pimatic on raspian pixel on Laptop?

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Hello, in the meantime, there is possibility Raspian Pixel on USB-Stick to instal and to let go on a laptop.
Is it possible to let go on this wise pimatic?
A friend wants to try out pimatic, and shop maybe late a Raspberry.

@Thrusty i think it would work. There’s always the good ol trial and error, so try it and post back A.S.A.P

@Gleno0h Thanks for the quick answer. Possibly it does not go because of the other CPU structure. He has sent me this picture:

It is no Raspberry! Even if it looks so. It is Raspian pixel for PC and Mac. It runs on a Loptop of an USB-Stick.

Up to this point his preparation ran for the installation without problems, according to his words.
I have had a look at the first line of this file. Now I do not have a lot of notion, but in this line an ARM architecture is also pointed out several times.

The first line of this file looks to me thus:

@Thrusty I don’t think this is a problem of the cpu architecture because pimatic is based on node!
I think he should check his installation of node! Because there seems to be the problem.

@techbarney Is there a version from node which runs on a laptop and is supported from pimatic?

@Thrusty I just tried the Raspian Pixel in a virtual machine!
Here are the steps to get pimatic working:

1. Install nodejs:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install nodejs

2. Test the installation:
   node --version should be: v4.8.4

3. Install pimatic:

cd /home/pi/
mkdir pimatic-app
npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
cd pimatic-app
cp ./node_modules/pimatic/config_default.json ./config.json

Do the configure of the admin password by an editor, for example:
sudo geany /home/pi/pimatic-app/config.json
Then start pimatic:
sudo node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js

I hope this will help you and your friend!

Nice, thanks for sharing

I’m also! Thanks for sharing.
Now it works.

Nice to hear!