Also having the same issue, please see my newer thread here

Think I may have found a way.  If I delete the raid array and let LMCE rediscover it, I can then say "Internal HDD>Use only when told to."

If it is a big problem then I have a few possible options such as: Pop the hdd caddies for those 8 drives, Perm. ignore using unknown devices as a cage until I need to write to it, find a file format that LMCE can not understand but my NAS can and set up the array as a share?

The wiki account creation uses the same login information as the forums.  It is not a very intuitive process and there is a discussion on the wiki boards to improve it. 

Wiki Login Page

I had some issues creating my wiki login but I attributed that to creating my account 4 years ago and never signing into the wiki.  It's a pretty heavily bot spammed wiki so please understand the account creation seems difficult partially as necessary measures to clean up all the trash pages.  When creating my user page I ended up having to register a new forum name (armorgnome2) and using that login information to create my wiki login.

Instructions on creating a user page

I found the above link very helpful in making my page searchable and conforming to standard categories.  I also stole ideas and page layout from other users by copying their page information (click edit to see their wiki html, be very careful not to save or change) and then use that code format for your own.

I have to say that I appreciate all the help I have received so far. This is truly a great and willing community: this thread is a proof.

I agree completely, and have found that those willing to help themselves get the support they need.  Users wiling to help others and test/develop/design are even more-so rewarded with assistance to any issue you come across.  I admire your willingness so soon in your LMCE experience to do a full-blown installation and add support where existing templates do not cover your needs.  I don't think I have added much to this thread as I have been busy with other projects, it is nice to have you aboard! 

Just a few minutes after posting when I got into the core to resolve some problems I realized exactly what you responded with L3mce.  My change to boot-scripts was unrelated to the topic covered by this thread.  I had a few issues going on all at the same time and posted issues unrelated to storage device detection in a thread about storage device detection.

I have the system working again.  Using your latest radar scripts, the drive containing 1TB of my videos is being detected almost immediately upon waking that MD.  If I am inpatient and try to pull the video list too soon after bootup in the home theater room it will show empty.  If I then get up and go make popcorn, it will populate by the time I return.  So even though this configuration is not supported and does not fit the true diskless MD definition:

StorageDevicesRadar.sh changes have resolved my media going offline issue.  All devices in my home capable of playing audio and video have access to audio and video which resides on a HDD connected to a MD that boots from the core.  Thank you for that improvement!



-I hopefully can catch you in IRC some night soon, there are certain drives in my system that I would like to purposefully like radars to overlook.  The best example is a 8 disk raid array on the core which is intended for backups and other files that have special importance for me.  Another ridiculous example is a 7 disk networked cd-tower we are putting on the network to compliment our theme of oddities few people have seen function before regardless of their usefullness or efficiency.

Ouch,

This is looking like it may have broken more than the detection of media.  Since making changes to the pluto boot scripts I haven't had taken any time to turn on the display in the home theater room.  So tonight when I sat down to watch a movie I discovered I can not PXE boot any longer at all.  The images all look good (web-admin>media directors, /usr/pluto/diskless/47, etc all seem normal.  My MD in the home theater even starts to connect and announces properly with the correct IP of 192.168.80.2.  All other devices in my network under LMCE that do not rely on net booting work flawlessly.

Going to see if I can pull the orginal bootscripts somehow and not be forced to fall back to a clone restore point where I would loose a lot of recent additions...

* posde wonders why noone has created a patch to the web admin Orbiter screen to be able to just Add a iPhone4 Orbiter, with everything already defined.

Works perfect for me, though I have to run the iPhone 3 resolution on my iPhone 4...  Roaming Orb and Dianemo have never worked right for me unfortunately.  You might also want to wait a bit as iOS6 available notices have just started popping up for me, its bound to break just as much as iOS5 did.

Tehbard and Armorgnome are alive. 

Neither of us are the type to fizzle away or retire to inactivity, sorry but you are all stuck with us!

In all seriousness I really enjoy having my little niche (old hardware, does things the hard way, willing to test, looking to overturn every 0 and 1 of LMCE until I can join the -devel and bother L3top) and the last month I really haven't been doing any of those things.

