Going mad with EIBD

[MikeMelga]

Hi.

I've spent the last 3 or 4 days trying to connect my Gira HS to my KNX installation without success.

My KNX IP interface does not support routing (only tunneling) so I am using eibd.
The problem is that I am very new to this and don't know exactly how to use eibd. Searching for online english (or even german) tutorials was a very frustrating task

If anyone can help...I would be thankful.

My setup is this:

Gira HS3 - 192.168.0.22
KNX IP Gateway (Weinzierl BAOS 770) - 192.168.0.20
Computer running EIBD (Windows) - 192.168.0.12

-What parameters should I use to start EIBD?
-What IP should I use in them: the KNX IP interface or the computer running EIBD?
-What IP should I put in the IP Gateway field of the Gira Expert software? The multicast IP or the eibd IP?

Besides the eibnetdiscovery command, how can I test eibd for KNX connection?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Mike

[Moe Hutz]

Hi,

i start my Eibd like this:
eibd -d -i -c -D -S -T -R ipt:IP of the IP Gateway

-What IP should I put in the IP Gateway field of the Gira Expert software? The multicast IP or the eibd IP?

Multicast IP

Moe

[dundee]

Hello Mike,

What parameters should I use to start EIBD?

A good idea for test purpose is skipping the Deamon-Parameter (I believe, this is the '-d' Option).
The result is, that you get all the messages of 'eibd' in the console you started eibd.
This helped me a lot to get the eibd running.

HTH!

[MikeMelga]

Moe Hutz,

Thanks! It worked! I've already tested that option but I thought it was wrong because eibnetsearch (included in eibd) always throws an error.
We'll it's solved! Thanks again!

dundee,

Thanks. All the times I've tried eibd I always started without the daemon option but I didn't get any errors or messages. The only one showing was the warning not to run as root.

Problem solved. Topic dead. Thanks.

[MikeMelga]

Well...it seems I've spoken too early

EIBD is still driving me mad!

Problem 1: I can get it to run on a XP machine. However on a Windows 7 machine I can only start it if I remove the server (-S) parameter. With -S I get this error:

eibd -i -c -S -D -T -R -t256 ipt:192.168.0.20

Layer 7(00000000,513F0DB8) EIBD should not run as root
W00000001: EIBD should not run as root
Layer 2(00BA1240,513F0DB8) Open
Layer 0(00BA1438,513F0DB8) Open
Layer 0(00BA1438,513F0DB8) Openend
Layer 2(00BA1240,513F0DB8) Opened
Layer 3(00BC1880,513F0DB8) Open
Layer 8(00BA1518,513F0DB8) OpenInetSocket 6720
Layer 8(00BA1518,513F0DB8) InetSocket opened
Layer 8(00BE1C68,513F0DB8) Open
Layer 0(00BE1CD8,513F0DB8) Open
Layer 0(00BE1CD8,513F0DB8) Openend
Layer 0(00BE1CD8,513F0DB8) Close
Layer 1(00BA1438,513F0DB8) Send(020): 08 01 C0 A8 00 0A 0E 58 08 01 C0 A8 00 0A
0E 58 04 04 02 00
Layer 0(00BA1438,513F0DB8) Send(026): 06 10 02 05 00 1A 08 01 C0 A8 00 0A 0E 58
08 01 C0 A8 00 0A 0E 58 04 04 02 00
initilization of the EIBnet/IP server failed


Problem 2: When I get eibd to run on the XP machine (with the server parameter) everything seems to be fine. I can use openremote. I can see the various bus telegrams however the Gira HS still doesn't read any knx value (like temperatures, counters) or works with any switch.

How can I check for HS connectivity? I've attached a picture of the HS log. I can't tell from that if it is working or not


Any help would be most welcome. Thanks.

[MikeMelga]

I've spent some more hours on this.

Eibd still doesn't run on Windows 7.

Eibd seems to run on XP. Gira's quad client can switch thing on/off and rise shutters but it can't read their status or any value. Is it possible that it can send telegrams to the bus but is unable to read them??