Trouble with fresh installation

---

Can please one of the core devs react on this!?

@mwittig @ortin @djmvt i am also having a issue to install the .44a version due to i18n-pimatic requiring pimatic 0.9.44-a, which is what i am trying to install…

On a side note and off-topic but, where is @leader21 at? Havnt seen him post for a while.

… well folks, you make me a bit nervous. I jumped relatively fresh on the platform, on basis of a tip of a long years nice working-colleague (I originally planned to start with FHEM), and now I have to fear that Pimatic might run in it’s end of life
I really do not hope so, having just started to implement it here and their in our house, … and convinced my wife on all that new stuff

Please keep it alive

Please use these instructions to get the 0.9.44a version starting:

1. Run this from your broken pimatic installation:

$ rm -r node_modules
$ npm install pimatic@test

This installs pimatic in version 0.9.44-a.

2. Change the version number of pimatic to 0.9.44:

node_modules/pimatic/package.json:

{
  "name": "pimatic",
  "description": "A home automation server and framework for the Raspberry PI running on node.js",
  "author": {
    "name": "Oliver Schneider",
    "email": "oliverschneider89+sweetpi@gmail.com",
    "url": "http://sweetpi.de"
  },
  "main": "pimatic.js",
  "version": "0.9.44",
  "license": "GPL-2.0",
...
}

3. Install test version. of pimamtic-mobile-frontend

$ npm install pimatic-mobile-frontend@test

4. Copy ppm.js from pimatic 0.9.43

$ rm node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js
$ cp /[PATH_TO_PIMATIC_0.9.43]/node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js

This should be enough to get the test version running. Have fun!

@damiyahsi please be so kind to fck off?

@damiyahsi as i said, change the version to 0.9.44 with the trailing “a”. Letters don’t seem to be ok in version numbers.

@michbeck100 that user was another bot…

@michbeck100
I try to install the 0.9.43 version of pimatic but not sure about this one:

$ cp /[PATH_TO_PIMATIC_0.9.43]/node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js

Is pimatic 0.9.43 installed in another (seperate) direcory when following your steps? Not sure what is the correct path to the 0.9.43 version now.

@michbeck100 said in Trouble with fresh installation:

Please use these instructions to get the 0.9.44a version starting:

As I said, these instructions are for installing version 0.9.44a which is the current test version of pimatic.
I would also assume that you have some 0.9.43 version lying around.
So I don’t really understand your question

@michbeck100
Sorry, was messing the the version numbers in my previous post.
I am not sure from which directory I have to run the commands like

$ rm -r node_modules
$ npm install pimatic@test
$ npm install pimatic-mobile-frontend@test

All from /pimatic-app?

Also a fresh install with this test version will not start: /usr/bin/env: ‘node\r’: not found.

@jbs yes, you run all the commands from the pimatic-app directory.

@michbeck100 OK. I feel like a noob now, but: got these warnings during the installation. Not sure if they are relevant, so I post them all.

npm install pimatic@test :

npm install pimatic@test :

And after rm node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js the command cp /pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js gives error like file or folder does not exists. Is /pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js another location then node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js ? After rm node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js I can not find a ppm.js anywhere.

@jbs You need a working installation of pimatic to copy the ppm.js from. The file from the test version that is installed with npm install pimatic@test is not working.

@michbeck100 said in Trouble with fresh installation:

@jbs You need a working installation of pimatic to copy the ppm.js from. The file from the test version that is installed with npm install pimatic@test is not working.

OK, but what if I do not have a working installation (A clean install like https://pimatic.teamemo.com/Guide/Getting-Started does not work on a clean
Raspbian Stretch install atm) ? How to perform a clean install of this test version?

@jbs By working I mean a former installation, sorry about that. So you can just use the release version 0.9.43 that gets installed with npm install pimatic. But you should use a different installation directory, of course .

@michbeck100 said in Trouble with fresh installation:

@jbs By working I mean a former installation, sorry about that. So you can just use the release version 0.9.43 that gets installed with npm install pimatic. But you should use a different installation directory, of course .

Thanks. Just did that but still the error that /usr/bin/env: ‘node\r’: does not found/not exists. Any clue what to do now?

@jbs What does ls -la node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js say? Is ppm.js executable?
And how did you install node? Using nvm?

@michbeck100 said in Trouble with fresh installation:

@jbs What does ls -la node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js say? Is ppm.js executable?

-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 2253 dec 27 15:46 node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js

Installed node folowing this guide (Pi 2 Mode B or Pi 3 Model B ): https://pimatic.teamemo.com/Guide/Getting-Started

Is there anybody who did install the test version successfully using my instructions? I’ve seen this error before, but I can’t remember what the problem was.

@jbs how do you start pimatic?

@michbeck100 said in Trouble with fresh installation:

Is there anybody who did install the test version successfully using my instructions? I’ve seen this error before, but I can’t remember what the problem was.

@jbs how do you start pimatic?

sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js