Evok Web does not Start

TomasKnot

Could you please post the content of your

sudo cat /boot/config.txt

,

sudo lsmod

,

sudo i2cdetect 1

and

sudo cat /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom

?

It looks like the installation did not succeed for some reason; using a clean image should fix it, but if that's not an option we can try and fix it manually.

It's likely that some remaining files prevent the i2c EEPROM from working properly.

knebb

Hi,

sorry for the delay. I will use a fresh image and retry.

But so far the content you asked for:

# For more options and information see
# http://rpf.io/configtxtreadme
# Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details

# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode
#hdmi_safe=1

# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
#disable_overscan=1

# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=16
#overscan_right=16
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16

# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus
# overscan.
#framebuffer_width=1280
#framebuffer_height=720

# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
#hdmi_force_hotplug=1

# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=1

# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in
# DMT (computer monitor) modes
#hdmi_drive=2

# uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
# no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4

# uncomment for composite PAL
#sdtv_mode=2

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
#arm_freq=800

# Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
#dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

# Uncomment this to enable the lirc-rpi module
#dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on

#Enable i2c bus 1
device_tree_param=i2c1=on

#Enable UniPi Neuron SPI overlay
dtoverlay=neuron-spi

lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
bnep                   12051  2
hci_uart               20020  1
btbcm                   7916  1 hci_uart
bluetooth             365511  22 hci_uart,bnep,btbcm
brcmfmac              222874  0
brcmutil                9092  1 brcmfmac
cfg80211              543027  1 brcmfmac
rfkill                 20851  4 bluetooth,cfg80211
snd_bcm2835            24427  0
snd_pcm                98501  1 snd_bcm2835
spidev                  7373  4
snd_timer              23968  1 snd_pcm
snd                    70032  3 snd_timer,snd_bcm2835,snd_pcm
i2c_bcm2835             7167  1009
spi_bcm2835             7596  0
bcm2835_gpiomem         3940  0
uio_pdrv_genirq         3923  0
fixed                   3285  0
uio                    10204  1 uio_pdrv_genirq
rtc_ds1307             13908  0
hwmon                  10552  1 rtc_ds1307
at24                    7587  0
nvmem_core             13774  1 at24
i2c_bcm2708             5994  0
i2c_dev                 6913  2018
fuse                   99603  1
ipv6                  408971  32

i2cdetect

WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse!
I will probe file /dev/i2c-1.
I will probe address range 0x03-0x77.
Continue? [Y/n]
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 18 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 6f
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

cat

cat /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
cat: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom: File or Directory not found

Henkka

I'm having similar issues with a fresh install of UniPian-Neuron-OS-2017-11-21.zip from https://files.unipi.technology/s/public?path=%2FSoftware%2FOpen-Source Images . UniPi control panel does not diplay devices and the log of evok starting shows this:

2017-11-27 06:33:51,904 - evok - ERROR - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'do_scan'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/evok/neuron.py", line 217, in scan_boards
yield self.modbus_cache_map.do_scan()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'do_scan'
2017-11-27 06:33:52,407 - evok - ERROR - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'do_scan'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/evok/neuron.py", line 217, in scan_boards
yield self.modbus_cache_map.do_scan()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'do_scan'

I found an similar issue from here:

https://forum.unipi.technology/topic/99/evok-service-startup-problem-during-cold-boot

Also similar issue here:

https://forum.unipi.technology/topic/488/internal-error-500-after-fresh-evok-installation/8

If I do an restart of the service evok right after Pi boots (with service evok restart), then it will not work, it does not recognice inputs and outputs. If I wait for a while and then do an restart, then it works ?

TomasKnot

@Henkka
Hi Henkka!

The error you are seeing (which is indeed unfortunately very common) is due to missing I2C drivers - this then prevents EVOK from recognising the Neuron (hence the none error, the error message has been improved in the latest Master/2.0.1 release). Unfortunately the only solution is to install a newer image.

I have just now tested again the 11/24 image on Neuron, and it should have the correct drivers installed; we have deleted the other images from our public downloads server. Apologies for any confusion.

Henkka

@tomas_knot Hi,

Thanks for reply!

Is there any way to upgrade existing previous image installation, even by hand installing packages or getting an new evok from git etc. ? We have quite a few other packages installed and configured already to our device that should be soon in production and it would be great if there is an way to upgrade without re-install.

TomasKnot

The following conditions must be met in order for EVOK to work:

The neurontcp service must be running and not failing (systemctl status neurontcp)
/boot/config.txt must contain the following commands:

#Enable i2c bus 1
device_tree_param=i2c1=on
dtoverlay=i2c-rtc,mcp7941x
dtoverlay=unipiee
dtoverlay=neuronee

/etc/modules must contain the following line:

i2c-dev

OWFS must be installed and enabled
the correct overlays must be present in /boot/overlays ( the overlays are listed here)
NGINX must be running and configured correctly
Finally the evok service must be running and have a correct configuration file (the default one should work fine)

It's possible that one of the above steps has been interfered with somehow. The 11/21 image shouldn't be particularly different from the 11/24 one, the only changes really concern CODESYS.

It's difficult to know what exactly has gone wrong; if you provide the additional debug information requested above we might be able to figure what exactly it is. The only thing that the error messages says is that the I2C drivers are not loaded correctly, which can be caused by any number of things, usually the I2C being misconfigured somehow (I2C-dev being turned off is the most common culprit).

