Serial communication stops working (OH3)

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Hello All,

Since a few weeks I updated my OpenHAB server to OH3.
With that update, I reconnected my Smart Meter (DSMR) via a inverter and voltage regulator to the serial port of my raspberry pi 3B+.

This works great, until a few days after startup.
The binding states an error: “No data received from Smart Meter” and after restarting the DSMR binding “Serial port does not exist”.

Only a restart of OpenHAB fixes the problem. And then it can run for like 4 to 7 days.
I already checked my logging and searched for problems with serial communication, but unfortunately I couldn’t find anything usefull.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jordo

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Did you check dmesg and syslog if e.g. due to problems with the serial device the device was detected under a different device id ?

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I checked the syslog, but that one is only full with “DHCPDISCOVER”.
So nothing special in there.

I also looked into dmesg, and I was able to find the serial port, but I don’t know what I should see in there?

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Is a new device detected around the time the communication stops ?

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Not that I can see.
Searched in the last 3 syslog files for such events

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Anyone else who might have an idea?

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No idea by now. But I have similar problems, see here:

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Comment: there is a issue for some people with Modbus binding and serial ports. It seems that when error recovery is invoked due to a transient error, the port can get locked out due to some issue in the common serial library. Might be something similar here.

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Ok, at the moment I am only using modbus TCP. Has this also an affect? Can you share some more information?

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It’s nothing to do actually with using Modbus binding. I am saying that some modbus users have trouble with the serial port. Investigations there have indicated a problem with a core serial library, that is not a part of the modbus binding. I would expect other bindings that use the serial ports to also use the same library.

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I already thought that it would be something with the serial library instead of the DSMR binding in this case.
So I hope the problem in the Serial library will be found and solved soon then.

Do you know which topic where this is mentioned?

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There was an ongoing investigation here, but fizzled out I think

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Thanks for the reply.
Seems a bit like a dead topic indeed. :frowning:

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Topic moved to Github