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USB ftdi_sio problem with RFXCOM #2788

Closed Jezza34000 closed 8 months ago

Jezza34000 commented 9 months ago

Describe the issue you are experiencing

Hi ! I can't get my RFXCOM to work, I get the following error message: Screenshot from 2023-10-03 15-54-04

Look like this issue : https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/1800

I use 4 USB devices :

  1. RFXCOM RFXrtx433
  2. Bluetooth SENA UD-100
  3. Itead Sonoff Zigbee 3.0
  4. Ziblue RFPLAYER

Only the RFXCOM had problem. Tested on my Ubuntu laptop it's working well.

I'm using a VM on a QNAP Nas TS-253D

What operating system image do you use?

ova (for Virtual Machines)

What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?

10.5

Did you upgrade the Operating System.

Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Plug RFXCOM into HA's usb port
  2. Got error message on HA startup

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

Nothing usefull

Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?

Nothing usefull

System information

System Information

version core-2023.9.3
installation_type Home Assistant OS
dev false
hassio true
docker true
user root
virtualenv false
python_version 3.11.5
os_name Linux
os_version 6.1.45
arch x86_64
timezone Europe/Paris
config_dir /config
Home Assistant Community Store GitHub API | ok -- | -- GitHub Content | ok GitHub Web | ok GitHub API Calls Remaining | 5000 Installed Version | 1.33.0 Stage | running Available Repositories | 1306 Downloaded Repositories | 20
Home Assistant Cloud logged_in | true -- | -- subscription_expiration | 3 janvier 2024 à 01:00 relayer_connected | true relayer_region | eu-central-1 remote_enabled | true remote_connected | true alexa_enabled | true google_enabled | true remote_server | eu-central-1-2.ui.nabu.casa certificate_status | ready can_reach_cert_server | ok can_reach_cloud_auth | ok can_reach_cloud | ok
Home Assistant Supervisor host_os | Home Assistant OS 10.5 -- | -- update_channel | stable supervisor_version | supervisor-2023.09.2 agent_version | 1.5.1 docker_version | 23.0.6 disk_total | 117.4 GB disk_used | 7.4 GB healthy | true supported | true board | ova supervisor_api | ok version_api | ok installed_addons | File editor (5.6.0), Glances (0.19.3), Home Assistant Google Drive Backup (0.111.1), Mosquitto broker (6.3.1), Node-RED (14.5.0), Terminal & SSH (9.7.1), Zigbee2MQTT (1.33.0-1), Crowdsec (1.5.2-ha1), Crowdsec Firewall Bouncer (v0.0.26)
Dashboards dashboards | 1 -- | -- resources | 5 views | 10 mode | storage
Recorder oldest_recorder_run | 24 septembre 2023 à 14:00 -- | -- current_recorder_run | 3 octobre 2023 à 14:47 estimated_db_size | 359.24 MiB database_engine | sqlite database_version | 3.41.2
Xiaomi Miot Auto component_version | 0.7.11 -- | -- can_reach_server | ok can_reach_spec | ok logged_accounts | 1 total_devices | 1

Additional information

Thank you for help

maddinhome commented 9 months ago

same bug here on synology vm

agners commented 9 months ago

I can't get my RFXCOM to work,

Did it work on previous operating system versions? Does it work with other virtual machines (e.g. different Linux distribution)? If so, what distribution/version did you check?

@maddinhome do you use RFXCOM as well?

Jezza34000 commented 9 months ago

Did it work on previous operating system versions?

I don't know i don't have it before

Does it work with other virtual machines (e.g. different Linux distribution)? If so, what distribution/version did you check?

Yes, currently it works on a VM on a Freebox Delta (Linux servicesVM 5.15.0-84-generic #93-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 5 17:18:46 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux) And i use it throught a ser2net

maddinhome commented 9 months ago

@agners yes, I use an RFX433XL USB. Only for a few switches... but I use it.

It worked until version 9.2 of Homeassistant. The HAOS version at this time was 10.5. Now I have installed HAOS 11.0rc1.

VM from Synology...

I noticed that when I restart the RFX (plugging it in and out) only the red LED flashes. Otherwise a green one was always added. Maybe there is also a hardware defect. But the RFX is recognized by Homeassistant when it is cold started. Only in the device overview does it say “Error setting up”.

