Help, homeduino not working anymore [Solved]
Hey @Andy-Voigt,
there’s nothing special about the pi3. But when you applied the patch from https://github.com/layereight/virtualhomeduino maybe you overlooked that the configuration of the pin numbering changed.
The configuration uses GPIO pin numbers instead of wiringPI pin numbers now.
See:
In your case it would be:
Guys,
since I changed my config for DHT22 to vhduino, I am receiving the error(s):
error [pimatic-homeduino,HomeduinoDHTSensor]: Error getting attribute value innenklima.humidity: unknown_command
error [pimatic-homeduino,HomeduinoDHTSensor]: Error getting attribute value innenklima.temperature: unknown_command
I changed the PIN numbers from wiringPI to GPIO.
Any ideas what I did wrong?
Hi,
About I week ago I messed up my previous Raspberry installation. It had Pimatic running with Homeduino and with a RF433 transmitter and receiver connected to the GPIO pins. This was all working until I did something wrong when installing a new plugin (Tradfri lights).
So this week I started from scratch with a newly formatted SD-card and a fresh install of Raspbian. Because I also need to run a separate Node app that needs a newer version of Node, I chose to do things properly this time and installed nvm. And then I also installed the latest version of Pimatic with nvm running Node v4.6.2.
Then after installing the Homeduino plugin again I ran into my first problem. I also got the “hardware not supported” and “garbage collected wiringX library” errors. After some searching I found this topic and followed the instructions carefully.
After this I ran into the second problem. Apparently, Pigpio needs to run as root, but you can’t use sudo when using nvm. So I did some more searching and found a solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21215059/cant-use-nvm-from-root-or-sudo
sudo ln -s "$NVM_DIR/versions/node/$(nvm version)/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/node"
sudo ln -s "$NVM_DIR/versions/node/$(nvm version)/bin/npm" "/usr/local/bin/npm"
That solved the second issue. Now I can run Pimatic without any errors. Great! So all is fine, except for one thing… The rf433-part is not working. It’s as if the transmitter and receiver are not connected at all! The wiring is unchanged and worked before and Pimatic runs with no errors, but nothing happens when I send a message.
Does someone have a clue what is wrong? Maybe @layereight or @DaanNL ?
Logs from Pimatic:
pi@pi:~/pimatic-app $ sudo node node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
13:19:43.894 2018-09-01 Saturday
13:19:49.278 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.43
13:19:49.290 [pimatic] Node.js version 4.6.2
13:19:49.291 [pimatic] OpenSSL version 1.0.2j
13:19:49.828 [pimatic] settings.debug is true, showing debug output for pimatic core.
13:19:51.756 [pimatic, ppm] 2.15.12
13:19:51.809 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-cron" (0.8.8)
13:19:52.283 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-mobile-frontend" (0.9.12)
13:19:53.020 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-homeduino" (0.9.11)
13:19:53.024 [pimatic] debug is true in plugin config, showing debug output for pimatic-homeduino.
13:19:53.670 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-sunrise" (0.9.2)
13:19:53.831 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-smartmeter2" (0.0.18)
13:19:53.869 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-tradfri" (0.1.17)
13:19:53.874 [pimatic] debug is true in plugin config, showing debug output for pimatic-tradfri.
13:19:54.065 [pimatic-cron] the time is: Sat Sep 01 2018 13:19:54 GMT+0200 (CEST)
13:19:54.452 [pimatic-sunrise] Your location is set to lat: 52.367027, long: 6.668492
13:19:54.501 [pimatic-tradfri] Plugin initialization...
serialport options
{ portName: '/dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_P1_Converter_Cable_P12H655V-if00-port0',
baudRate: 115200,
dataBits: 7,
parity: 'even',
stopBits: 1,
flowControl: true }
13:19:55.104 [pimatic] New device "Smartmeter"...
13:19:55.109 [pimatic] The device type Smartmeterdevice2 does not implement a destroy function
13:19:55.188 [pimatic] New device "Totaal Electriciteit"...
