Python Plugin : Broadlink RM2 V4

[zak45]

I hope this is not a silly question, but I'm uncertain about the Python role in all of this. I have ordered two SP3S units and would like to use them in Domoticz, so I ended up here. I have Domoticz running on a RP. However, the domoticz dashboard is only accessed through windows machines or my phone.

Do I need to install Python on my windows pc to be able to get this to work on my domoticz, or do I need to do something on the RP? I have already checked my domoticz dashboard, but I can't find any Broadlink in 'hardware' yet.

Is it possible that someone explains it to me in 'dummy' terms? It's fine by me if that goes through Private messages

There is no silly question.. only response
This need to be installed in the same place as your Domoticz Server application is, so in your case the RP.
You need to configure all to have python 3.x running first, and all step can be found in wiki and sme tips/help in the forum.

Domoticz use a Web server as main interface, this is why you can access it from Win / Mac / Linux / Android etc ... this is only the client part.

[henk99]

Thank you for the response. Does this mean I have to type in all these commands listed in the wiki?

For others
sudo pip3 install broadlink --> mandatory
sudo pip3 install pyaes --> pycrypto no more mandatory, pyaes will be used instead
download plugin.py [2]
download plugin_send.py [3]
download plugin_http.py [4]
download plugin_http.sh [5]
these files need to be on the plugins/BroadlinkRM2 folder (chmod +x should be necessary ??)
See technical area on what is necessary.
Once all is ok, restart Domoticz

I have not dared to type these commands, because I'm afraid I will ' break' my working RP domoticz setup. I assume if I type 'download plugin.py' that RP knows where it is?

Like I said, isn't there a place that explains it more for people that have little or no knowledge of this? I says these files need to be in a certain folder, but I honestly don't know how to get them there.

[zak45]

Thank you for the response. Does this mean I have to type in all these commands listed in the wiki?
I have not dared to type these commands, because I'm afraid I will ' break' my working RP domoticz setup. I assume if I type 'download plugin.py' that RP knows where it is?

Like I said, isn't there a place that explains it more for people that have little or no knowledge of this? I says these files need to be in a certain folder, but I honestly don't know how to get them there.

And this is only the part that need to be done once you have installed python on your system.... so more work to do before.
This is also on the wiki.. but on what you say.. little bit afraid for you...
If you don't want to break your Pi and you don't know what you do... not do it !!!

[henk99]

Oh boy

[zak45]

Oh boy

If you find someone To help you for your python i will help you after for the plugin

[Salammbo]

Hi all,
Can someone please help me get back to a normal life by sharing a PI3 image with a pre-installed Domiticz including the Broadlink plugin?

I have tried everything in this forum a beyond during 4 days but I did not manage to make it work .

Your help will be much appreciated, very very much.

Thank you

[Phantom]

Hi all,
Can someone please help me get back to a normal life by sharing a PI3 image with a pre-installed Domiticz including the Broadlink plugin?

I have tried everything in this forum a beyond during 4 days but I did not manage to make it work .

Your help will be much appreciated, very very much.

Thank you

Hey Salammbo, i had a lot of trouble also with getting the pluing to work with debian stretch, domoticz cept crashing as soon as i enabled the pluing.
Now i am using ubuntu and running domoticz compiled from source and it working perfectly again:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi
then under: Unofficial images
Raspberry Pi 3: ubuntu-18.04-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi3.img.xz (4G image, 296M compressed) Updated 2018-04-28 (18.04 LTS)

[Salammbo]

Thank you Phantom. I will give it a trial.

[Lasermi]

Hello all,

I'm quite stuck with the plugin. Let me see if I can summarize all the testing I have already done...

1.- I currently use Domoticz 3.9483 on Raspbian Stretch (upgraded from Jessie). I have Python 3.5.3 installed.
2.- I installed the plugin following the wiki. I noticed I got the Broadlink 0.9 library.
3.- Manually triggering a Discovery in Python works, although I needed to increase the timeout. With a 5, it wouldn't find the device.
3.- I can add the Discovery device in Domoticz HW but then it immediately crashes. Trying to restart manually domoticz shows a segmentation fault just after starting the Discovery process and initiating Openzwave.
4.- Listing Python modules provides:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo pip3 list
DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable this warning.
broadlink (0.9)
cryptography (1.7.1)
gpiozero (1.4.1)
idna (2.2)
keyring (10.1)
keyrings.alt (1.3)
mcpi (0.1.1)
numpy (1.12.1)
pgzero (1.2)
picamera (1.13)
pifacecommon (4.2.1)
pifacedigitalio (3.1.0)
Pillow (4.0.0)
pip (9.0.1)
pyaes (1.6.1)
pyasn1 (0.1.9)
PyBluez (0.22)
PyCRC (1.21)
pycrypto (2.6.1)
pygame (1.9.3)
pygobject (3.22.0)
pyserial (3.2.1)
pyxdg (0.25)
RPi.GPIO (0.6.3)
RTIMULib (7.2.1)
SecretStorage (2.3.1)
sense-hat (2.2.0)
setuptools (33.1.1)
six (1.10.0)
spidev (3.3)
wheel (0.29.0)

5.- I noticed I have Pycrypto installed. When I try to uninstall it, I get

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sudo pip3 uninstall pycrypto
Not uninstalling pycrypto at /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages, outside environment /usr

I could not find how to uninstall it with apt-get. I guess the trick is here but googling around didn't give me many clues. I did successfully uninstall pycryptodome but that dind't provide any improvement.
6.- Removing the plugin files or renaming them will allow Domoticz to run perfectly, but of course without broadlink plugin.

