garybixler

My setup pocedure (stretch) 1. Image a CD and copy the pisetup to that image. 2. Install the CD into the Pi and let it go through its startup config and let it do its updates. 3. Enable ssh and VNC from the pi screen. (No keyboard or mouse used this time) 4. nano the pisetup.sh to change from DOS file. 5. from ssh sudo /boot/pisetup.sh 6. Answer questions. A. ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- This is the system setup script Mon Jul 1 09:21:44 EDT 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Connect WiFI if needed Mon Jul 1 09:21:44 EDT 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Press Enter to continue B. Geographic area: US C. Time Zone: Eastern D. Enter new password: E. What name for this system? PiConsole F. Install VNC on standard port (Y/N/alt port number)? y G. Is this the developer personal system (Y/N) (bit risky to say Y if it not)? n H. Download current beta as well as stable? n Is this the developer personal system (Y/N) (bit risky to say Y if it not)? n I. Autostart Console (Y/N)? This time I answered n J. Install known screen? y K. What type screen? pi7 L. Flip 7 inch......at top? n M. Auto reboot ......setup? y N. Set up example system? y O. Name to use for the ISY hub? ISY (used default here) P. Url to isy: entered ip address with port 5010 Q. ISY username, password? entered R. Example switch to use (ISY name): Not sure what this is asking for. I entered a switch name that is setup on my ISY (GarageDoor) I have also use a unique name like (PiSwitch). S. OK? y T. Proceed? y 7. Rebooted 8. Pi screen came up blank with blinking curser at top left. Can't get to Pi screen. If i try to stop or start the console i just get this: Failed to stop softconsole.service: Unit softconsole.service not loaded Files to look at: ls /dev/fb* (/dev/fb0) systemctl status softconsole (Unit softconsole.service could not be found.) journalctl -u softconsole (-- No entries --) This time it did not seem to configure the console at all. Sometimes it does. Sometime it will bypass ISY questions after a clean install. Results seem to vary dramatically. No consistent problem. Hope this can bring some insight. Thanks Gary

Hi I realized later that it depends on how I answered the question about the power plug being on top or not. Didn't know what the reference was to. But after re-imaging the CD many many times I pretty much have given up on this ever working for me. After my last reloads with the new script once with using the bata version and once without, it ended up with a blank screen with a blinking courser at the top left after rebooting to continue the console setup. Pi was locked up at that point. I ddi sometimes get the errors I previously mentioned and sometimes I can see the console running from the cpu usage but no console display just the pi screen. I am at version 5.0.15a on the ISY if that may have something to do with the problem. This is a really great idea. Thanks for all your help. Gary

Hi Kevin Back again. I received the Pi 7" screen and set it up on the Pi. However after running pisetup.sh and rebooting the display is upside down. Turned the screen over and continued watching the console install and it hung up with In red: missing parent : button D front door. Fatal console error - fix config file 'none type' object has no attribute children. console was up 3 sec console exiting - Ecode 13 During setup I answered the terminal type pi7 It asked if power button was on top. I answered yes the first time and no the second but made no difference on screen orientation. Also to answer the question for switch name I gave it one of my switches 'Test Switch' on my ISY. Thanks again for any help Gary UPDATE: You can pretty much disregard all the above. Just getting a message now that no console config found

It didn't work but that's ok. I ordered the official raspberry pi7 . I'll give it a try next week. Thanks for all you help. Gary

The HDMI is connected from the pi's HDMI port to the screen HDMI with a ribbon cable. Also the pi supplies power to the screen using a USB port which also allows for touch capability.

This file does not exist. I am just using a 7" touch screen I got from amazon supposedly for PI. So I picked pi7 as my screen type. It does work fine on the pi but maybe not so much for the console. Also there was nothing to install for it's use. What 7" screen should I have.

