433 Radio issue

pagerman Senior Member Posts: 282 Raspberry Pi: Yes Other Device: PC	433 Radio issue Apr 8, 2021 6:37:32 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by pagerman on Apr 8, 2021 6:37:32 GMT -8 Interesting note. When the SDR is working, I see the SkyWeather device but also Ambient Weather (my Tempest) and several Accurite devices........

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433 Radio issue Apr 8, 2021 6:58:13 GMT -8

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Apr 6, 2021 16:06:03 GMT -8 SDL said:

And that is the failure, I take it?

Well, its either the Pi or the USB board. Do you have an extra Pi to try? If it still fails, then it is the USB dongle and we can replace that. It's got to be one or the other.

Is this our SD Card?

BP

I believe I will need a new SDR radio USB. How do I go about getting a replacement?
Thank you.

Jason Senior Member Posts: 482 Raspberry Pi: Yes	433 Radio issue Apr 8, 2021 12:58:36 GMT -8 via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jason on Apr 8, 2021 12:58:36 GMT -8 Just out of curiosity, can you run the command ps aux \| grep ‘rtl_433’ and post a screenshot of the results? Thanks, Jason

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433 Radio issue Apr 8, 2021 13:12:01 GMT -8

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Post by SDL on Apr 8, 2021 13:12:01 GMT -8

px aux | grep rtl_433

pi@SwitchDocLabs:~ $ ps aux | grep rtl_433
root      1037  6.2  0.0  52452  2816 ?        Sl   Apr05 324:26 /usr/local/bin/rtl_433 -q -F json -R 146 -R 147 -R 148 -R 150 -R 151
pi       20103  0.0  0.0   7348   564 pts/2    S+   14:10   0:00 grep --color=auto rtl_433

Not seeing your units is probably an antenna issue.

Did you try it on another pi to verify that it is a USB dongle problem?

BP

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433 Radio issue Apr 8, 2021 14:41:22 GMT -8

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pi@SwitchDocLabs:~ $ ps aux | grep 'rtl_433'
root 1398 6.0 0.0 52452 2824 ? Sl 07:23 37:05 /usr/local/bin/rtl_433 -q -F json -R 146 -R 147 -R 148 -R 150 -R 151
pi 7155 0.0 0.0 7348 580 pts/0 S+ 17:40 0:00 grep --color=auto rtl_433
pi@SwitchDocLabs:~ $

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433 Radio issue Apr 8, 2021 14:41:51 GMT -8 SDL likes this

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Apr 8, 2021 13:12:01 GMT -8 SDL said:

px aux | grep rtl_433

pi@SwitchDocLabs:~ $ ps aux | grep rtl_433
root      1037  6.2  0.0  52452  2816 ?        Sl   Apr05 324:26 /usr/local/bin/rtl_433 -q -F json -R 146 -R 147 -R 148 -R 150 -R 151
pi       20103  0.0  0.0   7348   564 pts/2    S+   14:10   0:00 grep --color=auto rtl_433

Not seeing your units is probably an antenna issue.

Did you try it on another pi to verify that it is a USB dongle problem?

BP

I ordered a new Pi4. Shipping to me soon.

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433 Radio issue Apr 13, 2021 13:27:47 GMT -8

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Post by pagerman on Apr 13, 2021 13:27:47 GMT -8

STILL having the issue. BRAND NEW Pi 4. Please send a replacement SDR dongle. I'm out yet another 65 bucks.
I thought this would be a fun project but it's turning into a nightmare.
Now when I test the sensors using testWirelessSensors.py I see them but the dash_app does not show them at all.
I don't understand this at all.
I really need someone to call me or do an online chat.
Thank you.

pagerman Senior Member Posts: 282 Raspberry Pi: Yes Other Device: PC	433 Radio issue Apr 13, 2021 13:29:22 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by pagerman on Apr 13, 2021 13:29:22 GMT -8 pi@SwitchDocLabs:~/SDL_Pi_SkyWeather2 $ ps aux \| grep ‘rtl_433’ pi 1785 0.0 0.0 7348 568 pts/0 S+ 14:28 0:00 grep --color=auto ‘rtl_433’ pi@SwitchDocLabs:~/SDL_Pi_SkyWeather2 $

pagerman Senior Member Posts: 282 Raspberry Pi: Yes Other Device: PC	433 Radio issue Apr 13, 2021 13:29:49 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by pagerman on Apr 13, 2021 13:29:49 GMT -8 FYI - NEW SD card and fresh install of the SDL card image V15.

