SBFspot Bluetooth homeassistant addon

tropfen · July 18, 2022, 7:42pm

Hello HasQT,

solved the problem. I have startet a backup of the system on a new SSD. It works now. Looks like the old log-file crashed on the file system.

Thanks for your help
Frank

HasQT · July 18, 2022, 7:46pm

Is the Bluetooth connection working also?

tropfen · July 18, 2022, 7:50pm

yes. same position and pretty good signal: BT Signal=75.3%

HasQT · July 18, 2022, 8:24pm

Oh btw, you don’t need to leave phpMyAdmin running. You only need it for the initial database creation, or if you want to look into the database.

bmccluskey · July 26, 2022, 6:52pm

Hi, I am having an issue getting the bluetooth to connect in SBFspot. Im very new to Home Assistant but so far I have managed to do everything Ive needed with all the great content here and elsewhere.

Ive installed a fresh HAOS from last week (Updates have just installed) directly onto an aging NUC DN2820FYK. When ive installed and configured the SBFspot im getting the 10 tries in less than 10 seconds and finishing with the “CRITICAL: bthConnect() returned -1” error.

Ive managed to try use bluetoothctl and it can see the NUC built in bluetooth controller and I can scan for devices and see the inverter and even pair to it. Ive also installed the Bluetooth tracker and the inverter shows up as known device.

I had a PI version of SBFspot running for a few years but the SD trashed and I never bothered setting it up again. I had kept a copy of the cfg file which i used to help populate in the HA addon.

As another check I did a quick install SPFspot on V1 Pi Raspian and was able to use a USB Bluetooth adapter to login and pull data from the inverter. I tried the same USB adapter into the NUC but no difference. It then just has 2 controllers and probably is still trying to use the built in one. The PI and NUC were beside each other and ony a couple of meters from the inverter.

Anyone got any ideas of anything to try next?

HasQT · July 26, 2022, 7:21pm

Probably my fault I think. Where is your Bluetooth listed? Only ttyAMA0 is active in the addon…


$ ll /dev/se*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  5 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/serial0 -> ttyS0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  7 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/serial1 -> ttyAMA0
$ ll /dev/tty*
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 204, 64 Oct  2 12:52 /dev/ttyAMA0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout   4, 64 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188,  0 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/ttyUSB0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          7 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/ttyUSB01 -> ttyUSB0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root          7 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/ttyUSB04 -> ttyUSB1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188,  1 Oct  2 12:17 /dev/ttyUSB1

edit: try the other version, the plain sbfspot in my addons. I have removed the devices, if it connects with that version it is a simple fix.

bmccluskey · July 26, 2022, 9:14pm

I dont see the /dev/ devices you have listed nor do i have the ll comand - im using the terminal & ssh console. Should i being using something else?

- attributes:
    BUSNUM: "001"
    DEVNAME: /dev/bus/usb/001/007
    DEVNUM: "007"
    DEVPATH: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4
    DEVTYPE: usb_device
    DRIVER: usb
    ID_BUS: usb
    ID_MODEL: 07dc
    ID_MODEL_ENC: 07dc
    ID_MODEL_ID: 07dc
    ID_PATH: pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:4
    ID_PATH_TAG: pci-0000_00_14_0-usb-0_4
    ID_REVISION: "0001"
    ID_SERIAL: 8087_07dc
    ID_USB_INTERFACES: ':e00101:'
    ID_VENDOR: "8087"
    ID_VENDOR_ENC: "8087"
    ID_VENDOR_ID: "8087"
    MAJOR: "189"
    MINOR: "6"
    PRODUCT: 8087/7dc/1
    SUBSYSTEM: usb
    TYPE: 224/1/1
    USEC_INITIALIZED: "24236237"
  by_id: null
  children:
  - /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0
  - /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/bluetooth/hci0
  - /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/rfkill1
  - /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.1
  dev_path: /dev/bus/usb/001/007
  name: 1-4
  subsystem: usb
  sysfs: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4

HasQT · July 27, 2022, 7:55am

hi @bmccluskey
sorry for the delay in response. I had to rework the addon to suit the new s6 v3 requirements.
Can you give the test-sbfspot addon a go and see if you can connect and let me know.

@laurie_lewis and @nug this change might have solved your VM connection issues also.

nug · July 27, 2022, 8:11am

Thanks for following up mate but my issue was definitely a range thing. I ended up putting a small PC in my garage with SBFSpot setup on that and pass that through MQTT back to my main HA VM.

bmccluskey · July 27, 2022, 8:33am

What delay?? A changed piece of code in <12 hours is lightning fast, thank you!

Now the bad news. I uninstalled the original and installed the Test one. Unfortunatly it hasnt resolved the bluetooth issue, same problem 10 goes in a a few seconds. The other thing it seem to run it a second time in quick succession. Or else the Cron hasnt cleared properly from the original version.

Wed Jul 27 09:24:16 2022: CRITICAL: bthConnect() returned -1
Wed Jul 27 09:25:09 2022: CRITICAL: bthConnect() returned -1
Wed Jul 27 09:30:09 2022: CRITICAL: bthConnect() returned -1

HasQT · July 27, 2022, 11:42am

hmm try the test version again. I added the devices key back in for usb(i think). you will need to reload the repository.

bmccluskey · July 27, 2022, 12:14pm

Still no luck.Still getting the 10 tries in < 10 secs
Not 100% on what you mean by reload the repository but here is what i did.

Stopped the service
Uninstalled - gave it a few minutes
Hardware reboot
Installed Test version
Put Yaml back in
Hardware reboot
Started service

Let me know if you need anything more on my side. I appreciate the efforts. Thank you.

bmccluskey · July 27, 2022, 12:34pm

Is there any point trying to add the local BT address entry in the SBFspot.cfg file?

# If multiple local BT adapters are available, select the one to use
#LocalBTAddress=00:00:00:00:00:00

HasQT · July 28, 2022, 7:13am

I added LocalBTaddress to the plain SBFspot addon. Try that. seems to be working for me. blank or 00:00:00:00:00 or my correct mac work. incorrect controller mac won’t connect.

you can find your bluetooth controller mac using bluetoothctl command in the ssh console addons.

heraldry · July 28, 2022, 8:09am

Hi there,
When I upgraded to 2022.7.2 SBFspot does not start.
"Fatal error for option ‘LocalBTAddress’ with type ‘?’ in SBFspot (a51a23d8_sbfspot).

When I add 00:00:00:00:00:00(or real MAC) to LocalBTAddress field the plugin does not allow to save the yaml.

HasQT · July 28, 2022, 8:13am

try a reinstall heraldry, check for updates in the addon store. the ? was in an earlier version.

bmccluskey · July 28, 2022, 8:36am

Still no luck

I upgraded first to the Test 2022.7.2
Then uninstalled and install just the SBFSpot and tried local Mac of 0s
Then the local Mac with the built in Bluetooth address
Then plugged an external Bluetooth and tried with its address
Now uninstalled and reinstalled the test version

Could we add a line to the output that shows what BT adapter and the port it is trying to use? Maybe at the top where it displays the sunrise/set times?

HasQT · July 28, 2022, 8:39am

I’m not actually sure what the command would be to do that in the container is part of that problem…

heraldry · July 28, 2022, 8:44am

Thanks, it works now.

HasQT · July 28, 2022, 9:03am

with bluetoothctl and scan on does your inverter mac show up on the nuc?