The issue
Fed up with all the Windows 10 issues (just this week alone 3 requiring reboots and the 4th was a memory issue that Windows was masquerading) I decided to bite the bullet and move my Homeseer to one of Linux boxes and figured might as well upgrade to version 4 of Homeseer at the same time. After asking around it appears I can fall back to my Windows instance if I get in trouble.
First Impressions
HS4 on Linux
Despite my Linux box being WAY more powerful (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz) than my Windows box (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3700 CPU @ 3.40GHz), the web interface was slower on it than HS3 on Windows. Editing events was tedious with more time looking at hour glasses than selecting and typing. It seems to just randomly crash fairly regularly.
HS4 on Windows
Does not seem to add any issues not seen on Linux as well and still seems faster than the Linux version.
HS4 in general
The biggest change is devices are devices in HS4 like most other automation systems with the data streams seen as linked "features" instead of devices in their own right as they were in HS3. This seems to have caused a few issues with events that might need to be manually edited. You can assign multiple categories to devices so I decide to redo most of mine from category / location to categories / area / location to make finding devices in lists easier not that only root devices are listed.
One thing that is bugging me about HS4 is the pages where the only return / nav option is the Home button which takes you to the devices page.
Some things are missing like custom pages and others hidden like global variables. Jon00 Links gets you some things back.
Before
After (with defaults)
You might want to visit Jon00's site for some fixes too.
Jon00 Event Viewer & Documenter for Homeseer 4 for instance makes finding broken events a lot easier.
Summary
The answer seems to be unless you are starting from scratch do not install on Linux. See my Windows upgrade steps below.
Steps I did - the adventure / stuff I've tried so far going from HS3 on Windows to HS4 on Linux
Basic install
I started from these instructions. These are the instructions I actually used. (I already have a local ntpd server so I did not need that bit.) Note I changed the http and https port since I already had a server running on this PC (10.10.2.197).
yum -y update
yum -y install yum-utils
yum -y install mono-complete
mozroots --import --sync
yum -y install mono-basic
mkdir /home/hs4
cd /home/hs4
wget https://homeseer.com/updates4/linux_4_1_6_0.tar.gz
tar xzvf linux_4_1_6_0.tar.gz
cd ./Homeseer
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' > /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo '<service>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo ' <short>HS3 Ports</short>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo ' <description>HomeSeer 3 Ports needed for the application. HTTP, HTTPS (...future on Linux I am sure...), HSTouch </description>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo ' <port protocol="tcp" port="8080"/>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo ' <port protocol="tcp" port="8443"/>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo ' <port protocol="tcp" port="10200"/>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo ' <port protocol="tcp" port="10401"/>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
echo '</service>' >> /etc/firewalld/services/hs3p.xml
I already had a /etc/firewalld/zones/public.xml
So edit
vi /etc/firewalld/zones/public.xml
And only added
<service name="hs3p"/>
And restart the service
service firewalld restart
Things got tricky at this point. I needed to set the port and IP address (since I have multiple Config/settings.ini did not exist till after running ./go
After stopping it I could then edit Config/settings.ini and add
gWebSvrPort=8080
gServerAddressBind=10.10.2.197
Note you also need to change
C:\Program Files (x86)\HomeSeer HS3\Bin\
to your new bin
For example
ScriptingReferences=System.Data.SQLite;C:\Program Files (x86)\HomeSeer HS3\Bin\System.Data.SQLite.dll,Newtonsoft.Json;C:\Program Files (x86)\HomeSeer HS3\Bin\homeseer\Newtonsoft.Json.dll
becomes
ScriptingReferences=System.Data.SQLite;/home/hs4/HomeSeer/bin/System.Data.SQLite.dll,Newtonsoft.Json;/home/hs4/HomeSeer/bin/homeseer/Newtonsoft.Json.dll
After restarting I still could not access remotely
Accessing via localhost on the PC I found the redirect was bad. You need to go to the register page directly
http://10.10.2.197:8080/register.html
I got as far as step 3 and it hung
I finally just skipped the transfer services bit even though it most likely means more work later. On the plus side it means the HS3 instance should continue to work while I sort the HS4 instance.
