[Solved] Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?

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Hi,
can anybody give me a Tutorial with OSMC?
i want to have OSMC as Main-System, and pimatic in the background for my home.
Can i use the Tutorial for raspbian 1:1?

German:
Hi,
kann mir jemand eine Anleitung für OSMC geben?
Ich hätte gerne das OSMC als Hauptsystem (Media-Center) und das Pimatic halt als Hintergrund, kann ja schließlich das pimatic per handy/webgui steuern/konfigurieren.
Kann ich das Install-Tutorial 1:1 übernehmen? oder muss ich bei der Installation irgendwas beachten?

Thanks so long

Dodo

My last setup was the same.
I have install pimatic at osmc. But i think you must install some of libs for the installation.
But, give it a try.

You can use the same tutorials. there are no different installation ways.

sure you can. osmc is based on debian, therefore basically nothig else then a raspbian system.you need to insatll the build-essentials (for the gcc libraries), git and npm / node.
but that’s allready included in the installation process steps.

if you face any problems, just ask here in the thread.
would appreciate if you can give us feedback about your findings on the installation process on osmc.
cheers!

So, at first i make sudo apt-get update/Upgrade.
Then i install the essentials, now it stocks.
When i want to install the pimatic framework, the following error come:

root@osmc:~# sudo npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
sudo: npm: command not found

Without “sudo su” theres the same.
Any idea?

sudo apt-get install npm

It is indeed missing from the 0.9 Guide
It could be added to the sudo apt-get install build-essential git section like sudo apt-get install build-essential git npm

Thx, it worx:)

But next Problem:
When i want to start the Server

osmc@osmc:~$ cd pimatic-app
osmc@osmc:~/pimatic-app$ sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
osmc@osmc:~/pimatic-app$

Any idea?
Few weeks ago i installed it with de same install tutorial (getting started) on raspbian and it worx,

seems like you did not install node.
can you check with whereis node and sudo node -v and post the output?

Hm seems so. That’s so embarassing ^^ i’m so sorry. I hope it’s done soon ^^`

no problem, sometimes it’s hard to see the wood for the trees

ok it run.

But i have the next problem:
when i download and activate some plugins (homeduino, ping, sysinfo, sunrise), every plugin is only “active” but not loaded. when i click on restart, pimatic disconnect, but didn’t reconnect.
When i see in Putty “sudo pimatic.js status” i get the error message:

“Pidfile exists, but process is dead”

any idea? can i repair without formatting and installing the sd-card??

can you pls post the pimatic-daemon.log or start pimatic with sudo pimatic.js to get the debug output on the console screen.
need more information on that.

With sudo pimatic.js :

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo pimatic.js
08:18:49.204 2016-11-15 Tuesday
08:18:57.397 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.36
08:19:01.159 [pimatic, ppm] 2.15.9
08:19:01.235 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-cron” (0.8.8)
08:19:02.049 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-mobile-frontend” (0.9.11)
08:19:03.272 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-homeduino” (0.9.11)
08:19:04.810 [pimatic-cron] the time is: Tue Nov 15 2016 08:19:04 GMT+0100 (CET)
08:19:06.169 [pimatic] A uncaught exception occured: Error: spawn /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino ENOENT
08:19:06.169 [pimatic]> at exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
08:19:06.169 [pimatic]> at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
08:19:06.169 [pimatic]> at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
08:19:06.169 [pimatic]> at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)
08:19:06.169 [pimatic]> at process._tickCallback (node.js:356:17)
08:19:06.169 [pimatic]> This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
08:19:06.176 [pimatic] exiting…
osmc@osmc:~$

already tried to delete the homeduino folder?
sudo rm -rf /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino
then start with sudo pimatic.js again and see what happens

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo pimatic.js
11:30:50.357 2016-11-15 Tuesday
11:30:58.070 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.36
11:31:00.619 [pimatic] Startup error: Error: PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL; - SQLITE_BUSY: database is locked
11:31:00.619 [pimatic]> at Error (native)
11:31:00.633 [pimatic] exiting…

i installed homeduino again, it’s the same again

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo pimatic.js
11:45:19.331 2016-11-15 Tuesday
11:45:26.914 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.36
11:45:30.382 [pimatic, ppm] 2.15.9
11:45:30.451 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-cron” (0.8.8)
11:45:31.218 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-mobile-frontend” (0.9.11)
11:45:32.383 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-homeduino” (0.9.11)
11:45:33.901 [pimatic-cron] the time is: Tue Nov 15 2016 11:45:33 GMT+0100 (CET)
11:45:35.297 [pimatic] A uncaught exception occured: Error: spawn /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino ENOENT
11:45:35.297 [pimatic]> at exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
11:45:35.297 [pimatic]> at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
11:45:35.297 [pimatic]> at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
11:45:35.297 [pimatic]> at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)
11:45:35.297 [pimatic]> at process._tickCallback (node.js:356:17)
11:45:35.297 [pimatic]> This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
11:45:35.306 [pimatic] exiting…
osmc@osmc:~$

@Dodo88 said in Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?:

Startup error: Error: PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL; - SQLITE_BUSY: database is locked

Looks like pimatic is already running.
ps -ealf | grep node

yeah you’re right @mwittig , i stopped pimatic and it was away

but the problem with homeduino is still there. i de-installed it (sudo rm -rf /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino), and all was okay, then i installed homeduino again, make an reboot and saw the same problem after reboot

Next time when you request the status use sudo service pimatic status
It gives way more information. Probably not all readable to you, but it helps to find errors.

If you run it often enough you can also see the sub-processes pimatic starts every time a device or a rule does an execute ....
Edit: like for example:

   CGroup: /system.slice/pimatic.service
           ├─18688 /bin/sh -c sudo arp-scan --localnet | grep -iq 38:2D:D1:B5:40:C4 && echo 1 || echo 0
           ├─18689 sudo arp-scan --localnet
           ├─18690 grep -iq 38:2D:D1:B5:40:C4
           ├─18694 arp-scan --localnet
           ├─18695 /bin/sh -c curl --silent --data 'cmd=status,gpio,15' http://192.168.144.241/control | grep state | awk {print $2}
           ├─18696 curl --silent --data cmd=status,gpio,15 http://192.168.144.241/control
           ├─18697 grep state
           ├─18698 awk {print $2}

@Dodo88 Just to be sure check if the file exists:

sudo ls -l /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino

and check the version

grep version /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/package.json

Can you please also post the plugin configuration you have for homeduino?

@mwittig
That’s the result

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo ls -l /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino
-rwxr-xr-x 1 osmc osmc 88883 May 23 20:54 /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino
osmc@osmc:~$ grep version /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/package.json
"version": “0.0.63”,
osmc@osmc:~$