VERA 2 Device Install

[DeltaNu1142]

I'd like to see what luck you have with it. I'd be willing to "float" you an Arduino Nano and radio if you wanted to try it out.

[Dvbit]

I am Planning to buy some sensor. Is vera 2 supported? Or is it just vera lite ?

[sailhome]

I have been using a VERA 2 with the Arduino usb gateway for two weeks now. I have two nodes, one with a motion sensor and the second node with a humidity/temp sensor. They are working well. I had to reload the VERA UI several times after I uploaded the files to VERA. After the reboots the gateway worked properly. I have more Arduinos and sensors on order, these things are great. Other than affirming that a VERA 2 will work I can't be of much more help.

[hek]

@sailhome

Good to hear. But this makes the problems @DeltaNu1142 experience a mystery.

[Dvbit]

Thanks. So i go a ahead and hold thumbs

[Dvbit]

Vera is temperamental at least ...
I have some plugins that once worked now not. Apparently nothing changed

[hek]

Yeah, Vera is moody sometimes.

[DeltaNu1142]

@sailhome said:

I have been using a VERA 2 with the Arduino usb gateway for two weeks now. I have two nodes, one with a motion sensor and the second node with a humidity/temp sensor. They are working well. I had to reload the VERA UI several times after I uploaded the files to VERA. After the reboots the gateway worked properly. I have more Arduinos and sensors on order, these things are great. Other than affirming that a VERA 2 will work I can't be of much more help.

I wish I could attribute my troubles between this plugin & my Vera 2 to something. I hung it up a while ago. I've since installed ping sensors & then uninstalled them, but they worked as expected while I had them.

Let me ask this... should you be able to install the Arduino plugin without the hardware, and get... anything? All I ever saw in the plugin was a blue circle. It's as if the plugin never configured.

[jmmorgan]

I am just starting to install my plug in for VERA 2. It created the plug in without a problems. When Vera starts the plug in it states that the serial port has to be selected. How do I do that? Under the serial port tab there is only my serial port for my alarm system. If I ssh into vera I can see both USB ports. My alarm port (usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)0 and the gateway USB (usbserial.c: CP210X converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)). So I know it connects, but I do not know how to tell the plug in to use that port. Any help would be appreciated.
John

[hek]

It usually pops up on the serial configuration page. You're using a Arduino Nano right?

[jmmorgan]

@hek I am using Arduino Nano, but it does not pop up in the serial configuration page. I have read a lot of the post on USB to serial connection on the Vera forum, but no luck.
JOhn

[jmmorgan]

After much effort, I got it to recognize the serial gateway: Here what I did
Log into WinSCP
Run lsusb
You should see a line similar to this. Bus 001 Device 006: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x Composite Device. The 10c4 is the vendor and the ea60 is the product.

Find
/etc/cmh/serproxy.port
Open it up and make sure it has the line
vendor:10c4 product:ea60
If serproxy.port does not exist, manual create it.
Reboot, Reboot and hope.

Now on to the next step. I hope it is easier.

[jmmorgan]

Well, I knew it was to good to be true. The plug-in loads properly without error and I have set the serial port. However, when I hit the start button (is it suppose to change color and stay that color until is stop) and reset the sensor, nothing happens. What is my next step. The sensor is sending a request for node id, which the gateway acknowledges, but it never send the node ID back. I tried looking at the Vera log, but there are just too many entries.

[hek]

@jmmorgan

> grep Arduino /var/log/cmh/LuaUPnP.log

Only shows Arduino related stuff from the log.

[blacey]

When my Vera3 fails to show the USB port for the Gateway (typically after a power cycle), I do the following to get it to recognize it.

1. Unplug the gateway USB cable from the Vera3's USB port
2. Click Reload on the upper right of the Vera dashboard and wait for reload to finish
3. Plug the gateway USB cable into the Vera3's USB port
4. Click Reload on the upper right of the Vera dashboard and wait for the reload to finish
5. Navigate to Develop Apps->Serial Port to configure the port.

I don't know why the Vera removes the USB port if the device is power cycled while the gateway is connected but the steps above seem to reliably resolve it for me.

[jmmorgan]

Here is my log. It seems the gateway startup ok and send the inclusion command. The node requests the ID, which the gateway acknowledge, but nothing happens after that.
jmmlog1.pdf

[hek]

I can't see that the inclusion mode was started in the log.

And what does the log say on the sensor when it requests an id? Does it receive anything?

[jmmorgan]

@hek the sensor send a request for the ID and the gateway acknowledge the request, but never send the id.

[hek]

Hmm.. yes.. it looks like serial communication only works one-way (from Nano to Vera) but not the other direction.
Gateway doesn't even reply on the request for version message.

How is this even possible? Some strange setting in Serial port configuration?

[jmmorgan]

@hek
There is my serial configuration screen.