I was able to get the log: un 27 16:45:23 PiConsole systemd[1]: Started SoftConsole. Jun 27 16:45:30 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: 06-27-19 16:45:30 Console ( 26719) starting in /home/pi/consolestable Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: 26726(1561668331.29783): Logger loop ended Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: File "console.py", line 143, in <module> Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: utilities.InitializeEnvironment() Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/utilities.py", line 98, in InitializeEnvironment Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: hw.initOS(scrntyp) Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/hw.py", line 139, in initOS Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: GoBright(100) Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/hw.py", line 56, in GoBright Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: GoDimPi7(level) Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/hw.py", line 147, in GoDimPi7 Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: with open('/sys/devices/platform/rpi_backlight/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness', 'w') as f: Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/devices/platform/rpi_backlight/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness' Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: 06-27-19 16:45:30 Exiting with history trace (0) Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole softconsole[26717]: mvtops exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Current/' Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole systemd[1]: softconsole.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole systemd[1]: softconsole.service: Unit entered failed state. Jun 27 16:45:31 PiConsole systemd[1]: softconsole.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jun 27 16:45:34 PiConsole systemd[1]: softconsole.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Jun 27 16:45:34 PiConsole systemd[1]: Stopped SoftConsole. Jun 27 16:45:34 PiConsole systemd[1]: Starting SoftConsole... Jun 27 16:45:40 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: Starting using directory: consolestable Jun 27 16:45:40 PiConsole systemd[1]: Started SoftConsole. Jun 27 16:45:46 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: 06-27-19 16:45:46 Console ( 26738) starting in /home/pi/consolestable Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: 26746(1561668347.5379994): Logger loop ended Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: File "console.py", line 143, in <module> Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: utilities.InitializeEnvironment() Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/utilities.py", line 98, in InitializeEnvironment Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: hw.initOS(scrntyp) Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/hw.py", line 139, in initOS Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: GoBright(100) Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/hw.py", line 56, in GoBright Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: GoDimPi7(level) Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: File "/home/pi/consolestable/hw.py", line 147, in GoDimPi7 Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: with open('/sys/devices/platform/rpi_backlight/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness', 'w') as f: Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/devices/platform/rpi_backlight/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness' Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: 06-27-19 16:45:46 Exiting with history trace (0) Jun 27 16:45:47 PiConsole softconsole[26736]: mvtops exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Current/'

No editing beyond the pisetup.sh file. I did find softconsole.service file in /usr/lib/systemb/system. No system/system. I also found the same file in ~/consolestable/scripts/ Using 2019-04-08-raspbien-stretch-full.img I have rebuilt the pi cd card a few times from scratch. It did the updates.

Hi again Kevin I think I may have hopefully only one more issue. The console doesn't seem to autostart. When I do a start using sudo systemctl start softconsole I get this error. Failed to start boot-softconsole.mount Unit boot-softconsole.mount not found. Thanks again for any suggestions. Gary

Kevin Thanks a lot for your help. Got it running now. Gary

Hi Kevin Thanks for the help. It all went as you said. Had to sudo nano /boot/pisetup.sh though. When I now do the bash /boot/pisetup.sh pi just goes to a new line. Nothing executes. Unless I am missing something. File now reads: Read 323 lines (Converted from Mac format) Thinks Gary

Hi I thought I would give this soft console a try. Copied the script (pisetup.sh) onto the boot drive after copying the image to an SD card for the PI. After starting the script I got this error on line 4. /boot/pisetup.sh: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `$'\r'' 'boot/pisetup.sh: line 4: `function Get_yn() I'm not a programmer so I doubt I could go in and alter anything that my be a problem. Model 3 B+ PI. Latest raspian. Thanks for any suggestions. Gary

Having a Global Cache node server would be very welcomed. Thanks Gary

Thanks Bumbershoot for the location. I realize now that the portal polyglot store is cloud based only nodes and polyglot v2 is for cloud and local nodes. I see I would need to buy a pi if I wanted to use the CAO nodeserver now. It looks easy enough to install polyglot v2 on a pi with the one line script. I'll probably give it a try. Thanks Gary