SDL Global Moderator Posts: 5,655 Raspberry Pi: Yes Other Device: PC, arduino, beagleBone	433 Radio issue Apr 13, 2021 14:13:12 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SDL on Apr 13, 2021 14:13:12 GMT -8 We will be happy to get you a new dongle. See the PM I just sent you. BP

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433 Radio issue Apr 13, 2021 15:58:43 GMT -8 SDL likes this

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Post by dow4hurst on Apr 13, 2021 15:58:43 GMT -8

pagerman,
A command I found for a better hard reboot of the pi that works remotely through ssh is this:

echo s | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger;echo u | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger;echo b | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger

This is the magic sysrq key sequence to sync disks, unmount disks, hard reboot. When after a kernel crash the pi would hang on "sudo shutdown -r now" and I'd have to cycle the power, this sequence would actually reboot the pi successfully.
Dow

pagerman Senior Member Posts: 282 Raspberry Pi: Yes Other Device: PC	433 Radio issue Apr 19, 2021 15:55:30 GMT -8 SDL likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by pagerman on Apr 19, 2021 15:55:30 GMT -8 Apr 13, 2021 14:13:12 GMT -8 SDL said: We will be happy to get you a new dongle. See the PM I just sent you. BP New SDR installed. We will see.....

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433 Radio issue Jan 13, 2022 9:54:11 GMT -8

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Post by mauriceatkinson on Jan 13, 2022 9:54:11 GMT -8

I too am seeing this USB error. When I get the error I see no data being transferred over mqtt. When i remove the usb connector and disconnect the antenna then reinsert both again the mqtt communication starts up again. Any ideas as to the problem?

pi@raspberrypi:~/SDL_Pi_Skyweather2 $ sudo python3 testWirelessSensors.py
Starting Wireless Read
/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py:941: RuntimeWarning: line buffering (buffering=1) isn't supported in binary mode, the default buffer size will be used
self.stdout = io.open(c2pread, 'rb', bufsize)
rtl_433 version -128-NOTFOUND branch master at 202104131855 inputs file rtl_tcp RTL-SDR

Use -h for usage help and see triq.org/ for documentation.

Trying conf file at "rtl_433.conf"...

Trying conf file at "/root/.config/rtl_433/rtl_433.conf"...

Trying conf file at "/usr/local/etc/rtl_433/rtl_433.conf"...

Trying conf file at "/etc/rtl_433/rtl_433.conf"...

quiet option (-q) is default and deprecated. See -v to increase verbosity

Consider using "-M newmodel" to transition to new model keys. This will become the default someday.

A table of changes and discussion is at github.com/merbanan/rtl_433/pull/986.

Registered 6 out of 152 device decoding protocols [ 146-148 150-152 ]

usb_claim_interface error -6

Jason Senior Member Posts: 482 Raspberry Pi: Yes	433 Radio issue Jan 14, 2022 10:42:05 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jason on Jan 14, 2022 10:42:05 GMT -8 usb_claim_interface error -6 is telling you some other process has already claimed the USB interface. Instead of unplugging the antenna, can you try to stop and start SkyWeather2? Thanks, Jason

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433 Radio issue Jan 16, 2022 8:52:36 GMT -8

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Jan 14, 2022 10:42:05 GMT -8 Jason said:

usb_claim_interface error -6 is telling you some other process has already claimed the USB interface. Instead of unplugging the antenna, can you try to stop and start SkyWeather2?

