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OpenWrt building for Linkit 7688 and 7688 Duo

2017-07-09 admin

After describing the general specifications of the two boards in the previous article

Linkit 7688 and 7688 Duo Development Boards

now we build the OpenWrt image from the sources. The following link describes the steps

Building the firmware from the source code

First we have to create the folder Linkit under /home/sviluppo in a shell command window in our Debian image, already used to build OpenWrt in another article

Building OpenWrt Image

cd
mkdir Linkit
cd Linkit

mkdir Linkit

cd Linkit

Install the prerequisites

sudo apt-get install git-core 
sudo apt-get install build-essential 
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev 
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev 
sudo apt-get install unzip 
sudo apt-get install gawk
sudo apt-get install subversion 
sudo apt-get install mercurial
sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl
sudo apt-get install g++

sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

sudo apt-get install unzip

sudo apt-get install gawk

sudo apt-get install subversion

sudo apt-get install mercurial

sudo apt-get install libxml-parser-perl

sudo apt-get install g++

Clone the OpenWrt repository

git clone git://git.openwrt.org/15.05/openwrt.git

1	git clone git://git.openwrt.org/15.05/openwrt.git

In the shell command window go to the openwrt folder and copy feeds.conf.default file as feeds.conf

cd openwrt
cp feeds.conf.default feeds.conf

1 2	cd openwrt cp feeds.conf.default feeds.conf

Add the Mediatek feed for the boards

echo src-git linkit https://github.com/MediaTek-Labs/linkit-smart-7688-feed.git >> feeds.conf

1	echo src-git linkit https://github.com/MediaTek-Labs/linkit-smart-7688-feed.git >> feeds.conf

Update the feeds for the packages

./scripts/feeds update

1	./scripts/feeds update

Install the packages

./scripts/feeds install -a

1	./scripts/feeds install -a

Configure the kernel executing

make menuconfig

1	make menuconfig

Use the following settings

Target System: Ralink RT288x/RT3xxx
Subtarget: MT7688 based boards
Target Profile: LinkIt7688

Save and exit.

Run the building

make V=99

make V=99

At a certain point, the building generates an error for the wireless card libraries. Mediatek has not released the wireless card sources, but an sdk with compiled binaries for a kernel version different from the one we are using in the building; the error reported is

cp -fpR ./wifi_binary/mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45 /home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/linux-ramips_mt7688/mtk-sdk-wifi-2015-06-01/ipkg-ramips_24kec/mtk-sdk-wifi/lib/modules/3.18.45/mt_wifi.ko
cp: cannot stat './wifi_binary/mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45': No such file or directory
Makefile:93: recipe for target '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/bin/ramips/packages/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi_2015-06-01-ade8b1b299cbd5748db1acf80dd3e9f567938371_ramips_24kec.ipk' failed
make[3]: *** [/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/bin/ramips/packages/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi_2015-06-01-ade8b1b299cbd5748db1acf80dd3e9f567938371_ramips_24kec.ipk] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi'
package/Makefile:191: recipe for target 'package/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi/compile' failed
make[2]: *** [package/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi/compile] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt'
package/Makefile:188: recipe for target '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/stamp/.package_compile' failed
make[1]: *** [/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/stamp/.package_compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt'
/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:181: recipe for target 'world' failed
make: *** [world] Error 2
sviluppo@debian:~/Linkit/openwrt$

cp -fpR ./wifi_binary/mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45 /home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/build_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/linux-ramips_mt7688/mtk-sdk-wifi-2015-06-01/ipkg-ramips_24kec/mtk-sdk-wifi/lib/modules/3.18.45/mt_wifi.ko

cp: cannot stat './wifi_binary/mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45': No such file or directory

Makefile:93: recipe for target '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/bin/ramips/packages/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi_2015-06-01-ade8b1b299cbd5748db1acf80dd3e9f567938371_ramips_24kec.ipk' failed

make[3]: *** [/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/bin/ramips/packages/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi_2015-06-01-ade8b1b299cbd5748db1acf80dd3e9f567938371_ramips_24kec.ipk] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi'

package/Makefile:191: recipe for target 'package/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi/compile' failed

make[2]: *** [package/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi/compile] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt'

package/Makefile:188: recipe for target '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/stamp/.package_compile' failed

make[1]: *** [/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/stamp/.package_compile] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt'

/home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:181: recipe for target 'world' failed

make: *** [world] Error 2

sviluppo@debian:~/Linkit/openwrt$

One way to fix the problem is the following.

Go to the /home/sviluppo/Linkit/openwrt/feeds/linkit/mtk-sdk-wifi/wifi_binary/ folder and copy the files for our kernel version

cp mt_wifi.ko_3.18.44 mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45
cp mt_wifi.ko_3.18.44_all  mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45_all

1 2	cp mt_wifi.ko_3.18.44 mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45 cp mt_wifi.ko_3.18.44_all mt_wifi.ko_3.18.45_all

Rerun the building. At the end of the process the generated file is available in the bin/ramips folder

The built firmware is available here

OpenWrt Linkit 7688 and 7688 Duo Image

WARNING: The image installation on the device is at your own risk. We accept no responsibility if the installation leads to malfunction or block of the device.

If you upgrade the board using an usb flah drive, you need to rename the openwrt-ramips-mt7688-LinkIt7688-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin file in lks7688.img.

The image kernel for this building is 3.18_45; If you want to use a recent kernel, you must use the opensource drivers available for the board; in the case of the Linkit 7688 Duo card, in our possession, we can rebuild the image using the Realtek rt76 drivers for the wireless network adapter and add the additional components for the Atmel MCU using LEDE, an OpenWrt fork

LEDE Project

In the next article you will build a LEDE image for the Linkit 7688 Duo board. For the Linkit 7688 board at this time, the mraa libraries, used to interface the periphals, are not yet compatible with the latest version of LEDE and the functionality of the image is limited. There may be also bugs in the wireless card opensource drivers, which hopefully are solved in the refinement of these drivers.