Hi Just preordered the the new Polisy. In the Polyglot description I noticed many more nodes than are available from the Polyglot store via the portal. I was particularly looking for the CAO wireless Tag Node Server but isn't available in the store. I was wondering if I will need to wait for the Polisy or if that node server may be available shortly. Installed the Tesla node server and it works great. Excellent job. Thanks Gary

Just an update. This morning two expected routine messages were never received. I sent a feedback to Amazon explaining the problem that sometimes their devices do not trigger the routine. In fact this morning a routine twice didn't play from the app. Last Update I hope. In my case I think I found the solution. Putting the device in mute mode seems to have solved the problem. I use the audio output jack on the dot to connect to the Russound page input so I'm not sure if that is the reason or not. I ran through my routines from the ISY over twenty times and haven't had any failure at all. Thanks Gary

Hi Benoit I did as you suggested and disabled and re-enabled the V3 skill. After running through my six routines several times allowing several minutes between each run I did notice a definite improvement. But still some messages, maybe 5% just don't get sent or may be a minute or so late coming from Amazon I have watched the devices on the Alexa app and the devices always close and open as programmed to do so. The missing messages are not exclusive to any one device. Hope I get my newspaper alert tomorrow morning. Thanks for your insight. Gary

Hi This has been my issue all along since setting up routines. I also see the state change on the device from open to close and back to open 10 seconds later on the Alexa app but don't always get the voice response. It seems like if I repeat triggering the device several times from the ISY it starts working until sometime later it stop again. I believe this is an Amazon problem.

I have also noticed that some shipping notifications from Amazon have not been received or come a day late. This morning a routine message was received 20 plus seconds late and the second message 30 minutes later was not received at all. IMO I think Amazon needs to put a lot more computer power into notifications.

Yes I am using state variables as an Alexa sensor (contact). I have set up 6 routines so far and each uses a specific device triggered by a specific state variable. Several times I did the forget all in the Alexa app and did a relearn just in case the Alexa server may have gotten confused. Gary

Thanks Benoit, I have worked around any delay issues without any problems. But the main problem is that some of the messages from the routines just don't come through. For example I can trigger a variable and the message usually comes back but not always. That's with waiting several minutes between triggers and not always triggering the same device So in the morning when I expect to get the message that the papers were delivered nothing happens. I know the program runs because I have the ELK send a tone first just before the Alexa message. But I can run it again a few minutes later and I receive the Alexa message. So for what ever reason the messages are not being sent 100% of the time. My voice commands are always 100%. I just did a test with another program and the message didn't come back for 3 minutes than another after that took 20 seconds. Thanks Gary

Hi I have been testing the use of the Alexa routines for a week now, and can't seem to get a reliable and consistent response. I simply have several contact devices that set a variable to 1 for close and back to 0 10 seconds later for open. I did notice that Alexa doesn't toggle back to open from a close until after 1 minute but that isn't a problem. What is happening is that the spoken custom sentence isn't always being sent to the Dot that I selected for all the messages. Basically is works sometimes but not others. I have had Alexa forget all devices and rediscover sever times having then to rebuilt all the routines again. But the results don't change for reliability. However all of my Alexa voice to ISY commands work flawlessly. Also the routine response always works if it is played from the Alexa app. It seems like an Amazon problem but thought I would share my experience. ISY994i/IR PRO Version 5.0.13C Thanks Gary

Same here with old in-linelincs. Had to replace 2 after they began acting very flaky. After they were removed from the ISY they couldn't be re-linked. Replaced with 2 new dual band models and now no issues. Gary

When I first got the 2441V adapter it did have a much longer range but it seemed to fade throughout the years

Yes i discovered it is definitely a signal issue. Unfortunately the RF repeater or AP can only be no more that 5' away. So I think it's time to retire these adapters and go with the 2441th thermostat. Thanks Gary