Brand New IOT Gateway Is Missing Add-Ons and Other Things

Mozilla IoT
#1

First, I need to apologize for any dumb statements as I am a complete noob to Pi, Linux and IOT.

I have been attempting to get Mozilla Gateway running for 3 days now. I’ve flashed a clean version of gateway-0.7.0.img (using balenaEtcher) numerous times so that I can re-try from scratch each time. While I have been able to get the gateway to connect to a Z-Wave switch, there are numerous features that simply aren’t working. These are:

  1. After configuring a wi-fi network and connecting to it, I can get to the http://gateway.local site (but only because I added a manual hosts entry as mDNS isn’t available on my router). However, for the first screen when it prompts to “Choose a secure web address for your gateway” I put in my chosen name (one word) and my email address then click on {Create]. It then shows “processing”, but then hangs there. I’ve waited for 10 minutes and still nothing happens, so finally I click on [Skip]. I’ve tried this with a 3 iterations of a brand-new clean image on my SD card.

  2. Once I skip the initial config, I can get to the main interface and I can scan and add my Z-Wave switch (by using the Z-Stick Gen5 USB dongle). However, when I go to Settings, the following pages don’t work:

    a. Clicking on “Add-ons” > (+) goes to http://gateway.local/settings/addons/discovered, but it’s just a dark blue background with a title of “Discover New Add-ons” and nothing is ever displayed.

    b. When I go to “Updates” it shows “Updates” in the title, but then with just two dark blue boxes with no text in them.

Any input as to why I can’t get this thing to work would be greatly appreciated.

#2

That sounds like it’s having trouble connecting to the internet. Do you have DHCP available in your network?

#3

Martin, DCHP is enabled and the Pi gets an IP address. I did move it into the DMZ so that no ports are being blocked and then I re-flashed the SD card and tried again. This time was almost the same result (can’t “Choose a secure web address for your gateway” and can’t see anything under Add-ons, but now I do see the Update version info. That’s the only change I see by moving it to the DMZ. I can’t think of anything else to try.

#4

BTW, do you know how to install add-on’s via the Pi command line? If so, that might at least help me get over some of my hurdles.

#5

I wonder if there’s anything in the logs (Settings → Developer → View Logs).

To load the available add-ons however can also fail in your client (the browser), since it will try to load https://api.mozilla-iot.org:8443/addons?api=2&arch=linux-arm&version=0.7.0&node=57&python=2.7,3.5 from the client. You can see that if you hit F12 and go to network, then go to the install add-ons screen.

#6

I encountered that “Processing…” (never finishing) bug and reported it and @mrstegeman fixed it. As a workaround, you can just open a new tab and enter the new subdomain url. But first wait a few minutes for the secure cert to be installed. If you don’t see add-ons listed, then either the RPi can’t get to the Internet or the special port it uses to fetch the add-ons is blocked.

#7

May that be related to firewall restrictions, I remember from mozfest that all ports but ttp/s 80/443 were closed, so the addons list was not able to be retrieved and we were stuck to use some adapters… I might have reported this somewhere…