LEDE building for Linkit 7688 Duo

Hardware

Linkit 7688 and 7688 Duo Development Boards

2017-07-09 admin

This article briefly describes the Mediatek Linkit 7688 and 7688 Duo development boards. Below the links for the two boards

Linkit 7688

Linkit 7688 Duo

The specifications of the two boards are the following

Linkit 7688

Model	Linkit Smart 7688
MPU	MT7688AN, MIPS24KEc, 580MHz
RAM	128 Mb DDR2
Flash memory	32 Mb
GPIO	22 (MT7688AN) 3,3 V
PWM	4 (MT7688AN) 3,3 V
Expernal Interrupts	22 (MT7688AN)
SPI	1 (MT7688AN)
UART Lite	3 (MT7688AN)
Power	Micro USB 5V DC or PIN 3,3 V
USB HOST	Micro USB
Ethernet	By extension
Wifi	1T1R 802.11 b/g/n (2.4G)
User storare	Micro SDSDXC sdcard
Dimensions	55.7 x 26 mm
Weight	39 grams

Linkit 7688 Duo

Model	Linkit Smart 7688 Duo
MPU	MT7688AN, MIPS24KEc, 580MHz
MCU	Atmel AVR 8MHz
RAM	128 Mb DDR2
Flash memory	32 Mb
GPIO	3 (MT7688AN) 3,3 V 24 (ATmega32U4)
PWM	8 (ATmega32U4) 3,3 V
External Interrupts	8 (ATmega32U4)
SPI	1 (ATmega32U4)
UART Lite	1 (ATmega32U4) 1 (MT7688AN)
Power	Micro USB 5V DC or PIN 3,3 V
USB HOST	Micro USB
Ethernet	By extension
Wifi	1T1R 802.11 b/g/n (2.4G)
User storage	Micro SDSDXC sdcard
Dimensions	55.7 x 26 mm
Weight	39 grams

The two boards share the same Microprocessor (MPU MT7688AN), but in the case of the Linkit 7688 Duo this MPU is supported by the Atmel Microcontroller (MCU ATmega32U4) for device management.

The interfacing schemes are shown with peripherals in the two cases below

The operating system used for both bords is OpenWrt, but the peripherals management is different. While in the case of Linkit 7688 we only rely on MPUs and specific libraries to manage the interfacing with peripherals, for the Linkit 7688 Duo the ATmega32U4 microcontroller manages the peripherals. The programming of the ATmega32U4 is executed with the Arduino IDE by adding the Linkit 7688 Duo board support into the tool as specified at the following link

Arduino Ide support for Linkit 7688 Duo

At the followning link there is the Mediatek documentation for the two boards

Linkit 7688 and 7688 Duo Resources

The following pages show how the two boards can interact with the various peripherals

Linkit 7688 peripherals

Linkit 7688 Duo peripherals

At the Mediatek site, there are also examples to follow step by step to test the various features of the development boards.

The next article shows how to connect the USB OTG cable , to use with a USB drive, an USB TTL serial cable, to monitor the device, to the board

Linkit 7688 Duo Connections

Configuration, Software

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Articles List

2017-05-21 admin

Below is a list of the articles to follow to build your IOT environment consisting of sensors and relays with Beaglebone, ESP8266 and MQTT Mosquitto server.

Configuration, Software

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Android Client

2017-05-05 admin

After Mosquitto server, ESP8266 nodes and Freeboard configuration

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266-Mosquitto installation on Beaglebone

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266-MQTT ESP8266

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with temperature sensor

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with Relay

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Freeboard

now we can proceed to use a Mqtt Client on an Android device.

In the Playstore various Mqtt applications are available

After the publishing and subscriber topics configuration in the Android client , analogous to what has been done for Freeboard widgets

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Freeboard

it is possible to monitor the sensor temperature and humidity, the devices status and send commands to the relay (Turn On, Turn Off, Status, Restart, Sleep) and to the sensor (Restart, Sleep, Status).

Here is a screenshot with some subcriber topic and publisher topics of our installation using MQTT Dashboard

With the relay on

Development, Software

Libreelec8 addon building for Orange PI PC

2017-04-30 admin

In the article about the Libreelec8 build for Orange PI PC

Libreelec8 in OrangePI PC

we created the environment and compiled the Libreelec8 image for our development board. We integrate what it has been said in the previous article showing how to build the Libreelec 8 addons for our Orange PI PC board.

Now we proceed to build some addons. The packages that you can build are available in the kodi-binary-addons folder as shown below

and in the packages/addons folder

We build the pvr.iptvsimple addon running the following command from the /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0 folder

PROJECT=H3 ARCH=arm scripts/create_addon pvr.iptvsimple

1	PROJECT=H3 ARCH=arm scripts/create_addon pvr.iptvsimple

We build the proftpd addon, among those avaliable in the packages/addons folder

PROJECT=H3 ARCH=arm scripts/create_addon proftpd

1	PROJECT=H3 ARCH=arm scripts/create_addon proftpd

The compiled addons are available in the following folder

/home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/target/addons/8.1/H3/arm/

1	/home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/target/addons/8.1/H3/arm/

Here are the links to download some compiled addons

PVR addons

Service Addons

Configuration, Software

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Freeboard

2017-04-22 admin

After the Mqtt web client installation

MQTT with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – WebServer and MQTT WebSocket

let’s install now the dashboard freeboard

Freeboard

In a ssh commad shell go into the /var/www/html folder on Beaglebone as root and clone the freeboard github respository; change the owner of the freeboard folder in www-data:www-data

#cd /var/www/html
#git clone https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard.git freeboard
#chown www-data:www-data -R freeboard

#cd /var/www/html

#git clone https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard.git freeboard

#chown www-data:www-data -R freeboard

With a web browser go to the freeboard folder on Beaglebone webserver to access the dashboard

