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trubel

I have since been diverted onto other troubleshooting but I no believe this was a serial port permissions issue.

When I used this command ls -l /dev/ttyUSB*

I could see that only the “root” user and the “dialout” group have proper permissions to use the serial port, so I added pi to the dialout group.

Thanks for your help

trubel

I am using two moteinos (RFM69CHW), one as a serial gateway and the other as a DHT node. The serial gateway successfully reads the DHT node's broadcast just fine on my laptop - I can see the temp and humidity scroll by in the serial monitor.

But when I move the serial gateway to my raspberry pi, on which run mosquitto and node red, the serial gateway seems to init and then dies. Here is the debug

7/5/2017, 5:52:39 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;MCO:BGN:INIT GW,CP…", _msgid: "fa7a7cfa.9f8e3" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;TSM:INIT↵", _msgid: "83392787.d54478" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;TSF:WUR:MS=0↵", _msgid: "bcc29997.3e1ed8" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;TSM:INIT:TSP OK↵", _msgid: "1f8d6154.08a47f" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;TSM:INIT:GW MODE↵", _msgid: "5a2c462e.09d748" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;TSM:READY:ID=0,PAR…", _msgid: "67f5b4ad.dd813c" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;MCO:REG:NOT NEEDED…", _msgid: "7f7e915f.d8a83" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;14;Gateway startup c…", _msgid: "e7e4a656.416e28" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;0;0;18;2.1.1↵", _msgid: "28518b77.2d31c4" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;MCO:BGN:STP↵", _msgid: "b0188d98.b6cee" }
7/5/2017, 5:52:40 PMnode: Serial to MQTT debug
msg : Object
{ payload: "0;255;3;0;9;MCO:BGN:INIT OK,TS…", _msgid: "e3fccbc5.3f0cd8" }

Looks like my parameters for the serial node work ? - and I have a green light saying connected.

Watching the dht node in serial monitor, it looks like it no longer connects with the gateway:

0 MCO:BGN:INIT NODE,CP=RRNNA--,VER=2.1.1
3 TSM:INIT
4 TSF:WUR:MS=0
6 TSM:INIT:TSP OK
8 TSF:SID:OK,ID=254
10 TSM:FPAR
142 TSF:MSG:SEND,254-254-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
2149 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
2151 TSM:FPAR
2282 TSF:MSG:SEND,254-254-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
4289 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
4291 TSM:FPAR
4421 TSF:MSG:SEND,254-254-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
6428 !TSM:FPAR:NO REPLY
6430 TSM:FPAR
6560 TSF:MSG:SEND,254-254-255-255,s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0,ft=0,st=OK:
8567 !TSM:FPAR:FAIL
8568 TSM:FAIL:CNT=1
8570 TSM:FAIL:PDT

But when I reconnect the gateway to my laptop, it works fine again.

Is this a power issue at the pi usb port? Workaround?

Any other thoughts /similar experiences????

How to troubleshoot?

Thanks in advance.