What I had noticed and was trying to point out was that the error was:

[WARNING] Unknown option detected: --my-mqtt-user=pi, ignored

not:

[WARNING] Unknown option detected: --my-mqtt-user, ignored

@meach Configure is not seeing the = in your command line properly - so I'm assuming a cut+paste issue with character strings.

Ie. It's seeing the configuration option --my-mqtt-user=pi instead of --my-mqtt-user and a value of pi.

Try to retype that part of the command line manually and try it again.

A

EDIT: As an aside, I usually put my configure command line into a script and then just run the script. Handy when you come back to it 6-8 months later and wonder what configure options you used the last time you ran it.

@trs-80 said in OpenHAB 2.4 MySensors Serial Gateway - How to install:

Currently, it seems there is some bug going on with their build system or something. I actually had lodged an issue of my own (and even had submitted a PR to correct the documentation) before someone replied, pointing me to the root issue. So for the time being, instead of using https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 location, you should use https://openhab.jfrog.io/openhab/openhab-linuxpkg repository location.

I ran into the same thing. Specifically, to get around this, the second instruction under the OpenHAB portion of the original post can be substituted with this:

echo 'deb https://openhab.jfrog.io/openhab/openhab-linuxpkg stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab2.list

EDIT: I've just noticed that they've updated the Package Repository Installation instructions to add the command above.

Further, if you care about issues such as software freedom (which I do a great deal) you might want to consider installing Azul/Zulu Java 8 (make sure it's 8!) which I have done, instead of Oracle Java. Azul's (also excellent) instructions can be found linked from the OpenHAB Linux install instructions. And that would also solve your missing repo problem, obviously.

If using Zulu Java, beware that the repos are not being maintained and are behind (see reference for manual instructions).

I used OpenJDK 8 for java with sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk-headless.

I'm using an Ethernet gateway (on a separate Raspberry Pi) though which is a twist on all of this.

--Allen

@hek I was able to add support for stream message types to the log parser but can't perform a pull request against the gist. Here is my diff analysis if you're interested in this small update.

I also made a subsequent one line change to correct the issue that @BoresExpress noted a while back.

@mfalkvidd Thank you - MY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_OTA_UPDATE does look like it's exactly what I was looking for. Further looking into the code here though, it would seem that it gets defined automatically if we define MY_DEBUG.

Turn it around, when we define MY_DEBUG, we should see verbose FOTA (+ Core, Transport and Gateway) information in the serial log output.

I'll attempt some more testing tonight to see what I can see.

@mfalkvidd It was more a matter of me not mentally differentiating between OTA firmware updates and other potential OTA use cases when I searched for OTA related directives.

I don't feel I'm yet in a position to be able to make clarifications to documentation. I would like to be able to get to the point of putting together a handful of walk-throughs for beginners but I'm still in an experimenting and learning phase.

Time will tell.

-- Allen

Figured out that I misunderstood the purpose of this directive. I was thinking (had assumed) that it was showing more verbose information through the serial output for firmware OTA update traffic. Once I looked at the description for it, it was clear that it is intended more as an alternative to MY_DEBUG - as in don't send debug output to the serial but send it over-the-air instead. I was declaring both and they conflict.

EDIT: saying they conflict is inaccurate. The problem was in how I was using it (inappropriately).

-- Allen

@alphahotel

Here's the contents of mysgw.cpp.

/*
 * The MySensors Arduino library handles the wireless radio link and protocol
 * between your home built sensors/actuators and HA controller of choice.
 * The sensors forms a self healing radio network with optional repeaters. Each
 * repeater and gateway builds a routing tables in EEPROM which keeps track of the
 * network topology allowing messages to be routed to nodes.
 *
 * Created by Henrik Ekblad <henrik.ekblad@mysensors.org>
 * Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Sensnology AB
 * Full contributor list: https://github.com/mysensors/MySensors/graphs/contributors
 *
 * Documentation: http://www.mysensors.org
 * Support Forum: http://forum.mysensors.org
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 */

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <unistd.h>

// For more options run ./configure --help

// Config file
//#define MY_LINUX_CONFIG_FILE "/etc/mysensors.conf"

// How many clients should be able to connect to this gateway (default 1)
#define MY_GATEWAY_MAX_CLIENTS 10

// Serial config
// Enable this if you are using an Arduino connected to the USB
//#define MY_LINUX_SERIAL_PORT "/dev/ttyUSB0"
// Enable this if you need to connect to a controller running on the same device
// You also need to define MY_LINUX_SERIAL_PORT above with the symlink name for the PTY device
//#define MY_LINUX_SERIAL_IS_PTY
// Grant access to the specified system group for the serial device
//#define MY_LINUX_SERIAL_GROUPNAME "tty"

// MQTT options
//#define MY_CONTROLLER_IP_ADDRESS 192, 168, 178, 68
//#define MY_PORT 1883
//#define MY_MQTT_CLIENT_ID "mysensors-1"
//#define MY_MQTT_PUBLISH_TOPIC_PREFIX "mygateway1-out"
//#define MY_MQTT_SUBSCRIBE_TOPIC_PREFIX "mygateway1-in"

