Windows GUI/Controller for MySensors

[tekka]

@Tibus
I will look into that. Meanwhile, can you try to link the serial gateway to localhost (e.g. ser2net or socat) and connect via tcp?

[Tibus]

ok, I'll try that. Really looking forward to play with it ;D

[daulagari]

I can not select the serial port yet, so could not test it further, likely have to do some mapping in wine.

Took some time to find out but after:

• Adding a mapping from the Linux serial port to the Wine dosdevice configuration:
  ln -s /dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_* ~/.wine/dosdevices/COM3

• Adding to ~/.wine/system.reg:

    [Hardware\\Devicemap\\Serialcomm] 1231984861
    @=""
    "Serial0"="COM1"
    "Serial1"="COM2"
    "Serial2"="COM3" 

I could start MYSController.exe and select COM3 and get:

But after pressing OK things look to work however:

@tekka : Thanks!

[tekka]

@daulagari thanks for the workaround. Success with OTA?

[daulagari]

Doing OTA did work once but trying a second time did not work out yet.

I found that it is important the user that runs "wine MYSController.exe" must have access to the port ~/.wine/dosdevices/COMx links to:

$ ls -als /dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_*
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 25 jan 09:38 /dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_FT232R_USB_UART_A9SZN99X-if00-port0 -> ../../ttyUSB0

Is not good ("root root"), I changed the link to to:

$ ls -asl /dev/ttyUSB0 
0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 25 jan 11:34 /dev/ttyUSB0

In the debug log I see the 0;0;3;0;14;Gateway startup complete. message but no messages from the sensor.

Looks like the "File not open." window I am getting and:

fixme:comm:set_queue_size insize 4096 outsize 0 unimplemented stub

I am seeing on the command line has something to do with it.

NB: Seems like the GUI is programmed using TK. How about compiling it for Linux?

[tekka]

@daulagari
interesting, do you get the "File not open" message with AutoFW disabled? Also, what happens if you reboot the gateway several times (reset button), does the "Gateway startup complete" message re-appear? I recall that I had problems with OTA with the debug-mode enabled in config.h, the gateway kept freezing when sending OTA messages.
The controller is written in lazarus/fpc - porting to mac or *nix should be straight forward, I'll have a look.

[daulagari]

I have AutoFW disabled.

The funny thing is that things do not work at all if I do not get the "File not open" error.
No, rebooting the gateway does not make the "Gateway startup complete" message re-appear.

Did watch the serial port using interceptty and see data is passed so it seems like Wine is not passing it.

[daulagari]

Did do some more experimenting using a sort of Ethernet gateway (actual the relayed Serial gateway data) and see that MYSController.exe can connect but once it prints the first data it gives the "File not open." error and no further data is printed.

So it does not look like a serial port issue but something else.

Did not know Lazarus but it looks pretty good!

[tekka]

@daulagari
ok, I could reproduce the error which seems to appear in connection with scrambled data from the gateway (during the gateway startup). If you press the dis- and connect-button a few times once the error appears, all pending messages will be processed and the controller should resume.

[tekka]

New version available with bug fixes 0.1.2.256:

• "File not open" error fixed
• Display errors fixed
• Mac users: use wine to run program, no remapping of serial ports necessary - use e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0 in config window

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[hek]

Great, I'll add a link from the main site to your project.

[daulagari]

@tekka : Thanks, things work now fine! :+1:

[ch3b7]

Any source code?

[AWI]

@tekka Hi, Chrome is blocking the download of the Windows GUI/Controller zip archive for being "harmfull". any clue?

[tekka]

@AWI My guess is because of the upx-packed executable (MYSController.exe) in the archive being recognized as false positive.

[tekka]

@ch3b7 said:

Any source code?

Yes, I will provide the source code in the nearest future.

[doblanch]

Hello team, thanks for the great job. This tool is very useful.
however, I don't understand how the tool can snif. I guess, that I have to connect an arduino in serial ( I use the tool in a VM)... but with which sketch ? a gateway sketch...I think I missed something, but if somebody can elaborate a little bit. thanks

[ch3b7]

You need upload the serialgateway sketch to the arduino connected with the nrf24 the n connect the usb to pc and select the correct com port in the program

[mvader]

" It works in connection with the modified optiboot/OTA bootloader mentioned in a previous post. "

can someone link to that post? I couldn't find it
Thanks

[ch3b7]

You add ethernet support? Im add ethernet support in my program in .net its work good.