13:19:55.225 [pimatic] New device "Totaal Gas"...
13:19:55.252 [pimatic] New device "Actueel Electriciteit"...
13:19:55.323 [pimatic] New device "Electriciteit Dag Verbruik"...
13:19:55.352 [pimatic] New device "Electriciteit Uur Verbruik"...
13:19:55.382 [pimatic] New device "Gas Dag Verbruik"...
13:19:55.413 [pimatic] New device "Gas Uur Verbruik"...
13:19:55.447 [pimatic] New device "Electriciteit Dag Kosten"...
13:19:55.480 [pimatic] New device "Electriciteit Uur Kosten"...
13:19:55.501 [pimatic] New device "Gas Dag Kosten"...
13:19:55.532 [pimatic] New device "Gas Uur Kosten"...
13:19:55.570 [pimatic] New device "TV Meubel"...
13:19:55.604 [pimatic] New device "Vloerlamp"...
13:19:55.628 [pimatic] New device "LED lamp"...
13:19:55.659 [pimatic] New device "Alles aan/uit"...
13:19:55.700 [pimatic] New device "Weerstation1"...
13:19:55.743 [pimatic] New device "Weerstation2"...
13:19:55.769 [pimatic] New device "Bolletjes"...
13:19:55.798 [pimatic] New device "Boiler"...
13:19:55.837 [pimatic] New device "Contactsensor woonkamer"...
13:19:55.870 [pimatic] New device "Contactsensor achterdeur"...
13:19:55.900 [pimatic] New device "Contactsensor voordeur"...
13:19:55.930 [pimatic] New device "Kleurtjeslamp"...
13:19:55.965 [pimatic] New device "Weerstation3"...
13:19:55.999 [pimatic] New device "TradfriHub"...
13:19:56.020 [pimatic] New device "TRADFRI wireless dimmer"...
13:19:56.050 [pimatic] New device "Barretje keuken 1"...
13:19:56.079 [pimatic] New device "Barretje keuken 2"...
13:19:56.101 [pimatic] New device "TRADFRI remote control"...
13:19:56.132 [pimatic] New device "Tafel 1"...
13:19:56.155 [pimatic] New device "Tafel 2"...
13:19:56.180 [pimatic] New device "Keuken"...
13:19:56.202 [pimatic] New device "Tafel"...
13:19:56.228 [pimatic] New device "Scenes Keuken"...
13:19:56.277 [pimatic] New device "Scenes Tafel"...
13:19:59.046 [pimatic-tradfri] tradfri cfg: Gateway IP: 192.168.2.10
- Serial port is open
13:19:59.880 [pimatic-mobile-frontend] packing static assets
13:20:01.747 [pimatic-mobile-frontend] packing static assets finished
13:20:01.756 [pimatic-mobile-frontend] rendering html
13:20:11.710 [pimatic-mobile-frontend] rendering html finished
13:20:11.836 [pimatic] Listening for HTTP-request on port 8080...
13:20:11.843 [pimatic-tradfri] ...connection error!
CLEANUP
13:20:11.854 [pimatic-tradfri] Try to connect to Tradfri
13:20:11.889 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "ready"
13:20:12.242 [pimatic-homeduino] Connected to homeduino device.
