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๐Ÿ’ฌ Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

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  • dirkcD dirkc

    When talking about this Raspberry Pi Gateway, I suppose, that its just connecting the NFR24L01+ to the Raspberry Pi GPIO and run

    ./bin/mysgw -d
    

    right? On my Pi it does not work this way, maybe the NFR24L01+ is not ok. Instead I am running an external esp-wifi-gateway, but a direct gateway seems the better solution to me.
    So did I get it right, that I can use a NFR24L01+ connected to the Raspberry PI GPIO without any external gateway? If so, what are the parameters for building the mysgw daemon? I tried this one:

    ./configure --spi-driver=SPIDEV --spi-spidev-device=/dev/spidev0.0
    

    update: as in https://www.mysensors.org/view/180#wiring
    22 โ€“ CE
    24 โ€“ CSN/CS
    23 โ€“ SCK
    19 โ€“ MOSI
    21 โ€“ MISO

    SPI is activated:

    $ls /dev/spidev*
    /dev/spidev0.0  /dev/spidev0.1
    

    And this is the result, when building it with the settings mentioned above. (Raspberry Pi 3, jessie 4.9.13-v7+)

    $ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d
    mysgw: Starting gateway...
    mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.1
    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG---,VER=2.1.1
    mysgw: TSM:INIT
    mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
    mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
    mysgw: TSM:INIT
    mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=2
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
    mysgw: TSM:INIT
    mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=3
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT
    mysgw: TSM:INIT
    mysgw: !TSM:INIT:TSP FAIL
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=4
    mysgw: TSM:FAIL:PDT
    

    And can someone show how to bind this gateway into FHEM? As said, today I am running an esp-wifi-gateay.

    Thanks in advance for any support...

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    gohan
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    @dirkc I don't know where you got those pin numbers but they don't look like the ones on the guide. In addition you don't have to use spi driver. The PA version of nrf24 are quite a pain to get them working, so I suggest you first test with regular modules and then upgrade to PA

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      @gohan, @marceloaqno : sorry, I corrected the "typo", the NRF was already connected as shown in https://www.mysensors.org/view/180#wiring. I double checked that again.
      What is the correct setup for ./configure ?

      Controller: Home Assistant & FHEM - Gateway: ESP8266wifi - MySensors: 2.3.2 (nRF24)

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      • M marceloaqno

        @romeo01 You have to connect the nrf24 to the GPIO if you want to use it with the RPi, the information on the wiki was wrong, sorry about that.

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        @marceloaqno

        Thanks marceloagno, the answer is clear.

        Keep up the great work !

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        • dirkcD dirkc

          @gohan, @marceloaqno : sorry, I corrected the "typo", the NRF was already connected as shown in https://www.mysensors.org/view/180#wiring. I double checked that again.
          What is the correct setup for ./configure ?

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          marceloaqno
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          #418

          @dirkc The default settings for ./configure is to use the nrf24 module connected in the same way as shown in the guide and as an ethernet gateway.

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            #419

            I'm having issues with the LED setup as shown on the page. The LEDs are just constantly on even though everything looks like it's setup just like the picture. I'm new at this so I could be doing something stupid.

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            • M marceloaqno

              @dirkc The default settings for ./configure is to use the nrf24 module connected in the same way as shown in the guide and as an ethernet gateway.

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              @marceloaqno ok, thanks, I will change the radio.

              Controller: Home Assistant & FHEM - Gateway: ESP8266wifi - MySensors: 2.3.2 (nRF24)

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                marceloaqno
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                #421

                Support for RFM69 was added to the development branch (finally!).

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                • M marceloaqno

                  Support for RFM69 was added to the development branch (finally!).

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                  #422

                  @marceloaqno

                  Iยดm really happy ear that !

                  RFM69 is one of best RF transceivers in these days for IoT.
                  So good news I believe for Mysensors community.

                  You know if are any hope that RFM69 will be added too to OPI boards support mysgw development ?

                  Congratulations for that great work !

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                  • jirmJ jirm

                    @marceloaqno

                    Iยดm really happy ear that !

                    RFM69 is one of best RF transceivers in these days for IoT.
                    So good news I believe for Mysensors community.

                    You know if are any hope that RFM69 will be added too to OPI boards support mysgw development ?

                    Congratulations for that great work !

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                    @jirm Support for RFM69 also applies to the OrangePi :wink:

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                    • M marceloaqno

                      @jirm Support for RFM69 also applies to the OrangePi :wink:

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                      wrote on last edited by jirm
                      #424

                      @marceloaqno

                      Awesome !!!
                      Thank you so much.

