openHAB 2.0 binding

[Denke]

Hi all
Im having major difficulties getting openhab to discover my serial gateway. I have had it working and i have got input from my sensors. But every know and then when i have restarted the computer the serial gateway is offline. The COM port is active and working according to Windows.
I have tried to restart the computer, unplug and plug the usb several times. Doing this i have at some occasions got everything to work again.

Any suggestions what it can be that is being the problem.

I also think i have found a bug.

If i for example take the gateway or an sensor that has been added which is marked off line. Then if i press edit on that one and just press the "save" button then it shows that it is on line even though i seriously doubt it is. As i dont get data from my sensors.

Also how do i get the debug window (console view) to show for openhab?

[TimO]

@AffordableTech Hmmm, your configuration looks good. Please show me the debug output.

According the use of Bridge: I suppose using the word Bridge at the beginning is the right way!

@Denke: I haven't used OH2 on Windows yet, but I suppose you see the karaf console?

If so, you should be able to use: log:set DEBUG org.openhab.binding.mysensors and log:tail.

The online/offline status of a thing in OH2 only shows if the bridge is connected and if the thing could be initialized. There is no dependence to wether a thing has received data or not.

[Denke]

@TimO said:

log:set DEBUG org.openhab.binding.mysensors

I tried this. From what i can see after doing some attempts to connect.
First & second attempt
This is what i get after just opening the serial gateway thing and edit and sav, seems as openhab then tries to reconnect with the gateway.

third attempt
It seems like it gets connected, bu some error occurs which closes the connection again

Forth attempt actually seemed to get things going

Now to the next step.
I have a device that was just given a new address from the my sensor binding. I restarted the sensor and waited to see it in the inbox (this is something that i have seen working occasionally( sometimes it gets in there sometimes it don't. I added the device manually and it seems to work. How ever my links dont work

[TimO]

@Denke: At the first and the second attempt the gnu.io library is not able to establish a connection to the COM port. As "getPortIdentifier()" is mentioned it is possible that there is a correlation with the bug mentioned earlier in this thread. The OH developers need to update this library soon!

At the third attempt the binding does not get an answer on the I_VERSION check and therefore stops its initialization. Try skipStartupCheck=true Wiki to avoid this.

According to the discovery with PaperUI:

I must admit I have not worked with it for a long time. The OH core team has announced some big changes/improvements in the PaperUI and I've postponed my tests for after the release of this changes.

[avinaz]

Is any bodoy having high CPU load with this binding? My setup is: Openhab 2.0, running on a Pi3, with Java SDK Oracle. Openhab is running +100% CPU all the time. Here is the output of top command:

top - 19:54:33 up  9:19,  1 user,  load average: 0.98, 1.01, 1.03
Tasks: 153 total,   1 running, 152 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 21.4 us,  4.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 74.4 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.1 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem :   948056 total,   112832 free,   325232 used,   509992 buff/cache
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used.   573692 avail Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 3919 root      20   0  455068 180668  14280 S 101.3 19.1 547:33.46 java
28144 root      20   0    8436   2840   2280 R   0.7  0.3   0:06.30 top
  368 root      20   0    1448     88     16 S   0.3  0.0   0:31.75 rngd

If I look all the threats with command

ps -Lp 3919

I can see one that is eating too much CPU:

 3919  4226 ?        08:25:13 java

and looking at this one in the output of a thread dump: (4226 DEC = 1082 HEX)

Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: "pool-41-thread-1" #273 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x62addc00 **nid=0x1082** runnable [0x5d6be000]
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]:    java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at gnu.io.RXTXPort.nativeavailable(Native Method)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at gnu.io.RXTXPort$SerialInputStream.available(RXTXPort.java:1568)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011- locked <0x6afb81f8> (a gnu.io.RXTXPort$SerialInputStream)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.inReady(StreamDecoder.java:363)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implReady(StreamDecoder.java:371)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.ready(StreamDecoder.java:185)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011- locked <0x6b2a41e8> (a java.io.InputStreamReader)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.io.InputStreamReader.ready(InputStreamReader.java:195)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.io.BufferedReader.ready(BufferedReader.java:463)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011- locked <0x6b2a41e8> (a java.io.InputStreamReader)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at org.openhab.binding.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader.run(MySensorsReader.java:50)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
Jun  1 19:30:31 avinaz-pi3 start.sh[3822]: #011at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

You can see that is related to org.openhab.binding.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader.run(MySensorsReader.java:50)

Any ideas?