About a month ago now three pretty big changes happened at tehbard's house; income!, availability of new hardware, an improved internet connection.  Soon afterwards tehbard started showing more interest in the software and got to where his questions were pointed and technical. I pointed him towards the forums.  It had always surprised me that he wasn't more interested.  Looking back at the last couple months I must admit watching someone read code and review hardware all day while continuously bringing in junk computers with the hope of getting media to more locations than my bedroom only to fail and get moody... would not be too awful appealing.  On top of that I constantly talked about "could" and "eventually." 

  > tehBard, "Thanks for not throwing me out. LOL"

As it is much more appropriate for me to provide details on my wiki page than to list everything here I will just explain that my absence from constant testing, breaking, reporting and forum activity is not an indication of inactivity.  It is honestly the lack of time I have now that devices are being added, configured and put into use around the house at a rate that makes "the grand tour" appropriate for even frequent guests.  As I take time to provide this update, I am sure the dry erase board of "parts" and "to-do" is getting new entries.

For those I know well and would be interested in knowing.  Updates have just finished running on our second active LMCE 10.04 core.  TehBard has dedicated two of his PowerEdge machines to template creation and general dev duty.  Their architecture is very similar to our active core so it allows him to "break to fix" so that we know exactly how to add these devices to our main network.  As long as we stay on top of keeping that environment current and maintain frequent backups I hope to get into some new template/device/support writing very soon.

Until I run out of dry erase marker or devices to implement or take to Goodwill feel free to drop me a PM or ping me on IRC.  User armorgnome or tehbard.

-current projects,

                        AG : Replace multiple small switches with cisco catalyst 24port - lost in minicom land =/
                               Retro-wire the property and establish new ent. area and rooms
                               Haul away old components and devices that wont work or are not worth the effort
                               Fix CM15a
                               Finish passive cooling system on the server cabinet, expand beyond 21U hopefully
                               Move choice drives to the new NAS chassis, haul away IDE and small SATA drives
                               Home Improvements, general modernization even if not automation at this time
                               GYR3103-US chain reload router problem (gcm1005)
                               Help with StorageDevicesRadar

                  tehBard: Hand telecom duties off to a stand alone FreePBX box, maintain Asterisk a.m.a.p.
                               Develop code for AXXIUM and HP UPS systems, GSD preferably
                               Test CM15a and MS16a - 
                               Evaluate benefits for 1-wire, KNX or proprietary options.
                               Study LMCE and resolve best methods for adding new PLC functions and support
                               "something about a TPM module?" not sure as it seems to be a sore subject
                               As the property owner, have the final say on lights, automation, power usage etc
                               Continue to watch trac tickets and help if possible

Well, turns out a friend of mine has a distributor license for security installation, so today I took a trip to the store, and they seem to have everything. They especially seemed to have a lot of those red boxes (I think it's Honeywell)

Good friend to have. =)  If you are interested in sharing such a resource I also know a few people in various hardware fields that often have access to volume on misc hardware.  If your friend is interested in letting go of some older units (supported or not) please PM me.

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* The GC100 on homeseer.com site that look different than the pictures on the wiki. Does anyone know is it's because it's an older model, or is it a totally different device? It's from the same mfr.
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This one had me slightly confused for a little while as well.  To this day I often wonder if the support/setup article I am reading applies to all units or is specific to one of Global Cache's models.  Here is what I know:

GC-100-6 (small unit)  one serial port, 3 IR/sensor ports -- I do not think it has any relays
GC-100-12 (longer unit) two serial ports, 6 IR/sensor ports, 3 screw terminal relays
GC-100-18 -- ?? -- I am pretty sure this is identical to the -12 but is cosmetically ready to be rackmounted

Global Cache - iTach and other "new" devices.  It seems to be the trend of Global Cache to move from multiple device capable units such as the GC-100 to smaller single function devices.  I do not know of any support for the iTach series of products in LMCE yet.  Great company to deal with btw, and their website lists dealers by state so you might be able to find a source closer and cheaper than homeseer.

