💬 Building a Raspberry Pi Gateway

[MasMat]

@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?

[Anticimex]

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

[alowhum]

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

[gohan]

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

[Anticimex]

@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.

[alowhum]

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)"

[Anticimex]

@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

[alowhum]

@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?

[Anticimex]

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

[alowhum]

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 :-)

[Anticimex]

@alowhum the simple security flag enables signing yes.

[alowhum]

@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?

[Anticimex]

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

[MasMat]

@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.

[mfalkvidd]

@masmat according to the log parser

mysgw: !SGN:BND:PWD<8

means the password is too short.

[Anticimex]

@masmat and this

!SGN:INI:BND FAIL

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

[MasMat]

@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.

[Anticimex]

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

[alowhum]

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

[mfalkvidd]

@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.