Next it wants me to create an account. Not sure why since it already acknowledged I'm doing an upgrade. I used my previous login and password which it seemed to take OK so it would seem HS4 is using a diff system.
Not change to settings (last step) except to set location and Finish. And again hit a problem. Probably should have changed settings to not require login locally for now since no login appears to work. I renamed user file
mv Config/users.cfg Config/users.cfg.bak
restart and was able to get in with default/default.
Started looking at setup and first thing I noticed was location was well off. Told it Austin but appears to be Boston. Just under 2000 miles off.
Replaced contents of Config/users.cfg with the the contents from my HS3 copy and all seemed to restore my users which is a good sign.
Next bring over my config
Given the various ways suggested I decided to backup both instance folders plus backup config and events via the HS3 web interface at this point and mount a transfer folder on the CentOS box.
Note the Win share name might not work in fstab. If so try the IP address instead.
Trying to restore a backup from HS3 turned out to be an adventure. After a good bit of trial and error I've sorted the backup seems to need to be:
- named like 9_26_2020-16_17_54.zip
- The timestamp part of the name needs to be newer than the latest backup
- Contain the files Data.zip, Config.zip, scripts.zip and html.zip at top level.
After uploading a file if something goes wrong there may be no indication other than the list of available backups for restore is unchanged from the last time you tried to restore.
Also you need to restart for the restore to take affect but before you do you will need update Config/settings.ini again.
gWebSvrPort=8080
gServerAddressBind=10.10.2.197
I also had to do the registration bit again.
Plugins
Note still no plugins showed as installed. I had to install and enable them one by one. I have quite a few.
I started with Z-Wave (used the standard instead of one of the Linux beta ones. Most went pretty smooth.
Harmony was a bit weird. I had to readd the hubs which created all new objects that will need swapping in on the events.
The JowiHue plugin did not seem to like my old license but the new, version 4 one, was 60% off so not a biggie. Especially as much use as I get from that one. Does not seem be finding any of my 3 hubs though.
Events
My events all seem to transfer without having to export and import them.
But all the ones with scripts needed their paths changed from absolute to just the filename. If any were not in the scripts folder they will need moved there as well. I clicked the import button it said event_groups.json was missing. I started manually changing all 412 of the script actions before I realized the config import filtered those files. I made a copy and changed the paths to try and import working through the issues. This sorts the script path change. I renamed my exported json to events.hs3.json
sed -e "s?C:/Program Files (x86)/HomeSeer HS3/scripts/??g" events.hs3.json > events.json
It also looks like some of the places virtual devices were getting got set to no device as well.
And some other random values seems messed up. For example Here is the export of one event
"mvarGroupRef": 6088529,
"Enabled": true,
"UserNote": "",
"IOMisc": "",
"Last_Trigger_Time": "2020-09-15T17:04:44.1950438-05:00",
"Retrigger_Delay": 0,
"Triggered": true,
"Triggers": {
"TrigGroups": {
"K0": {
"$type": "System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[Scheduler.Classes.EvTrig_BASE, Scheduler]], mscorlib",
"$values": [
{
"$type": "Scheduler.Classes.EvTrig_DEVICE_VALUE, Scheduler",
"ev_trig_dvRef": 451,
