I’m seeing the following exception when trying to use the network binding with arpping for the presence detection on couple of mobiles:
In karaf I see the following error:
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: Exception in thread "presenceDetectionARP_10.100.1.57 " java.lang.NullPointerException
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1012)
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at org.openhab.binding.network.internal.utils.NetworkUtils.nativeARPPing(NetworkUtils.java:316)
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at org.openhab.binding.network.internal.PresenceDetection.performARPping(PresenceDetection.java:506)
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at org.openhab.binding.network.internal.PresenceDetection.lambda$3(PresenceDetection.java:339)
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
6:22:11 host karaf[27311]: at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
In openhab.log (with trace logging on the network binding) I see the following:
6:24:21.910 [TRACE] [g.network.internal.PresenceDetection] - Perform native ping presence detection for galaxy-s9
6:24:22.033 [TRACE] [g.network.internal.PresenceDetection] - Perform ARP ping presence detection for 10.100.1.57 on interface: null
I suspect that the issue is connected to the missing interface which is NULL and that creates the NullPointerException, but I’m not sure if there is anything I can do to fix inside the configuration or if this is an issue with the binding.
I’m currently running Openhab 2.5.0~S1525-1 (incl. addons) on debian. I beleave that I have seen some recent changes on the Network Binding by David, to not provide anymore the interface when the arping is being executed. For that reason I have tried both debian packages: arping and iputils-arping, as arping is requiring an interface name and in iputils-arping it is optional, but didn’t have any success in either case.
I have tried also to run Openhab as part of the root group, to prevent any permission issues and I have also setcap ‘cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=+eip cap_net_bind_service=+ep’ $(realpath /usr/bin/java).
chmod u+s on arping is set and arping can be executed as the openhab user which is running the service.
Here is the runtime configuration on the item (phone):
| arp_state | Disabled |
|---|---|
| dhcp_state | Running normally |
| icmp_state | IPUTILS_LINUX_PING |
| presence_detection_type | |
| uses_ios_wakeup | Yes |
What else could be the problem?