The logs aren't very informative either... hmmm

Jezza34000 commented 9 months ago

Only in the device overview does it say “Error setting up”. The logs aren't very informative either... hmmm

Same for me

Sebazzz commented 8 months ago

Perhaps related #2756, where my attached device in VM disappears when ha-core loads.

maddinhome commented 8 months ago

Here is an excerpt from my log file:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 1038, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/threading.py", line 975, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/RFXtrx/init.py", line 986, in _connect self.transport.reset() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/RFXtrx/init.py", line 832, in reset self.send(b'\x0D\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00') File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/RFXtrx/init.py", line 828, in send self.serial.write(pkt) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

later: 2023-10-12 16:22:18.908 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.rfxtrx] Connection timeout: failed to receive response from RFXtrx device

hmmm

Maybe that will help narrow down the error.

maddinhome commented 8 months ago

Is there something new? Does anyone have a solution?

Jezza34000 commented 8 months ago

Nope

sm0keKings commented 8 months ago

There was a HA OS update 11.1 released. It didn't appear to fix it. Did anyone find another solution?

maddinhome commented 8 months ago

Apparently there are too few of us and the problem is not being seen.

It's unfortunate... I'm already looking for an alternative

sm0keKings commented 8 months ago

I think there is a lot of us that are waiting for them to fix the OS issue. I will start to look for a fix to the OS.

Jezza34000 commented 8 months ago

My workaround was to stop using RFXCOM, i use RFLINK with Arduino instead :-)

WhiteDogBe commented 8 months ago

Waiting on the same fix... I also notified the vendor about this thread, they might be able to debug this more easily.

WhiteDogBe commented 8 months ago

I have 2 updates:

I go this suggestion though:

We use a standard FTDI FT232 chip in the RFXtrx. We only changed the Manufacturer and Product description in the USB string descriptors.

You can change this to the FTDI setting if you like using FT_prog https://ftdichip.com/utilities/ Manufacturer: FTDI Product description: FT232R USB UART

If you change this back to the FTDI settings you need the latest RFXmngr or else the RFXtrx is not detected.

The above is something you can try very easily imho if you are affected by this. Other suggestion is to use ser2net.

sm0keKings commented 8 months ago

I have 2 updates:

  • I'm using HAOS via ProxMox and tried the upgrade from 9.5 to 11.1... my RFXTRX433XL is still working. So it's not 'all' VM that are affected. Might depend on how exactly the device is passed through in the VM system you are using.
  • The RFXCOM developer responded to me with a few remarks, but as I don't have the issue I can't help solve it. Feel free to reach out to him if you are on a path for troubleshooting.

I go this suggestion though:

We use a standard FTDI FT232 chip in the RFXtrx. We only changed the Manufacturer and Product description in the USB string descriptors. You can change this to the FTDI setting if you like using FT_prog https://ftdichip.com/utilities/ Manufacturer: FTDI Product description: FT232R USB UART If you change this back to the FTDI settings you need the latest RFXmngr or else the RFXtrx is not detected.

The above is something you can try very easily imho if you are affected by this. Other suggestion is to use ser2net.

I am not using a VM. I have a native HAOS on a Intel x86 the issue appears to be the OS not specifically the VM config.

TheOriginalMrWolf commented 8 months ago

Hi @Jezza34000

I had a similar problem. Putting an unpowered USB2 hub between the RFX & Pi fixed the problem (had to try a few to find the 'golden' one).

Worked flawlessly for more than a year since. Don't ask me why....

sm0keKings commented 8 months ago

Removing the addon and reisntalling chosing the other USB connection method worked for me too!

agners commented 8 months ago

In the end, this is probably a device which is on the edge (or even violating) some USB specs. Depending on exact hardware configuration (USB host IP/type), and USB bus configuration (with/without hub(s)) things might just work, or just not work.

Home Assistant OS uses a rather vanilla upstream Linux kernel version 6.1 for the OS 10 and 11 series. So on the same hardware, with a operating system using the same kernel version, I'd expect the same issues in the end.

Possible that different kernel version lead to slightly different timing, but I don't think there is a general fix we can come up with from HAOS side :cry:

Jezza34000 commented 8 months ago

OK thank you all for possible "workaround" and @agners for explanation