problems during pimatic installation

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Hi,

the last days i tried to install pimatic @my PI and i had a lot of problems with it. i followed a lot of guids and nothing really worked.

During the installation i had a couple of erros.

at least i follow this guide but still the same errors:

http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/192/1-setup-pimatic-from-scratch

root@PI-MFS:/home/pi# npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pimatic
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pimatic
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pimatic
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/connect-timeout
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cross-spawn
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/logrotate-stream
npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git Cloning into bare repository ‘/root/.npm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-sweetpi-jsonlint-git-5d744989’…
npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git/’: gnutls_handshake() failed: Error in the pull function.
npm ERR! Error: Command failed: Cloning into bare repository ‘/root/.npm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-sweetpi-jsonlint-git-5d744989’…
npm ERR! fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git/’: gnutls_handshake() failed: Error in the pull function.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
npm ERR! at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
npm ERR! at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:948:11)
npm ERR! at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
npm ERR! at Pipe.close (net.js:466:12)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Linux 4.1.13+
npm ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “pimatic” “–prefix” “pimatic-app” "–production"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! code 128
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/connect-timeout
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cross-spawn
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/logrotate-stream
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/connect-timeout
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cross-spawn
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/logrotate-stream
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Can someone help me to solve this problem`!?

Thanks

@Michael-Faske

have you also tried the Pimatic Installer: https://github.com/leader21/pimatic-installer ? It makes the installation a lot easier.

Have you delete the pimatic-app folder between your installations? If not, delete it with all contents and try again.

@thost96 said:

@Michael-Faske

have you also tried the Pimatic Installer: https://github.com/leader21/pimatic-installer ? It makes the installation a lot easier.

Have you delete the pimatic-app folder between your installations? If not, delete it with all contents and try again.

Thanks for your reply… now it seems its working. i deleted the “pimatic-app” folder and tried it again with the pimatic installer. installation was without any error.

Thanks for using the installer

if the installer for some reason is not an option (like forgetting about it) then making sure you have nodejs0.10 and npm@latest-2.

as root on debian/ubuntu:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.10 | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs
and
npm install npm@latest-2

may help.

Hi there,

I am facing the same issues as Michael (see above). Removing “pimatic-app” folder before new install doesn’t help as well as using the installer which returns the following error message:
git clone https://github.com/leader21/pimatic-installer.git
Cloning into ‘pimatic-installer’…
error: Failed connect to github.com:443; No route to host while accessing https://github.com/leader21/pimatic-installer.git/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed

Any help or idea is appreciated…

Thanks,
Wolfgang

hey wolfgang! could you give us some more information what linux distribution are you using and on which system pi/pc/mac/other? having a fresh jessie installed?
you can copy the installer script from github or pull a zipfile either.

do you have a firewall? maybe try to switch it off during installation. just a suggestion.

hi - thanks for quick reply. good questions so… I am talking here about a raspberry with a max2play image based on debian. It is a client as part of a multi-room music set up (squeezebox server based) for one of my sons… interestingly the same set up is already running on a raspberry for my other son where I installed just recently Pimatic successfully (as well as a third running instance in living room and a fourth in bedroom). So we can exclude firewall issues…
I downloaded the installer which installed something… need to test on weekend.
Let you know…

so… running the install… failed. pimatic.log says:

Pimatic Homeautomation System Installer
[…]
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm ERR! not found: git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed using git.
npm ERR! This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.
npm ERR! Please check if you have git installed and in your PATH.

npm ERR! System Linux 4.1.13+
npm ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “pimatic” “–prefix” “pimatic-app” "–production"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! code ENOGIT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
cp: Aufruf von stat für „./node_modules/pimatic/config_default.json“ nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
install: Zeile 96: cd: ./node_modules/pimatic: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, open '/home/pi/package.json’
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Linux 4.1.13+
npm ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” "link"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi/pimatic-app
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! path /home/pi/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/pimatic-app/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
–2016-02-01 12:36:40-- https://raw.github.com/pimatic/pimatic/master/install/pimatic-init-d
Auflösen des Hostnamen »raw.github.com (raw.github.com)«… 185.31.19.133
Verbindungsaufbau zu raw.github.com (raw.github.com)|185.31.19.133|:443… verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort… 301 Moved Permanently
Platz: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimatic/pimatic/master/install/pimatic-init-d[folge]
–2016-02-01 12:36:48-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimatic/pimatic/master/install/pimatic-init-d
Auflösen des Hostnamen »raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)«… 185.31.18.133
Verbindungsaufbau zu raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.31.18.133|:443… verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort… 200 OK
Länge: 979 [text/plain]
In »»pimatic-init-d«« speichern.

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2016-02-01 12:36:54 (2,31 MB/s) - »»pimatic-init-d«« gespeichert [979/979]

update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
Mo 1. Feb 12:28:40 CET 2016 Done! Pimatic has been installed! Keep in mind that the first start of Pimatic takes some time!
Mo 1. Feb 12:28:40 CET 2016 Set admin password done.

Mo 1. Feb 14:21:03 CET 2016 Pimatic already exists. Nothing to install.
Mo 1. Feb 14:28:04 CET 2016 Pimatic already exists. Nothing to install.

my path info:
echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/git:/usr/bin/X11/git:/usr/share/man/man1/git

strange. guess git is propperly installed?

I used: sudo apt-get install git. (removed it and installed it 5 mins ago…)
whereis git: git: /usr/bin/git /usr/bin/X11/git /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz

don’t know if this says it all…

Do you run the install without sudo?
Maybe path settings are different when using sudo?

install always with sudo

tried it again with a new installation (max2play based on wheezy, and even a new sd card), failed again. only interesting to see the performance difference between class 4 and 10 cards…
As also the cloning from one of the others PIs card failed, my second son will have to live without knowing temperature in his room… hopefully he will forgive me when he’s older

Did you install git on your system? I think this is necessary. With raspbian it comes pre-installed.

yes, I did.
Current famous last words using “npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production”:

npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/logrotate-stream
npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git Cloning into bare repository ‘/root/.npm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-sweetpi-jsonlint-git-5d744989’…
npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git
npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git error: Failed connect to github.com:443; No route to host while accessing https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git/info/refs
npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git fatal: HTTP request failed
npm ERR! Error: Command failed: error: Failed connect to github.com:443; No route to host while accessing https://github.com/sweetpi/jsonlint.git/info/refs
npm ERR! fatal: HTTP request failed
npm ERR!
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
npm ERR! at maybeClose (child_process.js:735:16)
npm ERR! at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:948:11)
npm ERR! at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
npm ERR! at Pipe.close (net.js:466:12)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Linux 4.1.13+
npm ERR! command “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “pimatic” “–prefix” “pimatic-app” "–production"
npm ERR! cwd /home/pi
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! code 128
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Try to run the installation with “sudo” or as root.

@Wolf another question: ping works without problems? like

ping github.com

for me it looks like a problem with the network configuration, because it says that there is no route to host.

@techbarney : you are right! I didn’t follow that route as that raspberry has connection to network… in principle. Ping to heise.de works (others as well)
ping heise.de
PING heise.de (193.99.144.80) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from redirector.heise.de (193.99.144.80): icmp_req=1 ttl=246 time=12.5 ms
but:
ping github.com
PING github.com (192.30.252.122) 56(84) bytes of data.
From JojoPlayer.local (192.168.0.103) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

This means: only github isn’t reachable. Is it blacklisted on that raspberry? It works from others in the same network. Interesting…