Balboa Binding

joedirt · April 11, 2021, 12:50am

How did you get on?

joedirt · May 3, 2021, 7:44am

Ok so an update.

Two days ago I swapped the fritzbox router I was using for a UniFi Dream Pro as I’ve added some cameras into the network. Since I’ve done that I havnt had a single disconnect or drop from the spa.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this has fixed my issue? I’m still using the same ubuquiti access points for wifi so nothing at all on that end has changed.

binderth · May 3, 2021, 8:06am

How long was your usual interval between droppings?
I discovered, that in my case it’s dependend on:

how often I change configuration in OH3 at all (even if I don’t touch the Balboa Bindings configuration of things/items related with it)
usually after a maximum of 10-12 days it loses the connection, normally if I do heavy “configuration work” within OH3 it lasts at least 2-3 days
as I have “pihole” installed, I got an unusual high amount of DNS-queries on the balboa-unit before it loses connection, perhaps this has something to do with it losing the connection?

I use 100% Fritz-mesh and for tests I set the balboa WiFi to no internet access yesterday after the latest connection issues, perhaps it helps (I don’t use the App anyways)

joedirt · May 3, 2021, 8:17am

Mine has been dropping out 2-3 times a day recently.

I haven’t touched anything in oh3 for about 3 weeks in terms of config stuff.

It might sound a bit silly but do you have another router you can test with? I vaguely remember reading some post on another forum saying that they switched from using a Fritzbox to another router and the drops were fixed for them too.

ThomasBrodkorb · May 3, 2021, 8:48am

In my case it is other way round.
If I am lucky, it connects two or three times a day for a few seconds.
Sometimes it connects once every two or three days.
Need to check if I could place another Wifi somewhere closer to the tub.

joedirt · May 21, 2021, 12:23am

Update: after 12 days I lost connection and had to disable the thing and reenable it.

binderth · May 21, 2021, 6:50am

update: I set the Balboa WiFi to “no internet for you” and had no issues since.

but of course it tries to reach home aggressively nevertheless, as my PiHole tells me:

msundis · May 21, 2021, 1:20pm

I have been testing this a bit now and it works well for me, I mostly just turn the light on and off and check the temperature using Google Assistant but I have also turned off and on the heater and circulations. Thanks for all the great work!

binderth · June 30, 2021, 2:37pm

After accidentially updating to openHAB 3.1 stable I get the following error in the log:

2021-06-30 16:36:40.273 [WARN ] [org.apache.felix.fileinstall        ] - Error while starting bundle: file:/usr/share/openhab/addons/org.openhab.binding.balboa-3.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: org.openhab.binding.balboa [235]
  Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: javax.measure; version="[1.0.0,2.0.0)"
	at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:463) ~[org.eclipse.osgi-3.16.200.jar:?]
	at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle.start(EquinoxBundle.java:440) ~[org.eclipse.osgi-3.16.200.jar:?]
	at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startBundle(DirectoryWatcher.java:1260) [bundleFile:3.6.8]
	at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startBundles(DirectoryWatcher.java:1233) [bundleFile:3.6.8]
	at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startAllBundles(DirectoryWatcher.java:1221) [bundleFile:3.6.8]
	at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.doProcess(DirectoryWatcher.java:515) [bundleFile:3.6.8]
	at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.process(DirectoryWatcher.java:365) [bundleFile:3.6.8]
	at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.run(DirectoryWatcher.java:316) [bundleFile:3.6.8]

Can I do something about this? or has this to be changed in the binding.jar?

clinophobic · July 2, 2021, 10:44pm

Hi

Can anyone confirm if openHAB 3.1 stable breaks this binding.

Great work with this binding!!!

Thanks

joedirt · July 31, 2021, 9:13pm

@binderth @clinophobic

Did you guys end up getting this working with 3.1?
My system is currently updating to 3.1 now

clinophobic · August 1, 2021, 7:51pm

I just went back to the previous build to keep system working.

I found on a previous post in forum

‘adding an explicit dependency in pom.xml solved the problem’

Unfortunately I have no understanding of what that means. There is a pom.xml in the source code but I have no idea how to turn the source into a jar to test.

