💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway
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Should be possible to connect two radio modules and run two instances at the same time?
It could be interesting to have a hat with nrf+rfm, all in one. -
Should be possible to connect two radio modules and run two instances at the same time?
It could be interesting to have a hat with nrf+rfm, all in one.@Sergio-Rius it would be great if you could contribute to making that a reality.
An earlier discussion on the same topic: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4151/nrf24l01-and-rfm69-on-one-gw/So far, people have found it easier to add a separate gateway for each transport.
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@Sergio-Rius it would be great if you could contribute to making that a reality.
An earlier discussion on the same topic: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4151/nrf24l01-and-rfm69-on-one-gw/So far, people have found it easier to add a separate gateway for each transport.
@mfalkvidd thanks for guiding me on the starting point. Perhaps the raspberry can break the doble transport limitation.
I'll investigate in how to install two services at once. But it'll would be nice any advice on the device virtualization part. -
Maybe it could be as simple as running two instances of mysgw, using different pins for the nrf and the rfm?
@mfalkvidd Maybe. I'm programmer, but not for Linux. My concern is the part of the service that creates the virtual device colliding between the instances.
I'll do a test in a virtual machine as soon as I have some time.
It should be something easy to test. -
@mfalkvidd Maybe. I'm programmer, but not for Linux. My concern is the part of the service that creates the virtual device colliding between the instances.
I'll do a test in a virtual machine as soon as I have some time.
It should be something easy to test. -
@Sergio-Rius by "virtual device", do you mean the com port? If that's the caee, it can be specified with --my-serial-pty=
Ot let one gateway be serial and the other ethernet.
@mfalkvidd yes. Should work. I admit I've not taken a look at the code nor I don't know how to install the service two times.
I'm used to having problems with programs that use static resources allocation. But I don't know if that's the case. -
Hi guys couple of questions, apologies if they have been covered elsewhere.
I am running latest dev branches of domoticz and MYS on a pi2.
At random times it seems the NRF24L01+ LNA/PA goes down, or MYS goes down and domotics stops receiving signals from all of the nodes at the same time. I have the interrupt feature enabled.
I have set the option under domoticz/hardware/data timeout to restart if no data received in five minutes but I dont think this is an ideal solution, and have yet to find out if this domoticz feature actually works in my scenario.
Any idea what causes this? I found an old thread over on the domoticz/mysensors forum but no answers there. I am using a new sd card class 10.
What I want to do is try out the different MYS builds on domoticz ie MQTT and SERIAL as well as ethernet which I am currently running. However I'm not sure how to stop the current MYS service and completely clean up the current build to start from scratch... I have tried just re entering the ./configure commands then 'make' but this does not seem to work.
Many thanks,
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Hi guys couple of questions, apologies if they have been covered elsewhere.
I am running latest dev branches of domoticz and MYS on a pi2.
At random times it seems the NRF24L01+ LNA/PA goes down, or MYS goes down and domotics stops receiving signals from all of the nodes at the same time. I have the interrupt feature enabled.
I have set the option under domoticz/hardware/data timeout to restart if no data received in five minutes but I dont think this is an ideal solution, and have yet to find out if this domoticz feature actually works in my scenario.
Any idea what causes this? I found an old thread over on the domoticz/mysensors forum but no answers there. I am using a new sd card class 10.
What I want to do is try out the different MYS builds on domoticz ie MQTT and SERIAL as well as ethernet which I am currently running. However I'm not sure how to stop the current MYS service and completely clean up the current build to start from scratch... I have tried just re entering the ./configure commands then 'make' but this does not seem to work.
