pimatic wont start without ethernet/internet

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I have a headless raspberry pi, I only get feedback with leds and sound. So no ethernet or display.

But when i have no ethernet cable attached, pimatic won’t start. Also there is nothing in the log file. Once i boot with ethernet cable it works fine.

Does some1 have a clue?

Edit: looked a bit further. The raspberry will always be deplugged from the wall without a real shutdown. Once booted again, linux still thinks pimatic is running? i can’t do service pimatic start. restart works. the log also adds the shutdown commands to the log then.

hey @sweebee! sorry for the late repl. i have no clue.
is this still up to date or have you been able to solve it?

havent solved it yet, but it seems randomly, sometimes it works, sometimes not. can’t figure out what it is.

@sweebee please post your fstab… Sudo nano /etc/fstab

I am not sure if you want to know the cause or a fix so i will asume you want a fix.

Please try my method of booting pimatic.

sudo nano /home/pi/pimatic-app/check.sh

Paste following code:

#!/bin/bash
SERVICE=pimatic
if P=$(pgrep $SERVICE)
then
    echo "$SERVICE is running, PID is $P"
else
    echo "$SERVICE is not running"
    node /usr/local/bin/pimatic.js start
fi                                                          

ctrl + x, y, enter

This will check if pimatic is running, if not, start it by pimatic.js(cant edit config from gui if daemonized)

Make it executable:
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/pimatic-app/check.sh

Add it to your boot file:
sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Before exit 0 add /home/pi/pimatic-app/check.sh

So it looks like this:

Blablabla
Blablabla
fi
/home/pi/pimatic-app/check.sh
exit 0

Type reboot and let me know if this worked.