We have to add now Freeboard additional plugins. We add the following

freeboard-mqtt

Clone the https://github.com/alsm/freeboard-mqtt github

#cd
#git clone https://github.com/alsm/freeboard-mqtt

1 2	#cd #git clone https://github.com/alsm/freeboard-mqtt

Download the mqtt paho javascript library

Paho mqtt javascript library

#cd
#git clone https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.javascript.git

1 2	#cd #git clone https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.javascript.git

Here is the direct link to the library

Last Version mqttws31.js

Create the mqtt folder under the Freeboard plugins folder and copy the mqttws31.js and paho.mqtt.plugin.js files

#cd /var/www/html/freeboard/plugins/mqtt
# ls
mqttws31.js  paho.mqtt.plugin.js

#cd /var/www/html/freeboard/plugins/mqtt

# ls

mqttws31.js paho.mqtt.plugin.js

Edit the paho.mqtt.plugin.js file and insert the reference to the mqttws31.js library in the external_scripts section; in this case too we have to change the folder and contents owner

// # A Freeboard Plugin that uses the Eclipse Paho javascript client to read MQTT messages

(function()
{
        // ### Datasource Definition
        //
        // -------------------
        freeboard.loadDatasourcePlugin({
                "type_name"   : "paho_mqtt",
                "display_name": "Paho MQTT",
        "description" : "Receive data from an MQTT server.",
                "external_scripts" : [
                        "plugins/mqtt/mqttws31.js"
                ],
                "settings"    : [

// # A Freeboard Plugin that uses the Eclipse Paho javascript client to read MQTT messages

(function()

{

// ### Datasource Definition

// -------------------

freeboard.loadDatasourcePlugin({

"type_name" : "paho_mqtt",

"display_name": "Paho MQTT",

"description" : "Receive data from an MQTT server.",

"external_scripts" : [

"plugins/mqtt/mqttws31.js"

"settings" : [

Change the owner

#cd /var/www/html/freeboard/plugins
#chown www-data:www-data -R mqtt

1 2	#cd /var/www/html/freeboard/plugins #chown www-data:www-data -R mqtt

Edit the /var/www/html/freeboard/index.html file and insert the reference to the paho.mqtt.plugin.js plugin in the heads.js section

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>freeboard</title>
        <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
    <meta name="viewport" content = "width = device-width, initial-scale = 1, user-scalable = no" />
    <link href="css/freeboard.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="js/freeboard.thirdparty.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        head.js("js/freeboard_plugins.min.js",
                "plugins/mqtt/paho.mqtt.plugin.js",
                // *** Load more plugins here ***
                function(){

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>freeboard</title>

head.js("js/freeboard_plugins.min.js",

"plugins/mqtt/paho.mqtt.plugin.js",

// *** Load more plugins here ***

function(){

Add the dynamic-highcharts plugin

Clone in a folder the github

git clone https://github.com/onlinux/freeboard-dynamic-highcharts-plugin

1	git clone https://github.com/onlinux/freeboard-dynamic-highcharts-plugin

Copy the plugin_highcharts.js to the folder /var/www/html/plugins/thirdparty and change the owner

#cd /var/www/html/freeboard/plugins/thirdparty
#chown www-data:www-data plugin_highcharts.js

1 2	#cd /var/www/html/freeboard/plugins/thirdparty #chown www-data:www-data plugin_highcharts.js

Edit again the file /var/www/html/freeboard/index.html and add the plugin as done above

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>freeboard</title>
        <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
    <meta name="viewport" content = "width = device-width, initial-scale = 1, user-scalable = no" />
    <link href="css/freeboard.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="js/freeboard.thirdparty.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        head.js("js/freeboard_plugins.min.js",
                "plugins/thirdparty/plugin_highcharts.js",
                "plugins/mqtt/paho.mqtt.plugin.js",
                // *** Load more plugins here ***
                function(){

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>freeboard</title>

head.js("js/freeboard_plugins.min.js",

"plugins/thirdparty/plugin_highcharts.js",

"plugins/mqtt/paho.mqtt.plugin.js",

// *** Load more plugins here ***

function(){

Access now the Freeboard dashboard and add the links to the temperature and humidity topics, the gauges and timeseries mesauring the values in real time and in a specific range of time . Here are some settings:

Datasource

Gauge

Timeseries

Chrome/Chromium browser allows to save the settings in a json file. This settings can be loaded locally or loaded from the web server, saving for example the dashboard.json file in /var/www/html/freeboard, with the url

http://beaglebone.local/freeboard/index.html?load=dashboard.json

1	http://beaglebone.local/freeboard/index.html?load=dashboard.json

The image shows the Freeboad interface with various widgets showing the status and timeseries of the ESP8266 relay and sensors

In these series of articles we configured the envinronment to access the Beaglebone using the beaglebone.local/beaglebone alias

Debian sd card setup for Beaglebone Black

but you can use anyway the Beaglebone IP tho access the services provided by the board.

In the next article we’ll treat the Mqtt Android client

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Android Client

Development, Software

Libreelec8 in OrangePI PC

2017-04-13 admin

This article describes the steps that I ran to prepare a first version of Libreelec 8 in Orange PI PC cards and other H3 socs.

Starting from the Debian development envinronment, with its installed packages, already used for the compilation of OpenELEC 7

Openelec compilation for Orange PI PC

we proceed to build an Libreelec 8 image.

