Socket having to close and reopen



  • Hello,

    I have a Raspberry pie connected to 4 Lopy's over wifi, and a java tcp server program running on the rpi with sockets (with different port) for each lopy.

    My problem is that I have to close the connection after sending a bytearray, and the repon it again when I need to send the next bytearray. The time it takes for it to reconnect to the socket is not really feasible for the system.
    Is it supposed to work like this with sockets, or am I doing something wrong?

    The server code is here: https://github.com/ITU-PerCom-2017/10.-Coop-Predictive-Equipment-Maintenance/blob/master/java/src/TCPServer.java

    And the lopy code is here:

    
    from network import Bluetooth
    from network import WLAN
    import socket
    #from network import socket
    import pycom
    import time
    import machine
    import binascii
    from machine import Timer
    pycom.heartbeat(False)
    pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
    
    lopyID = 4 # set this unique to each lopy
    print('started! lopy id: ', lopyID)
    #for breaking out of while(True) loops. Removed when program is finished
    chrono = Timer.Chrono() #
    chrono.start()
    
    wlan = WLAN(mode=WLAN.STA)
    nets = wlan.scan()
    
    
    
    pycom.rgbled(0x7f0770)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
    time.sleep(1)
    pycom.rgbled(0x7f0770)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
    time.sleep(1)
    pycom.rgbled(0x7f0770)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
    time.sleep(1)
    pycom.rgbled(0x7f0770)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
    time.sleep(1)
    pycom.rgbled(0x7f0000) # red
    #time.sleep(0.5)
    #pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
    #time.sleep(1)
    
    pycom.rgbled(0x7f0000)
    for net in nets: # connect to rpi wifi
         if net.ssid == 'cooppifi':
             print('rpi found!')
             wlan.connect(net.ssid, auth=(net.sec, 'cooppifi2017'), timeout=4000)
             for _ in range(20):
                 time.sleep(1)
                 if wlan.isconnected():
                     print("connected to rpi")
                     break
                 print('.', end='')
             else:
                 print("could not connect to wifi, resetting lopy...")
                 machine.reset()
    
    bluetooth = Bluetooth()
    bluetooth.start_scan(-1)
    adv = None # bluetooth advertisementa
    
    
    time.sleep(2)
    
    def sendToSocket(beaconID, rssi):
        RSSIpositive = rssi * -1
        #newData = beaconID + lopyID + RSSIpositive
        #newData = 255
        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        s.connect(socket.getaddrinfo('10.42.0.1', 6792)[0][-1])
        pycom.rgbled(0x007f00)
        time.sleep(0.5)
        pycom.rgbled(0x000000) # turn off led
        time.sleep(0.5)
        print('.')
        data = bytearray()
        #data.append(newData)
        data.append(lopyID)
        data.append(beaconID)
        data.append(RSSIpositive)
        print("sending to socket, binary: ", data, data[0])
        #conv = binascii.hexlify(data)
        #print(conv, encoding='utf8')
        s.send(data)
        s.close()
    
    # b'f3bc0b6feb4c' # raw: b'\xf3\xbc\x0bo\xebL'
    # b'edbed48d0b87' # raw: b'\xed\xbe\xd4\x8d\x0b\x87
    # b'c7c383eeaaa4' # raw?
    # b'cd87e6a38dc2' # raw?
    
    pycom.rgbled(0x007f00) # green
    while True:
    
        adv = bluetooth.get_adv()
    
        if adv != None:
            #print('!')
            #print('!!')
            macRaw = adv[0] # binary mac address
    
            macReal = binascii.hexlify(macRaw) # convert to hexadecimal
            if macReal == b'f3bc0b6feb4c':
                print('beacon A rssi: ', adv[3]) # adv[3] is rssi
                sendToSocket(beaconID = 1, rssi = adv[3])
            elif macReal == b'edbed48d0b87':
                print('beacon B rssi: ', adv[3])
                sendToSocket(beaconID = 2, rssi = adv[3])
            elif macReal == b'c7c383eeaaa4':
                print('beacon C rssi: ', adv[3])
                sendToSocket(beaconID = 3, rssi = adv[3])
            elif macReal == b'cd87e6a38dc2':
                print('beacon D rssi: ', adv[3])
                sendToSocket(beaconID = 4, rssi = adv[3]) # adv[3]
        #time.sleep(1)
    
        #lap = chrono.read() # for breaking out of loop (remove this part when program is finished)
        #if lap > 30:
        #    print("breaking")
        #    bluetooth.stop_scan()
        #    break
    ```


  • @soren said in Socket having to close and reopen:
    You close socket on server side then you must close it also on client side(it is closed already but..)
    Question is what problem do you have with the code?
    Is it working, if yes, do you ask if there is some better way?



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