Pimatic-gpio module did not self-register

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I have 8 relays connected to my raspberry pi 3. I have never actualy used them but i know i’ve tested them a long time ago.
Now i wanted to use 2 of the relays to switch my irrigation valves.

All plugins are up to date (pimatic says: no updates available).

But when pimatic starts i get the following:
20:13:14.755 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.8.107
20:13:18.880 [pimatic, npm] 2.15.11
20:13:21.310 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-homeduino” (0.8.85)
20:13:22.800 [pimatic] Loading plugin: “pimatic-gpio” (0.8.15)
20:13:22.850 [pimatic] Module did not self-register.
…
20:13:27.434 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais1” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.442 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais2” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.448 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais 3” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.456 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais 4” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.468 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais 5” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.481 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais 6” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.493 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais 7” of class “GpioSwitch”!
20:13:27.502 [pimatic] no plugin found for device “relais 8” of class “GpioSwitch”!

Can someone help me on this?

Hi, are you sure you have Pimatic 0.8.107? The latest version of Pimatic is 0.9.54 and gpio latest is 0.9.1.

@bertreb The versions you see are outputted when i start pimatic in the shell. I believe they are the active versions.
The thing is that when i change the class of my device (in pimatic config) from “class”: “GpioSwitch” to “HomeduinoSwitch” the devices are recognized but gives an error when pressing on in the web browser.

I don’t know the reason for the errors but 0.8.x Pimatic and the plugins should be upgraded. Is there a reason you did not upgrade to Pimatic 0.9.54?

The only reason is that i didn’t touch the pi for over a year i think. It always works. But now i want to add something and i have to dive in to it again.
By the way, pimatic browser shows me that pimatic and all the plugins are up to date.

but i wil try to update anyway. Thanks for the advice. Hopefully that will solve my problem also.

Ok, if you don’t have any customized plugins and save you’re current config.json, the upgrade should not be difficult.

Do you know where i can find a quick guide to upgrade?

https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1903/announcing-the-release-of-pimatic-v0-9

This instruction is a few years old, use the following for Installing the newer node version

https://pimatic.teamemo.com/Guide/Getting-Started

ok i tried to upgrade but it turned out in a mess.
The article you suggested is 4 years old and i think i already did that one before.

So i tried to upgrade node to version 12.18.0 and npm to 6.14.4 but now i’m stuck with the error:
‘node: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6: version ‘CXXABI_1.3.9’ not found (required by node)‘
and
’node: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21’ not found (required by node)’

These errors came after command
’node --version’ and command
’sudo mkdir pimatic-app && sudo npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production’

Hi, i’m not sure if node 12 will work. Node 8 and 10 are working and you can use the newest plugins.
If it’s possible follow the instruction for node 10 installation from the pimatic wiki
Select the right raspberry model and the best is doing a fresh install.

Ok i’m getting closer. I have followed the latest instruction you suggested and installed node 10 and pimatic on the latest rasbian image.
Most of my plugins are working again, including switching the relays!
The only thing not working right now is the smartmeter plugin.
This is the first warning i get:
23:59:29.123 [pimatic, ppm] prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=10.16.3 runtime=node arch=arm platform=linux)

Which smartmeter plugin are you using?
The only smart plugins working with node 10 are smartmeter3 and smartmeter-obis.
Smartmeter-obis is the best choice.

Originaly i used smartmeter2. But i tried smartmeter 3 also. And after your reply i removed all smartmeter plugins and installed smartmeter-obis.
I see this errors at first:
12:54:22.768 [pimatic] info: Installing: “pimatic-smartmeter-obis@0.1.17” from npm-registry.
12:55:20.067 [pimatic, ppm] info: > serialport@6.2.2 install /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-smartmeter-obis/node_modules/smartmeter-obis/node_modules/serialport
12:55:20.073 [pimatic, ppm] info: > prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
12:55:22.914 [pimatic, ppm] info: prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=10.16.3 runtime=node arch=arm platform=linux)

Hi, on install you see list of warnings and compile info, thats because the used serialport version is still compatible with node 4.x, but not optimal or node 10.
Just ignore it and the plugin should become active and loaded.

unfortunately it won’t. After this error a whole list of messages occura and the plugin is in the list but deactivated. After activating nothing seems to happen.
Also there are no config options.

When adding smartmeter-obis in the config file i get this error in the shell after starting pimatic:
[pimatic] Could not get plugin info from update server, request info from npm

Hi, there are no config options on plugin level. You need to create a smartmeter-obis device. After activation you need to restart Pimatic again.
The update server error message should be temporary

hi, did you use the old smartmeter device config?
The property name for the serial port should be ‘serialPort’.