We started as basis from the work done for Openelec 7 and Libreelec 7 available on the two github repositories

H3 Openelec 7 Github

H3 Libreelec 7 Github

sviluppo@debian8:~/orangepi$ mkdir libreelec
sviluppo@debian8:~/orangepi$ cd libreelec
sviluppo@debian8:~/orangepi/libreelec$

sviluppo@debian8:~/orangepi$ mkdir libreelec

sviluppo@debian8:~/orangepi$ cd libreelec

sviluppo@debian8:~/orangepi/libreelec$

Clone the Libreelec8 github

git clone -b libreelec-8.0 https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv.git libreelec-8.0

1	git clone -b libreelec-8.0 https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv.git libreelec-8.0

The patches have been created for a specific version of the commit, so we align our github clone to that version

cd libreelec-8.0
git checkout 745f6790ec0456aa8478fff5360107c148ea5204

1 2	cd libreelec-8.0 git checkout 745f6790ec0456aa8478fff5360107c148ea5204

Download from the following link the patches, the H3 project and other stuff

H3 Libreelec 8

Unzip this file in /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec

Run the following steps

1)Copy to /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/projects the folder

2) Copy to /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/packages/multimedia the folders

cedarx
libmpeg2

3) Copy to /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/packages/tools the folder

sunxi-tools

4) Copy to /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/packages/sysutils the folder

sunxi-sys-utils

5) Copy to /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/packages/graphics the folder

sunxi-mali

6) Copy to /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/packages/linux-drivers the folder

mt7601u

7) The following patches are available in /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/H3LE8/patches folder

linux.patch

image.patch

mkimage.patch

kodi.patch

libcec.patch

u-boot.patch

u-boot-release.patch

u-boot-update.patch

Patch the code from the /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec folder running the following commands

patch  libreelec-8.0/packages/linux/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/linux.patch
patch  libreelec-8.0/scripts/image < H3LE8/patches/image.patch
patch  libreelec-8.0/scripts/mkimage < H3LE8/patches/mkimage.patch
patch libreelec-8.0/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/kodi.patch 
patch  libreelec-8.0/packages/devel/libcec/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/libcec.patch
patch libreelec-8.0/packages/tools/u-boot/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/u-boot.patch
patch libreelec-8.0/packages/tools/u-boot/release < H3LE8/patches/u-boot-release.patch
patch libreelec-8.0/packages/tools/u-boot/scripts/update.sh < H3LE8/patches/u-boot-update.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/packages/linux/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/linux.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/scripts/image < H3LE8/patches/image.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/scripts/mkimage < H3LE8/patches/mkimage.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/packages/mediacenter/kodi/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/kodi.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/packages/devel/libcec/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/libcec.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/packages/tools/u-boot/package.mk < H3LE8/patches/u-boot.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/packages/tools/u-boot/release < H3LE8/patches/u-boot-release.patch

patch libreelec-8.0/packages/tools/u-boot/scripts/update.sh < H3LE8/patches/u-boot-update.patch

Proceed to the image build for Orange PI PC from the folder /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0 running

ARCH=arm PROJECT=H3 SYSTEM=opipc  make image

1	ARCH=arm PROJECT=H3 SYSTEM=opipc make image

At the end of the compilation in the /home/sviluppo/orangepi/libreelec/libreelec-8.0/target folder we find the files to install or update Libreelec 8

At the link

Openelec 7 H3 FAQ

we find the boards we can build changing the SYSTEM parameter in the building command

SYSTEM=opi2
SYSTEM=opione
SYSTEM=opipc
SYSTEM=opiplus
SYSTEM=opilite
SYSTEM=opipcplus
SYSTEM=opiplus2e
SYSTEM=bpim2p
SYSTEM=bx2

ARCH=arm PROJECT=H3 SYSTEM=BOARD  make image

1	ARCH=arm PROJECT=H3 SYSTEM=BOARD make image

This image is a first attempt to build Libreelec 8 for H3 socs. The image was installed on Orange PI PC and the system worked well, but still bugs and malfunctions may occur.

Here is the built Libreelec 8 image for Orange PI PC

Orange PI PC Libreelec 8 Image

We tested this image on an Orange PI PC board.

Here are other images we did’t test on the devices

Orange Pi2 Libreelec 8 Image

Orange Pi Lite Libreelec 8 Image

Orange Pi One Libreelec 8 Image

Orange Pi PC Plus Libreelec 8 Image

Orange Pi Plus Libreelec 8 Image

Orange Pi Plus 2e Libreelec 8 Image

WARNING: The image installation on the device is at your own risk. We accept no responsibility if the installation leads to malfunction or block of the device.

The following article shows how to build the addons

Libreelec 8 addon building for Orange PI PC

Configuration, Software

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – WebServer and MQTT WebSocket

2017-04-08 admin

After the MQTT server and ESP8266 nodes configurations

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – Mosquitto installation on Beaglebone

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266-MQTT ESP8266

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with temperature sensor

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with Relay

we analize now the webserver configuration on BeagleBone and the Websocket configuration for the broker MQTT mosquitto always on Beaglebone.

First step is to access on the Beaglebone in ssh and disable the following services

$sudo systemctl stop cloud9.service 
$sudo systemctl stop cloud9.socket 
$sudo systemctl disable cloud9.service
$sudo systemctl disable cloud9.socket
$sudo systemctl stop bonescript-autorun.service
$sudo systemctl stop bonescript.service
$sudo systemctl stop bonescript.socket
$sudo systemctl disable bonescript-autorun.service
$sudo systemctl disable bonescript.service
$sudo systemctl disable bonescript.socket
$sudo systemctl daemon-reload

$sudo systemctl stop cloud9.service

$sudo systemctl stop cloud9.socket

$sudo systemctl disable cloud9.service

$sudo systemctl disable cloud9.socket

$sudo systemctl stop bonescript-autorun.service

$sudo systemctl stop bonescript.service

$sudo systemctl stop bonescript.socket

$sudo systemctl disable bonescript-autorun.service

$sudo systemctl disable bonescript.service

$sudo systemctl disable bonescript.socket

$sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Go into the folder /etc/apache2/sites-enabled and modfy 000-default.conf changing the webserver port from 8080 to 80

<VirtualHost *:80>

1	<VirtualHost *:80>

In /etc/apache2/port.conf modify the listening port from 8080 to 80

# If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also
# have to change the VirtualHost statement in
# /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

Listen 80

# If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also

# have to change the VirtualHost statement in

# /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

Listen 80

Restart the Http server

sudo systemctl restart apache2

1	sudo systemctl restart apache2

Go into folder /etc/mosquitto/conf.d and create a new file websockets.conf with the following contents inside

listener 1883
protocol mqtt

listener 9001
protocol websockets

listener 1883

protocol mqtt

listener 9001

protocol websockets

Save the file and restart Mosquitto

sudo systemctl restart mosquitto

1	sudo systemctl restart mosquitto

Disable the IPV6 protocol on Beaglebone as described at the following link

Disable IPV6 in Debian

In the file /etc/sysctl.conf add

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1

net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1

net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1

Restart the Beaglebone.

