aaronball

Kevin, Quick update. Using your recent update I now have 1 pi3 and 2 pi Zeros up and running. Each is working fine now for 4 days. Thanks for all your help and time. I have printed out the outlet insert and have ordered the micro switch and the voltage regulator and will soon be putting all that togather for some wall consoles. I'll keep you posted on how that goes. Aaron

Kevin, Haven't had time to try this until today. I am having issues getting into the Pi Zero. Keep getting access denied message. Once I figure how to get logged in to the Pi I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Kevin, I received 2 new pi zero w's and 2 new tft 3.5 consoles. I set them up the same as the pi 3. When running the installconsole script it removes the Bluetooth capability and then can not install the new Bluetooth capability. So when I reboot the pi zero it does not have Bluetooth. Also the console does not show on the 3.5 screen. But by monitoring the pi 3 softconsole if I press where a button should be it activated that button. So it seems every thing is loading correctly, it's just not showing up on the screen. I setup the pi zero's with the adafruit quick setup for the 3.5 screen and they work fine. Any idea what could be going on?

The thermostat is powered by the furnace. That fixed the thermostat issue here as well. Thanks.

That would be interesting, a landscape screen. More buttons in landscape would be nice. I have a 7" screen with a pi 3 that I use for programing DCC modules in model trains. If you get around to including the 7" screen selection I could test it for you. I was wondering if there is a way to force the word wrap for the button name. I have seen some other people's files and they show a comma in the Label name. I tried that but it didn't do anything. Also I recreated the problem with the thermostat. If I go to the ISY control screen and do a query on the thermostat the softconsole locks ups when I go to the thermostat screen. It will not display the thermostat screen again even if I re-boot the pi. I have to make a change to a thermosat setting with the ISY control screen and re-boot the softconsole before it will work agai. Hope that makes sense. I have seen the fires on the news. I would think Portland stays too wet for forest fires, but I guess you are having a dry spell. I was born in Klamath Falls, OR. But don't remember it because we moved to the east coast where my dad was from. I lived in Great Falls, MT from 79 -82. Don't remember hearing about or seeing any forest fires back then. Hope they get those fires put out and you can get back on the course soon.

My console is working fine now, have it now switching in idle screen from clock to weather. Awesome. Next thing I need to add is the alert function. The garage door alert is a great idea.. I took a look at your new usernotes, yes the new notes helped explain functionality and setup procedures much better. The new simple configuration is great. A couple of things that would help is a file structure diagram and the difference in a cfg file and a txt file and where they need to reside. Oh one more thing, with any computer program syntax is very important, new user of course. I think with that a new user can setup their own console keypad. You may have everything I have suggested covered, if you did I missed it in the notes. Still a awesome program, so much more to add. I had to write a list down of all the functions so I don't forget to add them. Brilliant idea and program! Aaron

I'll take a look at your new config example and usages note today and let you know. I am in northern Virginia. Without any traffic I can be in DC in forty minutes. Not originally from here, just ended up here do to employment. Now semi-retired. Don't think Irma will effect us much. Maybe some residual effects later. Yeah I wouldn't want to be anywhere in FL right now. I've been through a few hurricanes and Typhoons while living in the Far East. They are to be taken seriously. I just checked the dimming on the Stretch system and it works fine, you sure fixed that quick. Thanks.

I built a console using Jesse and the dimming function does work.

Here is the LogLevel = 0 File. ConsoleLevel0.rar

The thermostat is working fine now. I don't know what I did, but it's working. As a matter of fact everything is working fine now. I'll see if I can build another pi with Jessie on it and see how that works for the dimming. I'll run a Loglevel = 0. And post it just incase I'm missing something. Thanks for all your help.

