💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[marceloaqno]

@alowhum yes, to use MY_SIGNING_SIMPLE_PASSWD feature, add the following to your list of configure options:

... --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=<PASSWORD>

[Richard van der Plas]

Is there anyway where i can see if i have IRQ configured ?
ive build it a long time ago, but now upgraded to a nrf24 PA/LNA and have more an more sensors.

[gohan]

look inside makefile.inc in mysensors folder, that should contain the parameters you set in ./configure

[Richard van der Plas]

@gohanm, as it seems not ?, can i rebuild it easily? ```

SOC=BCM2837
CPPFLAGS=-march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a53 -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard -DMY_RADIO_NRF24 -DMY_GATEWAY_LINUX -DMY_DEBUG -DLINUX_SPI_BCM -DLINUX_ARCH_RASPBERRYPI -DMY_PORT=5003
LDFLAGS=-pthread
PREFIX=/usr/local
CC=gcc
CXX=g++
BUILDDIR=build
BINDIR=bin
GATEWAY_DIR=/usr/local/bin
INIT_SYSTEM=systemd
SPI_DRIVER=BCM```

[gohan]

make a copy of it and make a ./configure with the IRQ enabled and see what you get

[Richard van der Plas]

@gohan make a copy of the makefile.inc and restart the ./configure command again you mean ?
ill try it tomorrow, too afraid to break things late in the evening ;)

[gohan]

as far as you don't execute the MAKE command you are ok. Also make a copy of the mysgw executable just as backup if you never did it

[Richard van der Plas]

but ill have to do it sometime , just ./configure with all the options, build , test and install ?

[gohan]

if you only want to check if irq is enabled, otherwise you could just build it fresh with irq enabled and you can go back by replacing the mysgw executable

[Richard van der Plas]

@gohan ty

[Richard van der Plas]

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[Richard van der Plas]

Moved to normal troubleshooting forum

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[alowhum]

@MasMat Yes I was able to build it on a Pi Zero. I did a fresh install on Dietpi. It worked fine when I didn't give any configuration options.

Now, however, I am still trying to run something on the PGIO pins in paralel to MySensors again, and this is not working. As I speak the Pi reboots every 5 minutes.. Not sure what to blame yet. Domoticz, PiGPIO, or MySensors.

Latest DietPi Stretch, latest Domoticz beta, latest MySensors beta.

[gohan]

@alowhum said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

PiGPIO

what are you using that for?

[MasMat]

@alowhum I'm not using the GPIO for anything else.
I had everything working (mysgw-MQTT, Mosquitto, Node-Red and OH2) for almost 6h. Then I moved the set-up and everything went south: cant get mosquitto to start, cant get mysgw to connect to that or another Mosquitto broker, OH2 seems to ignore everything...
Spent the last 24h trying to resurrect Mosquitto but it's beyond me what's wrong.

I remember reading that mysgw renders rest of the gpio unusable. Maybe that's giving you problems.

[gohan]

I am running 2 gateway instances, one nrf24 and one rfm69 so I guess you can run other things

[alowhum]

@gohan: but you had to do a lot of black magic to get there right?

[gohan]

not at all, I just followed the guide in the forum

[alowhum]

@masmat I got the Pi Zero W working fine with other things using the GPIO.

• A fresh install helped
• It could be that I now use the PiGPIO library for the project.
• It could be the switch to another powersupply. I was using the official pi powersupply, but I suspect something was wrong with it. A cheap 3A chinese adapter is working fine.

Either way: it all works now.

I have a few n00bish questions about enabling encryption (without signing, so save space and ram):

• Is putting an AES key in MyConfig.h really all I have to do? Don't I also have to put that in all the sensor nodes? And is that proces complicated, using a signing sketch and whatnot?
• Can I have an 'opportunistic' network, where I have some encrypted nodes, and some unencrypted ones? If I could mix them this would make switching to encryption less stressful. I can't easily change two of my nodes.
• If I change the network, I'd like to move the NRF to channel 100 (juist outside of the normal WiFi frequencies). Do I also have to set that in all nodes, or is setting it in the gateway enough?