We proceed at this point to install on the http server a MQTT Websocket client and the Freeboard dashboard.

As for the MQTT Websocket client hive-MQTT we download the code from github

Hive mqtt

Log in as root in ssh on Beaglebone and go into /var/www/html folder; clone the Mqtt client into mqtt-web folder and change the owner of this folder

#cd /var/www/html/
#git clone https://github.com/hivemq/hivemq-mqtt-web-client.git mqtt-web
#chown www-data:www-data -R mqtt-web

#cd /var/www/html/

#git clone https://github.com/hivemq/hivemq-mqtt-web-client.git mqtt-web

#chown www-data:www-data -R mqtt-web

With a web browser navigate on our Http server to the mqtt-web link obtaining the Mqtt Web client; we can now set the parameters for the connection to the Mosquitto Mqtt Broker

Populating the values for the subscription and publishing topics we can access to the messages of the topics and the ability to perform a command to the publishing topic

In the next article we’ll install the Freeboad dashboard on the Beaglebone

Mqtt with Beaglebone and ESP8266 – Freeboard

Development, Hardware, Software

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with Relay

2017-04-01 admin

After the article about the connection with the temperature and humidity sensor

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with temperature sensor

in this article we set the esp8266 to run a relay. Here is how we connect the relay to the ESP module

In this example too we will consider the option of putting the nodemcu in sleep. To have the node back form the sleep the system has to reboot and it is necessary to connect the PIN D0 (GPIO16) to RST PIN as specified in the nodemcu documentation

Nodemcu sleep

Let us take a look at the lua code; It consists of init.lua and relay.lua files.

We analyze now the main points of each file

init.lua

-- init.lua
SSID="SSID" -- SSID 
PASSWORD="password" -- SSID password
TIMEOUT=10000   -- timeout to check the network status
EXSENSOR1="relay.lua"   -- module to run
MQTTSERVER="mqttaddress"   -- mqtt broker address
MQTTPORT="1883" -- mqtt broker port
MQTTQOS="0" -- qos used

-- Set the netowrk parameters and get ip address
wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION)
wifi.sta.config(SSID, PASSWORD)
wifi.sta.getip()


-- Check the network status after the TIMEOUT interval
tmr.alarm(0, TIMEOUT,tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function()
    status=wifi.sta.status()
   -- if esp8266 got the ip
   if (status == wifi.STA_GOTIP ) then

        dofile(EXSENSOR1)
        
    
    else
        -- Without up restart the node
        print("Error acquiring ip address=",status)
        node.restart()
    end


end

)

-- init.lua

SSID="SSID" -- SSID

PASSWORD="password" -- SSID password

TIMEOUT=10000 -- timeout to check the network status

EXSENSOR1="relay.lua" -- module to run

MQTTSERVER="mqttaddress" -- mqtt broker address

MQTTPORT="1883" -- mqtt broker port

MQTTQOS="0" -- qos used

-- Set the netowrk parameters and get ip address

wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION)

wifi.sta.config(SSID, PASSWORD)

wifi.sta.getip()

-- Check the network status after the TIMEOUT interval

tmr.alarm(0, TIMEOUT,tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function()

status=wifi.sta.status()

-- if esp8266 got the ip

if (status == wifi.STA_GOTIP ) then

dofile(EXSENSOR1)

else

-- Without up restart the node

print("Error acquiring ip address=",status)

node.restart()

end

)

In the file we set the the parameters to access the wifi network, the address and port of the MQTT broker and the file to be run on the ESP after wifi connection to the access point is estabilished. If the ESP doesn’t acquire the network address the system is restarted.

relay.lua

-- relay.lua
CNAME="relay1" -- Client name 
AMBIENT="home"  -- Ambient name 
STOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/status"  -- Status topic
CTOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/command" --Command topic   
MTOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/monitor" --Monitor topic


sleep_in_seconds= nil --Sleep in seconds


TUPDATE = 20 -- Time interval for update monitor in seconds
RPIN        =1 -- Relay Pin
TGEN = 5 -- Time interval in seconds usend in various trm
gpio.mode(RPIN,gpio.OUTPUT) -- Set Relay pin mode
gpio.write(RPIN,gpio.LOW) -- Default output is OFF





-- Define Client Name and connection parameters
mqt = mqtt.Client(CNAME, 60, "", "", 1) 

-- Subscribe to the topics and send status to the status topic
mqt:on("connect", function() 
    mqt:subscribe(STOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    mqt:subscribe(CTOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    mqt:subscribe(MTOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    send_status("Relay ready again")
end )

-- Callback when mqtt is offline
mqt:on("offline", function() print("mqtt offline");  end)

--Callback to manage messages 
mqt:on("message", function(client, topic, data) 
    manage_message(client, topic, data) 
end)

-- Function to filter the messages
function manage_message(client, topic, data) 
    -- If CTOPIC: command topic
    if topic == CTOPIC then