[TimO]

@avinaz : After a second thought I now have an idea! :D

With the last commit I changed line 50 in MySensorsReader.java due to an exception I got after upgrading ubuntu/java and OH2.
The binding (old version) was still unchanged.

I need to look into this. Maybe @andreacioni has an idea?

[avinaz]

@TimO I would say at a glance, that the thread is continuously reading the Serial port, with out a break, so this must be very CPU consuming?

[dakky]

I think i need some help. I am not shure, if my problem lies on the openHab2 side or if there is a problem with the mysensors addon.

This is what i I have:
A working mysensors addon. I receive updates in OpenHab:

2016-06-06 07:12:08.483 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - BundleEvent STARTING - org.openhab.binding.mysensors
2016-06-06 07:12:08.550 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - ServiceEvent REGISTERED - {org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing.binding.ThingHandlerFactory}={component.name=org.openhab.binding.mysensors.internal.MySensorsHandlerFactory, component.id=7, service.id=102, service.bundleid=11, service.scope=bundle} - org.openhab.binding.mysensors
2016-06-06 07:12:09.070 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - BundleEvent STARTED - org.openhab.binding.mysensors
2016-06-06 07:12:12.062 [INFO ] [ui.habmin.internal.servlet.HABminApp] - Started HABmin servlet at /habmin
2016-06-06 07:12:18.694 [ERROR] [org.openhab.ui.habmin               ] - [org.openhab.ui.habmin.designer(3)] bind method [setItemRegistry] not found; Component will fail
2016-06-06 07:12:18.702 [ERROR] [org.openhab.ui.habmin               ] - [org.openhab.ui.habmin.designer(3)] bind method [setItemRegistry] not found
2016-06-06 07:12:25.252 [ERROR] [org.eclipse.smarthome.core.transform] - [org.eclipse.smarthome.action.transformation.action(51)] Circular reference detected, getService returning null
2016-06-06 07:12:39.288 [INFO ] [rthome.event.ItemThingLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'mysensors_light_gateway_Light_1_0-mysensors:light:gateway:Light_1_0' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:39.315 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ItemAddedEvent      ] - Item 'home_group_88a3d2a1' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:42.030 [INFO ] [arthome.ui.paper.internal.PaperUIApp] - Started Paper UI at /ui
2016-06-06 07:12:42.261 [INFO ] [.dashboard.internal.DashboardService] - Started dashboard at /start
2016-06-06 07:12:42.825 [WARN ] [sql.internal.MysqlPersistenceService] - The SQL user is missing - please configure the sql:user parameter in openhab.cfg
2016-06-06 07:12:43.071 [INFO ] [assic.internal.servlet.WebAppServlet] - Started Classic UI at /classicui/app
2016-06-06 07:12:43.114 [INFO ] [basic.internal.servlet.WebAppServlet] - Started Basic UI at /basicui/app
2016-06-06 07:12:43.470 [INFO ] [.openhab.core.internal.CoreActivator] - openHAB runtime has been started (v2.0.0, build b2).
2016-06-06 07:12:43.479 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'home.sitemap'
2016-06-06 07:12:44.159 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'home.things'
2016-06-06 07:12:44.397 [INFO ] [smarthome.event.ThingAddedEvent     ] - Thing 'mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:44.468 [INFO ] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - Using Metric measure unit
2016-06-06 07:12:44.470 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - Set skip check on startup to: false
2016-06-06 07:12:44.489 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - ServiceEvent REGISTERED - {org.eclipse.smarthome.config.discovery.DiscoveryService}={service.id=278, service.bundleid=11, service.scope=singleton} - org.openhab.binding.mysensors
2016-06-06 07:12:44.527 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - Initialization of the MySensors Bridge
2016-06-06 07:12:44.531 [INFO ] [me.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway' changed from UNINITIALIZED to INITIALIZING
2016-06-06 07:12:44.540 [DEBUG] [rs.protocol.ip.MySensorsIpConnection] - Connecting to bridge ...
2016-06-06 07:12:44.762 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsWriter] - Sending to MySensors: 0;0;3;0;2;
2016-06-06 07:12:44.770 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
2016-06-06 07:12:44.776 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;11;EthernetGateway
2016-06-06 07:12:44.778 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;12;1.0
2016-06-06 07:12:44.849 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 0;255;3;0;2;2.0.0-beta
2016-06-06 07:12:44.852 [DEBUG] [s.internal.MySensorsBridgeConnection] - Good,Gateway is up and running! (Ver:2.0.0-beta)
2016-06-06 07:12:44.858 [DEBUG] [org.openhab.binding.mysensors       ] - ServiceEvent REGISTERED - {org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing.binding.ThingHandler}={thing.type=mysensors:bridge-eth, thing.id=mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway, service.id=279, service.bundleid=11, service.scope=singleton} - org.openhab.binding.mysensors
2016-06-06 07:12:44.859 [INFO ] [me.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway' changed from INITIALIZING to ONLINE
2016-06-06 07:12:44.900 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'logging.persist'
2016-06-06 07:12:44.990 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'rrd4j.persist'
2016-06-06 07:12:45.047 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'home.items'
2016-06-06 07:12:45.168 [INFO ] [home.event.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'n1c0-mysensors:light:gateway:n1c0:status' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:45.171 [INFO ] [home.event.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'n1c1-mysensors:light:gateway:n1c1:status' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:45.174 [INFO ] [home.event.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'n1c2-mysensors:humidity:gateway:n1c2:hum' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:45.178 [INFO ] [home.event.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'n1c3-mysensors:humidity:gateway:n1c3:hum' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:12:45.182 [INFO ] [home.event.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'n1c4-mysensors:humidity:gateway:n1c4:hum' has been added.
2016-06-06 07:14:50.818 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 1;3;1;1;1;1
2016-06-06 07:14:50.820 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - ACK received!
2016-06-06 07:14:55.831 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 1;3;1;1;1;0
2016-06-06 07:14:55.832 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - ACK received!
2016-06-06 07:28:01.373 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 1;3;1;1;1;1
2016-06-06 07:28:01.375 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - ACK received!
2016-06-06 07:28:06.385 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 1;3;1;1;1;0
2016-06-06 07:28:06.387 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - ACK received!
2016-06-06 07:32:21.567 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 1;3;1;1;1;1
2016-06-06 07:32:21.568 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - ACK received!
2016-06-06 07:32:26.578 [DEBUG] [g.mysensors.protocol.MySensorsReader] - 1;3;1;1;1;0
2016-06-06 07:32:26.582 [DEBUG] [nsors.handler.MySensorsBridgeHandler] - ACK received!