// Enable these if your MQTT broker requires username/password
//#define MY_MQTT_USER "username"
//#define MY_MQTT_PASSWORD "password"

// Flash leds on rx/tx/err
//#define MY_DEFAULT_ERR_LED_PIN 12  // Error LED pin
//#define MY_DEFAULT_RX_LED_PIN  16  // Receive LED pin
//#define MY_DEFAULT_TX_LED_PIN  18  // Transmit LED pin
// Inverse the blinking feature
//#define MY_WITH_LEDS_BLINKING_INVERSE

// Enable software signing
//#define MY_SIGNING_SOFT
// Enable signing related debug
//#define MY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_SIGNING
// Enable this to request signatures
//#define MY_SIGNING_REQUEST_SIGNATURES
// Enable this to to weaken security for gradual deployment purpose
// (see signing documentation for details)
//#define MY_SIGNING_WEAK_SECURITY

// Enables RF24 encryption (all nodes and gateway must have this enabled, and all must be
// personalized with the same AES key)
//#define MY_RF24_ENABLE_ENCRYPTION

// Enable inclusion mode if your HA Controller supports it (e.g. Vera Controller)
//#define MY_INCLUSION_MODE_FEATURE
// Enable Inclusion mode button on gateway
//#define MY_INCLUSION_BUTTON_FEATURE
// Set inclusion mode duration (in seconds)
//#define MY_INCLUSION_MODE_DURATION 60
// Digital pin used for inclusion mode button
//#define MY_INCLUSION_MODE_BUTTON_PIN  3

#define MY_DEBUG_OTA
//#define MY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_GATEWAY
//#define MY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_RF24
//#define MY_DEBUG_VERBOSE_OTA_UPDATE

#include <MySensors.h>

#define ARDUINO 100
// This space is intended to be used to include arduino libraries

#undef ARDUINO

void setup()
{
	// Setup locally attached sensors
}

void presentation()
{
	// Present locally attached sensors here
}

void loop()
{
	// Send locally attached sensors data here
}

Hi folks. I've been working on building my sensor network for a couple of months now and although I've had some frustration, I've been able to work through most of the issues. I've recently started to work on getting OTA updates working and am finding it a challenge.

I wanted to try to get more debugging information specific to the OTA updates from both my test node and the gateway. In either case, when I add #define MY_DEBUG_OTA to the code in either my node sketch or my gateway's mysgw.cpp file and try to compile, I get compile errors.

pi@gateway:~/gateways/MySensors $ make
g++ -MT build/examples_linux/mysgw.o -MMD -MP -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a53 -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard -DMY_RADIO_RF24 -DMY_GATEWAY_LINUX -DMY_DEBUG -DLINUX_SPI_BCM -DLINUX_ARCH_RASPBERRYPI -DMY_PORT=8080 -DMY_RX_MESSAGE_BUFFER_FEATURE -DMY_RF24_IRQ_PIN=15  -Ofast -g -Wall -Wextra  -I. -I./core -I./drivers/Linux -I./drivers/BCM -c examples_linux/mysgw.cpp -o build/examples_linux/mysgw.o
In file included from ./MySensors.h:42:0,
                 from examples_linux/mysgw.cpp:87:
./core/MyGatewayTransportEthernet.cpp: In function ‘bool _readFromClient(uint8_t)’:
./MyConfig.h:2097:50: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
 #define DEBUG_OUTPUT(x,...)  OTALog((MY_DEBUG_OTA), true, x, ##__VA_ARGS__) //!< debug
                                                  ^
./core/MyGatewayTransport.h:82:30: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEBUG_OUTPUT’
 #define GATEWAY_DEBUG(x,...) DEBUG_OUTPUT(x, ##__VA_ARGS__) //!< debug output
                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
./core/MyGatewayTransportEthernet.cpp:297:5: note: in expansion of macro ‘GATEWAY_DEBUG’
     GATEWAY_DEBUG(PSTR("GWT:RFC:C=%" PRIu8 ",MSG=%s\n"), i, inputString[i].string);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
./MyConfig.h:2097:50: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
 #define DEBUG_OUTPUT(x,...)  OTALog((MY_DEBUG_OTA), true, x, ##__VA_ARGS__) //!< debug
                                                  ^
./core/MyGatewayTransport.h:82:30: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEBUG_OUTPUT’
 #define GATEWAY_DEBUG(x,...) DEBUG_OUTPUT(x, ##__VA_ARGS__) //!< debug output
                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~

...
It goes on like that for too many lines to post here.
...

Makefile:98: recipe for target 'build/examples_linux/mysgw.o' failed
make: *** [build/examples_linux/mysgw.o] Error 1

^^^ That's the output compiling the gateway.

This is a MySensors 2.3.1 ethernet gateway running on a Raspberry Pi . Same RPi has MyController 1.4.0_Final.

It compiles fine without that directive.

Any thoughts?

There's a broken link in the reference for MY_OTA_FIRMWARE_FEATURE in the Configuration section above (https://www.mysensors.org/download/sensor_api_20#configuration). I believe the correct URL should be https://www.mysensors.org/about/fota.