        -- If the command is Restart
        if data == "Restart" then
            send_status("Restarting")
            send_mstatus("Restarting")
            tmr.alarm(2, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, node.restart)
        -- If the command is null    
        elseif data == nil then
            send_status("Command not valid")
        -- Command to turn on the Relay    
        elseif data == "ON" then
            relay_on()
        -- Command to turn off the Relay    
        elseif data == "OFF" then
            relay_off()  
        -- Command to check the state of the Relay    
        elseif data == "Status" then
            relay_status()         
            
        else
            -- Check the Sleep command
            i=string.len(data)
            dato=string.sub(data,1,5)

            if dato == "Sleep" then
                ndato=string.sub(data,6)
                TSLEEP=tonumber(ndato)
                if TSLEEP ~= nil then

                    if TSLEEP >= 1 then
 
                        -- Sets the interval in seconds to sleep
                        sleep_in_seconds=TSLEEP*60
                        esp_sleep()
                    else
                        -- Send an error in Sleep command
                        send_status("Sleep command error")
                    
                    end
                else
                    -- Send an error in Sleep command 
                    send_status("Sleep command error")
                end

            else
                -- Command not managed           
                send_status("Command not valid")      

            end
            
        end
        
    end
end

-- Function to turn on the relay
function relay_on()
    
    gpio.write(RPIN,gpio.HIGH)
    send_status("Relay ON")
end

-- Function to turn off the relay
function relay_off()
    
    gpio.write(RPIN,gpio.LOW)
    send_status("Relay OFF")
end

-- Function to check if the the relay is on or off
function relay_status()
    
    risultato=gpio.read(RPIN)

    if(risultato==1) then
        send_status("Relay ON")
    elseif(risultato==0) then
        send_status("Relay OFF")
    end
end


-- Function to send messages to to STOPIC: status topic
function send_status(message)
    mqt:publish(STOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)
    
end

-- Fucntion to send messages to MTOPIC: monitor topic
function send_mstatus(message)
    mqt:publish(MTOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)
    
end


-- Function that sleeps esp8266
function esp_sleep()
 
    send_status("Relay going to sleep now")
    send_mstatus("Relay going to sleep now")
    -- Delayd sleep to send the message above.
    tmr.alarm(3, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function() 
        node.dsleep(sleep_in_seconds*1000000) 
    end)
end


-- Connection to the mqtt server at the msttport
mqt:connect(MQTTSERVER, MQTTPORT, 0, 1)



-- Send periodically a message to the monitor topic
tmr.alarm(4, TUPDATE*1000, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() send_mstatus("Relay Ready") end)

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-- relay.lua

CNAME="relay1" -- Client name

AMBIENT="home" -- Ambient name

STOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/status" -- Status topic

CTOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/command" --Command topic

MTOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/monitor" --Monitor topic

sleep_in_seconds= nil --Sleep in seconds

TUPDATE = 20 -- Time interval for update monitor in seconds

RPIN =1 -- Relay Pin

TGEN = 5 -- Time interval in seconds usend in various trm

gpio.mode(RPIN,gpio.OUTPUT) -- Set Relay pin mode

gpio.write(RPIN,gpio.LOW) -- Default output is OFF

-- Define Client Name and connection parameters

mqt = mqtt.Client(CNAME, 60, "", "", 1)

-- Subscribe to the topics and send status to the status topic

mqt:on("connect", function()

mqt:subscribe(STOPIC, MQTTQOS)

mqt:subscribe(CTOPIC, MQTTQOS)

mqt:subscribe(MTOPIC, MQTTQOS)

send_status("Relay ready again")

end )

-- Callback when mqtt is offline

mqt:on("offline", function() print("mqtt offline"); end)

--Callback to manage messages

mqt:on("message", function(client, topic, data)

manage_message(client, topic, data)

end)

-- Function to filter the messages

function manage_message(client, topic, data)

-- If CTOPIC: command topic

if topic == CTOPIC then

-- If the command is Restart

if data == "Restart" then

send_status("Restarting")

send_mstatus("Restarting")

tmr.alarm(2, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, node.restart)

-- If the command is null

elseif data == nil then

send_status("Command not valid")

-- Command to turn on the Relay

elseif data == "ON" then

relay_on()

-- Command to turn off the Relay

elseif data == "OFF" then

relay_off()

-- Command to check the state of the Relay

elseif data == "Status" then

relay_status()

else

-- Check the Sleep command

i=string.len(data)

dato=string.sub(data,1,5)

if dato == "Sleep" then

ndato=string.sub(data,6)

TSLEEP=tonumber(ndato)

if TSLEEP ~= nil then

if TSLEEP >= 1 then

-- Sets the interval in seconds to sleep

sleep_in_seconds=TSLEEP*60

esp_sleep()

else

-- Send an error in Sleep command

send_status("Sleep command error")

end

else

-- Send an error in Sleep command

send_status("Sleep command error")

end

else

-- Command not managed

send_status("Command not valid")

end

-- Function to turn on the relay

function relay_on()

gpio.write(RPIN,gpio.HIGH)

send_status("Relay ON")

end

-- Function to turn off the relay

function relay_off()

gpio.write(RPIN,gpio.LOW)

send_status("Relay OFF")

end

-- Function to check if the the relay is on or off

function relay_status()

risultato=gpio.read(RPIN)

if(risultato==1) then

send_status("Relay ON")

elseif(risultato==0) then

send_status("Relay OFF")

end

-- Function to send messages to to STOPIC: status topic

function send_status(message)

mqt:publish(STOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)

end

-- Fucntion to send messages to MTOPIC: monitor topic

function send_mstatus(message)

mqt:publish(MTOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)

end

-- Function that sleeps esp8266

function esp_sleep()

send_status("Relay going to sleep now")

send_mstatus("Relay going to sleep now")

-- Delayd sleep to send the message above.

tmr.alarm(3, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function()

node.dsleep(sleep_in_seconds*1000000)

end)

end

-- Connection to the mqtt server at the msttport

mqt:connect(MQTTSERVER, MQTTPORT, 0, 1)

-- Send periodically a message to the monitor topic

tmr.alarm(4, TUPDATE*1000, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() send_mstatus("Relay Ready") end)

The relay.lua file manages the relay, the subscription on MQTT broker with submission of the data. Global parameters have been set to manage the topic, the waiting time in tmr.alarm. There are in particular the following topics

/home/relay1/status : Status topic. The status is sent at the start and at request from the command topic /home/relay1/command.
/home/relay1/monitor: Status of the esp sent periodically to this topic.
/home/relay1/command: Other clients can send commands to the esp:
- Restart: Restarts the esp.
- Sleep n: Put to sleep for n seconds the esp.
- ON: Turn on the relay.
- OFF: Turn off the relay.
- Status: Request of tthe relay status (ON or OFF).