The error has nothing to do with the EVOK application, and using any other version will not help. (though the very latest version has a shorter and more specific error message) The issue lies in system configuration, which is unfortunately rather fragile.

Henkka

@tomas_knot
Hi, thanks for the reply

check, ok.
I'm missing device_tree_param. I have only lines below active, this is standard from evok-installation sd-image, from what I can recall we haven't modified this file.

/boot/config.txt active lines:

gpu_mem=32
dtparam=i2c_arm=on,watchdog=on
dtoverlay=i2c-rtc,mcp7941x
dtoverlay=neuron-spi-new
dtoverlay=neuronee
core_freq=250
dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

For me, it is working if we restart the evok service but not directly after reboot of the pi.

TomasKnot

@Henkka

The device_tree_param is equivalent to "dtparam=i2c_arm=on", so that should work fine.

It's possible that the I2C module gets loaded after EVOK starts. This may be caused by the startup workload changing significantly. One option would be setting a delay for the EVOK systemctl script, i.e. by adding

  [Service]
  ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 15

to it (/etc/systemd/system/evok.service).

Otherwise your config file looks fine.

@knebb
It seems that your config file is missing the EEPROM overlays.

Henkka

@tomas_knot

Hello, thanks for the reply.

Still no luck but few logbook entries what I have tried so far.

This is now my /etc/systemd/system/evok.service:

[Unit]
Description=Evok Modbus/Websocket/Rpc Server
#Requires=pigpio.service
Requires=neurontcp.service

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 15
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/evok/evok.py
TimeoutStopSec=3
SyslogLevel=debug
SyslogIdentifier=evok
StandardOutput=null
WorkingDirectory=/opt/evok

#User=evok
#Group=evok

Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
#Alias=evok.service

but still no luck, it still doesn't want to start the evok web-configuration and/or evok software at the boot of the pi.

I then added even more time, 30 seconds, and logged into Pi right after boot via ssh. From logs I can definitely verify that evok is trying to start after 30 seconds and this is what we get as a first rows in evok.log:

2017-11-27 15:42:19,697 - evok - ERROR - 'model'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/evok/neuron.py", line 180, in readboards
    yield board.parse_definition(self.hw_dict, i)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 1055, in run
    value = future.result()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/concurrent.py", line 238, in result
    raise_exc_info(self._exc_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 307, in wrapper
    yielded = next(result)
  File "/opt/evok/neuron.py", line 560, in parse_definition
    if defin and defin['type'] in config.globals['model']:
KeyError: 'model'

I tried to restart evok service but it didn't this time help either.

So I went on to check other services you mentioned and saw that every time I try to restart evok service, I get following lines to nginx error.log:

2017/11/27 15:51:35 [error] 587#587: *22 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.73.73.205, server: _, request: "GET /ws HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://[::1]:8080/ws", host: "10.73.73.237"
2017/11/27 15:51:35 [error] 587#587: *22 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.73.73.205, server: _, request: "GET /ws HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8080/ws", host: "10.73.73.237"
2017/11/27 15:51:36 [error] 587#587: *25 no live upstreams while connecting to upstream, client: 10.73.73.205, server: _, request: "GET /ws HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://localhost/ws", host: "10.73.73.237"
2017/11/27 15:51:37 [error] 587#587: *26 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.73.73.205, server: _, request: "GET /ws HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8080/ws", host: "10.73.73.237"
2017/11/27 15:51:37 [error] 587#587: *26 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.73.73.205, server: _, request: "GET /ws HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://[::1]:8080/ws", host: "10.73.73.237"
2017/11/27 15:51:38 [error] 587#587: *29 no live upstreams while connecting to upstream, client: 10.73.73.205, server: _, request: "GET /ws HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://localhost/ws", host: "10.73.73.237"

Don't know if this matters or not.

Finally, I managed to get it running again by restarting nginx and restarting evok. I can certainly test any other remedies you come up if needed.

TomasKnot

The thing that seems the most odd is that restarting helps - the error message really just indicates that EVOK couldn't read the I2C EEPROM, which is done via SYSFS (i.e. simply opening and reading the file referenced below). As for the network errors, they simply mean that NGINX cannot connect to EVOK.

Could you try to see if the file

/sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom

exists?

Henkka

@tomas_knot

Hi,

Thanks, I think now it's clear.

Right after boot I tried multiple times same command, with only few seconds in between;

Results are somehow changing;

pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
Binary file /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom matches
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
Binary file /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom matches
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
Binary file /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom matches
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom

See how last 3 lines there is suddenly no eeprom available ? So something fishy about i2c bus perhaps.

I then went on to think about connecting oscilloscope to see what's going on and what we have done so far. When thinking about where to connect it, it hit me - we have an external 7" Pi LCD connected to Raspberry Pi Display connector and it has those 2 extra SDA and SCL pins... Could they be reason for this... They are there for A and B model Pi's that don't have these integrated to display-cable and as this is version 3 Pi, they should not be connected as those are routed via display cable. So I disconnected them and after boot so far it has performed flawlessly!

Below are results of the same "test" as above, this time results are all predictable and ok, every time there is an eeprom device on the bus.

pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
Binary file /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom matches
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
Binary file /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom matches
pi@f:~ $ sudo grep M503 /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom
Binary file /sys/bus/i2c/devices/1-0057/eeprom matches

So, this was my error, not thinking that connection of LCD could anyway be in part of this... Sorry about that.

But many thanks for your excellent support! For me at least, I think the issue is now solved (fingers crossed...).