13:20:12.288 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "ACK"
13:20:12.508 [pimatic-homeduino] Receiving on pin 17
13:20:12.869 [pimatic-tradfri] Gateway online - Firmware: 1.4.15
13:20:12.872 [pimatic-tradfri] Tradfri plugin ready
13:20:12.877 [pimatic-tradfri] TRY Obeserving now the device Barretje keuken 1
13:20:12.880 [pimatic-tradfri] TRY Obeserving now the device Barretje keuken 2
13:20:12.883 [pimatic-tradfri] TRY Obeserving now the device Tafel 1
13:20:12.884 [pimatic-tradfri] TRY Obeserving now the device Tafel 2
13:20:12.921 [pimatic-tradfri] Obeserving now the device Barretje keuken 1
13:20:12.929 [pimatic-tradfri] Obeserving now the device Barretje keuken 2
13:20:12.944 [pimatic-tradfri] Obeserving now the device Tafel 1
13:20:12.953 [pimatic-tradfri] Obeserving now the device Tafel 2
13:20:12.969 [pimatic-tradfri] Obeserving now the group Keuken
13:20:12.986 [pimatic-tradfri] Obeserving now the group Tafel
13:20:43.590 [pimatic-homeduino] Sending Protocol: switch2 houseCode:24 unitCode:2 all:false state:false Pin:18 Repeats:7
13:20:43.888 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "ACK"
13:21:04.965 [pimatic-homeduino] Sending Protocol: switch1 id:22641066 unit:1 all:false state:false Pin:18 Repeats:7
13:21:05.535 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "ACK"
13:26:11.903 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
13:31:11.917 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
13:36:11.929 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
13:41:11.941 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
13:46:11.950 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
13:51:11.960 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
13:56:11.973 [pimatic-homeduino] data: "PING"
14:00:00.104 [pimatic] Suppressing rule smartmeter2_hour_usage_costs execute because it was executed recently.
14:00:00.113 [pimatic] Suppressing rule smartmeter2_hour_usage_costs execute because it was executed recently.
And logs from my RPi:
pi@pi:~ $ gpio
gpio: At your service!
Type: gpio -h for full details and
gpio readall for a quick printout of your connector details
pi@pi:~ $ gpio -v
gpio version: 2.46
Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Gordon Henderson
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type: gpio -warranty
Raspberry Pi Details:
Type: Pi 3, Revision: 02, Memory: 1024MB, Maker: Sony
* Device tree is enabled.
*--> Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
* This Raspberry Pi supports user-level GPIO access.
pi@pi:~ $ gpio readall
+-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 3---+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
| BCM | wPi | Name | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name | wPi | BCM |
+-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
| | | 3.3v | | | 1 || 2 | | | 5v | | |
| 2 | 8 | SDA.1 | IN | 1 | 3 || 4 | | | 5v | | |
| 3 | 9 | SCL.1 | IN | 1 | 5 || 6 | | | 0v | | |
| 4 | 7 | GPIO. 7 | IN | 1 | 7 || 8 | 1 | ALT5 | TxD | 15 | 14 |
| | | 0v | | | 9 || 10 | 1 | ALT5 | RxD | 16 | 15 |
| 17 | 0 | GPIO. 0 | IN | 0 | 11 || 12 | 0 | OUT | GPIO. 1 | 1 | 18 |
| 27 | 2 | GPIO. 2 | OUT | 0 | 13 || 14 | | | 0v | | |
| 22 | 3 | GPIO. 3 | IN | 0 | 15 || 16 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 4 | 4 | 23 |
| | | 3.3v | | | 17 || 18 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 5 | 5 | 24 |
| 10 | 12 | MOSI | IN | 0 | 19 || 20 | | | 0v | | |
| 9 | 13 | MISO | IN | 0 | 21 || 22 | 0 | IN | GPIO. 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 11 | 14 | SCLK | IN | 0 | 23 || 24 | 1 | IN | CE0 | 10 | 8 |
| | | 0v | | | 25 || 26 | 1 | IN | CE1 | 11 | 7 |
| 0 | 30 | SDA.0 | IN | 1 | 27 || 28 | 1 | IN | SCL.0 | 31 | 1 |
| 5 | 21 | GPIO.21 | IN | 1 | 29 || 30 | | | 0v | | |
| 6 | 22 | GPIO.22 | IN | 1 | 31 || 32 | 0 | IN | GPIO.26 | 26 | 12 |
| 13 | 23 | GPIO.23 | IN | 0 | 33 || 34 | | | 0v | | |
| 19 | 24 | GPIO.24 | IN | 0 | 35 || 36 | 0 | IN | GPIO.27 | 27 | 16 |
| 26 | 25 | GPIO.25 | IN | 0 | 37 || 38 | 0 | IN | GPIO.28 | 28 | 20 |
| | | 0v | | | 39 || 40 | 0 | OUT | GPIO.29 | 29 | 21 |
+-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
| BCM | wPi | Name | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name | wPi | BCM |
+-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 3---+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
pi@pi:~ $ pinout
,--------------------------------.
