433mhz module

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Hi, i been using my 433mhz receiver for awhile now, i use it to detect my door sensor which is connected to my Openhab2 on my Raspberry pi 3 runing Stretch, recently i had some problems with my system and i decided to make fresh install, after installing Buster on my Pi and going through the steps i succeeded installing and using last time from these links: RFSniffer, 433MHz receiver RPI and MQTT

I know its a bit of an old link and things changed a bit, i installed mosquitto with Buster repo and installed wiringPi from Github as it’s no longer available by Gordan at the original site, i installed 433utils github, followed everything and when i test my ./RFSniffer it works perfectly but when i use ./RFmqtt i get nothing!

I tried different pins, different Pi, different method of installation, i also tried Strech Version of Pi and still nothing…

I had ./RFmqtt work before even without connecting to OH2

I spent my last 15 days of quarantine plus other non quarantined days trying to solve this but no luck, what to do?!?

I would appreciate any advice or help and i will be thankful always

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Have you used openhabian-config tool, selected option 10 Apply Improvements, then Add needed Packages, svr mounts, and fix permissions? If not give that a try and by some chance you do not have openhabian-config tool you can add it with these commands from the doc’s.

# install git
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

# download and link
sudo git clone https://github.com/openhab/openhabian.git /opt/openhabian
sudo ln -s /opt/openhabian/openhabian-setup.sh /usr/local/bin/openhabian-config

# execute
sudo openhabian-config

Link for reference:

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You have more than one broker installed and trying to use the same 1883 port?

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fresh install and I made sure its only one mosquito

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netstal -lptn

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 512/sshd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1883 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 429/mosquitto
tcp6 0 0 :::5007 :::* LISTEN 427/java
tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 427/java
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 512/sshd
tcp6 0 0 :::8443 :::* LISTEN 427/java
tcp6 0 0 :::1883 :::* LISTEN 429/mosquitto
tcp6 0 0 127.0.0.1:33663 :::* LISTEN 427/java
tcp6 0 0 127.0.0.1:8101 :::* LISTEN 427/java

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Hello @ramy_rutu,

Did you get it running?
when you run the RFmqtt in the console do you get any error or message?
(Make sure it is not allready running as a process.)
You might uncomment the part which states.

/* Include for debugging */

And build it to get more info when something is received.

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Hello @Josar

I have my ./RFmqtt working and no error or any type of message showing, except I don’t receive anything from my door sensor only for ./RFSniffer I do receive a signal.

I just uncommented the line /* Include for debugging */ nothing changed yet

last night I did fresh install again and this time I didn’t install wiringpi as I mentioned its no longer available on the main site but it appeared to me that its already installed and no need to do anything

this is the only thing I get when running ./RFmqtt

pi@raspberrypi:~/433Utils/RPi_utils $ ./RFmqtt
Running with -h localhost -p 1883 -u admin -x password -t 433MHz -g 17 -w 0

yes I changed my gpio to see if others work but still no luck!

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Can you test

  1. Add a print before the sleep.
  2. use usleep(500U) instead if nanosleep
  3. Make the sleep longer for nanosleep
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I am not sure exactly if i did this right?

      {
         //print usleep(550U); # i added print here and changed 500U to 550U
         nanosleep( &req, (struct timespec *)NULL);
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Nope

usleep(550U);

// remove nanosleep by commenting out.
// nanosleep( &req, (struct timespec *)NULL);
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nothing changed, i tried running it from root and same !

        usleep(500U);
      }
    }

i feel like im missing a library for mosquito but not sure

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by the way Thank You @Josar for replaying and helping anyway :+1:

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Did you follow the readme?

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Yes, all the steps one by one

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The mosquitto dependencies are listed in the readme.

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if you talking about his one as i have already installed it

sudo apt-get install libmosquitto-dev
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so that’s what i did as fresh install:
1-installed Full Buster from here https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
2- sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
3-followed your steps on your page here: https://community.openhab.org/t/rfsniffer-433mhz-receiver-rpi-and-mqtt/39515
4- from #3 above i did install mosquitto+clintes and the libmosquitto-dev
5- installed 433Utils and changed the Makefile and add RFmqtt.cpp than changed the gpio to 27 for rfmqtt and for rfsinnfer its already set to 2 so than i hit sudo make

NOTE I have not installed wiringpi as i mentioned before it comes pre installed and i also tried it on with manual installation before!

6- i have replaced and adjusted

/* Include for debugging */  &
usleep(550U);
// remove nanosleep by commenting out.
// nanosleep( &req, (struct timespec *)NULL);

no success yet !!!

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This does not sound as if you use the same pin for RF sniffer and RFmqtt.

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Also make sure to use the correct pin numbering.

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Pins are set right i believe, i followed the wiringpi diagram, so my RFSniffer is set to wiringpi pin 2 = gpio 27
My RFmqtt set to gpio 27 = pin2 in wiringpi

I need to mention somthing hopefully its not too late
My RPI3 uses wifi usb dungle so i am wondering if this might effect it ? I have had it working before with the same setup using same pi and usb wifi