Thanks,

Jason

The only solution I can find for "usb_claim_interface error -6" (which can occur anytime at random intervals) is to connect and reconnect the radio dongle. Just a momentary disconnection does the trick.

Simply pull it out and then place back in the same or different USB port.

I have no other UBS devices connected, nor are the HDMI ports in use. I have the camera attached using the usual ribbon cable.

Reboot doesn't help, but then again sudo reboot doesn't cycle the power on USB ports. This might point to a dongle issue.

Stopping and starting SkyWeather2 seems to do no good, at least doing so manually. Does anyone have a script that does a more thorough job of stopping all of the child processes?

This is most frustrating, as it seems to occur day or night. A dongle failure, perhaps?

Thanks!

Some system parameters (with the dongle operational) that might be useful:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd measure_volts core
volt=0.8500V

vcgencmd measure_clock arm
frequency(48)=1500345728

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dmesg | grep usb
[ 0.152294] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.152366] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.152448] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.152787] usb_phy_generic phy: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[ 1.356058] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
[ 1.356127] usbcore: registered new interface driver lan78xx
[ 1.356187] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 1.362742] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 5.10
[ 1.362761] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.362778] usb usb1: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.362795] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 5.10.63-v7l+ xhci-hcd
[ 1.362812] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:01:00.0
[ 1.364949] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 5.10
[ 1.364968] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.364984] usb usb2: Product: xHCI Host Controller
[ 1.365000] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 5.10.63-v7l+ xhci-hcd
[ 1.365016] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:01:00.0
[ 1.368364] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 1.368476] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.379782] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.379797] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 1.644754] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 1.827381] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2109, idProduct=3431, bcdDevice= 4.21
[ 1.827402] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[ 1.827420] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 2.154768] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 2.297069] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=2838, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 2.297090] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.297108] usb 1-1.1: Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
[ 2.297125] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 2.297142] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 00000001
[ 6.265790] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design' in warm state
[ 6.356721] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
[ 6.356796] usb 1-1.1: media controller created
[ 6.367113] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[ 6.427076] usb 1-1.1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
[ 6.578747] rc rc0: Realtek RTL2832U reference design as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0
[ 6.579400] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter
[ 6.580129] input: Realtek RTL2832U reference design as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0/input0
[ 6.581064] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
[ 6.593684] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design' successfully initialized and connected
[ 6.594005] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
[ 18.824826] dvb_usb_v2: 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design:1-1.1' successfully deinitialized and disconnected
[ 95.828714] dvb_usb_rtl28xxu 1-1.1:1.0: chip type detection failed -71
[ 95.828735] dvb_usb_rtl28xxu: probe of 1-1.1:1.0 failed with error -71
[ 96.023040] usb 1-1.1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[ 100.845548] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[ 101.007368] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=2838, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 101.007378] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 101.007385] usb 1-1.1: Product: RTL2838UHIDIR
[ 101.007392] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 101.007399] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 00000001
[ 101.019208] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design' in warm state
[ 101.075871] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
[ 101.075900] usb 1-1.1: media controller created
[ 101.084588] usb 1-1.1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
[ 101.112733] rc rc0: Realtek RTL2832U reference design as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0
[ 101.113067] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter
[ 101.113150] input: Realtek RTL2832U reference design as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0/input1
[ 101.113797] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
[ 101.121980] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design' successfully initialized and connected
[ 113.601876] dvb_usb_v2: 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design:1-1.1' successfully deinitialized and disconnected
[ 140.384008] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design' in warm state
[ 140.440653] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer
[ 140.440688] usb 1-1.1: media controller created
[ 140.453441] usb 1-1.1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
[ 140.480224] rc rc0: Realtek RTL2832U reference design as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0
[ 140.480326] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter
[ 140.480419] input: Realtek RTL2832U reference design as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0/input2
[ 140.480604] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs
[ 140.488898] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design' successfully initialized and connected
[ 816.239652] dvb_usb_v2: 'Realtek RTL2832U reference design:1-1.1' successfully deinitialized and disconnected

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