Installing AndrewJFreyer's Monitor on same Pi as Hass?

[daneboom]

Anybody tried this? Would cut down the number of Raspberry Pi Zero W’s I would need and I gather Monitor consumes far less resources than Presence…?

[nickrout]

WTF is AndrewJFreyer’s monitor?

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

It’s post 340ish here…

[presence] Reliable, Multi-User, Distributed Bluetooth Occupancy/Presence Detection

Hey all - check out my github for an alpha of the rewrite. The project is named, for the time being, monitor. Any thoughts or reports would be greatly appreciated. I have been testing for a very long time, and it works for my family with the same performance, if not a bit faster, while scanning about 75% less often than presence (substantially mitigating wifi interference issues). Please let me know what y’all think.

[daneboom]

sorry, fella, thought it was quite well known here.

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

I haven’t tried running it with HA because I use hass.io so mine is on an old rpi 1 (with a BTLE dongle installed) I’ve had no trouble running it on that for the last month or so.

[daneboom]

Hi @Keith666 I am using Hass too - are you saying it’s very unlikely or impossible that Monitor and Hass.io can coexist on one Pi?

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

Since hass.io uses resin os not linux I would say impossible - however I’ve been wrong before

[nickrout]

Someone probably needs to make an addon for hassio. Running using hassbian or raspbian it shouldn’t be a problem to add the required packages.

[daneboom]

While you guys are here…sorry slightly going off topic…any ideas how to “view” the output of the script as it’s running? I’ve tried cat and I’ve tried tail -fbut neither are formatted in the same “nice” way as when yuo call the script for the first time from the command prompt. I’m a hass.io and Linux newbie.
I’ve asked in the main thread about presence and monitor but it’s such a huge thread it’s not really working for specific technical problems or enquiries.

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

If I want to monitor it I just run it from the command prompt, you have to remember to restart the service afterwards tho’.

[nickrout]

There appears to be some logging in the script. Is that giving you what you want?

[daneboom]

Well, possibly, but I can’t work out how to open the log files main_pipe and log_pipe! And when I try to start the script with bash I get

> stopping other instances of 'monitor.sh'
Error: Connection timed out

But this

sudo pkill -f monitor.sh
and/or sudo systemctl stop monitor.service`

seems to have helped

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

type more log_pipe when in the monitor dir.

[daneboom]

Hmmm while doing sudo pkill and sudo systemctl stop helps…I still get timeouts
no idea why!

I’m also getting
0.1.482 11:07:44 am [REJECT] Arrive scan request denied. Hardware busy.

so it’s as if the monitor SERVICE is still somehow active maybe?!

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

try
sudo systemctl status monitor.service

You will get the hardware busy if something else is using the BT hardware