Homeduino receiving not working (Possibly not Pimatic fault)

kitsunen

Yo! I installed Pimatic 0.9 on my VirtualBox VM today, and it is working as it should. Only thing not working is Homeduino receiving. I did configure receivingEnabled: true.

The issue here might be that it’s running on VM. The USB is forwarded to VM. Sending is working, so I would presume it’s not because of the VM…

Any thoughts on what I could test?

sweebee

My pimatic 0.9 installation works fine in virtual box. I use /dev/ttyS0

Settings in virtual box: http://i.imgur.com/8J3NwYw.jpg

kitsunen

Huh… Okay so:

First row is how the VM sees the device!
Port/File Path is the ACTUAL address of the device!

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So, I am at the same point as I was with USB forwarding, as you said, /dev/ttyS0. Sending works, but Receiving does not.

Odd. Here’s the config:

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Checked that the baudrate matches in Windows (Host) and Linux (Client), 115200.
Tested with 2 of my Proven to work Homeduino-USB devices.

Is there some way to read all Input/Output of the Homeduino? I tried using PuTTy, the Homeduino responds with “ready”, but that’s it, nothing showing when I press a button on a remote.

sweebee

Hm, i’m using virtualbox on xpenology (linux) with a debian jessie vm. Might be something with virtualbox on windows?

leader21

Shoot, I don’t remember right now, but on the arduino ide serial console you have to send a command to see the incomming data. Icesory once showed me that. Maybe O For open?

kitsunen

Hmm…

So I have some options on what it may be… Will check with the same VM image on other computer that has worked before.

Driver issue
USB 3 issue (no USB 2 ports on the server)
Driver settings (there are many settings that can be changed)
Something with homeduino plugin (unlikely)

Is there something I could do with the baudrates (driver and pimatic)? @sweebee ,did you use default baudrates?

EDIT:

Okay… so: Arduino IDE cant send PING messages on my Windows machines ( https://github.com/pimatic/homeduino)
The device says “ready” on all machines…
Sending works on both Server 2012R2-Debian64 VM and Windows10-Debian64 VM, receiving does not.
The device itself works, tested on Raspberry Pimatic.
Tried on USB 2 port, USB 3 port.

So… Windows incapability to… what, read from FTDI? Any quesses? I have tried 3 different driver versions.
Board is this: “Mini USB Nano V3.0 ATmega328P 5V 16M Micro-controller Board FT232RL For Arduino”
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EDIT2: Now it seems I get PING commands to show on Arduino IDE… Maybe I’m onto something.

I have some CH340 Arduino nanos in my drawer, so I might solder some setups during my holidays… Maybe without FTDI chip it works out-of-the-box I am impressed with Pimatic 9.0 itself though!

kitsunen

Okay… so now I am in the phase that Arduino IDE on Windows can call “RF receive 0”, and it starts showing incoming RF data… so definitely something is being handed to COM port. which should mean that Linux VM should see it too.

Any thoughts on how to debug Receiving on Linux end (maybe without pimatic?), @sweebee @leader21 ?

Tom-Jans

I just installed 0.9 om a rpi zero and i can send with homeduino but cant recieve. I see the serial light blinking when pushing a remote. And when i cat the output of the serial port to the console i see the recieve events. They dont show up as a message in the messages section and i cant get autodection or a switch to work.

Homeduino config:

{
  "driver": "serialport",
  "driverOptions": {
    "serialDevice": "/dev/ttyUSB0",
    "baudrate": 115200
  },
  "receiverPin": 0,
  "transmitterPin": 4,
  "plugin": "homeduino",
  "enableReceiving": true,
  "debug": true,
  "active": true
}

Just update the software on the arduino to the latest version.

@kitsunen sudo cat /dev/ttyUSB0
The /dev/ttyUSB0 could be different on you device. use ls /dev to show all attached devices. it will probably be tty/USB or tty/AMA or something like that

kitsunen

Million thanks for the reply! I’ll show results asap.

leader21

@Tom-Jans said in Homeduino receiving not working (Possibly not Pimatic fault):

They dont show up as a message in the messages section and i cant get autodection or a switch to work.

when you are missing debug data eg. for homeduino set the following at your config.json to get the maximum output :

"debug": true, 
"logLevel": "debug",

Check your config, those settings usually are located relatively on top.

kitsunen

So… Updated pimatic, still not receiving. I now have confirmed (thanks @Tom-Jans ) that actually, the VM that Pimatic is on, does receive all the data. So the problem is, actually, pimatic-related, at least Linux related.

Permissions related maybe?

kitsunen

Now things got interesting, now that @leader21 informed me of the debug settings!

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Pimatic sees the input!!!

But. Switch state is not updating to correspond that.
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leader21

Does the state of switch change when switching on and off? True / False ?

Which hardware device do you have?
Maybe the switch protocol does not match / is not fully compatible?

kitsunen

Yes, the state changes, so If i only used pimatic to control this, it wouldn’t be an issue, but I also have remotes …

The switches are Nexa PE-3 Switches, Have used them for years without problems, in 0.8 protocol switch1 worked well.
https://github.com/pimatic/rfcontroljs/blob/master/protocols.md seems to support that.

Tom-Jans

in what config section do i need to add the “debug”: true, “logLevel”: “debug”, ?

kitsunen

@Tom-Jans I put it right at the start:

{
“settings”: {
“debug”: true,
“logLevel”: “debug”,
“httpServer”: {
“enabled”: true,
“port”: 5002
},
“database”: {

Tom-Jans

@kitsunen thanks

i got the debug info working and it does switch devices on and off. Discover devices doesn’t work but i can add them manually with the debug info.

@kitsunen when you switch on does the state of the message in the debug log show as true?

kitsunen

@Tom-Jans Yeah, it does. I’m out of ideas …

leader21

@kitsunen
ok little comprehension since the initial question of receiving homeduino debug has been solved.

you are having a HomeduinoRFswitch device with switch1 as protocol and the above settings. the same device worked with v0.8
the state changes in the debug from true to false when switching but the device in the gui does not toggle, neither switching on nor off

right?

kitsunen

@leader21

HomeduinoRFSwitch with switch1 protocol
Same device works with 0.8 (I did a clean VirtualMachine install for 0.9),
State changes from debug on true and false
GUI toggles ON/OFF when I press it from the GUI
GUI does not toggle when I press from a physical remote (ON/OFF)
EDIT: Forgot to list this:
Sending works from GUI (ON/OFF)

On the left is 0.9, right 0.8

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