[Solved] Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?

leader21

oha!!! sorry there’s a typo!!! so sorry!!
harry has pointed to…

i corrected all answers , now you have the correct installation.

try again

delete node

sudo apt-get purge nodejs
after that you can check if node is still on your system and do the following steps:
Check where NodeJS is installed: whereis node.
This should output the path of node (for example /usr/local/bin/node).
Remove all binaries and the node_modules folder:
sudo rm -r /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/lib/node_modules
Check that NodeJS is gone: node --version. It should output command not found.

reinstall with
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.6.2/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp
cd /usr/local
sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v4.6.2-linux-armv7l.tar.gz --strip=1

Dodo88

Seems the Installation work correctly, thx! Hey guys you are very very super! You did so much for me, it wasn’t very easy with me ^^

Should i start now with sudo Service pimatic start, install the homeduino plugin again and test? Or should i do something before?

leader21

well, you’re ready to go
do whatever you want to with pimatic.
i would recommend to start the first time with sudo pimatic.js`to watch the debug messages on screen.
the installation of the sqlite database takes some time, so the first start could take some minutes.
if you are able to connect to the gui all should be ok then.

if you have other issues or questions, you know where to ask

Dodo88

Hm… There comes many errors @ sudo pimatic.js…

Wich command delete all files from pimatic? I will de-install and install it complete new, so it Should work after it

leader21

which errors? can you post the debug output here?
there must be some reasons for it

you can delete the complete folder with sudo rm -rf /home/osmc/pimatic/
but as said, maybe it’s just a small issue. some of the messages are no errors nut notifications.
only if there is ERROR on the screen then it’s time to worry

Dodo88

osmc@DodOsmc:~$ sudo pimatic.js
sudo: pimatic.js: command not found
osmc@DodOsmc:~$

I will do it complete new, if there are already probs, i will report. I think i do so much wrong ^^

leader21

no wait!
go to /home/osmc/pimatic/node_modules/pimatic
now do sudo node pimatic.js

this should start pimatic, thats not a problem!!
pimatic has not been linked, you haven’t done the whole installation process right now i guess.
go to the above folder and do sudo npm link

now you can do the last steps to get the autostart working

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

Dodo88

Its the same Problem again with homeduino i confugure it, after reboot process is dead
How can i install ESPimaticRF?

Or can somebody send me a complete image Datei what is correct?

mwittig

@Dodo88 I’ll try to reproduce the case, i.e, I’ll create a test setup using OSMC

Dodo88

Thx thats awesome!

Dodo88

Here’s the error log with sudo pimatic.js

osmc@DodOsmc:~/pimatic-app$ sudo pimatic.js
12:09:35.507 2016-11-17 Thursday
12:09:45.461 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.36
12:09:49.674 [pimatic, ppm] 2.15.9
12:09:49.757 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-cron” (0.8.8)
12:09:50.605 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-mobile-frontend” (0.9.11)
12:09:51.860 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-homeduino” (0.9.11)
12:09:53.424 [pimatic-cron] the time is: Thu Nov 17 2016 12:09:53 GMT+0100 (CET)
12:09:54.813 [pimatic] A uncaught exception occured: Error: spawn /home/osmc/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-homeduino/node_modules/homeduino/bin/vhduino ENOENT
12:09:54.813 [pimatic]> at exports._errnoException (util.js:911:11)
12:09:54.813 [pimatic]> at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:189:32)
12:09:54.813 [pimatic]> at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:355:16)
12:09:54.813 [pimatic]> at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:458:9)
12:09:54.813 [pimatic]> at process._tickCallback (node.js:372:17)
12:09:54.813 [pimatic]> This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
12:09:54.820 [pimatic] exiting…
osmc@DodOsmc:~/pimatic-app$

mwittig

@Dodo88 I was able to reproduce the problem. I digged a little bit deeper into this and found the problem is caused by a non-standard location of ld-linux.so.3. This can be resolved by creating the missing link as follows:

sudo ln -s /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-linux.so.3 /lib/ld-linux.so.3

Then restart pimatic using the service wrapper. i.e., sudo service pimatic restart

thex

Wouldn’t it be better to add /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/to the Path? Maybe other library which will be needed at some point in time will be in the “wrong” location too.

Ideally creat a pull request for OSMC

Just like the bin directory for OSMC is added here:
https://github.com/osmc/osmc/blob/528c5a001d0f6e3b7b3dc70924e74e37b605515d/package/base-files-osmc/files/etc/profile.d/100-add-sbin.sh

mwittig

@thex said in Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?:

Wouldn’t it be better to add /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/to the Path

Tried this, but it does not seem to work. I have tried

export PATH=$PATH:/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/

and

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/

Please advise further if you know how this should be solved. I am not sure how the path for the ELF interpreter is resolved. The environment variables above does not seem to apply. Meanwhile I have created an issue at https://github.com/osmc/osmc/issues/339

Probably related to the matter: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/LibraryPathOverview#ELF_interpreter-1

Harry van der Wolf

@mwittig
pimatic runs as a service. It doesn’t help by exporting something from your own shell.

If you want to do it system wide you could add it to the PATH in /etc/profile, which is the simplest solution but not the right solution.

However, the default location is the /etc/ld.so.conf file. On modern debian systems that points to the folder /etc/ld.so.conf.d.
In there you should find several .conf files.
One of those files on an armhf system should be arm-linux-gnueabihf.conf (so /etc/ld.so.conf.d/arm-linux-gnueabihf.conf and that one should contain

# Multiarch support
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf

I assume that one is missing or incomplete on the OSMC systems.

mwittig

@Harry-van-der-Wolf said in Installing Pimatic 0.9 @OSMC?:

It doesn’t help by exporting something from your own shell.

I have tried this ffrom the command line, i.e.

export PATH=$PATH:/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/
./vhduino

/etc/ld.so.conf

I think this the configuration for link loader. I am not sure if this is the right place.

One of those files on an armhf system should be arm-linux-gnueabihf.conf … I assume that one is missing or incomplete on the OSMC systems.

No. I have checked this. The conetnt is basically the same on Raspbian and OSMC. May be the issue is related to https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/LibraryPathOverview#ELF_interpreter-1

Harry van der Wolf

Yes,it is the link loader run location.
Maybe I’m wrong but according to the documentation
"/etc/ld.so.conf File containing a list of colon, space, tab, newline, or comma-separated directories in which to search for libraries."

If the content is the same it might indeed be what you mention.

mwittig

Fixture for OSMC is on its way (only applies to new OSMC installs). For the time being use the work-around by creating the symbolic link as described earlier. sudo ln -s /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-linux.so.3 /lib/ld-linux.so.3

https://github.com/osmc/osmc/commit/29154daade0c4539fe24b70faeab6f10788b171d

mwittig

Aprt from this we should provide an update build of vhduino to be created with the current toolchain.

https://github.com/pimatic/virtualhomeduino/issues/2

Dodo88

I’m very Thankful Guys!

I Love Pimatic
I Love this Forum
I Love your Helpness for my Problem and more my Bad English! (My German is much better )

Muchas Gracias

Greets Dodo