Trouble connecting to Motus

General
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As an individual, I have built an RPI Sensorgnome (SG).

https://motus.org/data/receiverDeployment?id=8928

It appears to be collecting data from it’s four antenna. I configured it to connect to my LAN and I can connect to it with SSH and a browser. It provides its own LAN when the push button switch is pressed twice and I can connect to it by joining its LAN.

It has failed to connect to Motus using my LAN. Hoping it is relevant, here is a segment of syslog from the SG.

Aug 15 14:25:01 localhost CRON[14148]: (root) CMD ( /home/bone/proj/bonedongle/scripts/maintain_ssh_tunnel)

Aug 15 14:29:43 localhost autossh[624]: starting ssh (count 179)

Aug 15 14:29:43 localhost autossh[624]: ssh child pid is 14167

Aug 15 14:29:43 localhost rsyslogd-2007: action ‘action 17’ suspended, next retry is Mon Aug 15 14:31:13 2022 [try You searched for error 2007 - rsyslog ]

Aug 15 14:29:43 localhost autossh[624]: ssh exited with error status 255; restarting ssh

At one point, the syslog showed a message indicating that my desktop Mac rejected a SG request.

Aug 15 08:46:41 localhost avahi-daemon[592]: Received response from host 192.168.0.64 with invalid source port 52214 on interface ‘wlan0.0’

I removed all servers from the LAN and allowed the SG to run ‘alone’ on the LAN and I haven’t seen the 192.168.0.64 since but connecting to Motus still fails.

I am not sure how to proceed. I assume that the RPi SG can connect to Motus over the internet. I ask because the cron task maintain_ssh_tunnel is from /home/bone/… instead of /home/pi/… (they are the same shell).

Any help would be appreciated .

Gene Dodd

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Hi Gene, I don’t think I can help you with the current SG software, especially the SSH tunnel stuff is tricky to troubleshoot. In case you’re interested in trying the completely new software version, let me know. You would need an rPi3 or rPi4, you didn’t mention what you have.
Regards,
Thorsten

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Thank you Thorsten. For reasons unknown to me, my SG started reporting to Motus a week or two after I posted. Perhaps I should have mentioned that in my initial post. In regard to newer software version, I am not sure if it would help with my current system. I solved a problem with my GPS hat not being used by changing from a RPi 3B+ to a 3B. Will the new version operate on RPi 3B+ ? Might you point to information about the new version? Again, thanks again for responding.

Gene

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Gene, the new version runs on any rPi3 or rPi4. I have a 3B+ here that I’m testing on.
Given that you have only one station and it’s working fine, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to disrupt you with testing new software…
The software is in multiple github repos, the top-level one, with preliminary docs is GitHub - tve/sensorgnome-build: Tools and files needed to build Sensorgnome images and packages.
Regards,
Thorsten