Inputs / Feeds not updating, but I can log in?

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

Did you try tshark?

@haffle

There is nothing in the emonCMS on the ESP8266

There is no such thing as “emoncms on the ESP8266” - emoncms is the software running on the Pi.

Do you mean there is nothing in the emoncms log for that ESP8266?

Please put 3 backticks on a line befoe and after any code, logs etc.

@haffle

2020-05-07 04:00:13.103|WARN|index.php|Time string not valid 2020-05-05T01:00:00 01:00

Is this when the inputs stopped?

@haffle

2020-05-07 04:01:47.209|WARN|index.php|Time string not valid 2020-05-06T00:30:00 01:00
2020-05-07 06:33:08.968|ERROR|index.php|Not Authenticated|dashboard/view
2020-05-08 04:00:08.225|WARN|index.php|Time string not valid 2020-05-06T01:00:00 01:00

Something odd there.

The error seems to appear at 04:00 every day. What happens then?

Might be unrelated…

@haffle

flash emonhub

No, Emonhub is something that runs under Raspbian - you would either first flash Raspbian and then use the emonScripts or simply use an EmonSD - a full emoncms will not hurt - just ignore it although it makes it easy to modify the emonhub config.

@haffle

Sort out Mosquitto dependencies

I suggest you just point the HTTP interface to your EmonPi in the emonhub config.

@haffle

Connect it to an emonTx using

I’ve recently done it - look at this thread.

EmonTX to Rpi - Direct Serial Connection

So have the signal and gnd connected as per the photos have tried com_port= /dev/ttyUSB0 in the file emonhub.conf and com_port = /dev/ttyRS485-0 neither seem to work nothing is appearing in the inputs screen any way of fault finding. The TX unit has no lights on it well just one red light on start up for a 5 seconds.

@haffle

Then I can forget about the ESP8266 widgets and rely on the Zero W’s wifi instead?

Yes.