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💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

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    @MasMat : what does your mysgw.log show?

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    • mfalkviddM mfalkvidd

      @romeo01 see instructions at https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry#troubleshooting

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      @mfalkvidd Thanks fer info, now I can see the serial protocol as well in the syslog. Next step should be to have a logfile dedicated to mysgw.

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        @MasMat : what does your mysgw.log show?

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        @otto001
        Syslog:

        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi systemd[1]: Started MySensors Gateway daemon.
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: Starting gateway...
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGL---,VER=2.2.0
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: TSM:INIT
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: connected to 127.0.0.1
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT CONNECTED
        Mar 21 20:06:05 DietPi mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/0/255/0/0/18,MSG SENT
        

        Where is mysgw.log?

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          @MasMat : I just forgot, that I reconfigured rsyslogd to log mysgw to a different file. syslog is correct.

          I do not use mqtt for mysensors yet, but the syslog seems good?

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            Was pointed here from another post, having serious issues with high CPU utilization op the gateway, is there any workaround and the moment?

            top:

            asks: 157 total,   2 running, 155 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
            %Cpu(s):  2.5 us, 23.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 74.3 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
            KiB Mem :   949580 total,   448732 free,   146912 used,   353936 buff/cache
            KiB Swap:   102396 total,   102396 free,        0 used.   737656 avail Mem 
            
              PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                                                         
              337 root      20   0   20492   1060    932 R 100.0  0.1  28:54.55 mysgw                                                                                                                                           
             3947 pi        20   0    8248   3324   2736 R   1.6  0.4   0:00.82 top                                                                                                                                             
              447 homeass+  20   0  340112  63684   9916 S   1.0  6.7   3:28.71 hass                                                                                                                                            
                7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3  0.0   0:04.18 rcu_sched                                                                                                                                       
              767 root      20   0  126572   8628   6544 S   0.3  0.9   0:00.95 piplight-daemon                                                                                                                                      
            
            PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
            NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
            VERSION_ID="9"
            VERSION="9 (stretch)"
            Linux raspberrypi 4.9.59-v7+ #1047 SMP Sun Oct 29 12:19:23 GMT 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
            

            Rebooting the pi sometimes helps, sometimes freezes the pi
            seeing nothing strange in the mysensors log what so ever
            running MySensors Version 2.2.0
            and Home Assistant Version 0.64.0
            Anyone can point me in the direction where to troubleshoot this further ?
            its not a high traffic gateway (around 10 sensors connected of which 5 updating every 15 minutes)

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            • Richard van der PlasR Richard van der Plas

              Was pointed here from another post, having serious issues with high CPU utilization op the gateway, is there any workaround and the moment?

              top:

              asks: 157 total,   2 running, 155 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
              %Cpu(s):  2.5 us, 23.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 74.3 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
              KiB Mem :   949580 total,   448732 free,   146912 used,   353936 buff/cache
              KiB Swap:   102396 total,   102396 free,        0 used.   737656 avail Mem 
              
                PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                                                         
                337 root      20   0   20492   1060    932 R 100.0  0.1  28:54.55 mysgw                                                                                                                                           
               3947 pi        20   0    8248   3324   2736 R   1.6  0.4   0:00.82 top                                                                                                                                             
                447 homeass+  20   0  340112  63684   9916 S   1.0  6.7   3:28.71 hass                                                                                                                                            
                  7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.3  0.0   0:04.18 rcu_sched                                                                                                                                       
                767 root      20   0  126572   8628   6544 S   0.3  0.9   0:00.95 piplight-daemon                                                                                                                                      
              
              PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
              NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
              VERSION_ID="9"
              VERSION="9 (stretch)"
              Linux raspberrypi 4.9.59-v7+ #1047 SMP Sun Oct 29 12:19:23 GMT 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
              

              Rebooting the pi sometimes helps, sometimes freezes the pi
              seeing nothing strange in the mysensors log what so ever
              running MySensors Version 2.2.0
              and Home Assistant Version 0.64.0
              Anyone can point me in the direction where to troubleshoot this further ?
              its not a high traffic gateway (around 10 sensors connected of which 5 updating every 15 minutes)

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              mfalkvidd
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              @richard-van-der-plas the best workaround so far is in the post I linked to.

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              • M mvader

                @gohan said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

                @masmat have you tried with ethernet gateway? If I have time I'll try the mqtt this weekend

                @mvader I never noticed that.... is it the mqtt GW?

