Home assistant Renogy on PI 4 error about renogy-bt HOT 18 CLOSED

Did not work, as it kept trying to run again and cancel the previous one; in the end, I set up a service that runs the script at the start and if it stops, restarts it. works a treat.

Copied this https://gist.github.com/emxsys/a507f3cad928e66f6410e7ac28e2990f

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Hello,
I haven't tested the code with Home Assistant image, its designed primarily to run on Raspberry Pi OS, and then it sends data to Home Assistant using MQTT protocol.

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Yeah that might work, it makes a clean install on new raspberry image. Not sure how the IP address looks like from docker though. But ideally a dedicated hardware is better for HA.

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i have now got it working in docker, I keep getting ERROR:root:Connection failed: le-connection-abort-by-local when running python3 ./example.py, some times it works, due to know what this might be, is this because its already connected. it not connected to anything else.

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this is full out put.
(venv) xxxxxxxx@raspberry:/opt/path/to/venv/bin/renogy$ python3 ./example.py
INFO:root:Starting client: BT-TH-xxxxxxxx => ac:xxx:xxx:1c:a4:xxx
INFO:root:Adapter status - Powered: True
INFO:root:Starting discovery...
INFO:root:Devices found: 8
INFO:root:Found matching device BT-TH-xxxxxxxx => [ac:xxx:xxx:1c:a4:xxx]
ERROR:root:Connection failed: le-connection-abort-by-local

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Are you close enough to the device?

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Is the enable_polling flag set to true in config.ini?

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it seems to work after about 30 tries of running "python3 ./example.py" within terminal

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it seems to connect now and run, how do I get it to auto-run all the time without having to manually run the example file. thanks again

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If polling is enabled it should keep running. If you want to auto-start it on restarts add it to /etc/rc.local. Or you can disable polling and schedule a periodic cron job using crontab.

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im not very good with Python,

/etc/rc.local does not really work, as i want it running all the time, and if it stops, I want it to restart, I tried cron job, but cant get that to run; the only way really is to run the code below in terminal.

source /opt/path/to/venv/bin/activate && cd /opt/path/to/venv/bin/renogy && python3 ./example.py >> /opt/path/to/venv/bin/renogy/log_file.log 2>&1

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Run crontab -e and insert the following command:

*/5 * * * * /opt/path/to/venv/bin/renogy/example.py 

This will run every 5 minutes (turn off polling in config.ini)

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Yes, you can replace it with the full command. But you get the idea, */5 means it runs every five minutes.

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Finally got it working, had to add it as */5 * * * * /opt/path/to/venv/bin/python3 /opt/path/to/venv/bin/renogy/example.py

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