Solved - New installation questions

Hello, I'm finally getting around to installing the components I ordered a couple months back and I am encountering some issues. Here is what I ordered and received:

  1. emonBase with USB power adapter
  2. (2) emonTxV3 units with AC power adapters (rf node 7 and 8)
  3. emonTH (rf node 23)

I installed and powered up both emonTxV3 units each with 4 CTs attached. Each now flashes a red LED once every ten seconds which as far as I can tell is operating as expected.

I have the emonBase connected via Ethernet. I have accessed it from the emoncms web page of the device where I created an account and started looking around.

So now for the issues:

  1. Per the emonPi/emonBase Setup page, I should be able to SSH to the emonBase to shut it down but when I try to SSH to it I get a permission denied. I used the name and password that I specified when creating an account through the emoncms web page. Am I supposed to use something else?
  2. My three nodes (7, 8, and 23) which I would expect to be active are all shown as inactive on the nodes page. Why?  Here is some emonhub.log output:

2016-03-24 18:47:12,514 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1157 From Node : 7
2016-03-24 18:47:12,515 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1157    Values : [45, -38, 56, 52, 122.62, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 1]
2016-03-24 18:47:12,515 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1157      RSSI : -44
2016-03-24 18:47:12,516 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1157 adding frame to buffer => [1458845232, 7, 45, -38, 56, 52, 122.62, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 1, -44]
2016-03-24 18:47:12,517 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1157 Sent to channel' : ToEmonCMS
2016-03-24 18:47:13,623 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158 NEW FRAME : OK 23 197 0 0 0 180 1 31 0 1 0 0 0 (-28)
2016-03-24 18:47:13,625 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158 Timestamp : 1458845233.62
2016-03-24 18:47:13,625 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158 From Node : 23
2016-03-24 18:47:13,626 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158    Values : [19.700000000000003, 0, 43.6, 3.1, 1]
2016-03-24 18:47:13,626 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158      RSSI : -28
2016-03-24 18:47:13,627 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158 adding frame to buffer => [1458845233, 23, 19.700000000000003, 0, 43.6, 3.1, 1, -28]
2016-03-24 18:47:13,628 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1158 Sent to channel' : ToEmonCMS
2016-03-24 18:47:14,337 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     Discarding RX frame 'unreliable content'? 142 158 7 110 104 225 228 145 21 94 255 48 86 101 255 154 148 47 161 138 45 (-96)
2016-03-24 18:47:15,947 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159 NEW FRAME : OK 8 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 30 48 184 11 184 11 184 11 184 11 184 11 184 11 1 0 0 0 (-37)
2016-03-24 18:47:15,950 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159 Timestamp : 1458845235.95
2016-03-24 18:47:15,951 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159 From Node : 8
2016-03-24 18:47:15,951 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159    Values : [0, 1, 0, 1, 123.18, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 1]
2016-03-24 18:47:15,952 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159      RSSI : -37
2016-03-24 18:47:15,953 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159 adding frame to buffer => [1458845235, 8, 0, 1, 0, 1, 123.18, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 1, -37]
2016-03-24 18:47:15,953 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1159 Sent to channel' : ToEmonCMS
2016-03-24 18:47:20,374 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     Discarding RX frame 'unreliable content'? 62 99 159 252 127 239 60 148 119 183 2 205 98 185 191 189 217 225 227 226 253 (-98)
2016-03-24 18:47:21,786 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     Discarding RX frame 'unreliable content'? 101 38 17 154 7 94 49 207 19 183 174 214 73 45 184 5 135 185 40 185 157 (-97)
2016-03-24 18:47:22,396 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160 NEW FRAME : OK 7 44 0 219 255 55 0 54 0 210 47 184 11 184 11 184 11 184 11 184 11 184 11 1 0 0 0 (-45)
2016-03-24 18:47:22,400 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160 Timestamp : 1458845242.4
2016-03-24 18:47:22,401 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160 From Node : 7
2016-03-24 18:47:22,402 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160    Values : [44, -37, 55, 54, 122.42, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 1]
2016-03-24 18:47:22,403 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160      RSSI : -45
2016-03-24 18:47:22,404 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160 adding frame to buffer => [1458845242, 7, 44, -37, 55, 54, 122.42, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 300, 1, -45]
2016-03-24 18:47:22,405 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     1160 Sent to channel' : ToEmonCMS
2016-03-24 18:47:23,514 DEBUG    RFM2Pi     Discarding RX frame 'unreliable content'? 59 24 163 189 186 188 119 252 206 205 145 76 30 12 246 12 3 109 214 213 116 (-103)

Thanks, Tom

WDFXH8HM's picture

Re: Solved - New installation questions

With respect to issue two, I did an Update emonPi which produced a bunch of output but did not change the nodes' state after waiting for several minutes. Just for the fun of it I decided to do the Update emonPi a second time and this time it produced less output but some things were still updated. I then checked the nodes and fortunately my three nodes were now active.

I will continue with my setup...

glyn.hudson's picture

Re: Solved - New installation questions

1. The emoncms loging is different to SSH. The default ssh login is user: 'pi' and password 'raspberry'. Recommend chancing password ASAP. 

2. Good work. Yup, emonPi update will pull in the latest node decoders. See this guide for how emonHub nodedecoders work: 

https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonhub/blob/emon-pi/configuration.md

WDFXH8HM's picture

Re: Solved - New installation questions

Thank you. My system is now up and collecting data. I have new questions/comments but I'll start a new thread. - Tom

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