HomeGenie and ZWave on Intel Edison

[jarrettv]

I'm experimenting with HomeGenie on Intel Edison. A tiny linux computer with integrated wifi/bt and microprocessor.

Mono compiles fine and you can run HomeGenie.exe fine. However, plugging in a Z-StickS2 is not creating a serial port that can be detected by HomeGenie.

root@edison1:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

[ 3010.060833] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using dwc3-host
[ 3010.085385] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60
[ 3010.085415] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3010.085436] usb 1-1: Product: CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller
[ 3010.085455] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
[ 3010.085474] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 0001

It doesn't appear to be loading the usbserial driver. Any ideas?

root@edison1:~# cat /proc/tty/driver/usbserial
usbserinfo:1.0 driver:2.0

[jarrettv]

Success!

So the edison uses yocto project which creates linux distributions with minimal included kernel module drivers.

I'm not (yet) a linux guru so compiling and installing a kernel module is a multi-day research project.

Anyway, the intel guys are slowly building up the opkg repository and they kindly added the drivers for me.

Once you add the repos you can do:
opkg update
opkg install kernel-module-cp210x

[MacGyver]

I loaded everything on my edison and can't seem to get Homegenie up and running. I'm at a loss here. I upgraded the kernal and also finaly got mono on it. It  is Intel firmware iot-devkit-prof-dev-image-edison-20160315,upgraded kernel-module-cp210x and Mono 3.12.0., lower versions and latest would not compile. I installed homegenie_1_1_beta_r522.tgz and it does not auto start and when I run startup terminal just locks up. I see it listed with ps.
 I have HG running fine on a Linux Laptop but I would love to get it going on this edison board.

Thanks! 

[MacGyver]

Ok Sucess in getting it running on the Edison board!
Since yocto is such a minimal system it is a royal pain to get used to!
Here is what I finaly did to get it up and running.

Install Yocto Linux image on the Intel Edison

Edit /etc/opkg/base-feeds.conf with the following (other opkg config files don't need any changes):

src/gz all http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/all
src/gz edison http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/edison
src/gz core2-32 http://repo.opkg.net/edison/repo/core2-32

Run opkg update

Do not run "opkg upgrade", that will overfill your rootfs and is not an intended use case for this repo.
Upgrade specific packages with just "opkg install <packagename>" if you want to upgrade something.

Then install to your board the latest Kernal.

root@edison1:~# opkg install kernel-module-cp210x

At this point you now can install mono if the above went well!

root@edison1:~# opkg install mono

It will install mono 4.2.2 the most current at this time.

When this is finished you can now install Homegenie.

root@edison1:~# opkg install libusb-1.0-0 alsa-utils lame lirc

Download and copy homegenie_1_1_beta_r522.tgz to your /home/root directory on the edison.

extract Homegenie

tar xzvf homegenie_1_1_beta_r522.tgz

Change to your Homegenie directory and run Homegenie!

cd homegenie
./startup.sh

Profit!

I need to work out it running in the background on this flavor of linux but I have made good progress with this puppy.
It is running much faster on the Edison than the Debian laptop that I have had HG running on.

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How does perf compare between edison and RPi ?

[MacGyver]

The performance is much better than the Raspberry Pi. Everything is so much more snappy.

I worked out getting homegenie to auto start when booting the edison.
I am using Systemctl to do it.

I made a file called homegenie.service and put it into /lib/systemd/system
the file is:

#  Home Automation Start
#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.

[Unit]
Description=homegenie
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/homegenie/startup.sh

Restart=always
RestartSec=10s
Environment=NODE_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


Commands available are:

sudo systemctl enable homegenie.service
sudo systemctl disable homegenie.service
sudo systemctl status homegenie.service

sudo systemctl start homegenie.service
sudo systemctl stop homegenie.service
sudo systemctl restart homegenie.service
sudo systemctl reload homegenie.service

Now I can run it headless and everything works great!

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Be nice to get this documented properly and the at least can say intel eddison is also supported

[MacGyver]

It is close to 2 months that I have this up and running and it is working well. I have also back in July added a compact flash card that has homegenie installed on it and the good thing is if Intel Edison Yocto crashes, you do not have to reload homegenie from scratch. I modified the DEBIAN scripts and move them over to a Directory called YOCTO. I am very happy with this board and only need to put it into a suitable housing.
I have started work on writing up how to do it from scratch from un-boxing the Intel Edison to it's current state running HG in my home. I will publish it here soon in the next few weeks.

Happy Coding
Harry