💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[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.

[mfalkvidd]

@gohan what configure command did you use? Knowing that would make it easier to reproduce the problem...
Does this warning cause any problem?

[gohan]

Just simple rfm69w 433 with default options. It compiles but I get no communication with nodes and 100% processor, but maybe I did a bad wiring

[mfalkvidd]

@gohan debug output could be useful ;-)

[gohan]

I would have posted it but it just shows as no nodes are trying to connect and nodes are unable to find a parent of course. I'm using the rfm2nrf pcb in order to have the pins to connect to the raspberry.

PS here is the log of the startup

 __  __       ____
|  \/  |_   _/ ___|  ___ _ __  ___  ___  _ __ ___
| |\/| | | | \___ \ / _ \ `_ \/ __|/ _ \| `__/ __|
| |  | | |_| |___| |  __/ | | \__ \  _  | |  \__ \
|_|  |_|\__, |____/ \___|_| |_|___/\___/|_|  |___/
        |___/                      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: 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
mysgw: New connection from 127.0.0.1
mysgw: Client 0 connected
mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;2;
mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;2;Get Version
mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING
mysgw: Client 0: 0;0;3;0;18;PING