AD2Pi (Serial) + Home Assistant Problems

[goyney]

I'm running the AD2Pi with Home Assistant interacting with it. I have been fighting with it for almost 6 months; I cannot keep a reliable connection. The Home Assistant community doesn't seem interested in helping solve the problem and I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the whole situation. I'm hoping maybe somebody here can help shed some new light on my issue and maybe lead me to a resolution.

Basically, randomly, the serial connection to the AD2Pi is just lost and never reconnected to, thus making the alarm status and controls unresponsive until I reboot Home Assistant. I'm not sure if it is a Home Assistant problem, a problem with the hardware, or a problem with the Alarm Decoder python dependency.

You can see my forum post with Home Assistant here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/a ... days/18277

Any insights at all would be most helpful. Thank you!

[kevin]

An easy way to rule out the serial itself disconnecting is to connect to it directly from the terminal, and see if over 24hour time period it disconnects or not.

[goyney]

Using ser2sock, I woke up to a disconnected device this morning. I had to restart ser2sock to reestablish a connection.

Is there a way using ser2sock to have it auto-reconnect?

[kevin]

Well, that still doesn't rule out the device itself... please connect directly to it with a terminal program, not ser2sock

You can add a cron task to restart ser2sock or something like that