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💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

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  • luizrrochaL 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

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

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    • luizrrochaL luizrrocha

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

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      @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

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      • OliO 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

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

        Luiz

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        • J 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.

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          luizrrocha
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          #240

          @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

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          • luizrrochaL luizrrocha

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

            Luiz

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            Oli
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            #241

            @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.

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            • OliO 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.

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              luizrrocha
              wrote on last edited by
              #242

              @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.

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              • luizrrochaL 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.

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                Oli
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                #243

                @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" ;-)

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                  Oli
                  wrote on last edited by Oli
                  #244

                  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?

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                  • OliO 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?

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                    #245

                    @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...

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                    • luizrrochaL 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...

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                      Oli
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #246

                      @luizrrocha interesting... step by step instruction?

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                      • OliO Oli

                        @luizrrocha interesting... step by step instruction?

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                        luizrrocha
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #247

                        @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.

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                        • ysinhY ysinh

                          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

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                          #248

                          @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

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                            #249

                            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.

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                            • M marceloaqno

                              @aand @Tag @jirm MySensors uses its own nrf24 drivers, and OrangePi is not currently supported. It will be in the future.

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                              #250

                              @marceloaqno, @jirm, @aand

                              Hi!,

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

                              Hope this is okay,

                              Kind regards,

                              Tag

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                                Mihai
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                                #251

                                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.

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                                  #252

                                  @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.

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                                    @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.

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                                    • luizrrochaL luizrrocha

                                      Ditto, @Robinek70 !

                                      Thank you, Marcelo Aquino, for your fantastic work .

                                      I have Domoticz, Cacti, Heyu and MySensors Gateway running in a 30 dollars RASPBERRY PI 2, all without a glitch, all talking to each other and hopefully soon will also have Alexa for RASPBERRY PI running there also.

                                      If in doubt, by a RASPBERRY PI and thank people who develop and support it for free instead of complaining all the time.

                                      'nuff said.

                                      Luiz Roberto

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                                      @luizrrocha said:

                                      Ditto, @Robinek70 !

                                      Thank you, Marcelo Aquino, for your fantastic work .

                                      I have Domoticz, Cacti, Heyu and MySensors Gateway running in a 30 dollars RASPBERRY PI 2, all without a glitch, all talking to each other and hopefully soon will also have Alexa for RASPBERRY PI running there also.

                                      If in doubt, by a RASPBERRY PI and thank people who develop and support it for free instead of complaining all the time.

                                      'nuff said.

                                      Luiz Roberto

                                      Can you please give me the instructions for Domoticz setup?

                                      I have a node with DHT11 sensor and I can see mygsw service is getting messages. How do I connect Domoticz with mysensors ?

                                      I have been following openhab until today and I'm switching to Domoticz now.

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                                      • M musthafa

                                        @luizrrocha said:

                                        Ditto, @Robinek70 !

                                        Thank you, Marcelo Aquino, for your fantastic work .

                                        I have Domoticz, Cacti, Heyu and MySensors Gateway running in a 30 dollars RASPBERRY PI 2, all without a glitch, all talking to each other and hopefully soon will also have Alexa for RASPBERRY PI running there also.

                                        If in doubt, by a RASPBERRY PI and thank people who develop and support it for free instead of complaining all the time.

                                        'nuff said.

                                        Luiz Roberto

                                        Can you please give me the instructions for Domoticz setup?

                                        I have a node with DHT11 sensor and I can see mygsw service is getting messages. How do I connect Domoticz with mysensors ?

                                        I have been following openhab until today and I'm switching to Domoticz now.

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                                        Hello, @musthafa .

                                        For installation I used the tutorial at http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Installing_and_running_Domoticz_on_a_Raspberry_PI. It looks like they changed the tutorial that I used to just a single curl command to install it, although there are complaints about it not working alright. You'll have to try it as I cannot reinstall mine.

                                        Setting up MySensors Gateway is also covered in the wiki : http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/MySensors, very easy. I recommend you go thru the wiki pages as I did, they are a treasure of information, as the manual on www.domoticz.com is outdated though useful.

                                        Good luck.

                                        Luiz

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                                        • luizrrochaL luizrrocha

                                          Hello, @musthafa .

                                          For installation I used the tutorial at http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Installing_and_running_Domoticz_on_a_Raspberry_PI. It looks like they changed the tutorial that I used to just a single curl command to install it, although there are complaints about it not working alright. You'll have to try it as I cannot reinstall mine.

                                          Setting up MySensors Gateway is also covered in the wiki : http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/MySensors, very easy. I recommend you go thru the wiki pages as I did, they are a treasure of information, as the manual on www.domoticz.com is outdated though useful.

                                          Good luck.

                                          Luiz

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                                          @luizrrocha said:
                                          Thank you!

                                          Hello, @musthafa .

                                          For installation I used the tutorial at http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Installing_and_running_Domoticz_on_a_Raspberry_PI. It looks like they changed the tutorial that I used to just a single curl command to install it, although there are complaints about it not working alright. You'll have to try it as I cannot reinstall mine.

                                          Domoticz Installation was straight forward as per their wiki.

                                          Setting up MySensors Gateway is also covered in the wiki : http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/MySensors, very easy. I recommend you go thru the wiki pages as I did, they are a treasure of information, as the manual on www.domoticz.com is outdated though useful.

                                          Good luck.

                                          Luiz

                                          MySensors I tried Ethernet didn't work. Virtual Serial Port worked for me. However I have 1 light (LED Test at PIN 4 of Node) & a DHT sensor. Domoticz only lists the DHT sensor. It doesn't show me the light child.

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