"mvarValue_or_Start": -2147483648.0,
"mvarTriggerSubType": 7,
"ValStart": -2147483648.0,
"ValEnd_Spec": 1.0,
"UIMessage": "",
"HasTriggers": true,
"TriggerSubType": 7,
"SubTriggerCount": 10,
"SubTriggerName": "This device had its value set and is less than...",
"IsTimeTrigger": false,
"TriggerConfigured": true,
"TriggerName": "A Device's Value is...",
"TriggerGroupID": 0,
"evRef": 3488,
"TriggerType": 6,
"iTrigMisc": 524288,
"Condition": false
},
{
"$type": "Scheduler.Classes.EvTrig_COUNTER, Scheduler",
"Inc_Dec_Value": 1.0,
"Trigger_Pos_and_Neg": false,
"Trigger_Every_Value": false,
"Trigger_Exceed": true,
"mvarCounterName": "WasherStatus",
"UIMessage": "",
"HasTriggers": true,
"TriggerSubType": 3,
"SubTriggerCount": 8,
"SubTriggerName": "WasherStatus value has exceeded this:",
"TriggerConfigured": true,
"TriggerName": "A Counter's Value is...",
"Version": 2.0,
"TriggerGroupID": 0,
"evRef": 3488,
"TriggerType": 10,
"iTrigMisc": 524288,
"Condition": true,
"Value_Trigger": 0.0,
"Value_Trigger_Set": true
}
]
}
},
"TrigGroupsComp": null
},
"Actions": {
"mvarActions": {
"K0": {
"$type": "Scheduler.Classes.EvACT_SCRIPT, Scheduler",
"mvarScript": "C:/Program Files (x86)/HomeSeer HS3/scripts/SayIt.vb",
"mvarMethod": "sayString",
"mvarParams": "The Laundry has finished washing",
"script_wait": false,
"script_single_instance": false,
"UIMessage": "",
"ActionName": "Run a Script or Script Command",
"Misc": 64,
"evRef": 3488,
"Action_Order": 0,
"Action_Type": 10,
"ActionAdvancedMode": true,
"ActionConfigured": true,
"Script": "C:/Program Files (x86)/HomeSeer HS3/scripts/SayIt.vb(\"sayString\",\"The Laundry has finished washing\")"
},
"K1": {
"$type": "Scheduler.Classes.EvACT_RUN_EVENT, Scheduler",
"run_event_ref": 9262,
"UIMessage": "",
"ActionName": "Run Another Event",
"Misc": 64,
"evRef": 3488,
"Action_Order": 1,
"Action_Type": 9,
"ActionAdvancedMode": true,
"ActionConfigured": true
},
"K2": {
"$type": "Scheduler.Classes.EvACT_COUNTER, Scheduler",
"CounterAction": 5,
"UIMessage": "",
"ActionName": "Control a Counter",
"Misc": 64,
"evRef": 3488,
"Action_Order": 2,
"Action_Type": 3,
"ActionAdvancedMode": true,
"ActionConfigured": true,
"CounterName": "WasherStatus"
}
}
},
"Version": 1.2,
"evRef": 3488,
"Name": "Clothes done",
"VoiceCommand": "",
"sType": "Alert-white",
"EvGroup": {
"GlobalActions": {
"mvarActions": {
}
},
"GlobalConditions": {
"TrigGroups": {
},
"TrigGroupsComp": null
},
"Version": 1.2,
"Group": "Laundry",
"Ref": 6088529
},
"Misc": 0,
"PlugExtraData": {
}
}
Looking at it in HS4 it looks like this and is constantly triggering.
Scripts
VB includes were not working.
Voice assistants and other 3rd party links
As mentioned above the setup hung trying to sort these links so once everything else is working the last step will be sorting Alexa, Google Assistant and IFTTT linkages.
Falling back to HS3
After spending a couple days on this I needed to fall back to HS3 till I can get enough working HS4 to make it reasonable to so I'm falling back. Fortunately for me that means shutdown HS4 and powering up the old PC. It seems like everything is working but it will take some time to see if that truly is the case.
Picking back up
Z-Wave
Plugins
Hue / JowiHue
Hubs did not show up at first. Did a rescan and they appeared.
Scenes and animations seem to have been lost in the migration. Needed to recreate them
Harmony
Looks like only the first instance is needed now.
I also needed to delete and readd one hub before it would connect.
Timers
Triggers using timers did not convert. As in this in HS3 Windows
Got converted to this in HS4 linux.
Note too the save icon. Change do not autosave like before. You should click the save action after editing a trigger or action.
