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

TrystanLea · 28 April 2020 10:25

Great to hear. so just a standard hardware reset rather than a factory reset and reconfiguration? Is this the first time this has happened since I sent the replacement unit to you last November? Setting up an emonPi - some newbie questions - #121 by haffle

haffle · 9 May 2020 10:56

Having a similar issue, but with a different emonTx/ESP8266. I can log in via 192.168.2.51, but even after re-entering the Write API and rebooting etc, I can’t get the Inputs to update.

I’m slightly confused about how it can be that Inputs don’t update & it says it is not connected, but I can log in via a browser?

TrystanLea · 9 May 2020 12:17

Hello @haffle I assume the base station ip address has not changed?
Can you attach a UART to usb reader and see what it prints out without resetting the unit?

haffle · 9 May 2020 12:38

No; all IPs have remained the same, and are fixed by my router.

192.168.2.50 EmonPi (in Office/Barns)
192.168.2.51 emonTx/ESP8266 Garage
192.168.2.52 emonTx/ESP8266 House
192.168.2.53 emonTx/ESP8266 Loft
192.168.2.54 emonTx/ESP8266 Barn

I have one of your CP2102 Modules, but I have never known what to do with it.

borpin · 9 May 2020 12:58

Because they are 2 different things.

The not connected refers to the ESP looking back at the emonpi and not being able to connect (which is why there are no feed values).

Anything in the emoncms logs (log level info)?

If not, using tshark to see if anything is coming in to the Pi might help debug it. Search on the forum here for suitable commands - I have posted stuff before on this.

I’ll say it again @TrystanLea, these ESP devices are more trouble than they are worth. They almost need a category of their own on the forum! I’d ditch them in favour of a RPiZ solution. At least then you have a fighting chance of debugging it .

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sudo tshark -f "port 80" -Y http

haffle · 9 May 2020 13:34

There is nothing in the emonCMS on the ESP8266 (it just has the headings Timestamp & Log, with no data below unlike in another ESP8266).

This is the log from the emonPi; the Garage went offline ~ 23:30 last night, but I can’t see anything specific there either.

I’d be happy to move to RPiZ, but will have to do some reading up on what to do first.

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2020-05-06 07:35:54.945|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Connecting to MQTT server: Connection Accepted.: code: 0
2020-05-06 07:35:55.832|ERROR|index.php|Not Admin|admin/view
2020-05-06 13:26:27.079|ERROR|index.php|Not Authenticated|dashboard/view
2020-05-06 15:29:54.698|ERROR|index.php|Not Authenticated|dashboard/view
2020-05-06 17:06:23.493|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error, json key missing or invalid character"} for User: 1
2020-05-06 17:53:49.235|ERROR|index.php|Not Authenticated|dashboard/view
2020-05-07 04:00:13.103|WARN|index.php|Time string not valid 2020-05-05T01:00:00 01:00
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2020-05-08 07:23:02.977|ERROR|index.php|Not Authenticated|dashboard/view
2020-05-08 10:45:02.186|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 10:45:06.605|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error, json value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 11:09:32.266|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 11:37:20.406|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 11:59:41.687|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 13:03:10.994|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 13:13:15.968|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 14:10:06.168|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error: csv value is not numeric"} for User: 1
2020-05-08 16:44:46.829|ERROR|index.php|Not Admin|admin/view
2020-05-08 16:46:47.123|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Not connected, retrying connection
2020-05-08 16:46:47.159|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Connecting to MQTT server: Connection Accepted.: code: 0
2020-05-08 16:47:49.970|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Not connected, retrying connection
2020-05-08 16:47:50.001|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Connecting to MQTT server: Connection Accepted.: code: 0
2020-05-08 16:48:23.553|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Not connected, retrying connection
2020-05-08 16:48:23.585|WARN|emoncms_mqtt.php|Connecting to MQTT server: Connection Accepted.: code: 0
2020-05-08 16:48:40.312|WARN|index.php|406 Not Acceptable|Modules/app/Views
2020-05-08 18:44:56.875|ERROR|input_controller.php|{"success": false, "message": "Format error, json key missing or invalid character"} for User: 1
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2020-05-09 09:11:17.873|WARN|index.php|406 Not Acceptable|Modules/app/Views
2020-05-09 13:26:50.379|ERROR|index.php|Not Admin|admin/view

haffle · 9 May 2020 14:56

For the sake of clarity, can I confirm that if I

find a spare Pi Zero W
flash emonhub on to it using emonSD pre built SD card Download & Change Log · openenergymonitor/emonpi Wiki · GitHub
Enable ssh
Sort out Mosquitto dependencies (& no doubt some other tweaking)
Connect it to an emonTx using Connect an EmonTx v3 to RaspberryPI via serial | Archived Forum

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

borpin · 9 May 2020 16:01

Did you try tshark?

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.

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…

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.

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

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

Yes.

haffle · 9 May 2020 16:37

I hadn’t (because I didn’t know how). Still not sure if I have done the right thing, but I installed it on my emonPi via ssh https://zoomadmin.com/HowToInstall/UbuntuPackage/tshark and ran the command you suggested. Here is a snippet of the results, with my API redacted.