There are various service functions to manage all. The comments in the code describe each feature.

In the next article we will set up the webserver on Beaglebone and the websocket configuration for Mosquitto always on the Beaglebone

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – WebServer and MQTT WebSocket

Development, Hardware, Software

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266 – MQTT on ESP8266 with temperature sensor

2017-03-23 admin

After loading the firmware into the device esp8266

MQTT with BeagleBone and ESP8266-MQTT ESP8266

we now connect this module with a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor. Here is how we connect the sensor to the ESP module

In this example we will consider the option of putting the nodemcu in sleep. To have the node back form the sleep the system has to reboot and it is necessary to connect the PIN D0 (GPIO16) to RST PIN as specified in the nodemcu documentation

Nodemcu sleep

Let us take a look at the lua code; It consists of init.lua and tempumid.lua files.

We analyze now the main points of each file

init.lua

-- init.lua
SSID="SSDNAME" -- SSID 
PASSWORD="passwordssid" -- SSID password
TIMEOUT=10000    -- timeout to check the network status
EXSENSOR1="tempumid.lua"    -- module to run
MQTTSERVER="mqttbrokeraddress"   -- mqtt broker address
MQTTPORT="1883"  -- mqtt borker port
MQTTQOS="0" -- qos used

-- Set the netowrk parameters and get ip address
wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION)
wifi.sta.config(SSID, PASSWORD)
wifi.sta.getip()

-- Check the network status after the TIMEOUT interval
tmr.alarm(0, TIMEOUT,tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function()
    status=wifi.sta.status()
    
    -- if esp8266 got the ip
   if (status == wifi.STA_GOTIP ) then

       dofile(EXSENSOR1)
        
    
    else
        -- Without ip restart the node
        print("Error acquiring ip address=",status)
        node.restart()
    end


end

-- init.lua

SSID="SSDNAME" -- SSID

PASSWORD="passwordssid" -- SSID password

TIMEOUT=10000 -- timeout to check the network status

EXSENSOR1="tempumid.lua" -- module to run

MQTTSERVER="mqttbrokeraddress" -- mqtt broker address

MQTTPORT="1883" -- mqtt borker port

MQTTQOS="0" -- qos used

-- Set the netowrk parameters and get ip address

wifi.setmode(wifi.STATION)

wifi.sta.config(SSID, PASSWORD)

wifi.sta.getip()

-- Check the network status after the TIMEOUT interval

tmr.alarm(0, TIMEOUT,tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function()

status=wifi.sta.status()

-- if esp8266 got the ip

if (status == wifi.STA_GOTIP ) then

dofile(EXSENSOR1)

else

-- Without ip restart the node

print("Error acquiring ip address=",status)

node.restart()

end

In the file we set the the parameters to access the wifi network, the address and port of the MQTT broker and the file to be run on the ESP after wifi connection to the access point is estabilished. If the ESP does’t acquire the netowrk address the system is restarted.

tempumid.lua

-- tempumid.lua
CNAME="room1" -- Client name 
AMBIENT="home"  -- Ambient name
TTOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/temperature"  -- Temperature topic
HTOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/humidity"  -- Humidity topic 
STOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/status"  -- Status topic
CTOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/command" --Command topic   
MTOPIC     = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/monitor" --Monitor topic


sleep_in_seconds= nil --Sleep in seconds


TUPDATE = 15 -- Time interval for update monitor in seconds
TUPTEMP = 10 -- Time interval for update temperature and humidity values
SPIN         = 4  -- Sensor pin
TGEN = 5 -- Time interval in seconds usend in various trm


-- Define Client Name and connection parameters
mqt = mqtt.Client(CNAME, 60, "", "", 1) 

-- Subscribe to the topics and send status to the status topic
mqt:on("connect", function() 
    mqt:subscribe(STOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    mqt:subscribe(CTOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    mqt:subscribe(MTOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    mqt:subscribe(TTOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    mqt:subscribe(HTOPIC, MQTTQOS)
    send_status("Sensor ready again")
end )

-- Callback when mqtt is offline
mqt:on("offline", function() print("mqtt offline");  end)

--Callback to manage messages 
mqt:on("message", function(client, topic, data) 
    manage_message(client, topic, data) 
end)


-- Function to filter the messages
function manage_message(client, topic, data) 
    -- If CTOPIC: command topic
    if topic == CTOPIC then
        --print("Command")
        -- If the command is Restart
        if data == "Restart" then
            send_status("Restarting")
            send_mstatus("Restarting")
            tmr.alarm(2, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, node.restart)
            --print("restart")
        -- If the command is null    
        elseif data == nil then
           -- print("Command not valid")
            send_status("Command not valid")
        
        
        else
            -- Check the Sleep command           
            i=string.len(data)
            dato=string.sub(data,1,5)
          
            if dato == "Sleep" then
                ndato=string.sub(data,6)
                TSLEEP=tonumber(ndato)
                if TSLEEP ~= nil then
                    if TSLEEP >= 1 then
                        -- Sets the interval in seconds to sleep
                        sleep_in_seconds=TSLEEP*60
                        esp_sleep()
                    else
                        -- Send an error in Sleep command
                        send_status("Sleep command error")
                    
                    end
                else
                    -- Send an error in Sleep command 
                    send_status("Sleep command error")
                end

            else
                -- Command not managed           
                send_status("Command not valid")      

            end
            
        end
        
    end
end

-- Function to send messages to STOPIC: status topic
function send_status(message)
    mqt:publish(STOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)
    
end

-- Fucntion to send messages to MTOPIC: monitor topic
function send_mstatus(message)
    mqt:publish(MTOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)
    
end

-- Function to display temp and hum
function display_temphum(temp,humi)
    print("Temperature=%d, Humidity=%d",temp,humi)
end

