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I am trying to connect my generator via a Pi 4B and Gen HAT from pintsize.me; when connecting the pi to the controller (via the accessory port) I am unable to see any stats on the web gui. It was consistently saying "initializing connection" or something along the lines. I believe it is a PROTECTOR 48KW; wasn't given any of the paperwork for it. But it does have the evolution controller. When I run the test on the pi the gui load properly. But when connecting the controller to the pi, the only stats that are shown are those of the Pi (wifi signal and CPU temp). What course of action can i take from here? I did try the troubleshoot page in the wiki but it did not help. |
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Have you done a serial loopback test to confirm that serial is correctly enabled? This needs to be done with the data lines disconnected from the generator and the GenMon application shut down. |
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Did you order the HAT and setup the pi yourself? if you did setup the pi your self, did you run the installation script described here: https://github.com/jgyates/genmon/wiki/3.2--Setup-Your-Pi-and-Serial-Port |
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I've removed the HAT and just tried jumping the onboard serial (pins 8 and 10). I receive the following: I have also ran the serialconfig.py. In addition I did make sure to stop genmon. I also made sure to setup the pi to so onboard serial. Still having the same issues. |
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I did follow all the steps in https://github.com/jgyates/genmon/wiki/3.2--Setup-Your-Pi-and-Serial-Port making sure uart is enabled, etc. |
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You may need to see what serial ports you have, |
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i thought the same but got these results: |
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did you run this script? https://github.com/jgyates/genmon/wiki/3.3--Setup-genmon-software The genmonmaint.sh script, with the -i option will install the needed libraries, copy the config files and setup the serial port and make the needed changes to the config file. If you have not done this then you are skipping about 3 steps that you will need to run genmon. Also, this page describes how to download genmon. Just making a copy manually from github will not allow updates to occur. Follow the directions on the link above. If that does not work then we can go from there. |
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I will try this again and follow up with my results. |
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Still having the issue. I removed the whole directory and started fresh. Still no luck. Attaching a code snippet of the entire process. |
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Is the above serailtest with or without the HAT? If not hat then send a picture of how your are connecting pin 8 to pin 10. |
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It's weird because I added the Should I manually add
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I do have |
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@EvanET13, there are only a few more things to try:
This is the most baseline test of the serial port. The only thing that is a variable is the config.txt and cmdline.txt file. Presently my two best guesses are: There are either conflicting settings in your config file, or your pi is bad. If you reinstall, then run the instructions on this page first. Then test the serial port 2nd. This will minimize the changes to config.txt to see if some other settings is conflicting with the ones that serialconfig.py is making. Let us know what happens. |
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@jgyates I got it working. I reformatted my pi. This time I got to choose the OS and chose the 64-bit version; it came preloaded with 32-bit version.
Ran the |
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Great, I am glad it is working for you. Thanks for lettings everyone know the solution. |
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also, what version of the OS are you running? Type this to find out: |
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@EvanET13 Can you verify your Evolution controller firmware? On the main system screen (System Date/Time ... Submenus) of the Evolution controller press the button sequence Escape, Up, Up, Down, Down, Escape, Escape. You will then be able to navigate to the Dealer menus (Submenu > Dealer). In Dealer menu, select Display, and using the up/down arrow navigate to the firmware screen. One of the older/original firmware of this controller used a different baud rate and a firmware update will correct this issue. Just throwing that out there. |
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@liltux Thank you for that information. I will check this out the next time I go out to my site with this generator. For now I'm making sure I have the pi configured properly first. |
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In your screenshots I see you have a non-standard username, was that renamed in the imager, or did you create that user after? I think there is a permission around the serial port and a new user may not be in that group, even if it is an admin user. |
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@jgyates I got it working. I reformatted my pi. This time I got to choose the OS and chose the 64-bit version; it came preloaded with 32-bit version.
In addition, I did the following differently:
enable_uart=1in config.txt beforegit clone https://github.com/jgyates/genmon.gitThen did theserialtest.pyRan the
bash ./genmonmaint.sh -i-> Ran the test again, working.