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andrewshilliday / garage-door-controller

Software to monitor and control garage doors via a raspberry pi
MIT License
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What did I do wrong? #52

Closed webby619 closed 7 years ago

webby619 commented 7 years ago

Hey so when I do put in (iphost):8080 I get nothing. When I python controller.py in putty (SSH) it bumps down to the next line and hangs there until I closed out of Putty after about 10 min.

What must I be doing wrong? I am using a Pi Zero W

Can't get into :8080 (or :8081 for that matter) but can SSH in and WinSCP has access.

andrewshilliday commented 7 years ago

That's strange that you're not getting any errors. First of all, did you run python as root? (sudo python controller.py)?

webby619 commented 7 years ago

I will try that next BRB

single_1490901703418 Still sitting there....

webby619 commented 7 years ago

Ok whatever I have done since the OP it now goes to the my garage page with :8081

webby619 commented 7 years ago

Ok I take that back... what happen was when I input sudo python controller.py in SSH then let that hang there (like the screen grab) It works. So I have in putty it sitting there, doing it's python thing then go to the browser type in 192.168.11.3:8081 it reads it. Otherwise nothing.

andrewshilliday commented 7 years ago

I'm not sure I fully understand your last comment? Are you still having an issue or do you have it worked out?

webby619 commented 7 years ago

When I sudo python controller.py it is working (like the screen grab) when I close out of Putty/SSH I can't log into 192.168.11.3:8081

So to me it looks like python-twisted is not staying active? Running?

andrewshilliday commented 7 years ago

That's the expected behavior. You can't simply run it inside a putty/ssh connection and expect it to live past your closing the connection.

See the readme for instructions on how to set the controller to automatically start when the RPI is booted. Copied below:

Set to launch at startup Simply add the following line to your /etc/rc.local file, just above the call to exit 0: (cd ~pi/garage-door-controller; python controller.py)&

webby619 commented 7 years ago

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Done that unless I have "wrote" it in there wrong. I have rebooted a couple times since too.

andrewshilliday commented 7 years ago

after your pi boots up, run "ps -ax | python" . What do you get?

webby619 commented 7 years ago

single_1490975984581

webby619 commented 7 years ago

Ok really, truelly I think I have it set up, or at least this problem solved.

I had to modify the code for:

(cd ~pi/garage-door-controller; python controller.py)&

to this: (cd /home/pi/¬pi/garage-door-controller; python controller.py)&

In rc.local