Raspberry Pi 2

My livebox has been dead now for several months.  I thought it was the power supply but I got a new one and its still not happy :(  I need to pull it off the wall in my cupboard and see what is going on.
Anyway I use a beaglebone (original) for all my xAP stuff and updating is a snap, I just "svn update" then "INSTALL_DIR=/ make install" to build it and install it back over the top of what's there.

Pretty much what is documented here http://www.dbzoo.com/livebox/portable

My xAP server, and now MQTT server, lives outside http://homeautomationhub.com/content/pvouput

My Livebox is also dead but with the magic work taking place on the ESP module im about to get things backup and running

I have a Beaglebone black and a couple of Rasberry Pis sitting here, Mark & Brett both are using the BBs, Garrys using the Pi

Decisions.....

Hi John.

for FTP you will need to install something like vsftp on your PI.

restore from settings won't work, once setup it's best you image your SD card and backup the whole PI.

I setup my static IP using my router. Works ok..

version 313 is still showing in google code repo for the portable branch. Not sure this has been keeping upto date. Don't worry.

in summary, some of the functions on the webpage won't work or make sense. But other than save settings, there is nothing broken of any real detriment to day to day use. At least not that I've found.

Garry

Not strictly on topic but is there an easy way to temporarily disable the HAH stuff on a pi (particularly the web server) in order to experiment with an apache web server set up?

I know I could just use a seperate SD card without the HAH stuff installed but it would be nice to just be able to switch it on and off.

Thanks Garry, I'll have a go.

I added the capability to have an external kloned.conf file way back on release 305.

• http://homeautomationhub.com/content/webserver-port-change
• http://www.homeautomationhub.com/content/release-305

For the portable distribution its even easier just edit /etc/kloned.conf and move it to a different port.

app_http
{
    type            http

    addr.type       IPv4
    addr.port       80

Both can exist. I have a web Page running php scripts to contol my heating, etc. although I hadn't realised that you could change the Klone port via an external conf file so I have done it before compiling. 

Ill check what I did and see if I can change the port via an external conf file and get back to you.

Garry

Dunno if it will work on your machine but you could try:

sudo ps aux | grep klone

to see if the kloned is running.

I think that means that the klone deamon is NOT running.

It should say something which will include /user/bin/kloned. 

Unfortunately I'm away from my box for the weekend so I can't be too much help but it looks like the daemon is not starting successfully.

Indeed it will be the jeenodeApplet.lua this is responsible for sending an xAP message to xap-serial asking it to open a serial port and relays input from it as xAP message.   The argument below are the same as what xap-serial takes for configuration settings; port, baud, etc..: http://www.dbzoo.com/livebox/xap_serial#input_messages

local jeemon={
      port="/dev/ttyUSB0",

...

function init()
   monitor(jeemon, nodes)

Make sure you have a port definition in its configuration.
You may want to restart just the plugboard to send another configuration message to xap-serial .
$ sudo /etc/init.d/xap restart plugboard

if you have XfXViewer active at the time make sure you don't see any error packets being sent from xap-serial.

John,

Erasing what I previously wrote.
I copied over the xapconfig.xml from my joggler to my Beaglebone, adjusted the IP inside the file to use the local iServer, and it just worked.

# scp joggler.local:/media/appshop/xAP/xapconfig.xml /etc/www/

The file in this location is served up by the virtual directory /live
So for me as my beaglebone is called power.local this URL accesses it -> http://power.local/live/xapconfig.xml

This works because /usr/share/flash/config.xml says this is where local configuration can be found.

# more /usr/share/flash/config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<joggler>
        <version>0.5</version>
        <name>HAHflash</name>
        <xAP>
                <uid>0738</uid>
        </xAP>
        <usejogglerapi>false</usejogglerapi>
        <configfilelocation>local</configfilelocation>
        <configfile>/live/xapconfig.xml</configfile>
</joggler>

Be sure when you copy the file to your PI that you update the IP inside it to be the PI's IP.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<joggler>
        <version>0.5</version> <!-- version number -->
        <config> <!-- config section -->
                <iserver> <!-- iserver section -->
                        <port>9996</port>  <!-- iserver port -->
                        <ip>192.168.1.8</ip> <!-- iserver ip address -->
                </iserver>

Brett

John,

I believe it's Klone that serves up the /live folder. As you have made changes to Klone to serve gui on port 88 I'm guessing that's the reason. I don't use a joggler /iserver so can't test but wondering if you can alter the port in he xap flash files somewhere?

Garry

Hi Garry,

Do you have any pictures of how you've got it all connected together, Pi, HAH board and 12v supply?

Many thanks

Karl

That looks great Garry, thanks for going to the trouble of doing that.

It looks like you've wired the 12v to the JP1 connection, is that correct?  the 12v nearest the RJ12 and the GND nearest the mounting hole.

Loving the perspex finish, very professional.  Where did you get the coiled antenna?

Thanks again,

Karl

My 12v connects like your's,  where the LCD connects, and on the new picture I can see it wrapped from underneath the board.

Great, now to DM you :)

Agreed. This is probably the safest option anyway. Wallwarts are not that accurate or stable. 

Garry