MMRelay not loading in Windows since at least 0.3.23-0.3.24

[jeremiah-k]

I built an installer for the latest changes with shortnames (0.4.0) so I could test it out in Windows machines. This is what happens when running the relay via python in GitBash.

$ python main.py
2023-06-09 14:20:03 -0500 INFO:Meshtastic:Connecting to serial port COM7 ...
2023-06-09 14:20:04 -0500 INFO:Meshtastic:Connected to M<>M / TBEAM_V0P7
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Laura\Desktop\mmrelay-0.3.24\main.py", line 85, in <module>
    asyncio.run(main())
  File "C:\Program Files\Python310\lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 44, in run
    return loop.run_until_complete(main)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python310\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 649, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "C:\Users\Laura\Desktop\mmrelay-0.3.24\main.py", line 40, in main
    load_plugins()
  File "C:\Users\Laura\Desktop\mmrelay-0.3.24\plugin_loader.py", line 25, in load_plugins
    HealthPlugin(),
  File "C:\Users\Laura\Desktop\mmrelay-0.3.24\plugins\base_plugin.py", line 29, in __init__
    if "plugins" in relay_config and self.plugin_name in relay_config["plugins"]:
TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable
(.pyenv)
Laura@DESKTOP-FNV2O8D MINGW64 ~/Desktop/mmrelay-0.3.24
$

When the relay is run from the .exe sometimes it would error out with something along the lines of: Could not open port ‘COM7’: PermissionError(13, ‘Access is denied.’, None, 5)

Rebooting would not fix it, I would have to disable/enable the COM port in the Device Manager, then reboot and it would come out of it.

[jeremiah-k]

Nevermind! It was a configuration issue. Might need some error handling in the future, but there's no problem with the correct config.