| oooooooooooooooooooo J8 +====
| 1ooooooooooooooooooo | USB
| +====
| Pi Model 3B V1.2 |
| +----+ +====
| |D| |SoC | | USB
| |S| | | +====
| |I| +----+ |
| |C| +======
| |S| | Net
| pwr |HDMI| |I||A| +======
`-| |--------| |----|V|-------'
Revision : a02082
SoC : BCM2837
RAM : 1024Mb
Storage : MicroSD
USB ports : 4 (excluding power)
Ethernet ports : 1
Wi-fi : True
Bluetooth : True
Camera ports (CSI) : 1
Display ports (DSI): 1
J8:
3V3 (1) (2) 5V
GPIO2 (3) (4) 5V
GPIO3 (5) (6) GND
GPIO4 (7) (8) GPIO14
GND (9) (10) GPIO15
GPIO17 (11) (12) GPIO18
GPIO27 (13) (14) GND
GPIO22 (15) (16) GPIO23
3V3 (17) (18) GPIO24
GPIO10 (19) (20) GND
GPIO9 (21) (22) GPIO25
GPIO11 (23) (24) GPIO8
GND (25) (26) GPIO7
GPIO0 (27) (28) GPIO1
GPIO5 (29) (30) GND
GPIO6 (31) (32) GPIO12
GPIO13 (33) (34) GND
GPIO19 (35) (36) GPIO16
GPIO26 (37) (38) GPIO20
GND (39) (40) GPIO21
For further information, please refer to https://pinout.xyz/
pi@pi:~ $ uname -r
4.14.62-v7+
pi@pi:~ $ pigpiod -v
64
pi@pi:~ $ cd virtualhomeduino
pi@pi:~/virtualhomeduino $ sudo ./vhduino
ready
^C2018-09-01 14:07:44 sigHandler: Unhandled signal 2, terminating
pi@pi:~/virtualhomeduino $ cd
pi@pi:~ $ cd pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin
pi@pi:~/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin $ sudo ./vhduino
ready
^C2018-09-01 14:08:44 sigHandler: Unhandled signal 2, terminating
pi@pi:~/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin $ cd
pi@pi:~ $ node -v
v4.6.2
pi@pi:~ $ npm -v
2.15.11
pi@pi:~ $
Thanks a lot in advance!
Hey @WouterNieuwerth,
your Homeduino problem is exactly what this thread is all about. When you startet from scratch with a recent raspbian you will have a newer kernel. The Homeduino plugin is not compatible with newer kernels. That’s why @DaanNL created a fix.
Just follow the steps in https://github.com/layereight/virtualhomeduino#testing. Keep your hardware wired as-is. But you have to change the config of the Homeduino plugin. The configuration uses GPIO pin numbers instead of wiringPI pin numbers now.
See:
Hi @layereight,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I did, but the fix doesn’t work in my case. It fixed the error message, but not the problem so to say.
The hardware is wired as-is and the pin numbers changed to the new configuration. As you can see in the logs the Homeduino plugin says it’s ready to send and receive, but when I send something nothing happens (other then the extra line in the log) and when I use the regular remote Homeduino receives nothing. This was all working before.
Last night I tried again and did another complete reinstall including the fix described in this topic (just in case I made an error somewhere), but it’s still not working.
I noticed that the kernel on my device is version 4.14.62-v7+. Could it be that the fix is not compatible with this version?
Thanks!
Wouter.
