Troubles after updating pimatic

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I use pimatic for controlling the heating of my flat and haven’t used it since last winter. Now I started it again and tried to update pimatic from the GUI resulting in a crashed pimatic with weird error messages.
It took me some hours to find and solve the problem: Pimatic wanted to install sqlite3, but I use the quite old Raspbian wheezy and there was no c++11 compiler installed. With a manual update to g++4.9 this works now.
Now I got pimatic to run manually with sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js and daemonized with sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js start without any errors in the logfiles.

But I’m still struggling with the autostart. I downloaded the init.d script but always get this error:

sudo service pimatic start

util.js:511
  ctor.prototype = Object.create(superCtor.prototype, {
                                          ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'prototype' of undefined
    at Object.exports.inherits (util.js:511:43)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/logrotate-stream/index.js:9:6)
    at Module._compile (module.js:446:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:464:10)
    at Module.load (/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js:45:36)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:359:17)
    at require (module.js:375:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/lib/daemon.coffee:30:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:446:26)
    at Object.compile (/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/coffee-cache.js:169:17)
    at Module.load (/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js:45:36)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:359:17)
    at require (module.js:375:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js:5:12)
    at Module._compile (module.js:446:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:464:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:353:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12)
    at Array.Module.runMain [as 0] (module.js:484:10)
    at EventEmitter.startup.processNextTick.process._tickCallback (node.js:190:39)

Installed versions of npm and node.js:

npm -v
3.10.8
node -v
v6.6.0

11:48:27.741 2016-10-09 Sunday
11:48:56.701 [pimatic] info: Starting pimatic version 0.9.34
11:49:10.869 [pimatic, ppm] info: 2.15.6
11:49:11.133 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-cron" (0.8.8)
11:49:15.096 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-mobile-frontend" (0.9.11)
11:49:19.606 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-ping" (0.9.5)
11:49:19.896 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-gpio" (0.8.15)
11:49:20.239 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-shell-execute" (0.9.7)
11:49:20.450 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-sysinfo" (0.9.4)
11:49:21.490 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-sunrise" (0.8.7)
11:49:21.689 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-openweather" (0.9.1)
11:49:22.070 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-ds18b20" (0.8.9)

I ran sudo npm install pimatic in /home/pimatic-app/, what should have had installed all dependencies as well.
How can I fix this, do I have to update some packages manually?

@christophfroehlich said in Troubles after updating pimatic:

I ran sudo npm install pimatic in /home/pimatic-app/, what should have had installed all dependencies as well.
How can I fix this, do I have to update some packages manually?

Please downgrade to the LTS version of nodejs (v4.6.0 at the time of writing) which is the version required for pimatic 0.9 as stated in the installation guide. Nodejs LTS contains npm version 2 which pimatic currently relies on. Npm version 3 ist currently not supported with pimatic.

I am sorry for all the troubles you have with the upgrade to pimatic 0.9. I think the installation section needs to be further detailed to avoid pitfalls, in particual if an upgrade is made on systems using older raspian distributions.

Damn, I could have read that before However, there is no exact hint for not installing a newer one …

You need to install or update to the LTS version of Node.js (version 4.4.5 at the time of writing). Earlier versions of Node.js aren’t supported.

I downgraded now, where n lts did the job for me.

node -v
v4.6.0
npm -v
2.15.9

but now i cannot even start pimatic manually

Knex: run
$ npm install sqlite3 --save
Error: Cannot find module '/home/pimatic-app/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v46-linux-arm/node_sqlite3.node'

I reinstall pimatic now, but this will take some time

sudo rm -rf node_modules
sudo npm cache clean
sudo npm install pimatic --production

You don’t have to apologize for my troubles It’s my fault using an old distribution, but after my last upgrade none of the temperature sensors worked any more and thus, I won’t upgrade this hardware any more.

After the reinstall of pimatic, the error with util.js on sudo service pimatic start persists.

I have two other issues. Maybe they are related?

1. what does this warning mean?

17:23:44.444 [pimatic] New device "Switch Heating On"...
17:23:44.461 [pimatic] The device type GpioSwitch does not implement a destroy function

   {
      "id": "SwitchHeatingOn",
      "class": "GpioSwitch",
      "name": "Switch Heating On",
      "gpio": 18,
      "xOnLabel": "On",
      "xOffLabel": "Off",
      "defaultState": false
    },

2. If I connect with my mobile phone, it is filling the logs with

17:27:56.638 [pimatic] Error on incoming http request to /assets/base-02ececcae3dc82230302f210c6e52abb.js: Cannot read property 'set' of undefined
17:27:56.866 [pimatic] Error on incoming http request to /assets/index-a68d6c28bb50c35f70c91a7a81f9faf6.js: Cannot read property 'set' of undefined

or

17:48:29.646 [pimatic] error: Could not find action "getGuiSetttings".

A reinstall (again) of the mobile-frontend plugin didn’t change anything.

@christophfroehlich How did you install plugins? My advice to install plugins via the mobile frontend instead of using the command line. If packages are installed from the command line you may have picked up the wrong versions in some cases as some package packages for 0.9 are still tagged as beingh “beta”

those plugins had been installed automatically with npm install pimatic --production according to my config.json file.
To reinstall the frontend plugin I deleted the folder in in node_modules of my pimatic installation and restarted pimatic, what installed the frontend again.

The plugin section of my config file:

  "plugins": [
    {
      "plugin": "cron"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "mobile-frontend",
      "customTitle": "Pimatic Homeautomation"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "ping"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "gpio"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "shell-execute"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "sysinfo"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "sunrise",
      "latitude": 48.195,
      "longitude": 16.369
    },
    {
      "plugin": "openweather",
      "apiKey": "blablub",
      "debug": false
    },
    {
      "plugin": "ds18b20"
    }
  ],