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**spud** · December 5, 2019, 07:33 PM

on your Pi try:

Code:

 
 sudo apt-get install mono-vbnc

also it looks like you have mono 3.2.8 on your Pi, and mono 5.20.1 on your Linux machine, this is likely to cause some other problems, you should upgrade mono on your Pi

**Timon** · December 7, 2019, 04:58 PM

I agree and I've been trying to remove it but every remove info I've found will not get rid of it.

I did find that 3.2.8 is located in "/usr/bin". I guess that one could remove anything starting with mono* but then it might leave some lint around.

**Timon** · December 8, 2019, 03:41 AM

Ignore this as I fixed it.

I finally found the command that got rid of 3.2.8 but every time I try to install a later version 3.2.8 gets reinstalled. I've read that there is a flag someplace that controls the latest version that can be loaded but I have no idea where that's kept and how to change it. I'll keep looking but a locations to look would be night. I'm loading on Jessie.

Ok, got mono version 5.x running.

Code:

Mono JIT compiler version 5.10.1.20 (tarball Thu Mar 29 11:55:26 UTC 2018)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
    TLS:           __thread
    SIGSEGV:       normal
    Notifications: epoll
    Architecture:  armel,vfp+hard
    Disabled:      none
    Misc:          softdebug 
    Interpreter:   yes
    LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
    GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)

Tried to startup RaspberyIO and get the following errors on the remote Pi so I muct have left something out of the mono install:

Code:

./run.sh
Plugin: RaspberryIO Instance: RelayGroup01 starting...

Unhandled Exception:
System.TypeLoadException: Could not find method due to a type load error
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.HSPI..ctor () [0x00016] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) HSPI_RaspberryIO.HSPI..ctor()
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.Program.MainLoop (System.String ipAddress) [0x00000] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x000be] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeLoadException: Could not find method due to a type load error
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.HSPI..ctor () [0x00016] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) HSPI_RaspberryIO.HSPI..ctor()
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.Program.MainLoop (System.String ipAddress) [0x00000] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x000be] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0

**Timon** · December 8, 2019, 05:05 AM

I must be getting Old as I normally don't have these issues

Solved the last issue, I had loaded mono-runtime and not mono-complete.

Code:

mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 5.10.1.20 (tarball Thu Mar 29 11:55:26 UTC 2018)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
    TLS:           __thread
    SIGSEGV:       normal
    Notifications: epoll
    Architecture:  armel,vfp+hard
    Disabled:      none
    Misc:          softdebug 
    Interpreter:   yes
    LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
    GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)

When I updated to 548 mono got updated to 6.4.0.198 but I didn't notice until after I read this test. Does that now mean I have to update mono on the remote as well?

Code:

mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 6.4.0.198 (tarball Tue Sep 24 01:21:28 UTC 2019)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
    TLS:           __thread
    SIGSEGV:       altstack
    Notifications: epoll
    Architecture:  amd64
    Disabled:      none
    Misc:          softdebug 
    Interpreter:   yes
    LLVM:          yes(610)
    Suspend:       hybrid
    GC:            sgen (concurrent by default)

Now back to the issue of not connecting. The remote seems to start. Here is the remote Pi config gile and resulting info when started:

Code:

cat run.sh
#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/RaspberryIO
mono HSPI_RaspberryIO.exe server=10.0.2.16 instance=RelayGroup01 autoreconnect=30

Code:

./run.sh
Plugin: RaspberryIO Instance: RelayGroup01 starting...
Connecting to server at 10.0.2.16...
Connection attempt #1
Connected (HomeSeer API 3). Waiting to be initialized...
Dec-08 04:37:50 INFO RaspberryIO version 3.0.0.16
Dec-08 04:37:50 ERROR System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.WebConfig..ctor (System.String pageName) [0x0000b] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
  at HSPI_RaspberryIO.RaspberryPiApp.Init () [0x00090] in <e19ef2a6ff024cdc888e905df7b361ed>:0 
Dec-08 04:37:50 INFO Shutting Down plug-in
Shutdown IO called
Dec-08 04:37:50 INFO Shutting Down plug-in
Connection lost, exiting
Disconnected from server - client
Waiting 30 seconds before trying to reconnect

And here is the HS3 log:

Code:

 Dec-08 1:38:08 AM

Starting Plug-In
RaspberryIO loaded in 15057 milliseconds


Dec-08 1:37:53 AM

Info
Plugin RaspberryIO with instance RelayGroup01 has connected. IP:127.0.0.1:60082


Dec-08 1:37:53 AM

Warning
I/O interface RaspberryIO is down, executable is not running, restarting ...


