💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway



  • @gohan I had another sd card and tried a ready image of DietPi with Mosquitto pre-installed.
    I tried it without user/password and mosquitto accepting anonymous but:

    /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log:
    1521141160: Socket error on client <unknown>, disconnecting.
    1521141160: New connection from 127.0.0.1 on port 1883.
    ..keeps repeating...

    ...and sudo ./bin/mysgw -d:

    mysgw: Starting gateway...
    mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0
    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGLSQX,VER=2.2.0
    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: MCO:BGN:STP
    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
    mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
    mysgw: connected to 127.0.0.1
    mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
    mysgw: connected to 127.0.0.1
    mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT```


  • 1st patch is still working good for me. have had no issues since applying it.

    question. is it normal/correct for the gateway to ping or spam? every 10 seconds i see the gateway announce it's version.
    its not doing the full restart or anything.. just giving the 2.2.0 every 10 seconds.


  • Mod

    @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?



  • @gohan How would I interface the rest of my HA without MQTT...that's at the center of my plan really 😞


  • Mod

    I think OH should support it, but I was just asking to make a test.



  • @gohan I configured:
    ./configure --my-transport=nrf24 --my-gateway=ethernet --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-rf24-irq-pin=15 --my-leds-err-pin=12 --my-leds-rx-pin=16 --my-leds-tx-pin=18 --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=ZZZZZZ

    ./bin/mysgw -d:

    mysgw: Starting gateway...
    mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0
    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGLSQX,VER=2.2.0
    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: connect: Connection refused
    mysgw: failed to connect
    mysgw: GWT:TIN:ETH OK
    mysgw: connect: Connection refused
    mysgw: failed to connect
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:ETH OK
    mysgw: connect: Connection refused
    mysgw: failed to connect
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:ETH OK
    

    The controller doesn't exist on the DietPi card yet but I'm not sure if that's causing the problem.


  • Mod

    @masmat said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

    --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1

    remove that parameter as it is not needed for ethernet


  • Code Contributor

    @masmat I did a test with the following configuration:

    • Raspberry Pi 1 with Raspbian (2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite)

      pi@raspberrypi:~/MySensors $ lsb_release -a
      No LSB modules are available.
      Distributor ID: Raspbian
      Description:    Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.1 (stretch)
      Release:        9.1
      Codename:       stretch
      
    • MySensors master branch - Protocol version - 2.2.0

      ./configure --my-transport=nrf24 --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=m ygateway1 --my-mqtt-user=rpi --my-mqtt-password=password
      
    • Mosquitto version 1.4.10 (build date Fri, 22 Dec 2017 08:19:25 +0000) [installed from apt-get]

      pi@raspberrypi:~/MySensors $ cat /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
      # Place your local configuration in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/
      #
      # A full description of the configuration file is at
      # /usr/share/doc/mosquitto/examples/mosquitto.conf.example
      
      pid_file /var/run/mosquitto.pid
      
      persistence true
      persistence_location /var/lib/mosquitto/
      
      log_dest file /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log
      
      allow_anonymous false
      password_file /etc/mosquitto/passwordfile
      
      include_dir /etc/mosquitto/conf.d
      

      Added the mosquitto user (user=rpi, password=password) with:

      sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/passwordfile rpi
      

    It didn't show any error to connect to the MQTT broker:

    pi@raspberrypi:~/MySensors $ sudo ./bin/mysgw -d
    mysgw: Starting gateway...
    mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0
    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGL---,VER=2.2.0
    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: MCO:BGN:STP
    mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
    mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
    mysgw: connected to 127.0.0.1
    mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT CONNECTED
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/0/255/0/0/18,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:1
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:PINGED,ID=5,HP=1
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-5-5,s=255,c=3,t=25,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=32,pt=5,l=4,sg=0:500
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/255/3/0/32,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=33,pt=5,l=4,sg=0:4951
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/255/3/0/33,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=1,c=1,t=37,pt=4,l=4,sg=0:36053
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/1/1/0/37,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=32,pt=5,l=4,sg=0:500
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/255/3/0/32,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=33,pt=5,l=4,sg=0:5000
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/255/3/0/33,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=1,c=1,t=37,pt=4,l=4,sg=0:36055
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/1/1/0/37,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=32,pt=5,l=4,sg=0:500
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/255/3/0/32,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=255,c=3,t=33,pt=5,l=4,sg=0:5000
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/255/3/0/33,MSG SENT
    mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,5-5-0,s=1,c=1,t=37,pt=4,l=4,sg=0:36055
    mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/5/1/1/0/37,MSG SENT
    


  • @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?


