Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]

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I’ll look at github later… for now this is the binary… i lost the source so have to digg into it again but i will trust me and i’ll share on github.
For now put the vhduino binary in the corrent location Tested on an rpi1 and rpi3
tar -zxvf vhduino.tar.gz
sudo cp vhduino /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino

vhduino download

@mwittig I did modify some sources and compilation parameters… will fix it soon

@DaanNL
the binary is working on my RPI3 with the newest Image and Updates. Thank you.

@Alexander-Lemke
Nice to hear! if anyone else has any success or failures please let me know! will share the source changes this week…

@DaanNL Just tested your binary on a rpi2 running Raspbian release 2017-06-21, kernel 4.9.28-v7+ (my original setup which did not work). Works like a charm now! Looking forward to seeing your changes in the github repo.

@mwittig said in Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]:

piGPIO

Hi,
I’ve tried to test some sample code for pigpio but i can’t get it running… what do you think about the rpi-rf library? (https://github.com/milaq/rpi-rf)

@DaanNL it works with raspbian kernel 4.9.35-v7+ on rpi2b. Thanks a lot!!!

@DaanNL said in Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]:

@mwittig said in Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]:

piGPIO

Hi,
I’ve tried to test some sample code for pigpio but i can’t get it running… what do you think about the rpi-rf library? (https://github.com/milaq/rpi-rf)

Almost got it working with pigpio! Means a lot less CPU I think! Good for RPI v1’s!

@mwittig ok… i’ve ported the vhduino binary to pigpio… seems to be working smooth… i think some developer should take a look at the source to optimize it

@DaanNL Sounds great! I am happy to review. Do you have the code on github already?

Code is online… i requested a pull request but don’t know exactly how it’s supposed to work… seems not everything is in GIT… i’ve hit a bug in pigpio, it’s mentioned somewhere but hard to debug… can’t get any stacktrace so for now i have modified their code to remove a segfault catch debug output… will commit the latest binary… you’ll be amazed how good it works… reception is a lot better (i’m using a cheapass RXB6 receiver).

I’m working on RTL-SDR support now… So we will be able to use a cheap USB dvb-t receiver…

@mwittig said in Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]:

@DaanNL Sounds great! I am happy to review. Do you have the code on github already?

Ok… I’ve got rtl-sdr working now also! please tell me how we can proceed…
I’ve rebuild the code… there’s a seperate thread for receiving commands… when choosing receiver pin “rtl-sdr” the rtl-sdr library is used to use a dvb-t dongle to receive 433 mhz signals! Works like a charm!

wow!! that sounds like a really interesting development.
somewhere i am having a dvb-t stick. need to search it

If it is supported by the rtl sdr library (https://osmocom.org/projects/sdr/wiki/rtl-sdr) then it should be able to work!

@DaanNL said in Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]:

If it is supported by the rtl sdr library (https://osmocom.org/projects/sdr/wiki/rtl-sdr) then it should be able to work!

That sounds good, I have also an old DVB-T Stick can you please explain what I have to install and change that it works?

I made some adjustments to the code today and currently testing in a real life situation… The nice thing is frequencies can be changed… Because the transmitters and receiver get inaccurate after a while… I have a dvb-t receiver for 8$ with standard antenna downstairs… Can receive signals 25 meters away in the garden and on the second floor… I’ll keep it running for the night…

@mwittig … So I’m thinking about leaving the plug-in like it is now (ported to pigpio and buildable for the a new kernel… So it can be added to pimatic…) and make a separate plug-in for the dvb-t receiver… Can you tell me how I should proceed to get the plug-in into the pimatic plug-in repository?

@DaanNL said

Can you tell me how I should proceed to get the plug-in into the pimatic plug-in repository?

if you release your plugin on npmjs.com our plugin sniffer will grab it up and publish it.

@DaanNL said in Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]:

Can you tell me how I should proceed to get the plug-in into the pimatic plug-in repository

See also https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/859