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Agreed, that’s possible. What does the log show on the OG web interface?
Mine still flaps open/close from time to time – meaning the device has a bad reading and reports from ~230cm (open, no vehicle) to ~50cm. It cycles back and forth rapidly and the door hasn’t actually moved, but that might confuse any auto-close logic.
I turned my auto-close logic off in node red for now.
I’d like to just attach a reed sensor for more accuracy.
Are you using MQTT? I caused mine to open on it’s own by setting the ‘retain’ flag in home assistant. Completely my fault.
There were connection issues that night, OG disconnected then received the last command when it came back online. (“open” in Garage/IN/STATE)
I know this is a bit old, but mine just started doing this a day or two ago. It’s flapping between 50 and ~280cm which is the no vehicle distance. I’ve only been running it since August on v1.1.1 without issues. I thought I purchased the USB adapter, but I guess I didn’t. I’m pretty sure it was from an Amazon Fire as well, rated 1A or more.
We have had some recent cooler weather (30-40’s overnight), but are now back up to 78. I’ve fully powered it off/on, updated config and cleared log, but it’s still waffling.
I couldn’t reach the brick itself this morning and will power cycle it later and see if that helps. Any other tips?
Thanks,
I am still running the http-based OpenGarage HA module and MQTT. Both are working, so I’d definitely upgrade to at least 1.1.1. Mine has been going “crazy” the last 2 days for some reason, though it’s the distance sensor flipping back and forth so it thinks the door is opening all the time. I don’t think this is related to mqtt, but I’m going to disable that for now to test.
Issue #43 opened. I’ll do a pull request if I have a chance, but it appears there’s several other recent pulls involving mqtt. (#39 and 40 – which is awesome, I was looking at adding those as well.)
https://github.com/OpenGarage/OpenGarage-Firmware/issues/43
https://github.com/OpenGarage/OpenGarage-Firmware/pull/39
BTW, what is everyone doing with anonymous MQTT? Allowing readwrite to all topics or restricting anonymous connections to specific topics?
This was a weird one. It started working and immediately sending mqtt traffic after I added a space after the IP. It was only 9 characters before the space.
lol, I think you forgot to reply in all caps….
I missed where Ray mentioned the connection check and a subsequent reboot, but it sounds like we’re describing the same watchdog behavior. In the nano and other network equipment I’ll have it ping the next hop forward and reboot after X failures/timeframe. (and/or do wan failover) It’s certainly a good option to have, no argument there.
As for unifi, I’m simply mentioning it as having their AP’s is common if you have other ubiquiti gear… I’m not necessarily suggesting you buy more, though having others attempt to replicate the behavior would be helpful. My interest is to not have OG or opensprinkler start dropping on me either regardless of the root cause. Like you said, there’s nothing to guarantee similar behavior wouldn’t occur in other equipment that inadvertently affects OG.
I’m also curious if anything else changed recently since you said it has been fine for 11 months. I mean, even if this ping-based watchdog is added and works perfectly, we’re not solving the real problem. (though periodic reboots is better than being offline 😀 )
I have noticed the Blynk app reporting various times the board has been online which changes throughout the day. My immediate concern is that it was dropping, but can’t find any evidence yet. Maybe this is simply an indicator it’s still alive.
As a test I’ve been pinging my OG and OSPr on and off for 10-30 minutes at a time. (1 ping per second, size=1472 over the last few hours) So far they haven’t gone offline and I’m seeing the normal http traffic to blynk as well every 5-10 seconds. I really expected them to fall over based on Ray’s indication of the software-based network stack for that chip. (in other threads) For now I’ve also enabled unifi client statistics and will see if anything jumps out in there or the event logs. This tracks signal, packets, tx attempts, etc…
At this point I only have 3 devices in this IoT VLAN without any special client isolation or broadcast settings. Just basic firewall rules to keep this traffic isolated.
top 40 poster: 😀 ……………..
Sounds like you want to add a watchdog feature. Yeah, I use that on Uniquiti nanostations for a P2P link which is handy.
Anyway it sounds like a wonky edge case between asus AP and OG. Have you considered getting a UniFi AP? I have an AC lite with several SSID’s and vlans with an edge router X SFP at the head.
Do you enable/disable these ssid’s on a regular basis?