  • Mod

    @mvader oh, that's normal. I though you meant something else



  • Yesterday I cloned the latest version on a recent raspbian (9.3) and I applied the first patch of @marceloaqno .
    We will see. So long there were no problems. I will send an update in a few days...
    As a last help I could switch to mqtt and do a restart after a defined amount of time (if no events are received)....

    Cheers,
    Otto


  • Mod

    @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)



  • How can I monitor the traffic data between the raspberry and RF module (NRF24L01) on a Ethernet gateway ??

    My gateway is built for Ethernet. I start the gateway with "service mysgw start"
    Now, I would like to get the same data output than output debug (./bin/mysgw -d) but without stop mysgw service.
    I need to use MYSController as Ethernet client at the same time.

    Thanks


  • Mod



  • @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.



  • @MasMat : what does your mysgw.log show?



  • @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.



  • @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?



  • @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?



  • 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)


  • Mod

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


  • Code Contributor

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


  • Code Contributor

    @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.


  • Code Contributor

    @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.



  • @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?


  • Mod

    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


  • Code Contributor

    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.



  • @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
    

  • Mod

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



  • @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"

  • Mod

    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


  • Contest Winner

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



  • @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


  • Contest Winner

    @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.



  • @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 🙂


  • Contest Winner

    @masmat looks to me that your gateway is not set up for signing


  • Mod

    @anticimex I think he didn't use all the parameters for the configure, right?


  • Contest Winner

    @gohan the simple flags should not need more args, but I don't use a rPi as gw so I honestly am not sure exactly the args to use. The beta documentation has clear instructions for rPi signing, but those are specifically for beta branch and probably don't map exactly to the release yet.



  • @gohan The whole configure-line:

    sudo ./configure --my-transport=nrf24 --my-rf24-irq-pin=15 --my-signing=software --my-signing-request-signatures --my-signing-weak_security --my-signing-debug --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=ZZZZZZ --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-user=XXXX --my-mqtt-password=YYYYY --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
    

    If anyone can tell what's missing or if there's a typo?


  • Contest Winner


  • Contest Winner

    @masmat you have redundant flags. The password option require no other signing flags. Only if you select software as signing backend you need other options (and none of the simple flags)

    And remember that if you use software signing and not password signing, you need to personalize the GW and/or node.



  • @anticimex I thought so too, but I'm grasping at straws to get the signing to work.
    To clarify, is the following enough for simple signing: --my-signing-debug --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=ZZZZZZ

    And the arduino code #define MY_SIGNING_SIMPLE_PASSWD = "ZZZZZZ"
    Any difference where it's placed in the code? Anything else to check for?


  • Contest Winner

    @masmat it needs to be defined prior to the inclusion of mysensors.h. That should be it. (on the arduino node that is).


  • Plugin Developer

    While on the subject: what would be the flags needed for setting the gateway to only use the simple encryption but not the (simple) signing feature?

    I looked in the documentation and the node commands aren't mirrored for the gateway. I was hoping for something like:

    --MY_SIGNING_SIMPLE_PASSWD=flowerpot77
    --MY_ENCRYPTION_SIMPLE_PASSWD=spiderman41


  • Mod

    It's actually not needed since you can still set signing as optional on gateway


  • Contest Winner

    @alowhum that feature is still only available for beta and is documented here: https://www.mysensors.org/apidocs-beta/group__SecuritySettingGrpPub.html

    EDIT: not yet for rPi

    Pull requests are welcome. I don't have time for this at the moment.


  • Plugin Developer

    Right. So is this correct?

