Toolkit not updating application log & lighting events.

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction because I've reached the point where I think I'm missing something fundamental.

I have a moderate C-Bus installation with:
CNI MkII
Wiser2
OpenHAB/Home Assistant
pktechnology C-Gate docker (currently 3.7.1)

This setup has worked previously however recently I have noticed that Toolkit's Application Log and the lighting group levels have stopped updating, although I still get measurement data from the CMU appearing in the application log.

I was running Toolkit 1.17.7 and C-Gate 3.3.4, thinking it may have been a compatibility/software issue, I have upgraded to Toolkit 1.19.4 and C-Gate 3.7.1 but the behavior is exactly the same.

For example, monitoring the event interface (TCP 20025) shows:

lighting on Matt Room Fluro #sourceunit=54
lighting off Matt Room Fluro #sourceunit=54

and measurement events such as:

measurement data //4BLACKWD/254/228/10/1 ...
continues to stream normally.

The strange part is that Toolkit only appears to display the measurement events. Lighting group changes never appear in the Application Log.

Under Toolkit preferences both Live Levels and Application Log are ticked

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated because I'm running out of things to test.

Thanks!

 

Is the log full.

 

My wild guess is that it's a C-Gate Issue, not a toolkit issue:

• I'm sure your events for lighting should be showing the PROJECT/NETWORK/APPLICATION/ADDRESS the same as you see for the Measurement app.
• If I connect to 20025 on my C-Gate server (Which BTW is the load-change-port), I get the following events for lighting:
  • lighting on //HOMEFN/254/56/45 #sourceunit=118 OID=xxxxxxxx-yyyy-xxxx-zzzz-aaaaaaaaaaa
  • lighting off //HOMEFN/254/56/45 #sourceunit=118 OID=xxxxxxxx-yyyy-xxxx-zzzz-aaaaaaaaaaa
• I don't think you need to worry about the extra OID's from my log- They appear to be configurable in the C-Gate config file.

You haven't mentioned what version you last had it working on, before you ran into the issue starting with C-Gate 3.3.4, however given I am seeing the above, running on cgate 3.5.0 (which notably is in between the 2 versions you tried), I would be starting by checking the C-Gate config file for differences from your original version.

As a slight tangent, I ran into an issue where C-Gate config defaults changed somewhere between C-Gate 2.11 and 3.4.0, which broke the OpenHAB binding integration. Given that you are also running OpenHAB, if you run into any similar issues after your upgrade, the workaround for that issue can be found here (and is now added to the Binding documentation). https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/17969

Cheers

 

Thanks for the suggestions

Bingo, that was the issue:

#### tag-name-output:
# Show tag names in any output from the server
# Default Value: no
# Scope: global
# Effective on: restart
###
tag-name-output=yes

Once I set it to "no" and restarted everything is working again, as to why or how this changed has got me.