[Solved] Pimatic init.d service stopped working

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Hello everyone,

maybe there is an expert here on the subject. As I installed the latest updates for pimatic today and then rebooted, my pimatic did not start anymore. So I tried to reinstall everything so it would work again maybe. For some reason though, when I try to call the init.d script using sudo service pimatic start, it does not work, dies and tells me I need to update my node version. Though running node -v outputs v4.4.5.

Also, running the pimatic.js script on it’s own just works fine.

The error message of the init.d script is:

● pimatic.service - LSB: pimatic service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pimatic)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mo 2016-11-14 23:40:35 CET; 15min ago
  Process: 5418 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pimatic start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 14 23:40:35 raspberrypi pimatic[5418]: Error: Your node.js version v0.10.29 is too old. Please update node.js to version >=4.0.0 and run pimatic again...you again.
Nov 14 23:40:35 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pimatic.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Nov 14 23:40:35 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: pimatic service.
Nov 14 23:40:35 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit pimatic.service entered failed state

Any ideas or suggestions?

strange.
try

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.

then reinstall node 4 again :
cd
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

Before doing @leader21 commands, you might first do an sudo apt-get purge nodejs.
it could very well be that your debian has the standard distribution version installed.

@leader21 @Harry-van-der-Wolf Thank you guys. It did work after executing those commands. I guess some of the “old” nodejs for pimatic v0.8 was still around somewhere.
Luckily, all over now!