💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[eyesoft]

@marceloaqno

git clone https://github.com/TMRh20/RF24.git
cd RF24
./configure
[SECTION] Detecting arm compilation environment.
[OK] arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc detected.
[OK] arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ detected.
[SECTION] Detecting target machine.
[OK] machine detected: SoC=A20, Type=unknown, CPU=armv7l.
[SECTION] Detecting DRIVER
[OK] DRIVER detected:SPIDEV.
[SECTION] Detecting OS.
[INFO] OS detected:LINUX.
[SECTION] Preparing configuration.
[SECTION] Saving configuration.
[SECTION] Cleaning previous builds.
[OK] Finished.

make
arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread -c RF24.cpp
arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread -c utility/SPIDEV/spi.cpp
arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread -c utility/SPIDEV/gpio.cpp
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread -c utility/SPIDEV/compatibility.c
arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++ -fPIC -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread -c utility/SPIDEV/interrupt.c
[Linking]
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-soname,librf24.so.1 -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -Ofast -Wall -pthread -o librf24.so.1.2.0 RF24.o spi.o gpio.o compatibility.o interrupt.o

[marceloaqno]

@Oli After these steps:

git clone https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors.git
cd MySensors

to switch to the master branch, run:

git checkout master

and reinstall the gateway following the same steps from the instructions.

[eyesoft]

@marceloaqno
i've tried on banana pi pro :

cat /etc/debian_version
8.6
cat /etc/bananian_platform
BananaPro

[marceloaqno]

@eyesoft thanks for the feedback, we need to add support for SPIDEV driver in order to use the BananaPi.

[jirm]

@marceloaqno Sadly I´m so much bussy and traveling for few days and cannot acces to my OPI´s :-( , but I´m sure someone here (@aand , @hausinger, etc.. ) can give a try on her OPI the things we said before. At least I hope this ...

[jirm]

@marceloaqno I see some huge steps up on BananaPi...seems only need add SPIDEV support for make it working... :-)

[Oli]

@marceloaqno I am rather copy/paste not a programming kind a guy, so sorry for my lame questions.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ git clone https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors.git
fatal: destination path 'MySensors' already exists and is not an empty directory

pi@raspberrypi ~/MySensors $ git checkout master
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'master'

but after that:

pi@raspberrypi ~/MySensors $ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
pi@raspberrypi ~/MySensors $ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop.

[eyesoft]

@Oli ... try :
./configure
make
sudo make install

[Oli]

@eyesoft same errors

[eyesoft]

@Oli see commands above how to Install and Build, with git checkout master you are on master if you :
cat README.md
MySensors Library v2.1.0

default on git clone you are on development :
cat README.md
MySensors Library v2.2.0-beta

[jirm]

@Oli First you need delete all Mysensors directory on your machine.
Then use step by step the guide on Mysensors Gateway installation process:
https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry
Dont forget put command sudo on sentences if needed.

Regards

[Oli]

I wanna update not to re install of MySensors. I thought about something like ./updaterelease or ./updatebeta... I spend hours of make it work before, so I leave it as it is. No time or nerves for fighting next couple of days.

[mfalkvidd]

@Oli what did you have to do to make it work? It should just be a matter of following the instructions that @jirm linked to.

EDIT: Since you already have the MySensors repo cloned from git, you can update by running

pi@raspberrypi ~/MySensors $ git pull

Than run configure, make, etc as per the original instructions.

[Oli]

@mfalkvidd I could not find ttyMySensorsGateway on Domoticz. Only ttyUSB0, ttyUSB20 and ttyAMA0. Even after I did ./configure --my-gateway=serial --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway

[mfalkvidd]

@Oli so what did you do to make it work?

[jirm]

@Oli I´m thinking is hard to "only" update (changing from develop to master branch) directly from github if the repository is not been previously prepared to do this kind of updates... but maybe I´m wrong.

Will be good you give feedback if you get it.

Cheers

[Oli]

@mfalkvidd hah... thats a good question, don't know. After dozen or more reinstallations, spending hours on Google I finally make it work. Got some notes but frankly I am worrying it will happen again. Hahaha

[mfalkvidd]

@Oli ah, ok. Then I'd recommend backing up everything before doing git pull, configure, make, etc so you can restore if it stops working.

[jirm]

@Oli :-) :-)
Good !
I like when people can make something work that nobody even knows what it is :-)

For me it usually happens just the opposite I am not able to make work even the things I know perfectly well ... maybe it will be a matter of "bad karma" :-)

[Oli]

OK, I did it, I f....g did it, and guess what...
s...t happened again.
Everything went as it should, no errors at all, but no ttyUSBMySensorsGateway...

log error message:
2017-01-03 19:56:38.784 MySensors: Using serial port: /dev/ttyUSBMySensorsGateway
2017-01-03 19:56:38.785 Error: MySensors: Error opening serial port!
2017-01-03 19:56:39.785 MySensors: retrying in 30 seconds...

and again...
and again...
...

any help would be appreciated.