Openhabian after update questions

[drmacro (Mac McIlvaine)]

openHAB 2.5.11-1 (Release Build)
Raspberry PI
Bindings: MQTT , Zwave, Astro, mapdb, influxdb, network, NTP

I just updated to the 2.5.11-1. Seems most everything is working so far. But some questions…

When I booted after the upgrade this was in the log:

[WARN ] [ab.binding.mail.internal.SMTPHandler] - Sending the email to the following server failed : smtp.gmail.com:25

2021-01-26 13:13:56.793 [WARN ] [ab.binding.mail.internal.SMTPHandler] - com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. k64sm14751023qkc.110 - gsmtp

There was also a note that flew bye during the update about changing something to STARTTLS

Not sure how to proceed on this.

When I login to the OH Pi I get this noted:

2021-01-26 13:13:50,336: FireMotD: Info: No FireMotD ExportFile detected. Please generate with “sudo .\FireMotD -S”

Again, not sure what to do and more importantly why.

And my Inbox in Paper UI has these:

NTP does seem to be working as does the Astro Binding.

Just getting back to tinkering with the system after 6 months…no need to since it has worked fine.
So need to get my mind around things again.
Since I want to add a Zwave device to my network in a few days, I figured I’d get things working before trying H3…

So getting reoriented.

[Wolfgang_S]

@drmacro

here was also a note that flew bye during the update about changing something to STARTTLS

Not sure how to proceed on this.

see the documentation Mail - Bindings | openHAB
Sounds like your configuration for the security is set to PLAIN. You should set it to STARTTLS to not submit the password in plaintext.

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@drmacro

There was also a note that flew bye during the update about changing something to STARTTLS

Depending on how you upgraded there will be an upgrade.log file where you can go back and see that stuff that flew by.

@drmacro

When I login to the OH Pi I get this noted:

This is from FireMotD which is not part of openHAB. It is what generates that table of machine statistics when you first log in. Sometimes it gets messed up. You can usually fix it by running that command it tells you to run from the FireMotD folder (/opt/firemotd perhaps?).

@drmacro

And my Inbox in Paper UI has these:

By default Astro will “discover” a sub and moon thing based on the lat/long configured in settings. I assume something similar is going on with NTP, it discovered an NTP service on your network.

[drmacro (Mac McIlvaine)]

@Wolfgang_S

Sounds like your configuration for the security is set to PLAIN. You should set it to STARTTLS to not submit the password in plaintext.

Hmm…
mail thing is:

Thing mail:smtp:Gmail [ hostname=“smtp.gmail.com”, sender="sombody@gmail.com", security=“TLS”, username="somebody@gmail.com", password=“hidden text” ]

@rlkoshak

Depending on how you upgraded there will be an upgrade.log file where you can go back and see that stuff that flew by.

I used openhabian-config, where does the update.log end up? Nothing with that name in /var/log

@rlkoshak

This is from FireMotD

Hmm…it doesn’t appear FireMotD exists. Executing that command get no command found error, whereis says nothing, and apropos finds nothing.

@rlkoshak

By default Astro will “discover” a sub and moon thing based on the lat/long configured in settings. I assume something similar is going on with NTP, it discovered an NTP service on your network.

So I can safely ignore the Astro things since I don’t use them?

network.things points to pool.ntp.org.
I don’t think I have anything providing NTP on my side of my firewall…

[Wolfgang_S]

@drmacro

Thing mail:smtp:Gmail [ hostname=“smtp.gmail.com”, sender="sombody@gmail.com", security=“TLS”, username="somebody@gmail.com", password=“hidden text” ]

The documentation states:

The security parameter defines the transport security and can be set to PLAIN (default), STARTTLS or SSL (for implicit SSL/TLS). The port parameter is used to change the default ports for the SMTP server. Default ports are 25 (for PLAIN and STARTTLS) and 465 (for SSL).

So it shouldn’t be port 25 that is mentioned in the log, right ?
What if you use the keyword SSL instead of TLS ? Does it work then ?

[drmacro (Mac McIlvaine)]

@Wolfgang_S

The documentation states:

Yes, indeed it does. But, I have no idea why with the setting as TLS the log mentions port 25.
I changed the setting to STARTTLS and it now appears to be working.

[Wolfgang_S]

@drmacro

But, I have no idea why with the setting as TLS the log mentions port 25.

Could be a bug or TLS is not an allowed keyword. Although then I would expect to see an error message in case a wrong string is being used.

[mstormi (Markus Storm)]

@rlkoshak

You can usually fix it by running that command it tells you to run from the FireMotD folder (/opt/firemotd perhaps?).

systemctl start firemotd.service

If systemctl list-timers should show the firemotd timer to be N/A, edit these two files to match mine:

[21:52:24] root@openhab:/home/openhabian# cat /etc/systemd/system/firemotd.service
[Unit]
Description=Periodic FireMotD stats regeneration
After=network.target network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
User=root
Group=root
#RemainAfterExit=yes
RemainAfterExit=no
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/FireMotD -S -D all &> /dev/null

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[21:53:13] root@openhab:/home/openhabian# cat /etc/systemd/system/firemotd.timer
[Unit]
Description=Daily generation of FireMotD stats

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-* 00:00
RandomizedDelaySec=6h
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

[mstormi (Markus Storm)]

@drmacro

Yes, indeed it does. But, I have no idea why with the setting as TLS the log mentions port 25.

Because the SMTP connection starts on that port. It is plaintext per default then starts encrypting after STARTTLS is issued but the port stays to be 25.