So in short no and I have no idea how to even help how to solve it unfortunately.

scottr · August 1, 2021, 8:16pm

I did this building my own binding, in my case using Visual Studio Code. I have not done any follow up to determine if the dependency is still needed in OH3. Lots of information out there on how to setup a build environment, not a quick undertaking, but the documentation is quite good if you decide to pursue it.

Sorry, no quick fix without help from the binding’s author or another contributor.

clinophobic · August 2, 2021, 7:12pm

Thanks Scott for advice. Always up for learning. I’ll give it a go.

joedirt · August 9, 2021, 4:22am

Bump, did anyone end up getting this working? I had a look at the coding stuff but it looks a little above my head unfortunately.

carlonnheim · August 9, 2021, 7:16am

Hi,

Sorry for the lack of engagemang om my part, struggling to find the time between day-job and family life… Still have my own setup on OH2, but will take a look at bringing that up to OH3 with the binding.

Regards
//Carl

joedirt · August 9, 2021, 7:22am

Awesome thanks mate, I really appreciate it!

joedirt · August 17, 2021, 6:07am

Is there anything I can do to help out? I don’t mind sending you some money to get this working with oh3 if that helps?

clinophobic · August 27, 2021, 1:27am

Hi @joedirt I used the tutorial here Eclipse IDE | openHAB and have managed to get a working version with 3.1 of @carlonnheim binding by doing what @scottr had done before with the dependency.

Btw i have no idea what I am doing or how to use git or github so I have just uploaded the jar to it. It can be found here to try.

Cant make any promises but it works for me.

binderth · August 27, 2021, 6:04am

Thanks @clinophobic, works with me also:

2021-08-27 08:02:57.033 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from UNINITIALIZED to INITIALIZING
2021-08-27 08:02:57.040 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from INITIALIZING to UNKNOWN
2021-08-27 08:02:57.040 [INFO ] [inding.balboa.internal.BalboaHandler] - Starting balboa protocol with 192.168.xxx.yyy at 4257
2021-08-27 08:02:58.273 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from UNKNOWN to ONLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Configuration request sent
2021-08-27 08:02:58.383 [INFO ] [inding.balboa.internal.BalboaHandler] - Balboa Protocol is Online
2021-08-27 08:02:58.386 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from ONLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Configuration request sent to ONLINE
2021-08-27 08:02:58.432 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'BalboaIPUnit_TargetTemperature' changed from 34 °C to 32 °C
2021-08-27 08:02:58.437 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'BalboaIPUnit_Priming' changed from OPEN to CLOSED
2021-08-27 08:02:58.442 [WARN ] [ab.core.internal.items.ExpireManager] - Expire config '1h0m0s,command=UNDEF' of item 'BalboaIPUnit_CurrentTemperature' is invalid: The string 'UNDEF' does not represent a valid command for item BalboaIPUnit_CurrentTemperature
2021-08-27 08:02:58.454 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'BalboaIPUnit_CurrentTemperature' changed from 34 °C to 32 °C
2021-08-27 08:03:01.470 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemCommandEvent      ] - Item 'BalboaIPUnit_WhirlpoolAutomatic' received command ON
2021-08-27 08:03:07.667 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from ONLINE to UNINITIALIZED
2021-08-27 08:03:07.697 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from UNINITIALIZED to UNINITIALIZED (HANDLER_MISSING_ERROR)
2021-08-27 08:03:07.926 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from UNINITIALIZED (HANDLER_MISSING_ERROR) to INITIALIZING
2021-08-27 08:03:07.932 [INFO ] [inding.balboa.internal.BalboaHandler] - Starting balboa protocol with 192.168.xxx.yyy at 4257
2021-08-27 08:03:07.934 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from INITIALIZING to UNKNOWN
2021-08-27 08:03:07.953 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from UNKNOWN to ONLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Configuration request sent
2021-08-27 08:03:08.120 [INFO ] [inding.balboa.internal.BalboaHandler] - Balboa Protocol is Online
2021-08-27 08:03:08.126 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'balboa:balboa-ip:b9e1682ef3' changed from ONLINE (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Configuration request sent to ONLINE