Couple of issues with pibeacon...

forestfield · Post by **forestfield** » Tue Jul 02, 2019 9:42 am

Hi Karl,
I've just upgrade my pibeacon to 7.105.293 from a much older version, and I had a couple of issues.

a. I don't use any homeseer security (fear not - I have some reverse proxy's for internet access to homeseer). So in the 'master' config I have 'DIGEST, BASIC or no authentication' set to 'use do not use security...', and the 'userid and password both blank'. The plugin wouldn't set running until I entered a dummy username and password. Looks like the code in plugin.py around line 8787ish - perhaps this should 'break' if no security is set?

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        while True:
            if self.userIdOfServer !="" and self.passwordOfServer !="" : break
            self.indiLOG.log(20, u"userid or password not configured in config")
            self.sleep(20)

b. Had some problems with exim! Eventually tracked this down to line 1425ish. of master.py

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os.system("sudo chown -R  pi:pi "+G.logDir)

I think this is a hangover from when the logFile was in /run/..., and the line should be something like

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os.system("sudo chown -R  pi:pi "+G.logDir+"piBeacon.log")

Otherwise, thanks for a v. useful plugin; I know have 6 beacons running and can locate my keyring to a room! (More seriously I use it as presence detection to set Home/Away automatically!

-- Paul --

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Tue Jul 02, 2019 10:41 am

1. that IF is a crude way of check if anything is configured, can change that.
... as i have not ventured in to "no security" is

add:

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and if authentication !="none"  # other options: digest or basic

should doit?

2. s.system("sudo chown -R pi:pi "+G.logDir) should be removed, was ok when log file was in pibeacon run directory. Will remove that one.

and thanks for the useful feedback

Karl

forestfield · Post by **forestfield** » Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:05 am

My pleasure to have helped.

-- Paul --

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Tue Jul 02, 2019 8:28 pm

will be fixed tomorrow.

Karl

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Wed Jul 03, 2019 7:46 pm

posted new version with those fixes ... .295

forestfield · Post by **forestfield** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:05 pm

Hi Karl,
I upgraded to 7.109.303, and I still have problems...

1. The plugin still gets stuck in the authentication loop. In your master.py you have

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if self.userIdOfServer !="" and self.passwordOfServer !=""  and self.pluginPrefs.get(u"authentication", u"digest") != "none": break

I changed it to

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if (self.userIdOfServer !="" and self.passwordOfServer !="")  or self.pluginPrefs.get(u"authentication", u"digest") == "none": break

and this seems to work for me.

2. Once I got the server started I was getting all sorts of timeouts and failures from my pibeacons. I *think* this is because the latest version of the pibeacon code has

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import serial

in master.py (and some others), but there's no serial module in the plugin's pi directory to upload so mater.py doesn't't start properly

I've just reverted to 7.105.293 and I think I'm back back to normal operation - i.e 4/7 beacons running correctly, still have 3/7 to reload/restart

Regards
-- Paul --

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:02 pm

I am out until Tuesday next week. Then I will be spending time on get things straightened out.

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kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:43 am

Serial should be part of std python

Could you do
ssh pi@....

python
Import serial
exit()

You should not get an error message.

Karl

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kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 9:29 am

it looks as if your ssd does not have serial installed.

I checked my RPIs they all have serial installed.

you could do :
ssh pi@..

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sudo apt-get install python-serial

that should do it.

I will add to master.py in the next release:

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try:
  import serial
except:
  os.system("sudo apt-get install python-serial")

to make sure your ssd has serial installed.

Karl

forestfield · Post by **forestfield** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:28 am

Hi Karl,
The serial package isn't installed on any of my (7) pibeacons, or (6) raspberry pis! (The latter are used for other things). They're all running buster, and have all been upgraded from jessie/wheezy or whatever came before these. Maybe serial wasn't in older pythons, and doesn't get installed as the o/s is upgraded.

i.e.

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ssh pibeacon3
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Linux pibeacon3 4.19.66+ #1253 Thu Aug 15 11:37:30 BST 2019 armv6l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
No mail.
Last login: Tue Aug 20 16:37:14 2019 from 10.100.101.12
paulw@pibeacon3:~$ python
Python 2.7.16 (default, Apr  6 2019, 01:42:57) 
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import serial
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named serial
>>>

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:31 am

Did you use one of my preconfigured ssd or did you start from a fresh raw image directly from the rpi site?

forestfield · Post by **forestfield** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:34 am

Would almost certainly have been a raspberry pi image - since I had the pi-zeros before pibeacon.

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Fri Aug 30, 2019 11:42 am

Ok. I installed serial on my ssd images published for download.

You have to do
sudo apt-get install serial-python
Then everything should work.

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