    NODES (arduino nano)
    On all my nodes I will update them to have this code at the top:

    #define MY_ENCRYPTION_SIMPLE_PASSWD spiderman41 // unfortunately Nano hardware doesn't really have enough memory for signing.
    #define MY_RF24_CHANNEL 100 // in EU the default channel 76 overlaps with wifi.
    #define MY_RF24_DATARATE RF24_1MBPS // slower datarate makes the network more stable?

    GATEWAY (Raspberry Pi Zero W)
    On my gateway I will use this configure code:

    --my-security-password=spiderman41
    --my-rf24-encryption-enabled
    --my-signing-weak_security
    --my-rf24-channel=100
    --extra-cxxflags="-DMY_RF24_DATARATE=(RF24_1MBPS)"


  • Contest Winner

    @alowhum you will need to enable weak security as well as that will enable both signing and encryption with signature requirements from all nodes on the gw


  • Plugin Developer

    @Anticimex thanks!

    as that will enable both signing and encryption with signature requirements from all nodes on the gw
    But I don't want signing? Or do you mean that it will remove that requirement?

    I only need to set that on the gateway, right?
    I've also added a slower datarate, thinking that will also create a more stable connection. I am in a busy urban environment with lots of RF noise. Is that smart?


  • Contest Winner

    @alowhum I thought you did not want signing: "but not the (simple) signing feature?"


  • Plugin Developer

    Yes, I don't want signing. But what you wrote said that it wil ENABLE signing. Check your sentence. Probably a typo, but I wanted to make sure 🙂


  • Contest Winner

    @alowhum the simple security flag enables signing yes.


  • Plugin Developer

    @alowhum said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

    --my-signing-weak_security

    But does the "--my-signing-weak_security" enable signing?

    I want to disable signing completely. What flags do I need to use when building a gateway that only uses encryption?


  • Contest Winner

    @alowhum just don't use any flags mentioning signing, personalize the gw according to the documentation and pick the appropriate encryption flag.



  • @anticimex I've built a new node, DHT11 that sends temp&hum data. I reconfigured Rpi with this:

    sudo ./configure --my-transport=nrf24 --my-rf24-irq-pin=15 --my-signing-debug --my-signing=password --my-signing-password=XXXXXX --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=127.0.0.1 --my-mqtt-user=YYYY --my-mqtt-password=ZZZZZ --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
    

    This is what I get in gw syslog:

    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: Starting gateway...
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: Protocol version - 2.2.0
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP=RNNGLSQX,VER=2.2.0
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: !SGN:BND:PWD<8
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: !SGN:INI:BND FAIL
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: TSF:LRT:OK
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: TSM:INIT
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: TSF:WUR:MS=0
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: TSM:INIT:TSP OK
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: TSM:INIT:GW MODE
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR=0,DIS=0
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: MCO:BGN:STP
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TSP=1
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT RECONNECT
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: connected to 127.0.0.1
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: GWT:RMQ:MQTT CONNECTED
    Apr  2 22:53:11 DietPi mysgw: GWT:TPS:TOPIC=mysensors-out/0/255/0/0/18,MSG SENT
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,99-99-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:BC
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:FPAR REQ,ID=99
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:PNG:SEND,TO=0
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:CKU:OK
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:GWL OK
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: SGN:SKP:MSG CMD=3,TYPE=8
    Apr  2 22:53:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-99-99,s=255,c=3,t=8,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:0
    Apr  2 22:53:25 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,99-99-0,s=255,c=3,t=24,pt=1,l=1,sg=0:1
    Apr  2 22:53:25 DietPi mysgw: SGN:SKP:MSG CMD=3,TYPE=24
    Apr  2 22:53:25 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:PINGED,ID=99,HP=1
    Apr  2 22:53:25 DietPi mysgw: SGN:SKP:MSG CMD=3,TYPE=25
    Apr  2 22:53:25 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:SEND,0-0-99-99,s=255,c=3,t=25,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:1
    Apr  2 22:54:18 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,99-99-0,s=1,c=3,t=16,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
    Apr  2 22:54:18 DietPi mysgw: SGN:SKP:MSG CMD=3,TYPE=16
    Apr  2 22:54:18 DietPi mysgw: !SGN:NCE:GEN
    Apr  2 22:54:23 DietPi mysgw: TSF:MSG:READ,99-99-0,s=0,c=3,t=16,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
    Apr  2 22:54:23 DietPi mysgw: SGN:SKP:MSG CMD=3,TYPE=16
    Apr  2 22:54:23 DietPi mysgw: !SGN:NCE:GEN
    

    This is kicking my butt... I cant understand that last part about the nonce 😞
    I will add the code from the node as soon as possible.


