502 error

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I did an update from the GUI option Updates. After that update, I can start and stop pimatic, but the rules in my config are not executed anymore.

I made a new rule to activate a kaku switch at a given time, which gave me a 502 error for a Bad Gateway nginx/10.1.3. Clicking on the Updates choice in the menu gives also a 502 error for a Bad Gateway nginx/10.1.3.

When I try to activate the switch from the GUI startscreen by clicking on the button, I get a timeout error.

I did a new installation after first making a backup of the pimatic-app directory, but that did not change anything at all.

Is downgrading an option, or is there another way to get pimatic to work again?

Downgrading pimatic doesn’t help.
At this moment the pimatic update server isn’t working (error message ‘bad gateway’)
If you got your config.json file, a fresh installation should work (ignore the messages)
Updating is not possible.
Is this something you already did?

I did already a fresh installation, but that did not make any difference. I suppose I have to wait until the update server is up and running again? Is there a way to see when it is so, apart from checking the functionality with the GUI?

Checking the Gui or following the forum is the way to see if the update server is running again. You can follow the message on this post

But the fact that the update server is not working doesn’t mean Pimatic can’t run.
I see in your first post that pimatic is starting, but (some) rules don’t work.
That is probably because a plugin isn’t starting. Can you see if the plugin you installed just before the problems started is loaded? (plugin status must be active and loaded) and what the name of that plugin?

I did not install a new plugin, I just did an update for pimatic and all already present plugins. I have cron 0.8.8, homeduino 0.9.18, mobile-frontend 0.9.16 and sunrise 0.9.3 as plugins. They all are loaded and activated.

And your using buster and node 10? and did all rules stop working or just the homeduino rules?

Sorry, I don’t know what you mean by "buster’. Nor do I understand what you mean by “node 10”. Do you mean pin 10 or GPIO 10 on the raspberry pi connector?

I think I only use rules that use homeduino, cron and sunrise, but anyhow they all stopped working in the sense that they all result in a timout error.

Buster is the debian version name for the operating system on a raspberry pi.
Node is the nodejs system pimatic is based on.
If you followed the latest instruction, i assume you used node 10.16.0, otherwise it will be node 4.9.1. Using node 4.9.1 could cause problems with the newest plugins.
You can check the node version in the commandline with the command node -v

Did you refresh the browser (cleared the browser cache) and restarted pimatic.
The timeout error is typically a communication error of a plugin.

Excuse for my ignorance…

Its Linux raspberrypi 4.1.19+ #858 from march 15 2016.

The node version is v4.6.2

@reidkl said in 502 error:

raspberrypi 4.1.19

Can you do the following cammand

cat /etc/os-release

Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy) !

Hi, you could upgrade you system to more recent versions of debian (buster) and node (10.x). The instructions for Node and Pimatic installation are here and choose the recommend node 10 variant. You only need to backup your current config.json and put it back after the installation.
This is a nice exercise while the update server is offline

Okay, I will try my luck on that in a day or two. Anyway, thank you very much for your support! I will give notice when I did the upgrade.

Well, I updated my Raspbian. It’s now version 10 (buster). After that I tried the nodejs installation. The node 10 variant could not be found after giving the wget command. What did work was installing the v12.18.3-linux-arm64, at least the file of that version was found with the wget command without and error message. The following sudo command to install nodejs did work also without any error message.

But, checking the installed version through “/usr/bin/env node --version” gave me not a version number, but the error "/usr/local/bin/node: 1: /usr/local/bin/node: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting “)”)

I did not check if I had gcc on my rpi, but I installed git. After that I tried tot install pimatic again through the given npm command. But, there is no installation performed. Again I get the same error message as before: "/usr/local/bin/node: 1: /usr/local/bin/node: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting “)”)

Hi, you can’t use node 12. Node 10.22.0 (Latest 10 version) for example should be installable.
If you are using a raspberry pi 3b or 4 the commands for node 10.22.0 are

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.22.0/node-v10.22.0-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp
cd /usr/local
sudo tar xzvf /tmp/node-v10.22.0-linux-armv7l.tar.gz --strip=1

The v12.18.3-linux-arm64 is a different node version (12) for a different processor (arm64)

Hi again. Issuing that wget command leads to a 404 error:
404 Not found.

@bertreb said in 502 error:

wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.22.0/node-v10.22.0-linux-armv7l.tar.gz -P /tmp

On my macbook and my rpi this command works and the archive is downloaded.
Did you copy the command string or retyped it?
after the 7 there’s a letter ‘l’ not a number 1

Ah, the one … Is the one after strip also the letter l?

Thats the number one

Now the node version check and the pimatic installation commands gave the error “ invalid instruction “