Issues on Pi

[RichieC]

I believe that I may have solved this issue!

I was using a 5v 1A PSU to power the raspberry Pi and a friend of mine suggested that it might not be quite enough power to run the Pi with the Z-Stick and X10 adapters connected, so I have replaced it with a 5v 2A USB PSU and it hasn't locked up since!

Homegenie r351 has now been running for 24 hours and hasn't hung or stopped responding once ..

Rich

[Gene]

Hi,

today I experienced the problem again after unplugging the 5V power supply from the USB switch.
But also found out that unplugging and replugging the z-wave controller after 10 seconds, the web interface started suddenly to work again.
So I am assuming that there's something in the z-wave driver that cause this (or at least that can be optimized to detect this kind of failure).
Can any of you confirm that?

Cheers,
g.

[Gene]

well... well... after that hg was kind of lagged. So I ain't convinced anymore that has any connection with the usb switch, since after stopping and restarting hg everything started to work again.

[Etienne]

Hi,

no it was not that. The status of the modules is reset at startup by HG itself as shown in the code:

http://sourceforge.net/p/homegenie/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/HomeGenie/Service/HomeGenieService.cs#l1827

That was done to prevent scripts to fire up at startup from previously stored parameter values that in most cases is not a wanted behavior.
I will be adding a flag in the maintenance menu, so the user can select the wanted behavior.

Cheers,
g.

Hello again ... wanted to ask again - was this ever implemented? I.E. keeping last x10 status between restart? I really would appreciate this as a optional config or something?

Also - I'm in the process of migrating from the Pi to a debian wheezy server (which i currently use for other purposes) ... carried out the install (gdebi) ... but HG is not saving all the module info - for example I add an X10 module, give it a name and set it to a 'light' - i then go out of modules and back in and the info is all lost - it still knows it's X10 A1 but won't work as when I go to control it say that config is incomplete. I've also just noticed that a lot of options under configure/automation are missing!? Confused!

[Gene]

Hi Etienne,

what mono version are you running?

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mono --version

g.

[Etienne]

hmn .... on the rPi it's v3.2.8 ... on my debian box it's  v2.10.8.1 .... i guess i should update that?

edit - mono was installed automatically when i installed hg with gdebi .... which packages should i update?

[Gene]

- remove automatically installed mono packages (optional)
- install mono 3.x from a backport or ppa

I suggest trying this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13365158/installing-mono-3-x-3-0-x-and-or-3-2-x

g.

[Etienne]

- remove automatically installed mono packages (optional)
- install mono 3.x from a backport or ppa

I suggest trying this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13365158/installing-mono-3-x-3-0-x-and-or-3-2-x

g.

I'll give that a go later on ... and will update.

In the meanwhile (& sorry for asking again) is there a way (even if I write my own script) to keep x10 statuses between HG restarts ... i had tried that think you mentioned about killing mono & then starting HG ... but no luck!

[Gene]

Hi Eitienne,

to make HG keep modules' status, use the restart option from the maintenance section. It will make HG do a snapshot of current configuration before restarting.
Still seems to be a bug when using /etc/init.d/homegenie restart/stop that is preventing current configuration from being saved.

g.

[Etienne]

Thank you for your reply ... but unfortunately that's no use for me as I need to restart using cron!

Hi Eitienne,

to make HG keep modules' status, use the restart option from the maintenance section. It will make HG do a snapshot of current configuration before restarting.
Still seems to be a bug when using /etc/init.d/homegenie restart/stop that is preventing current configuration from being saved.

g.

[bkenobi]

So restarting using "sudo service homegenie restart" (restarts HG not Raspi) will not keep the status?  We should use the restart option from maintenance?  Got it, I'll keep that in mind.

[Etienne]

- remove automatically installed mono packages (optional)
- install mono 3.x from a backport or ppa

I suggest trying this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13365158/installing-mono-3-x-3-0-x-and-or-3-2-x

g.

Hi Gene,

I installed mono 3.2.8 ...

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Mono JIT compiler version 3.2.8 (tarball Tue Aug  5 17:12:41 CEST 2014)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. [url=http://www.mono-project.com]www.mono-project.com[/url]
        TLS:           __thread
        SIGSEGV:       altstack
        Notifications: epoll
        Architecture:  amd64
        Disabled:      none
        Misc:          softdebug
        LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
        GC:            sgen

... but i still have problems - basically HG seems to not be installed properly even thou' I reinstalled from scratch using gdebi homegenie-beta_1.00.r403_all.deb

Some things seem to be missing - for example under Configure/Automation/Energy-Management there are no options ... when i add a new module i don't get all the usual options, and once I save the config is lost!

Have a look at the screenshots & let me know if you need any more info.

Help appreciated!

[Etienne]

bump ?? 

[Gene]

Your X10 hardware seems not to be detected.
Btw did you try with r408?

Cheers,
g.

[Etienne]

I'm on r403 ... is there an r408?

So - originally I had the cm15pro connected (thou' only after HG was already installed) ... but they i realized I had mono 2.x installed .... so as not to compromise by debian build I started playing around with a VM - which is were those screenshots come from. I installed compile mono 3 on that but no x10 hardware was actually connected - I just 'told' HG I had a cm15pro connected!

The thing is I got the same exact symptoms I had on the actual machine with mono 2 - which is strange.

So - does the cm15pro have to be connected before installing HG?

Can you post the correct procedure to install on debian, assuming mono 3.x is already installed? Pre-requisites .... and stuff like that?

Also - i'm considering moving to Z-Wave .... is HG more/same/less stable when compared to x10 on HG?