Dec-08 1:37:53 AM

Info
Plugin RaspberryIO with instance: RelayGroup01 has disconnected


Dec-08 1:37:50 AM

Info
Plugin RaspberryIO with instance: RelayGroup01 has disconnected


Dec-08 1:37:50 AM

RaspberryIO
INFO Shutting Down plug-in


Dec-08 1:37:50 AM

RaspberryIO
INFO Shutting Down plug-in


Dec-08 1:37:50 AM

Error
Initializing plug-in(1): RaspberryIO Instance:RelayGroup01:System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. File name: 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' at HSPI_RaspberryIO.WebConfig..ctor (System.String pageName) [0x0000b] in :0 at HSPI_RaspberryIO.RaspberryPiApp.Init () [0x00090] in :0 Time to load: 401 milliseconds


Dec-08 1:37:50 AM

RaspberryIO
ERROR System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. File name: 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' at HSPI_RaspberryIO.WebConfig..ctor (System.String pageName) [0x0000b] in :0 at HSPI_RaspberryIO.RaspberryPiApp.Init () [0x00090] in :0 


Dec-08 1:37:50 AM

RaspberryIO
INFO RaspberryIO version 3.0.0.16


Dec-08 1:37:49 AM

Starting Plug-In
Initializing plugin RaspberryIO ...


Dec-08 1:37:49 AM

Info
Plugin RaspberryIO with instance RelayGroup01 has connected. IP:10.0.2.22:36860

I'm going to bed and will look at this in the morning.

**spud** · December 8, 2019, 07:52 AM

in addition to mono-complete, have you installed the vb package?

Code:

 
 sudo apt-get install mono-vbnc

**Timon** · December 8, 2019, 04:42 PM

No, I did miss mono-vnc. My bad on that one. Added it and everything started working.

In the process ended up somehow loosing WiFi on the board. Since I had been making so many changes I decided to just start from a clean slate. The previous build started from the Z-NET build so I could use it's find feature. I'm trying to get that to work but who know just what pieces it needs.

Anyway, I'm totally up and running and starting to program it. Also, need to get an outdoor case before I bring it online, hopefully in a week or so.

Question: Since I'm planing to use the relay board for landscape lighting and sprinklers I need that turn off backup for the sprinklers Although I can easily timeout the sprinkler channels in HS3 I'd rather put a script on the Pi that would turn channels off if they have been on too long. I thought if I used the RPi routines to turn off GPIO channels from a script. However, would they cause any issues with RaspburryIO?

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Feature upgrade request for the remote RaspberryIOs. It would be nice to have a timeout feature that would be resident in the remote and not dependent on HS3. This would be a backup so if anything happened those channels could be turned off.

**spud** · December 9, 2019, 04:51 PM

Originally posted by Timon View Post

Question: Since I'm planing to use the relay board for landscape lighting and sprinklers I need that turn off backup for the sprinklers Although I can easily timeout the sprinkler channels in HS3 I'd rather put a script on the Pi that would turn channels off if they have been on too long. I thought if I used the RPi routines to turn off GPIO channels from a script. However, would they cause any issues with RaspburryIO?

No that should not cause any problem with the RaspberryIO plugin.

**Timon** · December 10, 2019, 11:37 AM

Thanks Spud.

I've added the programming in to run my landscape lighting and Irrigation and it's working great.

I also just noticed that I have the ability to reboot or shutdown the RPi which is great. I just thought that a nice addition might be to send back the CPU temperature as an additional bit of useful status and CPU temp is supported on all RPi's. I may just do that by adding the MQTT receive and publish handlers along with a I2S devices to pick up outdoor temps, humidity and a few other things.

For anyone interested here is the configuration I'm using, here is the board I'm using. It can handle both low and high voltage AC and DC loaded. In my case I'm using 24VAC for irrigation and 12VAC for landscape lighting. Just need to get the weather proof enclosure and I can install it.

Available on Amazon.

**spud** · December 10, 2019, 05:50 PM

cool stuff, thank you for sharing.

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