER - Confirm
                        CTRL+X - Exit

                        or

                        CTRL+X - Exit
                        y - I want to save the file
                        ENTER - Confirm

                        We have to edit now the config.txt.
                        sudo nano /boot/config.txt

                        add this to the end of the line
                        dtparam=spi=on

                        Save and exit.

                        Reboot your pi.
                        sudo reboot

                        Enjoy using SPI. (Source)

                        3.Downloading the files

                        Details:

                        You have 2 options. wget and git-clone. I'll start with:

                        a. git-clone

                        If you don't have git-clone you need to install the git tools. (Yes, git is related to github)
                        sudo apt-get install git

                        After you installed git you simply navigate to the folder that you wish to install the program and type:
                        sudo git-clone https://github.com/mysensors/Raspberry.git

                        This will download a zip, unarchive it and.. It does all the jobs for you.

                        b. wget

                        Some ppl are old-school and go the hard way or they just enjoy it done this way.

                        Navigate to the folder that you wish to install the program and type:
                        wget https://github.com/mysensors/Raspberry/archive/master.zip (this will download you the zip)

                        Unzip the file

                        If you don't have unzip installed just type
                        sudo apt-get install unzip

                        unzip master.zip -d /home/pi/Raspberry (you can specify any directory that you want instead of the /home/pi/Raspberry)

                        4.Edit and compile what you downloaded

                        In the Raspberry folder you have some files and some folders.
                        The majority of ppl (including me) forget to complile the libs for the NRF24l01.
                        This is the library provided by [TMRH20]{http://tmrh20.github.io} (He has some interesting stuff there including an audio library for NRF24l01.)
                        Back to our stuff.
                        Go to the Raspberry folder then into librf24-bcm.
                        cd Raspberry/librf24-bcm/

                        Type
                        make

                        Go back to the Raspberry folder
                        cd ..

                        Type
                        make
                        5.Connecting the NRF

                        Mister TMRH20 tells us that we need to connect the NRF24l01 this way

                        PIN		NRF24L01	RPI				RPi -P1 Connector
                        1		GND			rpi-gnd			(25)
                        2		VCC			rpi-3v3			(17)
                        3		CE			rpi-gpio22		(15)
                        4		CSN			rpi-gpio8		(24)
                        5		SCK			rpi-sckl		(23)
                        6		MOSI		rpi-mosi		(19)
                        7		MISO		rpi-miso		(21)
                        8		IRQ			Not Connected
                        

                        Connect everything like that except for the CE pin

                        Run the PiGatewaySerial
                        ./PiGatewaySerial

                        It shoud prin something like this:

                        Starting PiGatewaySerial...
                        Protocol version - 1.4
                        Created PTY '/dev/pts/1'
                        Gateway tty: /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
                        ================ SPI Configuration ================
                        CSN Pin          = CE0 (PI Hardware Driven)
                        CE Pin           = Custom GPIO25
                        Clock Speed      = 8 Mhz
                        ================ NRF Configuration ================
                        STATUS           = 0x0e RX_DR=0 TX_DS=0 MAX_RT=0 RX_P_NO=7 TX_FULL=0
                        RX_ADDR_P0-1     = 0xe7e7e7e7e7 0xc2c2c2c2c2
                        RX_ADDR_P2-5     = 0xff 0xc4 0xc5 0xc6
                        TX_ADDR          = 0xe7e7e7e7e7
                        RX_PW_P0-6       = 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
                        EN_AA            = 0x3b
                        EN_RXADDR        = 0x07
                        RF_CH            = 0x10
                        RF_SETUP         = 0x23
                        CONFIG           = 0x0e
                        DYNPD/FEATURE    = 0x3f 0x06
                        Data Rate        = 250KBPS
                        Model            = nRF24L01+
                        CRC Length       = 16 bits
                        PA Power         = PA_LOW
                        

                        Look at line 7 CE Pin = Custom GPIO25
                        Connect the CE pin where it says you should.

                        Here are some pictures with the GPIO connector on the rPi.
                        https://www.google.ro/search?q=raspberry+pi+gpio&tbm=isch

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                        GrantsPi
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                        @Vladut-Grecu - Thanks very much for the tutorial!! After a bit of trial and error I was able to get the Pi reading my two nodes with very good reliability.

                        I'm now trying to merge this RPi Direct Connection with the openHab With Serial Gateway that TimO was kind enough to post (http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1194/tutorial-openhab-with-serial-gateway). I had openHab working well on the RPi using an Arduino nano serial gateway using that tutorial.

                        Running PiGatewaySerial in a terminal window yields the proper readings from the Arduino nodes but when I try to have openHab recognize the serial port "/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway" instead of the "/dev/ttyUSB99@115200" used in the openHab tutorial I get messages from openHab saying it could not open serial port '/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway'...

                        Just wondering if anyone else has tried to marry the two projects or has any suggestions. (Perhaps I should also post this in TimO's openHab thread...)

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                          revoltec112
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                          #39

                          upload-3f496795-4ae3-4ed2-b533-3f5e9fd6283e

                          Hi I am a beginner
                          If I have something that's ok , I plugged in humidity and temperature sensor , and for what I have in front of ./PiGatewaySerial enter sudo ? ,
                          how to make the data visible in Domoticz please help

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                            revoltec112
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                            whether in the / dev file must be named ttyMySensorsGeteway ? if so how it developed and what it should contain

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                              Daniel Oliveira
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                              Hi @hek

                              I know that a lot if going on regarding the MySensors 1.6 but I would like to know the plans for the repo mysensors/Raspberry?

                              Is there any plans to keep developing it of merging it with the main libraries?

                              I would like to be able to run the latest version on my Pi and I'm more than willing to help making it possible :)

                              Cheers

                              MySensors rules my home :)

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                                hek
                                Admin
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                                Hi @Daniel-Oliveira,

                                I've talked with @Anticimex and @thozza about it... We think it would be best to move the RPi build file and any eventual support libs into the main MySensors repo to keep it in sync with the rest .

                                Not sure if @thozza has begun working on some autoconf script or not (did you?). But I imagine he'd appreciate any help you can contribute with.

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                                  (solved)
                                  Hi. Thanks a lot for this implentation and the helpful posts here!

                                  I've got the gateway working with a tmp75 temperature sensor on an arduino. The nrf24 is sitting on the raspberry directly (CE pin 22), as a controller i'm using PiMatic. It works very nicely!

                                  There is one small problem however. The PiGatewaySerial will only work if i have called PiGateway before (and closed it again). With working I mean picking up radio transmissions from my sensor node. Everything else seems normal (/dev/ttyPiGatewaySerial and radio details printout).

                                  The details of both configurations might give a clue:

                                  pi@raspberrypi ~/mysensors_rpi $ sudo ./PiGateway
                                  Starting Gateway...
                                  ================ SPI Configuration ================
                                  CSN Pin          = CE0 (PI Hardware Driven)
                                  CE Pin           = Custom GPIO25
                                  Clock Speed      = 8 Mhz
                                  ================ NRF Configuration ================
                                  STATUS           = 0x0e RX_DR=0 TX_DS=0 MAX_RT=0 RX_P_NO=7 TX_FULL=0
                                  RX_ADDR_P0-1     = 0xa8a8e1fc00 0xa8a8e1fc00
                                  RX_ADDR_P2-5     = 0xff 0xc4 0xc5 0xc6
                                  TX_ADDR          = 0xe7e7e7e7e7
                                  RX_PW_P0-6       = 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
                                  EN_AA            = 0x3b
                                  EN_RXADDR        = 0x06
                                  RF_CH            = 0x4c
                                  RF_SETUP         = 0x23
                                  CONFIG           = 0x0e
                                  DYNPD/FEATURE    = 0x3f 0x06
                                  Data Rate        = 250KBPS
                                  Model            = nRF24L01+
                                  CRC Length       = 16 bits
                                  PA Power         = PA_LOW
                                  [CALLBACK]0;0;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  [CALLBACK]4;0;1;0;0;22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  

                                  after closing PiGateway and opening PiGatewaySerial i get this:

                                  pi@raspberrypi ~/mysensors_rpi $ sudo ./PiGatewaySerial
                                  Starting PiGatewaySerial...
                                  Protocol version - 1.4
                                  Created PTY '/dev/pts/3'
                                  Gateway tty: /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
                                  ================ SPI Configuration ================
                                  CSN Pin          = CE0 (PI Hardware Driven)
                                  CE Pin           = Custom GPIO22
                                  Clock Speed      = 8 Mhz
                                  ================ NRF Configuration ================
                                  STATUS           = 0x0e RX_DR=0 TX_DS=0 MAX_RT=0 RX_P_NO=7 TX_FULL=0
                                  RX_ADDR_P0-1     = 0xa8a8e1fc00 0xa8a8e1fc00
                                  RX_ADDR_P2-5     = 0xff 0xc4 0xc5 0xc6
                                  TX_ADDR          = 0xe7e7e7e7e7
                                  RX_PW_P0-6       = 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
                                  EN_AA            = 0x3b
                                  EN_RXADDR        = 0x06
                                  RF_CH            = 0x4c
                                  RF_SETUP         = 0x23
                                  CONFIG           = 0x0e
                                  DYNPD/FEATURE    = 0x3f 0x06
                                  Data Rate        = 250KBPS
                                  Model            = nRF24L01+
                                  CRC Length       = 16 bits
                                  PA Power         = PA_LOW
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.9
                                  read: 4-4-0 s=0,c=1,t=0,pt=7,l=5:22.8
                                  

                                  Notice how the CE pins of both SPI configurations are different!

                                  I'm at the point that i want to daemonize the gateway. Which in fact i did, but the same problem persists. Before i hack the startup script to first run and close PiGateway before PiGatewaySerial, i was hoping that someone has an idea what i'm doing wrong.

                                  Thanks in advance!

                                  solved!
                                  I have two RPIs (a Pi 2 B and a Pi B+), which both worked with the pyRF24 lib of TMRh20, so when i had a look in the source of the radio initialization of PiGatewaySerial and found this:

                                  #ifdef __PI_BPLUS
                                  	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_BPLUS_GPIO_J8_15, RPI_BPLUS_GPIO_J8_24, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
                                  #else
                                  	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_22, BCM2835_SPI_CS0, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
                                  #endif	
                                  

                                  When i changed it to:

                                  #ifdef __PI_BPLUS
                                  	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_22, BCM2835_SPI_CS0, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
                                  #else
                                  	gw = new MyGateway(RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_22, BCM2835_SPI_CS0, BCM2835_SPI_SPEED_8MHZ, 1);
                                  #endif	
                                  

                                  and recompiled the gateways,it all started to work. After powerup everything runs :).

                                  The Rpi that is connected now is the Pi 2 B. So i guess either i have my nrf25 wired differently then defined in this lib, or the precompiler was thinking i have a B+ connected. Or both.
                                  I will find out when i get this also working on my B+.

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                                  @jelluz
                                  I have got he sme configuration between Arduiono et a PIGATEWAYSERIAL ?
                                  How do you declare it into a controler like Pimatic (you says that it works fine)
                                  Tkd for your advice

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                                    I'am trying to get this working on my Raspberry Pi 2 B with Raspbian but when using the setup.sh command I get this error:

                                    bcm2835.c: In function ‘bcm2835_init’:
                                    bcm2835.c:1207:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1208:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1209:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1210:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1211:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1212:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1213:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1214:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1228:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1232:81: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1236:81: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1239:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1242:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1246:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1249:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    bcm2835.c:1253:79: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                    Makefile:52: recipe for target 'bcm2835.o' failed
                                    make: *** [bcm2835.o] Error 1

                                    Any idea what is going wrong? Thanks in advance!

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                                      I'am trying to get this working on my Raspberry Pi 2 B with Raspbian but when using the setup.sh command I get this error:

                                      bcm2835.c: In function ‘bcm2835_init’:
                                      bcm2835.c:1207:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1208:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1209:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1210:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1211:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1212:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1213:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1214:28: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1228:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1232:81: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1236:81: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1239:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1242:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1246:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1249:83: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      bcm2835.c:1253:79: error: invalid suffix "x" on integer constant
                                      Makefile:52: recipe for target 'bcm2835.o' failed
                                      make: *** [bcm2835.o] Error 1

                                      Any idea what is going wrong? Thanks in advance!

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                                      @Mediacj I too had this error. The only way I was ever to solve this was to take a fresh image of Wheezy and start from scratch there. No sudo apt-get updated/upgrade until after I built the lib.

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                                        Thanks for your answer, I am going to try that this weekend.

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                                          Hello everyone! Great work here! I see this is still running the 1.4 protocol, is that right? I was able to get this working but only my temp sensors would respond. Anything where I had to send data wouldn't work.

                                          Any chance of moving to 1.5 in the near future?

                                          Thanks!

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