Many thanks,
Matt@Matt log files for the time where the problem occurred will be essential for troubleshooting.
make uninstall will stop the service and uninstall
make cleanconfig will remove previous ./configure settings
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@Grubstake: Thanks. I have tried to follow "NRF24L01+ Radio" pin out connection. I have double / triple check my wiring is correct. But I still get the same fail message in mysgw debug mode:
[root@alarmpi 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: Received SIGINTHere is my
/boot/config.txt:gpu_mem=64 initramfs initramfs-linux.img followkernel dtparam=spi=onand the spi dev:
# ls /dev/spidev0.* /dev/spidev0.0 /dev/spidev0.1I am using ArchLinuxARM:
# uname -a Linux alarmpi 4.9.13-3-ARCH #1 SMP Fri Mar 3 18:45:16 MST 2017 armv7l GNU/LinuxI only wiring 7 pins (1-7) on
NRF24l01+.Raspberry Pi 2 hardware information:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 38.40 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 1 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 38.40 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 2 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 38.40 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 3 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 38.40 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 Hardware : BCM2835 Revision : a21041 Serial : 00000000475d18a4 # cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1Output from MySensors
configure:# ./configure [SECTION] Detecting target machine. ./configure: line 111: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input [OK] machine detected: SoC=unknown, Type=unknown, CPU=armv7l. [SECTION] Checking GPIO Sysfs. [OK] /sys/class/gpio/export found [SECTION] Detecting SPI driver. [OK] SPI driver detected:SPIDEV. [SECTION] Detecting init system. [OK] init system detected: systemd. [SECTION] Saving configuration. [SECTION] Cleaning previous builds. [OK] Finished.I finally find out my raspberry pi board isn't detected properly in
configure. I change thefunction detect_machine:function detect_machine { ... case $hardware in ... BCM2835) soc="BCM2835" if [[ $machine == "Raspberry"* ]]; then local rev=($(detect_rpi_revision)) if [[ $rev == "a02082" || $rev == "a22082" ]]; then tp="RPi3" else tp="Rpi2" fi fi ;; ...make
mysgwagain, and I get this finally:# ./mysgw -d mysgw: Starting gateway... mysgw: Protocol version - 2.1.1 mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNG---,VER=2.1.1 mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK mysgw: TSM:INIT mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0 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 -
I'm just now testing the two instances installation. I was going to just alter the flag
--prefixbut now I see in options that there's also the install dir:Installation options: --prefix=<PREFIX> Installation prefix path. [/usr/local] --gateway-dir=<DIR> Gateway files installation directory. [PREFIX/bin]What do you think should be the preferred way for installing two instances, only changing
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@Matt log files for the time where the problem occurred will be essential for troubleshooting.
make uninstall will stop the service and uninstall
make cleanconfig will remove previous ./configure settings
make clean will remove compiled code@mfalkvidd OK thanks for your reply.
Have set up the -d parameter in mysgw.servie and am waiting for it to fall over again.
If I catch it I will post syslog.
Thanks,
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Seems that I'll need some help for getting this properly done.
I can't launch two instances of the service.What I've done is following the guide instructions with the following configuration:
./configure \ --my-transport=nrf24 \ --my-rf24-irq-pin=18 \ --my-gateway=ethernet --my-port=5003 \ --prefix=/opt/mysgw-nrfThen manually executed it, and it run ok and get one test node connected and Domoticz saw it all.
Then I duplicated the MySensors folder and in there made the build with the following configuration:
./configure \ --my-transport=nrf24 \ --my-rf24-channel=82 \ --my-rf24-ce-pin=37 \ --my-rf24-cs-pin=36 \ --my-rf24-irq-pin=33 \ --my-gateway=ethernet --my-port=5004 \ --prefix=/opt/mysgw-rfmEven when it says rfm, i connected a second NRF with the following pinout (blue=first NRF, green=second):
*IRQ on pin 33 as config says, and power from 1.Then I tried to make and run and I get this output:
pi@domo_testing:~/MySGW_RFM $ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d mysgw: Starting gateway... mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0-beta __ __ ____ | \/ |_ _/ ___| ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ ___ | |\/| | | | \___ \ / _ \ `_ \/ __|/ _ \| `__/ __| | | | | |_| |___| | __/ | | \__ \ _ | | \__ \ |_| |_|\__, |____/ \___|_| |_|___/\___/|_| |___/ |___/ 2.2.0-beta mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT CP=RNNG--Q- mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK mysgw: TSM:INIT mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0 mysgw: pinMode: invalid pin: 33 mysgw: pinMode: invalid pin: 37 mysgw: pinMode: invalid pin: 36 mysgw: digitalWrite: invalid pin: 37 mysgw: digitalWrite: invalid pin: 36 mysgw: You need root privilege to use SPI.Is that I have to connect MOSI and MISO to the same pins that the first NRF?
