MySensors Raspberry port suggestions

[marceloaqno]

In an attempt to keep mysensors/Raspberry repository in sync with mysensors/Arduino, I started a while ago working on a solution but only recently had time to finish.
I ended up with two approaches:

Place the raspberry gateway files in a directory called examples_RPi within the libraries\MySensors folder (more or less like TMRh20/RF24 does)
https://github.com/marceloaqno/Arduino/tree/raspberry-gateway

or keep the two repos and use git subtree to bind them:
https://github.com/marceloaqno/Raspberry/tree/experimental

What you guys thinks?

I'm trying to catch up with new changes into the development branch and thinking of a way to port this into it.

[hek]

@marceloaqno said:

Place the raspberry gateway files in a directory called examples_RPi within the libraries\MySensors folder (more or less like TMRh20/RF24 does)

Keeping the RPI specific files within libraries/MySensors/core and libraries/MySensors/drivers would be my first choice... Pinging @Oitzu here also as he talked about helping as well.

[Oitzu]

@marceloaqno said:

I ended up with two approaches:

Place the raspberry gateway files in a directory called examples_RPi within the libraries\MySensors folder (more or less like TMRh20/RF24 does)
https://github.com/marceloaqno/Arduino/tree/raspberry-gateway

or keep the two repos and use git subtree to bind them:
https://github.com/marceloaqno/Raspberry/tree/experimental

What you guys thinks?

I was also thinking back and forth whats the best way to accomplish this.
In the end i think the better way is to do it like TMRh20/RF24 do it, because it also fits better in the current mysensors git structure.

@hek said:

Keeping the RPI specific files within libraries/MySensors/core and libraries/MySensors/drivers would be my first choice...

The RPi specific files would be withing these dirs, in examples_RPi would only be the example code for the serial-gateway, or other examples for the library. So this would be much like the arduino "examples" dir.

[aaron832]

@marceloaqno I have been looking into your work to get the RaspberryPi up to date with the latest MySensors code. You have examples for Regular Gateway, Serial and Ethernet. Are you considering creating another for MQTT? I might start looking into this, just wanted to see if you had anything planned. I think it would be best to have a Raspberry PI acting as a gateway as well as an OpenHab/MQTT server.

[marceloaqno]

@aaron832 I'm planning to add support to MQTT directly into the ethernet gateway. Gonna try to use mongoose (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose) for the MQTT so it wouldn't require any external library. I got stuck exploring the many cool things that can be done with Node-Red that I didn't start to implement anything yet :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

[aaron832]

@marceloaqno Ha, Cool. Happy to hear you are looking at MQTT. I will keep a watch on your repository and will try experimenting with using mongoose as well.

[aaron832]

Just as an update, I have the MQTT version with mongoose mostly working. Thanks for that recommendation @marceloaqno. Still very much a work in progress. If anyone is interested in following, here is the link: https://github.com/aaron832/Arduino/tree/raspberry-gateway-MQTT/libraries/MySensors/examples_RPi

[aaron832]

FYI I had to ditch mongoose. It just wan't working properly. libmosquitto from http://mosquitto.org/ seems to work a lot better. Any idea about getting @marceloaqno 's branch merged into develop or vise versa? Would be nice to be working on 2.0

[marceloaqno]

@aaron832 I'm very close to reaching a working version for the 2.0, will release something in the coming days.

[aaron832]

@marceloaqno This is good news because I was about to give up trying to do the port. :sweat_smile: Hopefully some of my stuff was of some use.

[marceloaqno]

This is the initial support for Linux/RaspberryPi for the 2.0:
https://github.com/marceloaqno/Arduino/tree/dev-raspberrypi

Supports:

• RF24 radio
• Ethernet gateway
• Store "eeprom" to a file (thanks to @aaron832 )
• MQTT (thanks to @aaron832 )
• Can be compiled in a linux machine other than Pi

To be implemented:

• Store "eeprom" to a file
• Serial
• MQTT
• RF24 interrupts
• UDP
• Act as a client to connect to a controller

I haven't extensively test it, so there are probably some bugs. Any suggestions or ideas for improvement are welcome.

[aaron832]

Thanks a bunch @marceloaqno for you update to 2.0. Some initial testing shows its working fine. I went ahead and just re-implemented my MQTT addition on top of this branch. Its significantly cleaner and just sits alongside your ethernet implementation. This way you can still connect with a controller via ethernet while getting the benefit of MQTT as well if desired.

For the initial changes I created a pull request:
https://github.com/marceloaqno/Arduino/pull/2
for my branch
https://github.com/aaron832/Arduino/tree/feature/MQTTSupport

[hek]

Great progress guys!

[marceloaqno]

Perhaps we should start another topic with a better name so that more people become aware of this port?

[hek]

@marceloaqno
Yes, might be a good idea.

[lafleur]

Any plans for RFM69h(w) support??

Thanks

[marceloaqno]

@lafleur Do you recommend any RFM69h library that works well in Pi? I could try to add support if there is any.

[lafleur]

There are a number of ports to the RPI...

http://rdepablos.merlitec.com/mixed/rfm69-library-for-raspberry-pi

http://jeelabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20/rfm69-on-raspberry-pi/index.html

https://github.com/etrombly/RFM69

https://123d.circuits.io/circuits/519561-raspberry-pi-and-rfm69hw-interface

http://www.0x1.be/esa/domotic/arduino/node/domotic-howto-rfm69/

and others...

Thanks

[marceloaqno]

Just an update, I've been using this port on my raspberry pi during the last months and it has been quite stable, the code is also up to date with the mysensors development branch.

[emc2]

That's great, thanks @marceloaqno

I just started testing but I had to revert to 7d51087e589afb1296e71442fe2164807da399ef to have it working.
Last commit SEGFAULT after

Eth: Listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:5003

Also, do you have an updated initscript to launch it automatically at boot? It seems the one from the old PiGateway is not working very well with this one. For now I just added a cronjob.