  • Mod

    @masmat according to the log parser

    mysgw: !SGN:BND:PWD<8
    

    means the password is too short.


  • Contest Winner

    @masmat and this

    !SGN:INI:BND FAIL
    

    Means the signing backend failed to initialize. So you need to make the password longer.



  • @mfalkvidd Made the password 10 characters. From looks of the logs, it's working now.
    I cant believe I skipped the step of making the password longer... Just got too fixated on the password I came up with.


  • Contest Winner

    @masmat the nonce failures is because the backend never initialized so basically any call to the backend that can fail will fail.


  • Plugin Developer

    I just discovered these USB-to-NRF24 devices. Would it be possible to use that instead of connecting to the GPIO pins?

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-wireless-serial-module-serial-to-nRF24L01-digital-communication-remote-control-acquisition-module-nRF2401/32722937957.html


  • Mod

    @alowhum not with the existing code. Is there a datasheet that describes how these modules work?

    One of the reviews says "have no idea wath software to use with this" so documentation might be hard to come by.


  • Hardware Contributor

    Background: I use signing software on some nodes + whitelisting on a node (of course only PI serial is on the whitelist).

    With current --development branch (I think 2.3.0alpha) I cannot anymore set my previous personalized flags on gateway RPI3.

    In detail, with current master (2.2.0) I can do:

    sudo mysgw --set-soft-hmac-key=F618D4[...]848992B
    sudo mysgw --set-soft-serial-key=26[...]9
    sudo mysgw --set-aes-key=EC7[...]CEB4
    

    WIth development I did see only the --get[...] flags and cannot set anymore. Can you confirm?

    How can I set my previous values for signing?


  • Contest Winner

    @sineverba I believe this change alters how rPi port handles signing related personalisation: https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/commit/3c0b2727a56907277d4d04c985fd72b14e4a483c

    And, as usual, the documentation is a good place to start 😉 https://www.mysensors.org/apidocs-beta/group__MySigninggrpPub.html#MySigninggrphowuse



  • I'm currently compiling the code for connecting the NRF24l01+ directly to the Raspberry PI. Since I'm running the controller (on this case OpenHab) on the same Raspberry PI, would it be recommended the Ethernet or the serial flavor of it?
    In the case of ethernet, can I place the own machine IP (127.0.0.1)? This way, if I need to change the IP address of the PI it wouldn't affect the communication between the controller and the MySensors code, right?
    --my-gateway=ethernet --my-controller-url-address=127.0.0.1

    And by the way, for the signing configuration, it is mentioned in the documentation "Update the gateway config file with the generated keys/valeus", what file is that (name, path)?

    I should be able to re-use the keys I have defined before, right? So I just go to step 2 (no need to generate new keys).
    I'm refering to this link.

    Thanks,


  • Mod

    --my-controller-url-address=127.0.0.1 is not needed for ethernet



  • I found that the configuration file is /etc/mysensors.conf but " The first time you start the gateway the configuration file will be created if it does not already exist.", so that's why I wasn't finding it.

    Anyway, the file states that:
    "Note: The gateway must have been built with signing support to use the options below."

    What flags should I include to have signing support?

    OK, found it: just run ./configure -h and there is a list of options. Leaving it here just for future reference


  • Mod

    @joaoabs said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

    ust run ./configure -h and there is a list of options. Leaving it here just for future reference

    it is already written in the article


  • Contest Winner



  • Thanks for the replies.

    I've changed the PI from a PI1 to a PI3 and was able to make it working with signing. Its running smoothly, I guess the GW is chosen :).

    I'll now focus on the nodes, specially the SenseBender micros that are 2xAA battery powered and are consuming ~3% bat per day, but that will be for another post...