pi@emonpi:~ $ sudo tshark -f "port 80" -Y http
Running as user "root" and group "root". This could be dangerous.
Capturing on 'wlan0'
    4 0.007944548 192.168.2.54 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 359 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={MSG:28941,Vrms:248.75,P1:52,E1:11094,pulse:1,psent:28861,psuccess:27395,freeram:29528}&node=barn&apikey=REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
    6 0.147998214 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.54 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   12 0.538235481 192.168.2.57 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 241 GET /emoncms/input/post?json=%7B%7B%22percentage%22%3A99.8023296858454%7D%7D&node=0&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   14 0.655201537 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.57 HTTP 236 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   22 4.070983774 192.168.2.53 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 361 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={ct1:2,ct2:0,ct3:0,ct4:0,vrms:24608,pulse:0,psent:212625,psuccess:212039,freeram:29464}&node=HWtank&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   24 4.211786859 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.53 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   30 6.638170556 192.168.2.52 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 370 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={ct1:0,ct2:-115,ct3:0,ct4:0,vrms:25241,pulse:0,t0:221,psent:287811,psuccess:287537,freeram:29272}&node=house&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   32 6.806072092 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.52 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   38 10.006243824 192.168.2.54 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 359 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={MSG:28942,Vrms:248.83,P1:53,E1:11094,pulse:1,psent:28862,psuccess:27396,freeram:29472}&node=barn&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   40 10.145406719 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.54 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   46 10.516572630 192.168.2.57 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 241 GET /emoncms/input/post?json=%7B%7B%22percentage%22%3A99.8023296858454%7D%7D&node=0&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   48 10.633888577 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.57 HTTP 236 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   56 11.856052041 192.168.2.52 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 372 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={ct1:-11,ct2:-117,ct3:0,ct4:0,vrms:25226,pulse:0,t0:221,psent:287812,psuccess:287538,freeram:29304}&node=house&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   58 12.022684788 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.52 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   64 13.976402117 192.168.2.53 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 361 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={ct1:3,ct2:0,ct3:0,ct4:0,vrms:24605,pulse:0,psent:212626,psuccess:212040,freeram:29688}&node=HWtank&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   66 14.116488491 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.53 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   72 20.002474823 192.168.2.54 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 359 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={MSG:28943,Vrms:248.79,P1:62,E1:11094,pulse:1,psent:28863,psuccess:27397,freeram:29640}&node=barn&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   74 20.140149451 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.54 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   80 20.519041004 192.168.2.57 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 241 GET /emoncms/input/post?json=%7B%7B%22percentage%22%3A99.8023296858454%7D%7D&node=0&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   82 20.652273077 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.57 HTTP 236 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)
   90 22.077329711 192.168.2.52 → 192.168.2.50 HTTP 372 GET /emoncms/input/post.json?json={ct1:-13,ct2:-122,ct3:0,ct4:0,vrms:25226,pulse:0,t0:221,psent:287813,psuccess:287539,freeram:29416}&node=house&apikey= REDACTED HTTP/1.1 
   92 22.250037078 192.168.2.50 → 192.168.2.52 HTTP 224 HTTP/1.1 200 OK  (text/plain)

The emonTx’s on 192.168.2.52/53/54 get through, but not the one in question (.51). The .57 is my Node-RED instance.

Yes, sorry, that is what I meant.

Again, sorry, but now done.

No; looking at my list of Inputs, the garage emonTX stopped reporting 18 hours ago (@ 17:30), so it must have stopped at ~23:30 approx. I can’t think of anything that happens on the network at 04:00 each day - Octopus Go is 00:30-04:30, and I am not aware of any scheduled tasks on the USG router etc each night.

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
> ```

borpin · 9 May 2020 16:42

You have conclusively proved the problem is that the emonTX has stopped sending the data via HTTP @TrystanLea @glyn.hudson. It clearly has a network connection (you can log into the web interface on IP 51).

As I say, the ESP firmware is, to my mind, a bit flaky.

TrystanLea · 9 May 2020 18:15

Thanks for the tshark results above and for your help @borpin.

On the faulty ESP8266 could you check the Latest Data tab, are the values there updating? It would be good to establish if the data is coming through from the EmonTx to the ESP8266 unit - or if the issue is definitely on the ESP8266 unit itself e.g something with the HTTP request code may have caused that part to fail somehow…

haffle · 10 May 2020 08:48

@TrystanLea - herewith 3 superimposed pages showing the emonPi dashboard (.50, behind), the garage (.51, top) and a working node house (.52, bottom). Does this show no data is going from the garage emonTx to the ESP8266?

TrystanLea · 10 May 2020 08:59

Thanks @haffle when you look at the latest data page, the values should change every 10s, do you see this? On this window:

haffle · 10 May 2020 09:06

Yes, it does update every 10 seconds on the 1912 node, but not on the garage one (4452), where nothing shows.

TrystanLea · 10 May 2020 13:57

Ah ok, great, so that sounds like its may be the EmonTx unit that has crashed rather than the ESP8266… possibly… On the EmonTx unit there is a little reset push on the opposite side to the CT sensor inputs, could you try pushing that down to reset the unit (without resetting the ESP8266) to see if that brings it back online?

haffle · 10 May 2020 15:03

@TrystanLea - yes, that has worked, and data is flowing again. Thanks v much!

borpin · 10 May 2020 16:40

Interesting, I wonder what caused the emonTX to freeze. @Robert.Wall we should tell folk to reset the TX as a first action to see if it all comes back to life when there are problems.

TrystanLea · 10 May 2020 19:09

Note that the EmonTx firmware in @haffle’s case appears to be discreet sampling firmware rather than the newer continuous sampling. It might be a good idea to get you on the new continuous sampling firmware with @Robert.Wall’s cut down radio implementation once we get that released @haffle

TrystanLea · 10 May 2020 19:11

Please let us know if it happens again, it would be good to double check each time if its the readings are not updating the EmonESP Latest Data window and if not repeat the reset until we can try the next version of the firmware.

Thankyou for bearing with us @haffle

Robert.Wall · 10 May 2020 20:12

Unfortunately, experience suggests that the problem is more often with the ESP8266. I wasn’t able to help with this because I know nothing about the ESP8266.