Events
Other than mentioned elsewhere I'm seeing events triggered for no obvious reason.
Scripts
As mentioned above the events needed the paths edited but after that I started see a lot of errors that appeared to indicate issues with includes and imports. Turns out those errors are misleading. For instance when I run my script ChkSensors.vb I see:
09:44:07:5322:[Event]->Event Trigger "Monitor Sensor check"
09:44:07:5326:[Event]->Running script in background (Sensor check): ChkSensors.vb("chkSensors")
09:44:08:3512:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: The import 'System.Core' could not be found.
09:44:08:3513:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3514:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3515:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3516:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3517:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3518:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3519:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3519:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3520:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3521:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3522:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3522:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3523:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3524:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3525:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3526:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3527:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3528:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3528:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 42021
09:44:08:3529:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 42021
09:44:08:3529:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 42021
09:44:08:3530:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 42021
09:44:08:3531:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
09:44:08:3531:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
09:44:08:3532:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
09:44:08:3533:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Function without an 'As' clause; Object return type assumed.
09:44:08:3534:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
09:44:08:3535:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: Function without an 'As' clause; Object return type assumed.
09:44:08:3536:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
09:44:08:3536:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'AnnounceMode981Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
09:44:08:3537:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'AnnounceMode981Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
09:44:08:3538:[Error]->Compiling script ChkSensors.vb: 'CheckedDeviceCount4605Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
Remove the current mono version
yum remove mono* libmono*
yum autoremove
And install the legacy versions
yum install -y mono-complete-5.18.0.240-0.xamarin.2.epel7.x86_64 --nogpgcheck
--nogpgcheck is added because the keys were missing when I was doing my install.
Just for added fun the 5.18.0.240-0 version on the Raspberry Pi does not appear to match up with the same version on CentOS. The version vbc on CentOS seemed too old for the version Homeseer needs from the error
Unhandled Exception:
System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field 'HSConsole.My.MyProject:m_ComputerObjectProvider' (0) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field 'HSConsole.My.MyProject:m_ComputerObjectProvider' (0) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies.
The newest mono-complete from the mono repo installs these versions
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Updating for dependencies:
libmono-2_0-1 x86_64 6.12.0.107-0.xamarin.9.epel7 download.mono-project.com_repo_centos7 3.3 k
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From the epel repo
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But still getting the Exception so added mono-*
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That sorted the Exception which implies mono-complete is not installing needed dependencies.
After further troubleshooting is appears the issue I'm seeing comes down to variables defined in in and included script are not getting passed on to a script that includes it. For example my script PushBullet.vb includes SayIt.vb which includes Refs.vb. If I run a method in SayIt.vb it just works with no errors but if I run one in PushBullet.vb I get errors like these
03:53:29:4362:[Event]->Event Script Edit Edit PushBullet.vb triggered by the event page 'Run' button.