@wouternieuwerth what do you mean by “wired as is”? This sounds like a wiring issue. The fix relies on pigpio, this should be compatible with your kernel. Do you have a spare nodemcu? You could maybe try “ESPimaticRF”.
Hi @gleno0h,
Thank you for your reply! I’m sorry if my English caused some confusion, but what I meant is that the wiring is unchanged to how it was before (when it was working). So I’m pretty confident about the wiring.
I’ll have a look at ESPimaticRF. Thanks for the suggestion!
@wouternieuwerth and which pins are you using (please count them from your board) and post your homeduino config please.
Hey @WouterNieuwerth,
sorry, I was not paying attention to your logs. But you are right, it looks ok.
The kernel version is not the issue. I setup my system from scratch regularly. Just did last week. I’m also on 4.14.62+, it’s a Pi Zero, though.
Are you 100% sure about the pin configuration? Can you do me the favor and double check that? Your pimatic log says sending on pin 18.
13:20:43.590 [pimatic-homeduino] Sending Protocol: switch2 houseCode:24 unitCode:2 all:false state:false Pin:18 Repeats:7
That means it must have been wiringPI 1 before (physical pin 12). Also see:
Okay… now don’t laugh… The wiring is correct. The software is correct. But I just found out that in my old set-up I had reversed the lines for the sender and receiver pins like this:
“transmitterPin”: 1,
“receiverPin”: 0,
so when I copied in my old config and followed the instructions here I changed these numbers to this:
“transmitterPin”: 17,
“receiverPin”: 18,
which is the wrong way around.
I feel really silly now. Everything is working now! Thank you very much for your help!
Hey @WouterNieuwerth,
no worries, happens to the best of us. Happy it works for you now.
Big grin on my face anyway. 
Hey folks,
first of all many thanks to @layereight and all others who is working on these problems.
I actually could addapt the vhduino patch for my setup and i now can send via 433 Mhz to my switches with the newest kernel. But i can not receive anything.
I have:
Raspberry Pi 2 B v1.1
Raspbian Jessie (fully patched)
pimatic 0.9.42
homeduino 0.9.11
gpio version: 2.46
kernel: 4.14.78-v7+
pigpiod: 60
node: v4.8.3
npm: 2.15.11
receiver on 3.3V and data to gpio17
sender on 5V and data to gpio18
any ideas?
Hey @cbrauweiler,
the fact that you can send properly shows that the problem might rather be related to your receiver hardware. What have you got there? I’m asking because some receivers are really bad. I used to have a bad one myself. (bad means that you have to put your signal within a range of a few centimeters to be actually able to receive something)
See: https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/3052/help-homeduino-not-working-anymore-solved/116
I made a rtl_433 receiver a long time ago and integrated this in the vhduino… That’s the module I was talking about @layereight
Thanks for fast reply.
I have some of the cheap and bad ones and one RXB6. No one is working.
Ok i think i got it.
Copied your config example from your git. It seems it all has to be in the right order.
{
“plugin”: “homeduino”,
“driver”: “gpio”,
“driverOptions”: {},
“enableReceiving”: true,
“receiverPin”: 17,
“transmitterPin”: 18,
“active”: true,
“connectionTimeout”: 120000,
“rfrepeats”: 20,
“debug”: true
}
Hey @cbrauweiler,
sorry for the delayed reply. Were you able to solve your problem in the meantime? As far as I can see it, everything looks good.
How close do you come with your remote to the receiver in order to test receiving?
Hey @DaanNL,
good to hear from you. Also sorry for the delayed reply.
What module exactly are you referring to? I know there are some “old” DVB-T sticks out there with Realtek chips that can be tuned to receive 433MHz signals. Do you suggest @cbrauweiler to get one of those because they are better? How to configure the homeduino plugin then? Could you elaborate a bit further on this topic, please?
Thank you!
@layereight As i said above it is fixed. more or less 
The plugin config must have the right order like above and like in the example on git.
Actually i can receive and send, but i don`t see the receives in the debug log but i got the data from an outdoor temperature sensor.