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Seems that I'll need some help for getting this properly done.
I can't launch two instances of the service.What I've done is following the guide instructions with the following configuration:
./configure \ --my-transport=nrf24 \ --my-rf24-irq-pin=18 \ --my-gateway=ethernet --my-port=5003 \ --prefix=/opt/mysgw-nrfThen manually executed it, and it run ok and get one test node connected and Domoticz saw it all.
Then I duplicated the MySensors folder and in there made the build with the following configuration:
./configure \ --my-transport=nrf24 \ --my-rf24-channel=82 \ --my-rf24-ce-pin=37 \ --my-rf24-cs-pin=36 \ --my-rf24-irq-pin=33 \ --my-gateway=ethernet --my-port=5004 \ --prefix=/opt/mysgw-rfmEven when it says rfm, i connected a second NRF with the following pinout (blue=first NRF, green=second):
*IRQ on pin 33 as config says, and power from 1.Then I tried to make and run and I get this output:
pi@domo_testing:~/MySGW_RFM $ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d mysgw: Starting gateway... mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0-beta __ __ ____ | \/ |_ _/ ___| ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ ___ | |\/| | | | \___ \ / _ \ `_ \/ __|/ _ \| `__/ __| | | | | |_| |___| | __/ | | \__ \ _ | | \__ \ |_| |_|\__, |____/ \___|_| |_|___/\___/|_| |___/ |___/ 2.2.0-beta mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT CP=RNNG--Q- mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK mysgw: TSM:INIT mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0 mysgw: pinMode: invalid pin: 33 mysgw: pinMode: invalid pin: 37 mysgw: pinMode: invalid pin: 36 mysgw: digitalWrite: invalid pin: 37 mysgw: digitalWrite: invalid pin: 36 mysgw: You need root privilege to use SPI.Is that I have to connect MOSI and MISO to the same pins that the first NRF?
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@mfalkvidd That was the culprit. Thanks.
But now... seems that the radio that is using channel 76 also get connections from nodes on channel 83, and the second radio, the 83 one doesn't pick anything.Is there a way to confirm that gw and nodes are using one channel or other during the bootup?
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@mfalkvidd That was the culprit. Thanks.
But now... seems that the radio that is using channel 76 also get connections from nodes on channel 83, and the second radio, the 83 one doesn't pick anything.Is there a way to confirm that gw and nodes are using one channel or other during the bootup?
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@Sergio-Rius try increasing the distance between channels to at least 10 or more
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@gohan Done. I've just burnt the node with channel 125 and it seems to have no effect. It registers on the 76 radio.
Does the
#define MY_RF24_CHANNEL 125has to be before or after the include of mysensors.h? I have it before.Well, I've changed the channel for the 1st radio to 83 and left the second at 125.
If I burn the testing node for ch125 it doesn't receives reply from the gw. If I then burn it on ch83, it registers and comunicates with the first radio.So I think the second radio does not work on the Raspberry Pi. The service communicates with the controller but does nothing for the network side.
Also on the second radio:mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING mysgw: !TSF:SAN:FAIL mysgw: TSM:FAIL:CNT=1 mysgw: TSM:FAIL:DIS mysgw: TSF:TDI:TSL mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING mysgw: TSM:FAIL:RE-INIT mysgw: TSM:INIT mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0 mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING
