Is pimatic install broken?

---

My pi2 recently died (will not power on) so I tried to install pimatic on my old pi. I did a fresh install following instructions (https://pimatic.org/guide/getting-started/installation/) and I got this error on running pimatic…

/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/i18n/node_modules/debug/src/node.js:132
let val = process.env[key];
^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode

I have tried a few things to troubleshoot this and also tried an raspbian VM with the same result to check it was not pi 1.

npm is 2.15.11
node is v4.6.2
OS is Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)

Does anyone know if there is a step missing from the instructions?

See https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/4340/released-pimatic-0-9-43

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried oFrogs recommended fix and this has not worked. Still same problems.

Also my error does not look the same as the ones mentioned in this thread. I’ve now tried this in fresh installs raspbian on pi and x86 each system throwing the same error about strict mode mentioned earlier.

Any other advice? Has anyone successfully installed pimatic recently?

@gally789 had zero problems 2 weeks ago.

Glad to hear you had no issues.

I still think .43 is broken.

I it around these issues in by installing .42

cd /home/pi
mkdir pimatic-app
npm install pimatic@0.9.42 --prefix pimatic-app --production

It works on .42

@gally789 had the same problem, installing 0.9.42 works fine

@gally789 maybe this has something to do with it, idk but, sometimes i need a different node to be active, i use the application “n” for this. And i have the latest node installed and 4.6.2. with N i can switch within a second between the two. I dont think this matters on this issue though…

same issue here, trying 0.9.42 now there is also this ticket but the resolution sounds wired to me and I didn’t want to switch kernels just yet…

https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/1107

@thex said in Is pimatic install broken?:

e issue here, trying 0.9.42 now there is also this ticket but the resolution sounds wired to me and I didn’t want to sw

Did you install node using the package or repo from nodeJS.org?

I am using n for switching node versions, have triede several ones, cant remember the exact versions 4.5… 4.8… 4.9…

Same problem here.

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo pimatic.js
21:07:54.372 2018-10-02 Tuesday/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/i18n/node_modules/debug/src/node.js:132
        let val = process.env[key];
        ^^^

SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
.
.
.

Will now give it a try to go back to 0.9.42 as well.

ok. at least i’m not the only one having this problem. tried installing pimatic on fresh raspbian stretch anbd jessie following the “official” setup guide. and i’m discovering exactly this problem…

edit: installing v0.9.42 worked for me, too