03:53:29:4365:[Event]->Event Trigger "Script Edit Edit PushBullet.vb"
03:53:29:4367:[Event]->Running script in background (Edit PushBullet.vb): PushBullet.vb("SendMsg","Test#test message")
03:53:30:1916:[Error]->Compiling script PushBullet.vb: Visual Basic.Net Compiler version 0.0.0.5943 (Mono 4.6 - tarball)
Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Rolf Bjarne Kvinge. All rights reserved.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (2,16) : warning VBNC40056: The import 'System.Core' could not be found.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (43,14) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (44,13) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (62,14) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (63,12) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (84,11) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (90,11) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (96,11) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (102,11) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (107,11) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (218,15) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (219,16) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (220,17) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (229,25) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (296,14) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (302,21) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (310,14) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (318,21) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (326,14) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (327,10) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (327,16) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (327,23) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (327,32) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (328,17) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (329,21) : warning VBNC42020: Variable declaration without an 'As' clause; Object type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (117,46) : error VBNC30451: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (128,68) : error VBNC30451: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (127,13) : warning VBNC42024: Function without an 'As' clause; Object return type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (125,48) : error VBNC30451: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (124,17) : warning VBNC42024: Function without an 'As' clause; Object return type assumed.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (123,48) : error VBNC30451: 'lastSaid2969Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (134,76) : error VBNC30451: 'AnnounceMode981Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (135,51) : error VBNC30451: 'AnnounceMode981Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (227,34) : error VBNC30451: 'Partition14702Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (231,66) : error VBNC30451: 'Partition14702Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (297,80) : error VBNC30451: 'AlarmLevel2899Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (299,41) : error VBNC30451: 'AlarmLevel2899Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (299,54) : error VBNC30451: 'AlarmAway' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (301,46) : error VBNC30451: 'AlarmLevel2899Ref' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
/tmp/3zxjcr2a.0.vb (301,59) : error VBNC30451: 'AlarmHome' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
vbnc : Command line : error VBNC99999: Unexpected error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at vbnc.ElseIfStatement.ResolveStatement (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00058] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/Statements/ElseIfStatement.vb:78
at vbnc.Statement.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00000] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/Statements/Statement.vb:53
at vbnc.BaseObjects`1[T].ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00054] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/BaseObjects`1.vb:63
at vbnc.IfStatement.ResolveStatement (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x000ac] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/Statements/IfStatement.vb:119
at vbnc.CodeBlock.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x000c6] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/Code/CodeBlock.vb:570
at vbnc.MethodBaseDeclaration.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00088] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/MethodBaseDeclaration.vb:331
at vbnc.SubDeclaration.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00048] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/Members/SubDeclaration.vb:118
at vbnc.BaseObjects`1[T].ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00054] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/BaseObjects`1.vb:63
at vbnc.TypeDeclaration.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00081] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/TypeDeclarations/TypeDeclaration.vb:407
at vbnc.ClassDeclaration.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00029] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/TypeDeclarations/ClassDeclaration.vb:140
at vbnc.AssemblyDeclaration.ResolveCode (vbnc.ResolveInfo Info) [0x00040] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/TypeDeclarations/AssemblyDeclaration.vb:159
at vbnc.Compiler.Compile_Resolve () [0x003ae] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/Compiler.vb:416
at vbnc.Compiler.Compile () [0x004c6] in /builddir/build/BUILD/mono-basic-4.6/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/Compiler.vb:532
Compilation took 00:00:00.6890000
Taking the same scripts back to the Raspberry Pi even the SayIt.vb methods got the same "is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level." errors. Meaning it is not seeing any vars defined in an included file.
Since CentOS can see vars and method one level up, a quick fix seemed to be to copy Refs.vb in SayIt.vb though that did not sort the Alarm.vb script which includes PushBullet.vb. I worked around that by copying the bits of PushBullet.vb it used into it and including SayIt.vb.
But then vesync.vb tried to run and crashed HS4.
=================================================================
Basic Fault Address Reporting
=================================================================
Memory around native instruction pointer (0x7f139c7ac387):0x7f139c7ac377 48 63 d7 48 63 f6 48 63 f9 b8 ea 00 00 00 0f 05 Hc.Hc.Hc........
0x7f139c7ac387 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1e f3 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 H=....w.........
0x7f139c7ac397 00 85 c9 7f db 89 c8 f7 d8 81 e1 ff ff ff 7f 0f ................
0x7f139c7ac3a7 44 c6 89 c1 eb ca 48 8b 15 9c 0a 39 00 f7 d8 64 D.....H....9...d
=================================================================
Managed Stacktrace:
=================================================================
at <unknown> <0xffffffff>
at scriptcode10.VBWrapper:sendCmd <0x000d7>
at scriptcode10.VBWrapper:sendOff <0x0010b>
at scriptcode10.VBWrapper:reset <0x00037>
at scriptcode10.VBWrapper:resetRef <0x0016f>
at <Module>:runtime_invoke_void__this___object <0x00094>
at <unknown> <0xffffffff>
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo:InternalInvoke <0x000d0>
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo:Invoke <0x00123>
at System.Reflection.MethodBase:Invoke <0x00045>
at Scheduler.clsRunVBNetScript:ExecuteScript <0x00deb>
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart_Context <0x000a5>
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext:RunInternal <0x001f1>
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run <0x00043>
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext:Run <0x0006f>
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper:ThreadStart <0x00043>
at System.Object:runtime_invoke_void__this__ <0x00085>
=================================================================
Connection to HomeSeer lost, exiting
So I disabled the vesync.vb script on the CentOS box and went back to the Pi with the idea trying to debug there without risking crashing my [some what] running system. In an effort to make the Pi test system closer to the CentOS system I upgraded it mono to version 6. That did not seem to change any outcomes.