Now have the themostat screen working. Only see one problem in the console log. Something about the MyClock cfg. Will be adding more buttons soon. Little confused on the dim functions. Should the display dim after a certain period of time or should it just switch to the clock display? Thanks very much for your help. It's a great program. Aaron Console.rar

That fixed the clock issue. Display is not dimming. I'll check my config file for that. The thermostat screen goes blank and locks up the program. I have to unplug and power up the pi to get it working again. The Porch Door Lock is a z-wave lock. I had dead batteries. I replace them and the error is gone now. Thanks for pointing that out. Thanks, Aaron

Kevin, I've been fooling around with the config.txt file and the .cfg files. I still can not get the console to switch to the clock. Waited for 5 minutes. Also I added a thermostat, when I press the button it goes to the screen, shows the Mode and Fan buttons then goes blank. Attached are the files I'm using. Console Files.rar

Thanks, I'll try it tomorrow. I'm on the east coast so it's getting late here.

I'll try sudo python for the 2.8 pitft. I was running it as bash. It's a 28r. I tried the 28c, but no response at all when I press on the screen. I actually have the 3.5 pitft working now so all is good. I unplugged the HDMI cable and restarted it and it's working now. All 4 buttons are working and I can get to the maintenance screen, that's pretty nifty. I like that I can update from there. Clock still not working. I'll play around with that some more. Thanks, Aaron

I now have 4 buttons configured. The only problem is, is that the calibration on the pitft is so far off that I can't press them. I can get to the maintenance screen but can not press any of the buttons. I manually ran the ./adafruit script but it still comes back as command not found in all the commands in the script. I looked at doing it from the adafruit instructions but that to complicated for me. Any suggests? I'll try adding the clock again thanks.

Kevin, Success! With that version I now have a working button. I tried adding the Myclock to the include, but that doesn't seem to work yet. I'll play around with the config file and see if I can get that working. Thank you very much for putting so much of your time in helping me to get this working. I'll let you know how things go as I add more buttons. Thanks again, Aaron

Attached are the files. I did not put anything on the include line. I attached the Myclock cfg file but did not use it for the configuration. Console Files.rar

Kevin, I got it to produce a config log file by running it from the command line. Attached is the results. I have the credentials set for the ISY in the config.txt file. I tried putting the credentials in the auth.cfg file. I also deleted all includes and just used the config.txt file. Same results. Sorry for being such a bother, but really would like to get this figured out. Thanks, Aaron Console.log.rar

Yes I just wanted to start out with one simple button. Get it working before moving on to more buttons, thermostats, etc.... I made the file test.txt and test.cfg. When I reboot the screen goes blank, and then after a few seconds the HDMI output screen goes back to the raspberry pi graphical interface. No console log is create. I tested the 3.5 screen using the adafruit easy-setup image and it works fine. Still will not work when installing the console. I notice what looked like an error while the script was running. Something about fonts-droid has no candidate. I did not see this when using the 2.8 screen.

Kevin, That did it. The two directories are now populating. Now I'm trying to write the config files. I have modified the samples you supplied to control a single device. However it is not working. Is it possible when you get time to write the config files for a light switch? The device I am trying to control is called Kitchenette Lights. Is that something you can do or is it something I have to do locally? Also the adafruit 3.5 screen is not working now. There is no display but in the graphical interface I can move the cursor around by touching the screen. I ran the calibration script but it comes back as errors for all the commands. Saying command not found. I have a 2.8 screen that is working. Aaron

I'll download the updated file and give it a try. No need to be sorry this has been a very useful and educating project for me. Thanks, Aaron

I am sure it is something that I am doing that is causing the problem. I have ordered a new Pi 3 just to be sure that is not the problem. I ran the setupconsole command as the root with the command "sudo python setupconsole.py". If it helps with troubleshooting or explanation as to what I am doing wrong is attached is a txt file that shows the error I get when I run it. The other 2 wget commands seem to work fine and create the files required. Thanks, Aaron setupconsole error.txt

Paul, Thanks for the insight. I guess permissions could be a issue. I'll try running the scripts with the prefix sudo. I am running them as the root user. Aaron

I manually ran the commands in the script and still did nit populate any directories. TODO file only states to create configuration files. I have tried building a Pi 3 and a Pi 2 model b, both have the same results. I'm out of ideas, except that the Pi's I have are both bad. Aaron