                      Best regards

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                        When I configure "MY_RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM" in MyConfig.h, compiling fails.
                        Perhaps you should change the code in ./drivers/RFM69/new/RFM69_new.h from:

                        #define RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM MY_RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM //!< MY_RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM

                        to:

                        #define RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM ((rfm69_powerlevel_t)MY_RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM) //!< MY_RFM69_MAX_POWER_LEVEL_DBM

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                          I cannot get the RFM69(HW) working. When I start myswg in debug mode (-d), I see:

                          mysgw: Starting gateway...
                          mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0-beta
                          mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RPNG----,VER=2.2.0-beta
                          mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
                          mysgw: TSM:INIT
                          mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
                          mysgw: RFM69:INIT
                          mysgw: RFM69:INIT:PIN,CS=24,IQP=22,IQN=22
                          mysgw: RFM69:PTX:LEVEL=5 dBm
                          mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
                          mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
                          mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
                          mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
                          mysgw: Listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:5003
                          mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
                          mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
                          

                          But I can see ('hear' with a radio on 868.000 MHz) no transmission of the RFM69. When I power up a node, the node does not connect to the gateway: "NO REPLY":+1:

                          0 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RRNNA--,VER=2.1.1
                          4 TSM:INIT
                          4 TSF:WUR:MS=0
                          8 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
                          10 TSM:INIT:STATID=4
                          12 TSF:SID:OK,ID=4
                          14 TSM:FPAR
                          274 TSF:MSG:SEND,4-4-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
                          2281 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
                          2283 TSM:FPAR
                          2562 TSF:MSG:SEND,4-4-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
                          4569 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
                          4571 TSM:FPAR
                          4831 TSF:MSG:SEND,4-4-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
                          6838 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
                          6840 TSM:FPAR
                          7100 TSF:MSG:SEND,4-4-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
                          9107 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL
                          9109 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
                          9111 TSM:FAIL:PDT
                          

                          Is there any 'check' I can do to perform basic RFM69HW testing on my RPI?

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                            gohan
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                            #427

                            Was it working before on a normal Arduino gateway? How did you wire everything up?

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                              I'm pretty sure I wired up the RFM69 correctly.
                              However, I'm debugging. It seems we are stuck in "core/MyGatewayTransport.cpp":

                              inline void gatewayTransportProcess(void)
                              {
                              
                                if (gatewayTransportAvailable()) {
                                  // NEVER REACHED
                              

                              I never seem to get pass gatewayTransportAvailable. I will continue debugging.
                              Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to MySensors and not really 'up to speed' with the source code :-).

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                                I'm pretty sure I wired up the RFM69 correctly.
                                However, I'm debugging. It seems we are stuck in "core/MyGatewayTransport.cpp":

                                inline void gatewayTransportProcess(void)
                                {
                                
                                  if (gatewayTransportAvailable()) {
                                    // NEVER REACHED
                                

                                I never seem to get pass gatewayTransportAvailable. I will continue debugging.
                                Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to MySensors and not really 'up to speed' with the source code :-).

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                                @ftw64 Ok, this has to do with connecting an Ethernet client. When a client connects, this code works...
                                Any idea where to start debugging for incoming RFM69 messages?

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                                  gohan
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                                  #430

                                  Download myscontroller and connect it to the gateway, you can now see all messages from ethernet controller

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                                    Download myscontroller and connect it to the gateway, you can now see all messages from ethernet controller

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                                    @gohan said in ๐Ÿ’ฌ Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

                                    myscontroller

                                    I just did. When I also have a Domoticz controller connected to the gateway:

                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	INFO	Connected to 192.168.10.24:5003
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	CHILD	New child discovered, node id=0, child id=internal
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	RX	0;255;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete.
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	DEBUG	Update child id=255, type=ARDUINO_RELAY
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	RX	0;255;0;0;18;2.2.0-beta
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	RX	0;255;3;0;22;208103
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:33	RX	0;255;3;0;2;2.2.0-beta
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:43	RX	0;255;3;0;22;218106
                                    2017-04-23 11:18:53	RX	0;255;3;0;22;228110
                                    2017-04-23 11:19:03	RX	0;255;3;0;22;238101
                                    2017-04-23 11:19:13	RX	0;255;3;0;22;248104
                                    2017-04-23 11:19:23	RX	0;255;3;0;22;258110
                                    2017-04-23 11:19:33	RX	0;255;3;0;22;268107
                                    2017-04-23 11:19:43	RX	0;255;3;0;22;278106
                                    2017-04-23 11:19:53	RX	0;255;3;0;22;288110
                                    2017-04-23 11:20:03	RX	0;255;3;0;22;298116
                                    

