Raspberry Pi as Gateway

[sean]

Using Alexandre Bouillot's excellent piGateway, I have successfully incorporated the RFM into the Raspberry Pi.  I want to know how others that have taken this approach have accomplished running the resulting 'Gateway' program on boot.

Right now - per instructions at raspberrywebserver.com/serveradmin/run-a-script-on-start-up.html - I have the command to launch the program in the background in rc.local.  This seems hacky.  While creating a startup service via init.d seemed more appropriate, I couldn't get it to work without me logging in and starting it and then it only ran until I logged off.  I've considered daemonizing it, but haven't decided to tackle that task yet.

Anyone use a better way?

Awesome project by the way!  I've been wanting to do something like this for quite a while but never got the motivation to do it until I found your Instructable.

-Sean

[Gandalph]

an update has been posted to for the abouillot Gateway run the gateway as a service. I have incorporated that but still have issues on the pi myself due to mosquitto not starting up at boot and the dependency with the gateway %)

[sean]

Yeah, thanks. I've actually been meaning to update this post to let people know that I pushed my code to Alexandre and he incorporated it into the repo (after improving it a bit).

It's not as reliable as I'd like and eventually consumes significant load on the Pi (>95%) after a while (indicating *something* isn't quite right), but I don't know if it's the baseline code or something about it being a service.

I'm gonna keep poking at it and see if I can't track down the problem. I'm thinking about just blowing all the code away and starting from scratch. While it's nice that it looks very similar to the Arduino sketch - making it easy to get up to speed if you're coming from the Arduino gateway - I think it could use some TLC and cleanup.

[alexandreb]

When the gateway CPU consumption goes over few %, it usually indicate a link problem between the pi and the rfm module.
The gateway can also be lost in loop when some module send data over the RF link and doesn't stop. I experience this with one of my module.

[Mirko Ugolini]

Hello Sean,

I was wondering...

Does the Alexandre Bouillot's piGateway is bidiretional or not?

I started to use the separate Arduino Etherneth  shield approach but now I'm very interested about this new solution to buid a  Gateway for  HopenHab devices.

Let me know Please

Regards 

Mirko