[alanwbaker]

Dan,

I’ve used a variety of delay times from 3  to 30 hours.  Most recently I specified 6 hours rain delay and when I checked an hour later, the status of “Suppressed by rain delay” had reverted to “Off” as shown in the attachment below.

Alan in CA

 

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[alanwbaker]

Dan, I stated the problem incorrectly.  The actual situation is that rain delay suppression ends prematurely, allowing the programs to run at their scheduled times.  The log is correct.

Alan

[alanwbaker]

Thank you, Dan.  Version 2.1.10 works fine now.

Alan

[alanwbaker]

Thank you, ajm1–that did the trick.  Now I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “ospi.py”, line 168, in <module>
‘_’: _
NameError: name ‘_’ is not defined

Ideas?

 

[alanwbaker]

It all comes down to whom you trust. And the truly paranoid (like me 😉 ) wonder whether the proprietary VPN software is secure. Vendors always say, “Trust me”, but (for example) the Asus RT-N66U is a poster child for unearned trust. See http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/dear-asus-router-user-youve-been-pwned-thanks-to-easily-exploited-flaw/.

I trust OpenSSH so for now I do the following:

• Forward one port from the router to the pi for SSH
• Use SSVNC on the client and TightVNC on the pi to access the pi’s desktop through the SSH tunnel
• Run the interval program via Chromium web browser on the pi’s desktop

It took a little setup but it works smoothly. Maybe someday the ospi code will be secured.

[alanwbaker]

There’s a bug in the networking that affect Pi’s that have both ethernet and wi-fi… My board will run EITHER the eth0 interface OR the wlan0 interface reliably but not both. So I set up wlan0 in etc/network/interfaces as follows:

# Loopback

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback



# Ethernet must be commented out for wlan0 to work (!)

#allow-hotplug eth0

#iface eth0 inet static

#  address 192.168.0.7

#  netmask 255.255.255.0

#  network 192.168.0.0

#  broadcast 192.168.0.255

#  gateway 192.168.0.4



# Wi-fi

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

address 192.168.0.8

netmask 255.255.255.0

network 192.168.0.0

broadcast 192.168.0.255

gateway 192.168.0.4

wpa-ssid "myssid"

wpa-psk "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

# wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

# iface wlan0 inet manual



#Default

iface default inet dhcp

Note the commented-out lines. This is set up as a static IP–simpler and more reliable than reserved DHCP. Hope this helps.

[alanwbaker]

@jefe_de_estado wrote:

So far, everything is going great except that I can’t seem to access my pi from any other computer except the one wired to my router… I’ve put it in the DMZ, I’ve got ports forwarded and virtual servers… nothing… The Pi connects via wifi to the router using a reserved IP (not static)… I have tried pinging with several devices on my network and I get no response.

You don’t need port forwarding, DMZ, or virtual servers to access your pi from another device on your own network. Any IP address for the pi is fine so long as you know it. 😉 Let’s get ping working first–without it other network services won’t work anyway.

So help me understand some basics…

• About the pi:

  • What model hardware is it?
  • What software distibution is running on it (e.g. Raspbian from NOOBS or the distribution provided by Rayshobby)?
  • Post the output of these four commands: netstat -i, netstat -nr, iwconfig, and hwinfo –netcard
• About the computer that successfully connects to the pi using Yaler:

  • What operating system is it running?
  • What is its IP address?
  • Can it ping the pi’s IP address successfully?
  • I’m not familiar with Yaler. Does it give you the pi’s graphical desktop or a command line?
• About the computer that is unable to ping the pi:

  • What operating system is it running?
  • What is its IP address?

Alan

[alanwbaker]

@jefe_de_estado wrote:

I can’t seem to access my pi from any other computer except the one wired to my router… The Pi connects via wifi to the router using a reserved IP (not static).

Hi Jefe, What kind of access to the pi do you need (SSH, VNC, HTTP)? Can you ping the pi from other computers?

Alan

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