This gave me some ideas on how to add some debug. After editing /usr/bin/vbnc to this
#!/bin/bash
# mono vbnc invocation script patched for HS3 aspx compatibility
logfile=/tmp/$(basename $0)$$.log
echo "$0 $@" > $logfile
for x
do
echo $x >> $logfile
if [[ $x =~ ^/tmp/ && -e $x ]]
then
(echo "------------"; echo "$x "; cat $x) >> $logfile
fi
done
exec /usr/bin/mono --debug $MONO_OPTIONS /usr/lib/mono/4.5/vbnc.exe "$@" 2>&1 | tee -a $logfile
This lets you see the options used to compile the script and sync the code lines to stacktrace. The start of the log in this case read:
/usr/bin/vbnc /quiet /target:library /out:/tmp/gnq3bi3e.dll /r:System.dll /r:System.Core.dll /r:System.Xml.dll /r:System.Data.dll /r:Scheduler.dll /r:HomeSeerAPI.dll /r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll /r:System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll /r:System.Data.Linq.dll /r:System.Xml.Linq.dll /r:HSCF.dll /r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll /t:library /tmp/gnq3bi3e.0.vb
/quiet
/target:library
/out:/tmp/gnq3bi3e.dll
/r:System.dll
/r:System.Core.dll
/r:System.Xml.dll
/r:System.Data.dll
/r:Scheduler.dll
/r:HomeSeerAPI.dll
/r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
/r:System.Data.DataSetExtensions.dll
/r:System.Data.Linq.dll
/r:System.Xml.Linq.dll
/r:HSCF.dll
/r:Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
/t:library
/tmp/gnq3bi3e.0.vb
------------
/tmp/gnq3bi3e.0.vb
<feff>Imports System
Imports System.Core
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.Data.Linq
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports Scheduler
Imports HomeSeerAPI
Imports HomeSeerAPI.CAPI
Imports System.Collections
Namespace scriptcode11
Class VBWrapper
dim hs as object
public sub InitHS(newhs as object)
hs = newhs
end sub
'load object refs and speech methods
' import headers def
' Methods for sending messages to Pushbullet
Sub Main(ByVal params As String)
SendMsg(params)
End Sub
You will note the includes are missing since the start of my code ought to be:
'load object refs and speech methods
#Include SayIt.vb
' import headers def
#Include Secrets.vb
' Methods for sending messages to Pushbullet
Sub Main(ByVal params As String)
SendMsg(params)
End Sub
Most documentation says there is no Include support in vb. Which might explain why it does not work in mono though it worked in Windows VB as mentioned here and was working fine for me in my Windows instance. (Unfortunately all the scripts I had previously tried on my Pi test instance did not use includes.) So now I'm looking at how to rewrite without using Includes. It looks like the best solution for me is to change all the SayIt.vb method calls to use RunScriptFunc instead.
Starting Over going from HS3 on Windows to HS4 on Windows instead.
After spending close to 2 weeks trying to sort getting HS4 on Linux to work only to have it crash on me yet again requiring a reboot of the machine to get the plugins working again I decided staying on Windows might make more sense for now. Especially since it appears my scripts will need major rewrites to work on Linux. Note issues below were seen in both Windows and Linux unless otherwise noted.
Basic install
Plugins
Hue / JowiHue
Harmony
Still using multiple instance like before unlike on Linux.
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