[solved]Pimatic v0.9 autostart not functioning

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@Harry-van-der-Wolf @Mondkind Thanks to you 2. This solved the issue

thex

Great that it is working now. The thing about version txt is that you have to check it right after starting the pi. As soon as you try to start out of the console once via the service it will be overwritten by the node version from the console environment

eStadhouders

This is the error i get… Can anyone help me with this?

Harry van der Wolf

Did you follow the guide?

“At the end” it mentions
Autostarting:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimatic/pimatic/v0.9.x/install/pimatic-init-d
sudo cp pimatic-init-d /etc/init.d/pimatic
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/pimatic
sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/pimatic
sudo update-rc.d pimatic defaults

Did you do that? The error means it can’t find the pimatic script inside /etc/init.d

eStadhouders

Yeah i follow the guide… I installed pimatic 0.8, 5/6 times… So i know how it works. But i can’t fix this problem…

This is the error when i put: systemctl status pimatic.service

Harry van der Wolf

@eStadhouders said in [solved]Pimatic v0.9 autostart not functioning:

Yeah i follow the guide… I installed pimatic 0.8, 5/6 times… So i know how it works. But i can’t fix this problem…

You installed 0.8??
That is no longer supported. You should install 0.9. Most probably that is your issue.

eStadhouders

no… i installed 0.9

Harry van der Wolf

Check if /usr/local/bin/node exists and check if /usr/local/bin/pimatic.js exists.

eStadhouders

yeah the both maps exists…

Harry van der Wolf

It shouldn’t be maps.
node is an executable file. The pimatic.js is a symbolic link (soft link). Also npm should be there as symbolic link.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 22261036 May 24 19:30 node
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000       38 May 24 19:30 npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       38 Oct 29 14:08 pimatic.js -> ../lib/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js

eStadhouders

After long search I found a fix. Comment out the line starting with PATH, in the file /etc/init.d/pimatic (by adding # before the line)

Thank you all for the help though.

Harry van der Wolf

@eStadhouders said in [solved]Pimatic v0.9 autostart not functioning:

Comment out the line starting with PATH, in the file /etc/init.d/pimatic (by adding # before the line)

That makes no sense at all.
The PATH statement is probably PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/node/bin

Please go to the command prompt and do a sudo find / -name pimatic.js and please do a sudo sh -c 'find / -type f -name node | grep -v proc'
(It could be that in case you have some mapped CIFS/SMB, AFP or NFS shares, you get a permission error but these folders/files are not in the path anyway.)

There must be “residual trash” somewhere on your system.

EDIT:
If you have a clean system you will get something like:

sudo find / -name pimatic.js
/usr/local/bin/pimatic.js
/home/<username>/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
/home/<username>/pimatic-app/node_modules/.bin/pimatic.js

The <username> is of course your chosen username.

And the other command simply:

sudo sh -c  'find / -type f -name node | grep -v proc'
find: /usr/local/bin/node

vanturenhout

Well… after an update from 0.9.33 to 0.9.35 my pimatic doesn’t start at all anymore

sudo find / -name pimatic.js

does not return anything anymore

sudo service pimatic start

returns
Job for pimatic.service failed. See 'systemctl status pimatic.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

systemctl status pimatic.service

gives:

● pimatic.service - LSB: pimatic service Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pimatic) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-11-09 12:28:15 CET; 55s ago Process: 2858 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pimatic start (code=exited, status=127)

Harry van der Wolf

(From the installation)
Please try from your pimatic folder

cd /home/<username>/pimatic
cd ./node_modules/pimatic
sudo npm link

And if that doesn’t work, redo the “automatic start” part

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimatic/pimatic/v0.9.x/install/pimatic-init-d
sudo cp pimatic-init-d /etc/init.d/pimatic
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/pimatic
sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/pimatic
sudo update-rc.d pimatic defaults

vanturenhout

@Harry-van-der-Wolf

sudo npm link returns:

`pi@Pimatic:~/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic $ sudo npm link
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.21+
npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” "link"
npm ERR! node v4.4.5
npm ERR! npm v2.15.5
npm ERR! path /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/package.json’
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/npm-debug.log`

Harry van der Wolf

What if you do an ls -l /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/?
Is package.json in that folder? who is owner? what are the file rights?

And what do you so if you do a cat /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/package.json | wc -l

The wc -l will count the lines in that file. Mine has 150. Yours should be (almost) identical.

vanturenhout

seems package.json is missing

pi@Pimatic:~/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic $ ls -l /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/ total 8 drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Nov 9 09:15 node_modules -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 979 Nov 9 13:24 pimatic-init-d

pi@Pimatic:~/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic $ cat /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/package.json | wc -l cat: /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/package.json: No such file or directory 0

Harry van der Wolf

It seems that almost everything is missingfrom the pimatic module

from your your /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules folder (re)do a sudo npm install pimatic

vanturenhout

@Harry-van-der-Wolf
Running now…might take a while

`pi@Pimatic:~/pimatic-app/node_modules $ sudo npm install pimatic
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.21+
npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” "pimatic"
npm ERR! node v4.4.5
npm ERR! npm v2.15.5
npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package pimatic@0.9.35 does not satisfy its siblings’ peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-angular-material-frontend@0.3.1 wants pimatic@>=0.8.31
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-calendar@0.8.0 wants pimatic@0.8.*
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-cron@0.8.8 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-ds18b20@0.8.9 wants pimatic@=>0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-gpio@0.8.15 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-homeduino@0.9.11 wants pimatic@0.9.*
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-ipcamera@1.1.1 wants pimatic@0.8.*
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-kodi@0.1.6 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-location@0.2.4 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-log-reader@0.9.0 wants pimatic@>=0.9.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-mail@0.8.6 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-mobile-frontend@0.9.11 wants pimatic@0.9.*
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-openweather@0.8.23 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-ping@0.9.5 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-pushbullet@0.9.0 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-shell-execute@0.9.7 wants pimatic@0.9.*
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-sunrise@0.8.7 wants pimatic@>=0.8.0 <1.0.0
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer pimatic-sysinfo@0.9.4 wants pimatic@0.9.*

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/npm-debug.log`

Harry van der Wolf

Now the real error shows up. You are trying to update an 0.8 version to 0.9. That does not work.

So as it turns out you now have a corrupted, mixed 0.8/0.9 install.

From your /home/pi folder do a mv pimatic-app pimatic-app-0.8 (if necessary with sudo)

Then do a clean install as described in the guide
When finished do not start pimatic but copy your old config.json and pimatic-database.sqlite to you new install.

So:

cd /home/pi
cp pimatic-app-0.8/config.json pimatic-app
cp pimatic-app-0.8/pimatic-database.sqlite  pimatic-app

then start pimatic again