[solved]Pimatic v0.9 autostart not functioning

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I am using the lite also, shouldn’t be a problem

@incmve

hmmm i did a fresh install of lite did all the steps again and now it works

Glitch in the matrix

Hello,

my autostart doesnt work too.

Dis is the error message :

sudo service pimatic start
Job for pimatic.service failed. See ‘systemctl status pimatic.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.

systemctl status pimatic.service
● pimatic.service - LSB: pimatic service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pimatic)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fr 2016-08-05 20:43:37 CEST; 42s ago
Process: 19892 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pimatic start (code=exited, status=1/FAIL URE)

Can you help me ?

does pimatic start manually without issues?
sudo node /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js

Yes its start with “sudo node /home//pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js” or with “sudo service pimatic.js start”

but not with “sudo service pimatic start” and not if i start my Pi.

check here
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1902/questions-about-the-release-of-v0-9/26

and a post below too
https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1902/questions-about-the-release-of-v0-9/27

Thx

Problem ist solved !

Hello Guys,

I installed the new pimatic v0.9. It works fine but the Autostart is not working.
I get the message: Job for pimatic.service failed. I read all posts of this topic but i cant fix it.

Can someone tell me in detail what i have to do to solve this problem?

Thanks

Did you call npm link as follows?

cd /home/pi/pimatic-app

cd ./node_modules/pimatic
sudo npm link

Yeah i did… But it didnt solved the problem.
I still have the message: Job for pimatic.service failed.

Any other ideas?

@eStadhouders

Make sure pimatic.js is located in /usr/local/bin as follows

ls -l /usr/local/bin/pimatic.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 38 Apr 28 02:16 /usr/local/bin/pimatic.js -> ../lib/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js

ls -l /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 784 Jul  2 10:27 /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js

Make sure you can execute pimatic.js from the command line as follows

sudo pimatic.js start
sudo pimatic.js status
Process running with pid 596.

Hi,

I have the same problem now. Not able to start as a service.
Have everything done like in the Guide on pimatic.org.

sudo service pimatic start
results in
Job for pimatic.service failed. See 'systemctl status pimatic.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

Still can’t run the autostart pimatic v0.9…
I tried so many things, but nothing of this fixx this problem.

I work a year with pimatic v0.8 without any problems, on v0.9 i have everytime problems with the autostart function.

Is there someone that can help me plz?

Did you update from 0.8?

Maybe you still are using an old node version when you start pimatic via the startup script

Had this one after playing with different node versions.

Try adding something like

node --version > /home/pi/version.txt

And take a look which version is written to the file after the next boot.

I had a complete reinstallation of Jessie Pixel and pimatic including the latest Node version

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

sudo service pimatic start
results in
Job for pimatic.service failed. See 'systemctl status pimatic.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

Then please do a systemctl status pimatic.service and a journalctl -xn
If necessary with sudo if you are doing it as a normal user. These commands will display the error encountered so please share it here.

Ok thats interesting. Now it says my node version is too old.

Okt 29 00:40:25 pi pimatic[2054]: Error: Your node.js version v0.10.29 is too old. Please update node.js to version >=4.0.0 and run pimatic again. See you again.

But node --version > /home/pi/version.txt says its v4.4.5.

Hello,

i had the same problem

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

fixed it.

Thanks to Muhagl

Regards,
Armin

@Partovic :
The guide says to start with sudo apt-get purge nodejs. This will remove the old node version from your debian install. That one “comes first” in your PATH and that is why pimatic tries to use that one and fails.