I finally bought myself a Unipi (Patron S207) and since I don't have any Windows machine, Mervis was not an option. So I installed the Node-Red image 20220427.0
Up until now, everything went smooth.
As I'm completely new to both Node-Red and Unipi, I added a ws node connected to a DI node and then attached a debug node to it to check what the DI node exactly would return when triggered.
When I now trigger the DI, I get the message
7/5/2022 01:17:44 node: DI 1.1
msg : string[34]
"Message was not properly evaulated"
and nothing else.
In Linux syslog, I see this message also appearing.
May 06 23:29:45 S207-sn320 Node-RED[373]: 6 May 23:29:45 - [warn] [unipi-input:DI 1.1] Message was not properly evaulated
What is wrong here ? It looks to me that the websocket sends a message to the DI node that the DI node does not understand? Or the message json is invalid ?
I did update @unipitechnology/node-red-contrib-unipi-evok from v 0.0.2 to 0.0.4
And also did apt-get upgrade
on linux which upgraded unipi-firmware
from 5.58 to 5.60 and displayed a warning that I should upgrade the firmware using the command sudo /opt/unipi/tools/fwspi --auto
.
If I do that however, it doesn't do anything:
# sudo /opt/unipi/tools/fwspi --auto
Board on /dev/unipispi firmware=5.58 hardware=1.1 (E-8Di8Ro) (spi 6MHz)
and nothing more.
What can I do to fix this Node-Red problem? And why is the firmware not updated with that command ? (could the Node-Red problem be fixed with the new firmware ?)