Can anybody provide any idea?
Thanks in advance!!
Lasermi

[zak45]

Hello all,

I'm quite stuck with the plugin. Let me see if I can summarize all the testing I have already done...

1.- I currently use Domoticz 3.9483 on Raspbian Stretch (upgraded from Jessie). I have Python 3.5.3 installed.
I could not find how to uninstall it with apt-get. I guess the trick is here but googling around didn't give me many clues. I did successfully uninstall pycryptodome but that dind't provide any improvement.
6.- Removing the plugin files or renaming them will allow Domoticz to run perfectly, but of course without broadlink plugin.

Can anybody provide any idea?
Thanks in advance!!
Lasermi

maybe something like that :
sudo apt-get remove python-crypto

[Lasermi]

Hi Zak45, and thank you.

Finally, I executed:

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 sudo apt-get remove python3-crypto 

I also ran

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sudo apt-get remove python3-cryptography 

Just in case, but no joy. I still get the same fault:

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pi@raspberrypi:~/domoticz $ sudo ./domoticz
2018-05-25 19:10:51.595  Domoticz V3.9483 (c)2012-2018 GizMoCuz
2018-05-25 19:10:51.595  Build Hash: a74f7c4a, Date: 2018-05-24 11:42:36
2018-05-25 19:10:51.595  Startup Path: /home/pi/domoticz/
2018-05-25 19:10:51.622  Sunrise: 06:40:00 SunSet: 21:17:00
2018-05-25 19:10:51.622  Day length: 14:37:00 Sun at south: 13:05:00
2018-05-25 19:10:51.622  Civil twilight start: 06:08:00 Civil twilight end: 21:48:00
2018-05-25 19:10:51.622  Nautical twilight start: 05:30:00 Nautical twilight end: 22:27:00
2018-05-25 19:10:51.622  Astronomical twilight start: 04:46:00 Astronomical twilight end: 23:11:00
2018-05-25 19:10:51.622  EventSystem: reset all events...
2018-05-25 19:10:51.710  PluginSystem: Started, Python version '3.5.3'.
2018-05-25 19:10:51.719  Active notification Subsystems: http, kodi (2/14)
2018-05-25 19:10:51.721  WebServer(HTTP) started on address: :: with port 8080
2018-05-25 19:10:51.726  WebServer(SSL) started on address: :: with port 443
2018-05-25 19:10:51.728  Proxymanager started.
2018-05-25 19:10:51.729  Camera: settings (re)loaded
2018-05-25 19:10:51.729  Accepting shared server connections via MyDomotiz (see settings menu).
2018-05-25 19:10:51.808  Starting shared server on: :::6144
2018-05-25 19:10:51.808  TCPServer: shared server started...
2018-05-25 19:10:51.809  RxQueue: queue worker started...
2018-05-25 19:10:53.309  PROXY: Authenticate result: success.
2018-05-25 19:10:53.809  Hardware Monitor: Started
2018-05-25 19:10:53.827  Wunderground: Worker started...
2018-05-25 19:10:53.828  (Broadlink_Discover) Started.
2018-05-25 19:10:53.829  EventSystem: reset all events...
2018-05-25 19:10:53.830  EventSystem: reset all device statuses...
2018-05-25 19:10:53.840  Nest: Worker started...
2018-05-25 19:10:54.124  PluginSystem: Entering work loop.
2018-05-25 19:10:54.327  OpenZWave: using config in: /home/pi/domoticz/Config/
2018-05-25 19:10:54.329 Always, OpenZwave Version 1.4.2888 Starting Up
2018-05-25 19:10:54.330  OpenZWave: Starting...
2018-05-25 19:10:54.330  OpenZWave: Version: 1.4-2888-g54682370-dirty
Violación de segmento

That is... segment violation. Any ideas?

[HarleyZard]

Hi Lasermi,

I think it isn't possible to use this plugin in Raspberry with raspbian...
I tried a lot of times, and I never succeeded

If you find a solution I'll be very very interested...

