Sparkfun DHD doesn’t accept button input

[bretbenz84]

Although the dhd is detected using /dev/serial/by-id/usb-SparkFun_SparkFun_Pro_Micro_HIDPC-if00 and commands for lights can be sent from the web interface, button input doesn’t appear to work.

[eXistenZ0688]

same issue (on v4 software), except that the webpage also says stargate software not running. the service is sunning on the pi, even teh main site addressboook shows the gate as online, but all input is dead

[jonnerd154]

Although the dhd is detected using /dev/serial/by-id/usb-SparkFun_SparkFun_Pro_Micro_HIDPC-if00 and commands for lights can be sent from the web interface, button input doesn’t appear to work.

Thanks for reporting this! I'm not having this issue with my 3B+ running all the newest stuff (via apt-get updates/upgrades), but lets see what we can do.

@bretbenz84 when this happens, are you running the Gate software as a daemon using sudo systemctl start stargate.service (etc), or directly executing the script?

Separate from that, in the startup logging sequence you should see output that tells you what mode the software thinks it's running as (direct-exec or daemon) Something like Running as Daemon: True.

I'm asking them separately because the keyboard input handling is different in direct-execution vs daemon modes. For everything to work, the software needs do all of the following correctly:

• Detect how it's running (direct-exec or daemon)...this is done via the --daemon flag when called from systemctl
• Select the right method to interact with the keyboard
• Do the interaction correctly

...we just need to find which!