    Thanks!
    Joaoabs



  • Hi, is there any way to check the current gateway operating parameters? My purpose is to check the radio channel and power level set before compilation but I would be glad if I could check other configurable parameters. I looked at Makefile.inc and found some flags set, but not the information I was looking for (does it mean that the default values are set)? Debug logs neither provide these informations.


  • Mod

    What radio are you using?



  • @gohan nrf24, one deployment pa+lna version with external antenna and the other standard with build-in "zig-zag" antenna.


  • Mod

    I always set gw to max power if the radio is shielded



  • Hi,

    Is it normal to have frequently these errors in the RPI GW?

    May 11 00:43:54 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:43:54 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:43:56 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:43:56 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:43:58 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:43:58 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:44:00 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    May 11 00:44:00 nettemp mysgw: RF24: Recovered from a bad interrupt trigger.
    

    Thanks



  • @gohan Well, that is not an answer to my question apparently 🙂 I suppose that max power lever is the default setting according to the configure script's help.


  • Mod

    also look for a channel outside the WiFi range



  • Openhab2 on pi3b+ using nrf24 radios and mqtt. I can follow the wiring diagram, but the commands are a bit confusing and seem to jump around randomly. Do I put all the --my-blah-blah together after the ./configure to build a file? Should I do development version? Do the nfr improvements go together with everything else?


  • Mod

    @kberck3 said in 💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway:

    Do I put all the --my-blah-blah together after the ./configure to build a file?

    From the article "Note: All options must be added to the same line, after ./configure"

    Leave the development version for now, the stable works fine.


  • Mod

    @gohan to be fair, I added that note this morning so kberck3 might not have seen it 🙂



  • Appreciate the reply mfalkvidd and gohan! Service is running, will report back if I run into other issues.



  • Hi Guys,

    Is anyone here using the Pi with OTA updates? I'm finding them painfully slow (1-2 stream messages every few seconds). It's taking 1 hour per OTA update compared with 2-3 minutes when using the Arduino gateway!


  • Mod

    I did some tests on pi3 and I found slow ota too. Tekka has an open issue on github about this.



  • Hey guys,

    I tried to setup my Raspberry running Node-RED and serial gateway but I got stuck halfway. I followed the serial gateway compilation above and got it up and running, however using the serial nodes an Node-RED I could not manage to get them to connect tho the gateway.

    First I tried to connect to /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway which did not work due to permissions (owned by root). When checking out /dev/ttyMySensorsGateway I found it links to /dev/pts/1
    which belongs to root and the tty group. But I could not connect to this as the tty group only has write privileges. I think I miss some crucial point connecting those two together so I hope somebody can save the day by pointing me in the right direction.

    Thanks in advance,
    mirodin


  • Admin

    @mirodin

    So you run a separate arduino board as a mysensors gateway, connected with serial (USB) to your raspberry pi? Or do you mean that you are using the rpi directly with radio, and then run the rpi variant of the mysensors gateway code?



  • @tbowmo I run the gateway on my Pi directly with the radio is connected to the Pi's GPIOs. Compilation and gateway do just fine I, if only I could convince my Pi to let Node-RED talk to the device 😄

    EDIT:
    This is my output:

    dietpi@buddy:~ $ ll /dev/ttMySensorsGateway 
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 18 14:38 /dev/ttMySensorsGateway -> /dev/pts/2
    dietpi@buddy:~ $ ll /dev/pts/
    total 0
    crw--w---- 1 dietpi tty  136, 0 Jun 18 14:38 0
    crw--w---- 1 dietpi tty  136, 1 Jun 18 14:38 1
    crw--w---- 1 root   tty  136, 2 Jun 18 14:38 2
    crw--w---- 1 dietpi tty  136, 3 Jun 18 14:38 3
    c--------- 1 root   root   5, 2 Nov  3  2016 ptmx
    

  • Mod

    wasn't it the problem of the missing permission on the dialup group?



  • Unfortunately adding my nodered user to dialout did not bring the hoped success. I still get premission denied messages after a reboot of my raspberry.

    As my console print above shows the /dev/pts device belongs to tty but adding nodered to tty did not work out either (since the group only has write privileg). I have no idea how to fix this other then chowning the port to nodered but that feels wrong for me after years using linux based systems.