 
-- Function to read and publish temperature and humidity
function read_temp_hum(client)
    status, temp, humi, temp_dec, humi_dec = dht.read(SPIN)
    if status == dht.OK then
    
        mqt:publish(TTOPIC, temp,MQTTQOS, 0)
        mqt:publish(HTOPIC, humi, MQTTQOS, 0)
        
       -- display_temphum(temp,humi)
       
    elseif status == dht.ERROR_CHECKSUM then
        print( "DHT Checksum error." )
    elseif status == dht.ERROR_TIMEOUT then
        print( "DHT timed out." )
    end
end


-- Function that sleeps esp8266
function esp_sleep()
 
    send_status("Sensor going to sleep now")
    send_mstatus("Sensor going to sleep now")
    -- Delayd sleep to send the message above.
    tmr.alarm(3, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function() 
        node.dsleep(sleep_in_seconds*1000000) 
    end)
end

-- Connection to the mqtt server at the mqttport
mqt:connect(MQTTSERVER, MQTTPORT, 0, 1)

--Sends periodically the temperature and humidity to the topics
tmr.alarm(1, TUPTEMP*1000, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() read_temp_hum(mqt) end)

-- Sends periodically a message to the monitor topic
tmr.alarm(4, TUPDATE*1000, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() send_mstatus("Sensor Ready") end)

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-- tempumid.lua

CNAME="room1" -- Client name

AMBIENT="home" -- Ambient name

TTOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/temperature" -- Temperature topic

HTOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/humidity" -- Humidity topic

STOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/status" -- Status topic

CTOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/command" --Command topic

MTOPIC = AMBIENT.."/"..CNAME.."/monitor" --Monitor topic

sleep_in_seconds= nil --Sleep in seconds

TUPDATE = 15 -- Time interval for update monitor in seconds

TUPTEMP = 10 -- Time interval for update temperature and humidity values

SPIN = 4 -- Sensor pin

TGEN = 5 -- Time interval in seconds usend in various trm

-- Define Client Name and connection parameters

mqt = mqtt.Client(CNAME, 60, "", "", 1)

-- Subscribe to the topics and send status to the status topic

mqt:on("connect", function()

mqt:subscribe(STOPIC, MQTTQOS)

mqt:subscribe(CTOPIC, MQTTQOS)

mqt:subscribe(MTOPIC, MQTTQOS)

mqt:subscribe(TTOPIC, MQTTQOS)

mqt:subscribe(HTOPIC, MQTTQOS)

send_status("Sensor ready again")

end )

-- Callback when mqtt is offline

mqt:on("offline", function() print("mqtt offline"); end)

--Callback to manage messages

mqt:on("message", function(client, topic, data)

manage_message(client, topic, data)

end)

-- Function to filter the messages

function manage_message(client, topic, data)

-- If CTOPIC: command topic

if topic == CTOPIC then

--print("Command")

-- If the command is Restart

if data == "Restart" then

send_status("Restarting")

send_mstatus("Restarting")

tmr.alarm(2, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, node.restart)

--print("restart")

-- If the command is null

elseif data == nil then

-- print("Command not valid")

send_status("Command not valid")

else

-- Check the Sleep command

i=string.len(data)

dato=string.sub(data,1,5)

if dato == "Sleep" then

ndato=string.sub(data,6)

TSLEEP=tonumber(ndato)

if TSLEEP ~= nil then

if TSLEEP >= 1 then

-- Sets the interval in seconds to sleep

sleep_in_seconds=TSLEEP*60

esp_sleep()

else

-- Send an error in Sleep command

send_status("Sleep command error")

end

else

-- Send an error in Sleep command

send_status("Sleep command error")

end

else

-- Command not managed

send_status("Command not valid")

end

-- Function to send messages to STOPIC: status topic

function send_status(message)

mqt:publish(STOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)

end

-- Fucntion to send messages to MTOPIC: monitor topic

function send_mstatus(message)

mqt:publish(MTOPIC, message, MQTTQOS, 0)

end

-- Function to display temp and hum

function display_temphum(temp,humi)

print("Temperature=%d, Humidity=%d",temp,humi)

end

-- Function to read and publish temperature and humidity

function read_temp_hum(client)

status, temp, humi, temp_dec, humi_dec = dht.read(SPIN)

if status == dht.OK then

mqt:publish(TTOPIC, temp,MQTTQOS, 0)

mqt:publish(HTOPIC, humi, MQTTQOS, 0)

-- display_temphum(temp,humi)

elseif status == dht.ERROR_CHECKSUM then

print( "DHT Checksum error." )

elseif status == dht.ERROR_TIMEOUT then

print( "DHT timed out." )

end

-- Function that sleeps esp8266

function esp_sleep()

send_status("Sensor going to sleep now")

send_mstatus("Sensor going to sleep now")

-- Delayd sleep to send the message above.

tmr.alarm(3, TGEN*1000, tmr.ALARM_SINGLE, function()

node.dsleep(sleep_in_seconds*1000000)

end)

end

-- Connection to the mqtt server at the mqttport

mqt:connect(MQTTSERVER, MQTTPORT, 0, 1)

--Sends periodically the temperature and humidity to the topics

tmr.alarm(1, TUPTEMP*1000, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() read_temp_hum(mqt) end)

-- Sends periodically a message to the monitor topic

tmr.alarm(4, TUPDATE*1000, tmr.ALARM_AUTO, function() send_mstatus("Sensor Ready") end)

The temumid.lua file manages the measurement of temperature and humidity, the subscription on MQTT broker with submission of the data. Global parameters have been set to manage the topic, the waiting time in tmr.alarm. There are in particular the following topics

/home/room1/temperature: measured temperature topic.
/home/room1/humidity: measured humidity topic.
/home/room1/status : Status topic. The status is sent at the start and at request from the command topic /home/room1/command.
/home/room1/monitor: Status of the esp sent periodically to this topic.
/home/room1/command: Other clients can send commands to the esp:
- Restart: Restarts the esp.
- Sleep n: Put to sleep for n seconds the esp.

There are various service functions to manage all. The comments in the code describe each feature.

In the next article we will set up the esp with the relay

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