[solved] Errors when starting Pimatic after fresh install

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Hi all,

I started a thread last week because I could not read any signals from my homematic with pimatic but with the serial monitor I could.

Today I reinstalled from scratch: raspbian then apt-get update and upgrade.
Then I followed the guide to install pimatic.
Again, everything worked but homematic.

I then went to autostart pimatic as described in the guide and since then I get the following error (with any starting method):

pi@raspberrypi:~/pimatic-app $ sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
14:07:37.995 2016-11-22 Tuesday
14:07:42.596 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.37
14:07:42.768 [pimatic] settings.debug is true, showing debug output for pimatic core.
14:07:44.447 [pimatic, ppm] 2.15.11
14:07:44.486 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-cron" (0.8.8)
14:07:44.911 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-mobile-frontend" (0.9.11)
14:07:45.523 [pimatic] Loading plugin: "pimatic-homeduino" (0.9.11)
14:07:46.128 [pimatic-cron] the time is: Tue Nov 22 2016 14:07:46 GMT+0000 (UTC)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic] Startup error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token /
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Module._compile (module.js:373:25)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Object.compile (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/coffee-cache.js:169:17)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Module.load (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/node_modules/nap/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/register.js:45:36)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at DeviceManager.initDevices (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/lib/devices.coffee:1600:25)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/lib/framework.coffee:921:34
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at tryCatcher (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:510:31)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Promise._settlePromise (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:567:18)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:612:10)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Promise._settlePromises (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:691:18)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Async._drainQueue (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:138:16)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Async._drainQueues (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:148:10)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
14:07:46.731 [pimatic]>    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:383:17)
14:07:46.735 [pimatic] exiting...

I am no programmer and don’t know node.js…
Any help?

Thanks
Dom

Probably this is an error in your config.json.
It mentions Startup error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token /
Search for that / in your config.json

Thanks for the tip.
I restored the original config from the template and keep getting the error…

Are you willing to share your config.json?
The point is that your plugins are loaded and pimatic continues with activating/using those plugins.
It starts with 14:07:46.128 [pimatic-cron] the time is: Tue Nov 22 2016 14:07:46 GMT+0000 (UTC)
So either the mobile frontend, which doesn’t report anything, or the homeduino might break your config.

I still think it is an error in your config.json, perhaps even in that original one.
The homeduino contains for example something like
"serialDevice": "/dev/serial/by-id/usb-1a86_USB2.0-Serial-if00-port0",

What does your contain?

Hi Harry,

thank you for your efforts. I only found two “//” at the beginning of the config.json.
I also tried copying the template again and only set the password for admin. Still get the same error.
Here is my last not working config:

{
  "//": "Please only change this file when pimatic is NOT running, otherwise pimatic will overwrite your changes.",
  "settings": {
    "httpServer": {
      "enabled": true,
      "port": 80
    },
    "database": {
    }
  },
  "plugins": [
    {
      "plugin": "cron"
    },
    {
      "plugin": "mobile-frontend"
    }
  ],
  "devices": [

  ],
  "rules": [

  ],
  "pages": [
    {
      "id": "favourite",
      "name": "Favourites",
      "devices": []
    }
  ],
  "groups": [

  ],
  "users": [
    {
      "username": "admin",
      "password": "blubb",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "name": "admin",
      "permissions": {
        "pages": "write",
        "rules": "write",
        "variables": "write",
        "messages": "write",
        "events": "write",
        "devices": "write",
        "groups": "write",
        "plugins": "write",
        "updates": "write",
        "database": "write",
        "config": "write",
        "controlDevices": true,
        "restart": true
      }
    }
  ]
}

The very strange thing is, that every thing worked fine until I tried to install the autoload on boot…

Thanks
Dom

I don’t understand this config.json.
You have in your error message 14:07:45.523 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-homeduino” (0.9.11) . That means pimatic-homeduino is in your config.json. Where is that plugin?

Or do/did you have multiple installs? It alsmost seems you have a previous 0.9 or 0.8 install somewhere.
Can you do a:

cd /
sudo find / -name config.json

and let us know whether it finds multiple occurrences.

By default it should find 2. One that came with the install and one that you installed in pimatic-app.

I am sorry, I posted the error log with a config.json that included the homeduino and then replaced that config.json with the original template and posted that.

I now reinstalled pimatic and followed all the steps through the guide prior to changing the config.json and now it works as service.
After that I included homeduino in the config and it still works.

Problem is solved right now…

Thanks for your efforts though.

Dom