  • Mod

    it is not a solution, but you could switch to ethernet GW and you will avoid all the permissions problems.


  • Admin

    My 5 cents:
    Run it as a MQTT gateway, if possible. It makes things so much easier, when you interact with the data in node-red. Even integrating other controllers is easier, as you have the MQTT as standard backbone bus between everything.

    You need to have a MQTT broker (mosquitto) running as well.. But it's worth it..



  • Yes I came to the conclusion that this might be my only option even if it sucks as I have to subscribe to all events from MySensors, process them with Node-RED and republish again which screws my logging a bit. Right now I have another flow subscribed to "#" and write every event into my DB.

    Since I have everything talking to mosquitto setup to follow Homie Convention I was hoping for only having my MQTT broker bombarded with compliant messages and have Node-RED convert everything (assign device names, etc. using a SQLite DB) from serial so the rather cryptic MySensors topics do not show up there.


  • Mod

    @mirodin you actually need only mysensors-in and mysensors-out topics and their subtopics



  • @gohan Yes I know but now I can no longer just wildcard-dump every event on my mosquitto instance into my DB as I need to filter out the mysensor-in and -out topics.


  • Mod

    Or meanwhile just use the ethernet gw



  • Well... I think I fixed it, let's hear it for documentation. Just when I had MQTT setup half way I got struck by the idea that there was some group flag for configure. And indeed there is, setting --my-serial-groupname=nodered did the trick making /dev/pts/X owned by group nodered and let Node-RED connect to it, writing and reading works just fine now.

    Thanks @gohan for your input I think I would have gone the ethernet route in the end if this last test had failed.



  • I am currently trying to update to 2.3
    Have stopped service and deleted the file (systemctl status mysgw -> Unit mysgw.service could not be found.)
    Also renamed the config file /etc/mysensors.dat
    Renamed the old folder, then copied new files.
    Checked readme.md in MySensors-folder: MySensors Library v2.3.0
    Then I configured the radio and -> make, no errors
    However, changing to bin folder and executing mysgw shows: Protocol 2.2.0
    What am I missing?



  • @inso Did you sudo make install after building it? This command copies the service file and mysgw to their respective locations.


  • Mod

    @inso remember to unregister the service and then make a new make install of the new gw


  • Mod

    @gohan how is the unregistration done? I didn’t know that was needed. We should probably add upgrade instructions to the build page.



  • @mirodin
    make install before testing did the trick, now it is 2.3.0 . 😃
    Was just going step by step through tutorial, there it´s make -> test -> make install. Didn´t realized it would use old parts if it´s not first install ☺

    @gohan
    thought stop, disable and remove the service would be enough to ensure the service is completely "uninstalled" - could you give me a hint what I´ve missed? 😅



  • Hi,
    I try to access log info from my gateway installed on my domoticz raspberry pi, but I get no success..
    First, I can't find the mysensors.conf file : nothing in the /etc folder. I tried to use "find / -name 'mysensors.conf' 2>/dev/null" command, but it finds nothing.
    I tried creating such a file (then it's found by the fond command above) and in which I have the lines

    log_pipe=0
    log_pipe_file=/tmp/mysgw.pipe
    

    as instructed above.
    I restarted the wole Raspberry PI, then tried the command cat /tmp/mysgw.pipe but error message:

    cat: /tmp/mysgw.pipe: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
    

    (= no file or folder like that)
    I then tried this: sudo mysgw -c /etc/mysensors.conf and I got also error message:

    mysgw: invalid option -- 'c'
    

    I installed the Mysensor gateway on 17th October 2017 and my raspberry pi is working on Wheezy. In Domoticz, I see the Mysensor gateway has version 2.1.1.
    MY gateway seems working fine, communicating properly with sensors (both ways). I'm trying to find log because I face an issue with a new sensor which works properly when powered with external FTDI 3.3V and only 1 way (sensor to gateway only) when powered on battery (I raised question in another post, where I was suggested to check log fil on gtw side..)

    Any idea of what I should do (except "reinstall whole raspberry pi with latest OS..) ?
    Thanks a lot,
    Ricorico


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