                I'm not using mqtt.
                for debug purposes i use MYSController
                every 10 seconds on the dot. it shows me the version of the gateway.

                201	3/15/2018 20:47:15	RX	0 - Gateway	INTERNAL	C_INTERNAL	NO	I_VERSION	2.2.0
                202	3/15/2018 20:47:25	RX	0 - Gateway	INTERNAL	C_INTERNAL	NO	I_VERSION	2.2.0
                203	3/15/2018 20:47:35	RX	0 - Gateway	INTERNAL	C_INTERNAL	NO	I_VERSION	2.2.0
                204	3/15/2018 20:47:45	RX	0 - Gateway	INTERNAL	C_INTERNAL	NO	I_VERSION	2.2.0
                205	3/15/2018 20:47:55	RX	0 - Gateway	INTERNAL	C_INTERNAL	NO	I_VERSION	2.2.0
                206	3/15/2018 20:48:05	RX	0 - Gateway	INTERNAL	C_INTERNAL	NO	I_VERSION	2.2.0
                
                

                @marceloaqno any ideas about that?

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                marceloaqno
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                @mvader The gateway will respond with an I_VERSION every time a controller connected to port 5003 sends an I_VERSION request.

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                • gohanG gohan

                  @marceloaqno I got my gw rfm69 gateway suddenly stopped communicating with nodes. I tried everything to reinstall it but without luck. I was able to have it running on my test rpi with a complete OS reinstall. Is there anything else I need need to clean up from my install to reset every settings? (besides the mysensors folder and mysensors.dat file I already deleted)

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                  @gohan Sorry to hear that, mysgw doesn't change any system files, a simple reboot and rebuild of the gateway should be enough to resume communication in a case of more serious error.

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                  • MasMatM MasMat

                    @marceloaqno What does your mosquitto.log show?
                    I did a fresh install of DietPi (stretch), Mosquitto and MySensors --branch master. I left out everything and pretty much did the configure command as you did. I get the same result, but mosuiqtto log shows:

                    1521584708: New connection from 127.0.0.1 on port 1883.
                    1521584708: New client connected from 127.0.0.1 as mygateway1 (c1, k15, u'masi').
                    1521584733: Socket error on client mygateway1, disconnecting.
                    1521584778: New connection from 127.0.0.1 on port 1883.
                    

                    So is this normal?
                    I have one sensors built that's not connecting (its log shows it just trying and trying..). I would like to user simple password and the LEDs, I will build one extra sensors just to help testing.

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                    @masmat This is my mosquitto.log

                    1521680648: mosquitto version 1.4.10 (build date Fri, 22 Dec 2017 08:19:25 +0000) starting
                    1521680648: Config loaded from /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf.
                    1521680648: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 1883.
                    1521680648: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 1883.
                    1521762617: Saving in-memory database to /var/lib/mosquitto/mosquitto.db.
                    1521763549: New connection from 127.0.0.1 on port 1883.
                    1521763549: New client connected from 127.0.0.1 as mygateway1 (c1, k15, u'rpi').
                    

                    A socket error message:

                    1521764339: Socket error on client mygateway1, disconnecting.
                    

                    shows only if I stop/exit mysgw.

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                      @masmat This is my mosquitto.log

                      1521680648: mosquitto version 1.4.10 (build date Fri, 22 Dec 2017 08:19:25 +0000) starting
                      1521680648: Config loaded from /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf.
                      1521680648: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 1883.
                      1521680648: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 1883.
                      1521762617: Saving in-memory database to /var/lib/mosquitto/mosquitto.db.
                      1521763549: New connection from 127.0.0.1 on port 1883.
                      1521763549: New client connected from 127.0.0.1 as mygateway1 (c1, k15, u'rpi').
                      

                      A socket error message:

                      1521764339: Socket error on client mygateway1, disconnecting.
                      

                      shows only if I stop/exit mysgw.

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                      @marceloaqno OK, I will look into that once I have an extra sensor feeding my gw (the one I built is a little complex and could be buggy).

                      Another question: I configured mysgw without "simple password" to sort out problems.
                      Now to reconfigure mysgw I have to run the "./configure --blah --blahblah..." command and "make", but do I also have to do "make install"? And do I have to re-start & enable the service? Should I stop it first also? Anybody got a step-by-step for this?

