💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[gohan]

@Djames-Suhanko said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

--my-controlle-ip-address

this also is not necessary. Also for now remove all these --my-gateway=mqtt --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out
--my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in
--my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1
and use it as ethernet gateway to keep it simple

[Djames Suhanko]

Ok, I will try it right now!

[erobot]

Hello folks,
my past experience is using nrf24 library at https://github.com/Blavery/lib_nrf24, and i was able to send/receive "text" data (or "string" data) in between Raspi3 (master node) and Arduino (slave). And this is a big issue, because what i need is numerical data (float or integer), not text data, so Raspi 3 can process the numerical data (such as to do the plotting), and based on the processed data to make some decisions. My raspi 3 is controlling a moving robot. Can you advise appropriate nrf24 library for raspberry pi and Arduino, and sample codes for this kind of applicaitons? Thanks

[mfalkvidd]

Welcome to the MySensors community @erobot !

Not sure how you found us, but the library we use here is...MySensors. It certanly does what you describe. The best way to start is to read how MySensors works at https://www.mysensors.org/about and then go on to the many build examples and build your first node.

[Richard van der Plas]

hi there, somehow my gateway seems to stop receiving data after a day or so from my sensors,
restarting the service seems to solve it for a time, how can i troubleshoot this issue ?

[Carl H]

@Richard-van-der-Plas

Same trouble for me. I use mySensors since 2 years and I have no problem with my Arduino Gateway. But from now 2 weeks, I try to use a pi gateway. It's working well but sometime, don't no why, my nrf24 stop to receive messages. Just restarting mygw service and re-work again. I don't see nothing anormal in my log, stop randomlly after 1 or 2 days.

Maybe a power issue to nrf24, I will try to add capacitor just for testing if can resolve this problem.

[skywatch]

Same here too. With Rpi3 gateway. Would stop for hours, maybe start agian for a hour or two and then stop.
Have been running debug mode for last day, no idea what happened, but been stable so perhaps something in the update/upgrade made a problem and has now been fixed.
Will keep an eye on here and let you know if I find anything.

[Richard van der Plas]

Looks as if it happened after updating Home Assistant, but that should be 2 different things right ?

[gohan]

@Richard-van-der-Plas what version are you using?

[Carl H]

@gohan for me version dev (2.2)

[skywatch]

dev 2.2.0 beta

[gohan]

Have you tried both ethernet or mqtt?

[Richard van der Plas]

@gohan the latest stable version i guess. Where can i check?

[gohan]

@Richard-van-der-Plas try the 2.2 beta, it usually works better

[Richard van der Plas]

@gohan just checked it's 2.1.1, is it easy to upgrade?

[gohan]

@Richard-van-der-Plas just clone the 2.2 dev instead of the stable, the rest is the same

[Richard van der Plas]

@gohan fatal: destination path 'MySensors' already exists and is not an empty directory. It goes wrong with the first command, could you please give me some pointers ?

[gohan]

you need to either delete or rename the Mysensors folder :)

[llegoff]

Hello,
I designed a PCB for rfm or nrf -> raspberry pi
https://www.openhardware.io/view/470/MySensors-Gateway-for-Raspberry-PI

[gohan]

I am trying to get the gateway to run the RFM69W radio but when I issue the "make" command I get this

In file included from ./MySensors.h:318:0,
                 from examples_linux/mysgw.cpp:83:
./drivers/RFM69/new/RFM69_new.cpp:658:12: warning: ‘void RFM69_ATCmode(bool, int16_t)’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
 LOCAL void RFM69_ATCmode(const bool onOff, const int16_t targetRSSI)
            ^

It is latest beta.