Seems ok.

But I am not able to see the result in Openhab

my.thing:

mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway [ ipAddress="192.168.100.10", tcpPort=5003, sendDelay=200 ] {
        /** define things connected to that bridge here */
        light           n1c0   [ nodeId="1", childId="0", requestAck=true ]
        light           n1c1   [ nodeId="1", childId="1", requestAck=true ]
        humidity        n1c2   [ nodeId="1", childId="2" ]
        humidity        n1c3   [ nodeId="1", childId="3" ]
        humidity        n1c4   [ nodeId="1", childId="4" ]
}

my.item:

Switch n1c0    "PFLANZENNAME1 Pumpe"                    <water> (gGF_irrigation01) { channel="mysensors:light:gateway:n1c0:status" }
Switch n1c1    "PFLANZENNAME1 Pumpe Automatikmodus"     <water> (gGF_irrigation01) { channel="mysensors:light:gateway:n1c1:status" }
Number n1c2    "PFLANZENNAME1 Bodenfeuchtigkeit max"    <water> (gGF_irrigation01) { channel="mysensors:humidity:gateway:n1c2:hum" }
Number n1c3    "PFLANZENNAME1 Bodenfeuchtigkeit min"    <water> (gGF_irrigation01) { channel="mysensors:humidity:gateway:n1c3:hum" }
Number n1c4    "PFLANZENNAME1 Bodenfeuchtigkeit"        <water> (gGF_irrigation01,gGF_eating) { channel="mysensors:humidity:gateway:n1c4:hum" }

There are simply no values in openhab although I see the debug messages in the openhab log.
Any idea how to fix it? I did not use the autodicovery of openhab paper UI. what confuses me is the name of the link used by openhab:

2016-06-06 07:12:45.168 [INFO ] [home.event.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'n1c0-mysensors:light:gateway:n1c0:status' has been added.

That does not match the channel. is that ok?

Thank
Dakky

EDIT: updated openhab log to complete startup process and added question

[Theekshana]

Hey man,
This is awesome!
You should add support for Relays.
:)

[gonzalonal]

Hi @TimO
I am having the exact same simtoms. Huge CPU usage with latest binding version.
Let me know if you need me to run some test to get this solved.

[dakky]

@dakky said:

I think i need some help. I am not shure, if my problem lies on the openHab2 side or if there is a problem with the mysensors addon.

No idea anyone? i'm stucked here and I'd really like to continue :(

EDIT: MAybe this helps debugging: it seem there is no "link" between things and items. The rest endpoints reveals, that the thing has no item:

[
  {
    "statusInfo": {
      "status": "ONLINE",
      "statusDetail": "NONE"
    },
    "link": "http://autohome:8080/rest/things/mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway",
    "configuration": {
      "tcpPort": 5003,
      "ipAddress": "192.168.100.10",
      "skipStartupCheck": false,
      "imperial": false,
      "sendDelay": 200
    },
    "properties": {},
    "UID": "mysensors:bridge-eth:gateway",
    "channels": [
      {
        "linkedItems": [],
        "id": "n1c0",
        "itemType": "light",
        "properties": {}
      },
      {
        "linkedItems": [],
        "id": "n1c1",
        "itemType": "light",
        "properties": {}
      },
      {
        "linkedItems": [],
        "id": "n1c2",
        "itemType": "humidity",
        "properties": {}
      },
      {
        "linkedItems": [],
        "id": "n1c3",
        "itemType": "humidity",
        "properties": {}
      },
      {
        "linkedItems": [],
        "id": "n1c4",
        "itemType": "humidity",
        "properties": {}
      }
    ]
  }
]

Greetings

[dakky]

Dammit ... found the error ;)

created a pull request: https://github.com/tobof/openhab2-addons/pull/18

Greetings
Dakky

[TimO]

Glad you found it! :+1:

I'm a little low in time at the moment, I will look at the PRs next weekend. Thank you for the contributions! :)

[TimO]

There is a new jar available that fixes the bug with the high CPU usage.

Additionally @meju25 added support for customSensor and an option to adjust the behavior in case no ACK could be received (see wiki). Thanks a lot!

[avinaz]

Thanks @TimO , seems is working fine. I updated my installation with the new jar and now CPU is around 4-6%. Thanks a lot. By the way, I did not see a commit in the code repository.

[TimO]

@avinaz: I'm glad, thanks for testing!
Did you look into the right branch? I've committed all changes to github.

[Denke]

Hi all

Implemented a barometric sensor "pressure meter" that i sample in the sensor. Then i send the value Through "BARO". I can see in both the sensor output and the openhab debug that i receive a value for example "1.2".

I try to display this in the openhab and i dont get the Text item to update.

Anyone know how this can be as i have other values that i am able to display.

line in .items
String Pool_Pressure "Pressure (bar) [%s]" <pressure> (gPool)

line in .sitemap
Text item=Pool_Pressure

any help is appriciated as i have tried different options with Number and so on

[Denke]

Merging sensor to one

Hi
I have been thinking and i think it would be nice if there is a way to merge sensor data to one in the mysensors binding.

Background
I am trying to build a pool control based on mysensors and i have a lot of options that i wan it to handle. For example:

• on/off of my pool pumps (S_LIGHT)
• on/off of lights around the pool (S_LIGHT)
• thermostat function for heaters (S_HVAC)
• measuring pressure on pump (S_BARO)
• measuring consumed power on pump (S_POWER)

All this are using the same sensor ID and getting own child IDs. When they now are brought in to openhab they appear as single sensors

Is there a possibility to get an automatic merge for thes combined sensors?

And what do you think about the idea.
Or is there already a solution that exist that I am not aware about

example from paper UI

with openhab poolcontrol view

[meju25]

@Denke
If I understand correctly, you are suggesting to combine different sensor types in one thing.
IMHO this would jeopardize the concept of the binding. The binding provides one thing per message type (see https://www.mysensors.org/download/serial_api_15). the thing has one channel per supported sub type.
I also do not see the advantage of combining different sensor/message types in one thing as you need one item per channel anyhow.
=> this would not reduce the number of items needed.

Grouping the items in the site map - as you already did - is the best way here.

Does anybody see this differently?

[Denke]

@meju25 I saw this from a management perspective.
I have one device, my pool controller, that has multiple sensors and also channels per sensor just as HVAC that has a sum of channels. In my case i implemented a number of sensors in different types of channels "S_HVAC, S_LIGHT,...." what i see that it gets messy when you try to see if the channels are active or the pool control is active it has multiple sensors.

So maybe a suggestion is to maybe implement this in the mysensors instead of in the openhab binding.
In that case i would like to add something that allows me to tell what channels are in a "sensor" by combining differnt channels and sensor types.

I don't know if i got my message through.

But all this is mainly for management of my devices so that this gets less messy