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                        You could also make a simple node running mock mysensors sketch that can simulate a working sensor, if you need some data running through the gateway. When I recompile the gateway I usually stop the service, uninstall the mysgw service and do the make and make install. I don't really know if it is actually required but I like to keep things clean

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                          You could also make a simple node running mock mysensors sketch that can simulate a working sensor, if you need some data running through the gateway. When I recompile the gateway I usually stop the service, uninstall the mysgw service and do the make and make install. I don't really know if it is actually required but I like to keep things clean

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                          The two patches to fix ethernet stability have been merger into the development branch, and also some changes to the gateway logging. I updated the build instructions to reflect the changes.

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                          • gohanG gohan

                            You could also make a simple node running mock mysensors sketch that can simulate a working sensor, if you need some data running through the gateway. When I recompile the gateway I usually stop the service, uninstall the mysgw service and do the make and make install. I don't really know if it is actually required but I like to keep things clean

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                            @gohan I made a sensor that sends DHT11 temp+hum. This is the output (some of it..) from mosquitto_sub to topic mysensors-out. So I appear to have a something working. OpenHab2 is not finding any items still...

                            pi@DietPi:~ $ mosquitto_sub  -u XXXXXX -P YYYYYY -v -t 'mysensors-out/#'
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 14.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 46.0
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 15.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 45.0
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 15.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 45.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 44.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 45.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 44.0
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 15.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 45.0
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 15.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 44.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 45.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 44.0
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 15.0
                            mysensors-out/99/0/1/0/1 44.0
                            mysensors-out/99/1/1/0/0 15.0
                            

                            Once I changed the config to include simple password, it's not showing anything anymore in mosquitto_sub
                            It would appear that something is missing from my setup or there's a bug in the configure-line. Can someone tell if there's a bug here somewhere:

                            sudo ./configure --my-transport=nrf24 --my-rf24-irq-pin=15 --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=ZZZZZZ --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-user=XXXXXX --my-mqtt-password=YYYYYY --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1 --my-leds-err-pin=12 --my-leds-rx-pin=16 --my-leds-tx-pin=18
                            
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                              Look also in node log, that's the first place to look at

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                                Look also in node log, that's the first place to look at

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                                @gohan I did, I will post it (but it appears to send normally). But the only things I changed was:

                                1. Rpi configure added: --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=ZZZZZZ
                                2. In the nodes code: #define MY_SIGNING_SIMPLE_PASSWD = "ZZZZZZ"
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                                  I use also these parameters with the normal signing

                                  --my-signing=software --my-signing-request-signatures --my-signing-weak_security --my-signing-debug
                                  

                                  of course the debug parameter is there only for debug reasons

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                                  • MasMatM MasMat

                                    @gohan I did, I will post it (but it appears to send normally). But the only things I changed was:

                                    1. Rpi configure added: --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=ZZZZZZ
                                    2. In the nodes code: #define MY_SIGNING_SIMPLE_PASSWD = "ZZZZZZ"
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                                    @masmat check that the version you are using (release or beta) match your use of the simple flags, as they differ at the moment.

                                    Do you feel secure today? No? Start requiring some signatures and feel better tomorrow ;)

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                                      @masmat check that the version you are using (release or beta) match your use of the simple flags, as they differ at the moment.

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                                      @anticimex Both Arduino IDE is 2.2 and Rpi is compiled with 2.2 stable.
                                      I'm seeing !TSF:MSG:SIGN FAIL in the serial monitor so something is not compatible... I will try making password >8 characters next (currently 6).

                                      I will also add those parameters to see if that makes a difference before reuploading arduino code

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                                      • MasMatM MasMat

                                        @anticimex Both Arduino IDE is 2.2 and Rpi is compiled with 2.2 stable.
                                        I'm seeing !TSF:MSG:SIGN FAIL in the serial monitor so something is not compatible... I will try making password >8 characters next (currently 6).

                                        I will also add those parameters to see if that makes a difference before reuploading arduino code

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                                        @masmat if you add the signing debug flag and use the log parser on the homepage it should become clear what the problem is. You can also use the troubleshooting guide in the signing documentation.

                                        Do you feel secure today? No? Start requiring some signatures and feel better tomorrow ;)

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                                          @anticimex This is what's happening in the gw:

                                          TSF:MSG:READ,36-192-15,s=69,c=0,t=81,pt=1,l=21,sg=0:221
                                          !TSF:MSG:LEN,16!=28
                                          TSF:MSG:READ,75-68-77,s=48,c=1,t=110,pt=1,l=25,sg=1:249
                                          !TSF:MSG:LEN,16!=32

                                          The parser didn't really help much: more baffled than before....and I came away from the troubleshooting guide feeling really stupid :)

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