💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[jacikaas]

Hello,

Could someone answer: if i have RPi NRF24 GW, how I could connect MYSController from other computer (for example from Windows computer)?

1. Is it possible to make that type connection with RPi NRF24 GW?
2. May I use some integrated web server for this type of connection in RPi to make it work? Is there are easier solutions?

EDIT: no matter, already answered it by myself :)
Its easy becose it's like Ethernet GW.

[luizrrocha]

@Oli: when you do a "ls /dev" is ttyUSBMySensorsGateway shown ?

[luizrrocha]

@Oli: by the way, the name of the port you used is ttyMySensorsGateway, not ttyUSBMySensorsGateway:

@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

Is the gateway running, ie, "ps -ef "grep my" shows a process there ?

Cheers,

Luiz

[luizrrocha]

@Oli: sorry, correct syntax is ps -ef | grep my

[Oli]

@luizrrocha
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ls /dev

autofs mmcblk0p1 stderr tty36 ttyAMA0
block mmcblk0p2 stdin tty37 ttyMySensorsGateway
btrfs-control net stdout tty38 ttyprintk
bus network_latency tty tty39 ttyUSB0
cachefiles network_throughput tty0 tty4 ttyUSB20
char null tty1 tty40 uhid
console ppp tty10 tty41 uinput
cpu_dma_latency ptmx tty11 tty42 urandom
cuse pts tty12 tty43 vc-cma
disk ram0 tty13 tty44 vchiq
fb0 ram1 tty14 tty45 vcio
fd ram10 tty15 tty46 vc-mem
full ram11 tty16 tty47 vcs
fuse ram12 tty17 tty48 vcs1
gpiomem ram13 tty18 tty49 vcs2
hwrng ram14 tty19 tty5 vcs3
i2c-1 ram15 tty2 tty50 vcs4
input ram2 tty20 tty51 vcs5
kmsg ram3 tty21 tty52 vcs6
log ram4 tty22 tty53 vcsa
loop0 ram5 tty23 tty54 vcsa1
loop1 ram6 tty24 tty55 vcsa2
loop2 ram7 tty25 tty56 vcsa3
loop3 ram8 tty26 tty57 vcsa4
loop4 ram9 tty27 tty58 vcsa5
loop5 random tty28 tty59 vcsa6
loop6 raw tty29 tty6 vhci
loop7 root tty3 tty60 watchdog
loop-control serial tty30 tty61 watchdog0
MAKEDEV shm tty31 tty62 xconsole
mapper snd tty32 tty63 zero
mem sndstat tty33 tty7
memory_bandwidth spidev0.0 tty34 tty8
mmcblk0 spidev0.1 tty35 tty9

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ps -ef | grep my

root 2079 1 1 18:40 ? 00:02:49 /usr/local/bin/mysgw -b
pi 4214 4181 0 21:25 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto my

[luizrrocha]

@Oli : the port name is actually ttyMySensorsGateway, you have to correct the definition of the gateway on Domoticz to use it....

Luiz

[luizrrocha]

@jacikaas : on MYSController go to Settings -> Gateway -> TCP/IP and add the IP address of the Gateway and use port 5003. It works even if the gateway is feeding data to Domoticz, so you can monitor your sensors in "raw" mode.

Cheers,

Luiz

[Oli]

@luizrrocha as You can see, on the picture above, I've wrote that ttyUSBMySensors.... is from my previous backup copy. On the same pictures You can also see that I can choose only from three serial ports: USB0, USB20 and AMA0. Thera are no ttyMySensorsGateway despite that it is present after ls /dev.
And that's the problem, I dont know how to make it present in the serial ports popup menu.

[luizrrocha]

@Oli : why not remove the old definition to avoid any trash information and restarting Domoticz to make shure it rereads the port info before creating the new entry ?

And I do not understand why if you are running domoticz and the gateway on the same Pi, why not use a ethernet gateway and set 127.0.0.1 and port 5003 on the Domoticz gateway entry. I did that and never had to worry about USB ports at all.

[Oli]

@luizrrocha

@luizrrocha said:

@Oli : why not remove the old definition to avoid any trash information and restarting Domoticz to make shure it rereads the port info before creating the new entry ?

Of course I did that, I started from the scratch... but when it did not work I try to restore my backup... but it did not work also...

@luizrrocha said:

And I do not understand why if you are running domoticz and the gateway on the same Pi, why not use a ethernet gateway and set 127.0.0.1 and port 5003 on the Domoticz gateway entry. I did that and never had to worry about USB ports at all.

simple... I have no free LAN on my rotuer... there is more, I also have raZberry daughter board (Z-Wave) connected to same Raspberry Pi GPIO port. And till today everything works perfect until... "Better is the enemy of the good" ;-)

[Oli]

OK I found the solution (thanks to @luizrrocha). I change

./configure --my-gateway=serial --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyMySensorsGateway
to
./configure --my-gateway=serial --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyUSBMySensorsGateway and now its working.

Question is, It's only workaround (in my case) or there is bug in the installation guide?

[luizrrocha]

@Oli : if both the gateway and Domoticz run on the same Raspi, there is no physical network involved, hence the 127.0.0.1 dummy local address is used by Domoticz to talk to the gateway on the same machine, just using port 5003... and since you use localhost (127.0.0.1, a virtual network) there is no need to create a virtual USB port which is what you did...

[Oli]

@luizrrocha interesting... step by step instruction?

[luizrrocha]

@Oli: delete the Makefile.inc file on mysensors folder
./configure --my-gateway=ethernet
make
sudo ./bin/mysgw -b
go to domoticz and create a new MySensors Gateway with LAN, inform 127.0.0.1 as the address and 5003 as the port...

that should do the trick.

[carlyler]

@Oli luizrocha's configuration seems interesting, but just in case your still wanting the serial, from above, has worked for me in the past, but I have since switched to OH2:

@ysinh said:

A tiny hint for the users of domoticz :
./configure --my-gateway=serial --my-serial-is-pty --my-serial-pty=/dev/ttyUSB20
make
sudo ./examples_linux/mysGateway -d

:) i hope this helps
then in the hardware setup
MySensors Gateway USB
serial port: /dev/ttyUSB20

[Wackid]

I am also not get it to work in Domoticz tried the USB serial and ethernet way.

It's a testing pi. Where i didn't connected the radio. Because it's still in the Nano. Could that be the issue? I guess not.

[Tag]

@marceloaqno, @jirm, @aand

Hi!,

I started a new topic for Mysensors Gateway on OrangePI (OPI), Here

Hope this is okay,

Kind regards,

Tag

[Mihai]

The Pi MQTT Gateway with IRQ connected may handle better the messages into a loaded network than Ethernet MQTT Gateway where IRQ is not used? (with NRF24)
Also I would like to know if I can use the other pins of RPi to connect some digital sensors directly there.

[Wackid]

@Oli
Stupid question... Did you mount the radio? Because I thought I would like to test if it works. (without radio) but that doesn't work.

Mounted a radio and ethernet gateway is working.

[eyesoft]

@Mihai

Maybe i'm wrong but IRQ is used on all gateways if you read above :
"""
Improving throughput for nrf24
There is another method were the interrupt pin from the nrf24 modules is used to inform when a new message arrives and it's immediately added to a queue for further processing
"""
for the second part yes you can use other pins on RPi ... i have RF module NRF24L01 for gateway and DHT11 on RPi.