-From personal experience... inquire about firmware version before getting a GC-100-#!  I missed this friendly warning and now have to either modify detection scripts or mail my unit to the mfgr.

Not as critical as the pastebin logs being shared but something I have found non-intuitive is a method for removing incorrect or unwanted metadata from the database.  Before I learned my lesson I selected "also apply amazon metadata" when grabbing cover art, or didn't baby-sit ripping of compilation CDs.  To correct these tags and get media searches and cover-art displays working as intended I have to spend a lot of time in the files and media sync area.  Most of that time is spent scrolling through album/performer lists that want to include the name of the dog who sat outside the recording studio one time for 12 minutes.

I have not and probably will not attempt to change or remove database entries without an automagic button.  Give me enough time and I can break my system with UI button presses, letting me get at the heart of the system (sqlCVS , pluto_main, etc) just speeds up the process and leaves me reinstalling instead of growing.  If someone capable (not bus shoving here friend just an example) such as L3mce felt the desire to add some clean up scripts I imagine I would not be the only appreciative user.

It has a head still. 

I had my doubts about this machine being able to function as a hybrid so was keeping my options open about lightening its load and letting it handle our expanding network without having to deal with media.

No luck with the latest, to be honest its worse now L3top.  I know you hate to hear that but it is for me anyways.

The "online" box is coming up as checked but my media is still not showing.  Before when my media didn't display I could check to make it online and reload to fix it.  Now that a missing check is not the problem I can not fix it.  I will continue to test anything you come up with, though in the meantime is there a way to revert to a state before running your new scirpt?  I didn't do a clone as I normally do before testing and was hoping a sqlCVS update might set me straight temporarily?

Thanks to tschak909 and others in IRC for helping me understand my misconception about libxtrap6.

I was seeing the failed to install "x protocol trappings" each time I connected a CM15A only because adding any new device checks dependancies on all other devices.  I assumed the package download was related to the latest device.  Before I move on completely from that package and start looking for other possible problems with the CM15A I do have a remaining question.

A failure to get any update during a apt-get upgrade results in nothing being upgraded, because it downloads all first and then updates everything.  When LMCE detects a new device and goes to get packages, does it follow the same rules?

"Would failure to get "x protocol trappings" prevent the complete installation of my CM15A?

I am also having problems with my CM15A.

The error I am getting primarily is failure to get x protocol trappings (libxtrap6) and DCE router failing to get status or list of child devices from it.  After 50 wake up attempts it closes communication and refuses to continue trying.

It appears to me that it insists on getting that x protocol trappings file which is no longer available.  Me and tehbard recently invested in this unit believing that it was the supported way to use cheap battery operated x10 motion sensors.  Because we are so vested, if work is needed to get this supported again we are 100% willing to make it our top priority and then share the working code/template with other users.

The wiki article is very clear on building instructions so there is a lot of information to get us rolling.  If anyone with experience with "libxtrap#", "x10 interfaces" or the CM15A from Activehome Pro could help get us going in the proper solution to this issue we would appreciate it.

Will test tonight.

I have been getting the media offline problem in a unsupported setup. ~ Storage disk on an MD.

The last script from your first post didn't resolve it.  I will let you know how this one goes.  Sometime this week I will be gathering drives to populate a NAS and hoping that this issue doesn't effect media shares that are always available...

I have to recant my victory celebration speech over the GC-100-12.  As described in some archived posts I believe I lost connectivity after going into the browser interface of the GC-100.  I did this to change one of the IR inputs to sensor input.  When I came back to web-admin it remained listed as IR and I was getting new errors about not being able to resolve host name with the gc-100 that I was not getting before I went to the browser interface.

From the descriptions of problems noted back in the archive information it seems you had to be really specific about how you wanted to set baud rates, IR vs Sensor jacks etc before you connected the device to lmce.  I am going to attempt to connect to it again after changing some settings and then leave it alone to see if it stays on my network.

Two alternatives still remain. 

Put the gc-100-12 on my external network and access it like I have done before with samba shares and IP cameras. 

Pay the $35 plus shipping one way to send the unit in for a firmware update.