I've the same log as you when I create a new material with this plugin :

pi@raspberrypi:~/domoticz $ sudo ./domoticz
2018-05-26 22:02:54.389 Domoticz V3.9476 (c)2012-2018 GizMoCuz
2018-05-26 22:02:54.389 Build Hash: 0747e583, Date: 2018-05-23 15:11:16
2018-05-26 22:02:54.390 Startup Path: /home/pi/domoticz/
2018-05-26 22:02:54.587 Sunrise: 05:46:00 SunSet: 21:44:00
2018-05-26 22:02:54.587 Day length: 15:58:00 Sun at south: 13:05:00
2018-05-26 22:02:54.587 Civil twilight start: 05:03:00 Civil twilight end: 22:27:00
2018-05-26 22:02:54.587 Nautical twilight start: 04:03:00 Nautical twilight end: 23:27:00
2018-05-26 22:02:54.587 Astronomical twilight start: 02:09:00 Astronomical twilight end: 01:21:00
2018-05-26 22:02:54.587 EventSystem: reset all events...
2018-05-26 22:02:55.243 PluginSystem: Started, Python version '3.5.3'.
2018-05-26 22:02:55.252 Active notification Subsystems: (0/14)
2018-05-26 22:02:55.295 WebServer(HTTP) started on address: :: with port 8080
2018-05-26 22:02:55.349 WebServer(SSL) started on address: :: with port 443
2018-05-26 22:02:55.350 Proxymanager started.
2018-05-26 22:02:55.354 Starting shared server on: :::6144
2018-05-26 22:02:55.354 TCPServer: shared server started...
2018-05-26 22:02:55.354 RxQueue: queue worker started...
2018-05-26 22:02:57.355 (MyBR) Started.
2018-05-26 22:02:57.355 EventSystem: reset all events...
2018-05-26 22:02:57.356 EventSystem: reset all device statuses...
2018-05-26 22:02:57.507 Python EventSystem: Initalizing event module.
2018-05-26 22:02:57.508 EventSystem: Started
2018-05-26 22:02:57.508 EventSystem: Queue thread started...
2018-05-26 22:02:57.656 PluginSystem: Entering work loop.
Erreur de segmentation
pi@raspberrypi:~/domoticz $

[zak45]

@Lasermi

do you have tried to compile domoticz from source ?

[Lasermi]

Hi @zak45.
I originally installed domoticz on Raspbian Jessie some time ago, using the easy install. I since upgraded to Stretch and updated various times with sudo ./updatebeta
Do you think result could be different and I should give it a try?
Thanks!

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[HarleyZard]

Hi Zak45,

I have compiled domoticz without do updatebeta, and I've the same issue...

Do you try Lasermi ?

HarleyZard

[zak45]

Hi Zak45,

I have compiled domoticz without do updatebeta, and I've the same issue...

Do you try Lasermi ?

HarleyZard

Do you have read the wiki https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Using_Python_plugins
Looks like sometimes problem with python 3.5.x

[zak45]

Hi @zak45.
I originally installed domoticz on Raspbian Jessie some time ago, using the easy install. I since upgraded to Stretch and updated various times with sudo ./updatebeta
Do you think result could be different and I should give it a try?
Thanks!

Enviado desde mi FRD-L19 mediante Tapatalk

see wiki https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Using_Python_plugins
maybe first try python 3.4

[Lasermi]

Hi @Zak45.
You are right, that was the problem. I had gone through that wiki page and it didn't work. However, a different thread on the forum gave me the final clue. Apparently the hints given in the wiki to change versions don't work. Domoticz for some reason always uses the highest Python version. I had not checked after switching to 3.4 and that was my mistake. Domoticz was still using 3.5. Removing it conpletely and installing only 3.4 did the trick.
Thank you so much!
Best regards from Spain!!

Enviado desde mi FRD-L19 mediante Tapatalk

[Lasermi]

Hi @Zak45.
You are right, that was the problem. I had gone through that wiki page and it didn't work. However, a different thread on the forum gave me the final clue. Apparently the hints given in the wiki to change versions don't work. Domoticz for some reason always uses the highest Python version. I had not checked after switching to 3.4 and that was my mistake. Domoticz was still using 3.5. Removing it conpletely and installing only 3.4 did the trick.
Thank you so much!
Best regards from Spain!!

Enviado desde mi FRD-L19 mediante Tapatalk

Note edited: How to uninstall Python 3.5 without breaking the whole system is mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=23508
That is:

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sudo apt-get install python3.4 libpython3.4 python3.4-dev
sudo apt-get remove python3-dev
sudo apt-get autoremove

I now need to re-install all python modules.
This seems to at least let Domoticz start but there are still issues. I will post more progress soon...

[HarleyZard]

Do you have read the wiki https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Using_Python_plugins
Looks like sometimes problem with python 3.5.x

Hi Zak45,

I've downgraded to python3.4 and it's ok, now
=> Domoticz write it use Python 3.4 and I've not the "segmentation fault" when the plugin is started.

Thanks for your help, and thanks for your plugin !

I'll now use it.

Thanks.