                                    However, I found out that the DI00 (=IRQ) on the RFM69 never gives a rising edge...
                                    I'm suspecting that the RFM69 is not being initialised properly... I added some debugging in the RFM69 code to see what registers are being written and read:

                                    mysgw: Starting gateway...
                                    mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0-beta
                                    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RPNG----,VER=2.2.0-beta
                                    mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
                                    mysgw: TSM:INIT
                                    mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
                                    mysgw: RFM69:INIT
                                    mysgw: RFM69:INIT:PIN,CS=24,IQP=22,IQN=22
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x01, value=4
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x02, value=0
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x03, value=2
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x04, value=64
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x05, value=3
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x06, value=51
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x18, value=136
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x19, value=66
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x26, value=7
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x28, value=16
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x29, value=220
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x2c, value=0
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x2d, value=3
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x2e, value=136
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x2f, value=45
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x30, value=101
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x37, value=212
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x38, value=66
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x39, value=255
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x3a, value=255
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x3c, value=5
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x3d, value=16
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x6f, value=48
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x07, value=217
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x08, value=0
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x09, value=0
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x01, value=4
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x27, value=128
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x3d, value=16
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x3d, value=16
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x11, value=87
                                    mysgw: RFM69:PTX:LEVEL=5 dBm
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x02, value=0
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x03, value=2
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x04, value=64
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x05, value=3
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x06, value=51
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x30, value=101
                                    mysgw: FTW attachInterrupt: gpioPin=25 mode=3
                                    mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
                                    mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x39, value=0
                                    mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
                                    mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x25, value=64
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x13, value=26
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x5a, value=85
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x5c, value=112
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:read register, reg=0x3d, value=16
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x3d, value=20
                                    mysgw: FtW:RFM69:write register, reg=0x01, value=16
                                    mysgw: Listening for connections on 0.0.0.0:5003
                                    mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
                                    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
                                    mysgw: New connection from 127.0.0.1
                                    mysgw: Client 0 connected
                                    mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;2;
                                    mysgw: gatewayTransportAvailable
                                    mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;2;Get Version
                                    mysgw: gatewayTransportAvailable
                                    mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING
                                    mysgw: gatewayTransportAvailable
                                    mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING
                                    mysgw: gatewayTransportAvailable
                                    mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING
                                    
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                                      Can't get the RFM69HW to work on RPI. I tried the following:

                                      1. I installed on an old RPI1 (clean Rasbian install). Same results as on my Domoticz RPI-3.
                                      2. Setup the original RPI3 as a node, using the 2.2.0-beta code. I verified that in this case the RFM69HW actually transmits (I can hear it burst on 868.000 MHz). However, it is unable to connect to an existing Arduino 2.1.1 gateway.
                                      3. I built an Arduino 2.2.0-beta serial gateway. Even then, the RPI as a node fails to connect to the 2.2.0-beta serial gateway.
                                      4. I built an Arduino 2.2.0-beta node. This node is able to connect to the above gateway.

                                      There seems to be something different in the radio network between the RFM69HW on the RPI and the RFM69HW on the Arduino. But I'm unable to find out what the difference is :-(.

                                      The RPI RFM69HW will not communicate with the Arduino RFM69HW. When the RPI is a gateway, the RFM69HW will not physically interrupt when another node is trying to connect. When the RPI is a node, the RFM69HW on the ARduino does not interrupt either.

                                      Did anyone get the RFM69HW working on the RPI? I'd really like to get this beautiful piece of code working!

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                                        I have to ask a stupid question : did you use a logic converter between rpi and rfm69 radio?

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                                          I have to ask a stupid question : did you use a logic converter between rpi and rfm69 radio?

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                                          @gohan There are no stupid questions, right :-)? But perhaps a stupid answer: no, I did not use any logic convertors. The RFM69 is 3.3V and as far as I know, so are the GPIO pins on the RPI. But I might be mistaken, of course... Should I use logic convertors?

                                          At the moment I have no idea where it fails. Perhaps I need to give it a rest for a couple of days to think it over...

                                          I followed the steps as given on the web site (git branch development). Connected the RFM radio (7 wires: Vcc, GND, MOSI, MISO, SCK, NSS, DI00). Only modified MyConfig.h with regard to the NETWORKID (100 --> 101; my 'production' MySensors runs at 100) and enabling "MY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_RFM69". I configured with:

                                          % ./configure --my-debug=enable --my-config-file=/usr/local/etc/mysensors.dat --my-gateway=ethernet --my-transport=rfm69 --my-rfm69-frequency=868 --my-is-rfm69hw
                                          % make -j 4
                                          % sudo bin/mysgw -d
                                          
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