How-To : Install and Run VelServ - a Velbus TCP Gateway

And when you 're in verbose mode you can 't see anything else when trying to connect with velbuslink? Strange because it looks to me it 's just running fine. I suppose you 're running velbuslink at the same PC where you’re doing your ssh session to your openhab server?

yes with the same pc, I also tried it from another PC with the same result

Stop the bus !!!

I can see the error you’ve made.

“Why have you used the network binding to link to Velbus?”

If the version of the Velbus binding you’re using doesn’t have a Network Bridge, then it isn’t the latest version.

As opposed to…

The give away was the Channels :smile:

you could have a point there, but that still doesn’t explains why he can’t make a (simple) connection with Velbuslink. Very strange.

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now i have a velbus link: but the scan ,
but he doesn’t scan anythingNaamloos-9

At this stage…

I would suggest,

  • Remove the network Thing (wait for openHAB2 to fully remove it)

  • restart the PI

  • Try to connect to the PI with VelbusLink

If that is good

  • Add a Velbus Network Bridge

You might want to look at this topic, for guidance on removing any artifacts of the Velbus binding, then ensure you have the very latest version.

https://forumtest.velbus.eu/t/velbus-binding-for-openhab/14992/165

Scroll through that entire thread, there is lots of information in there.

ok that’s a start, next thing todo: list the serial devices to be sure you’re connecting the right one: give the output of the following command: “ls -all /dev/serial/by-id/”

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connect with velbus link is Ok

now i’m going to look for the latest version, my version was 2.4.0

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who velbuslink or openhab?

velbuslink is ok:slightly_smiling_face:

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Did you use the script I created to obtain the Velbus binding?

Or did you just use the one from PaperUI?


Do you have any Edge Lit panels??

You’ll need the bleeding edge development version, that has limited support for them.

now I have first taken the script for the update. than this from PaperUi

Excellent.

So as long as the Karaf console only shows 1 instance of Velbus…

openhab-cli console

bundle:list

You’re all good to go :slight_smile:

If it shows 2 instances, a reboot might clear it.

Or you’ll have to decide which is the old version and remove it manually.

bundle:uninstall {Number of the bundle to remove}

It is normal that PaperUi has been installing Velbus bindings for 5 minutes?

???

I don’t understand.

Try refreshing that page.

By simply dropping the Jar file in should be enough.

Are you trying to add the binding by using 2 different methods?


Just to be super clear…

Manually adding the binding DOESN’T make it show as installed in

PaperUI / Add-ons / Bindings

As shown here.

Velbus is definitely installed and working on this machine.

However, the Velbus binding does show here -

PaperUI / Configuration / Bindings

everything works now, the binding works over the velserv

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thanks to you all:smiley:

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You’re very welcome :slight_smile:

Hi All,

I’m targeting to run the software components on my raspberry PI in containers/dockers
Do we have a fully configured recent raspbian velserver available as ARM?
I found this 3Y old docker:
https://hub.docker.com/r/tomvancutsem/velserv/tags

I’m targeting to run it on a new Raspberry Pi 4
Thanks a lot,

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Hi

I’m not aware of a Deb version of VelServ.
You’d have to ask @jeroends

However, this script downloads everything and completes the setup in less than 10 seconds, so I’m not sure there’s anything to be gained.

https://forumtest.velbus.eu/t/how-to-install-and-run-velserv-a-velbus-tcp-gateway/15422/21

I’ve got it running on loads of ODroid C2 machines and recently some C4, so there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work on a Raspberry Pi 4