Starting a project only works with ui

[GordianDziwis]

kimai2-cmd start "Foo" "Bar" -v -i

Results in

Found in KIMAI_CONFIG envvar: /home/beavis/.config/kimai2/settings.ini
settings.ini found at: /home/beavis/.config/kimai2/settings.ini
---
calling kimai:  GET projects [object Object]
request options: [object Object]
Response body: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
---
calling kimai:  GET activities [object Object]
request options: [object Object]
Response body: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
---
calling kimai:  GET config/i18n [object Object]
request options: [object Object]
kimaistart calling api: [object Object]
---
calling kimai:  POST timesheets [object Object]
request options: [object Object]
Response body: [object Object]
Server error message:
400
Validation Failed
(node:488024) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Validation Failed
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:488024) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:488024) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
Response body: [object Object]
servertime: 2021-11-22T15:36:47+0100
localtime: 2021-11-22T15:36:47+01:00

[infeeeee]

I can't reproduce this. Error 400 means, something is malformed in the request to kimai.

How did you installed kimai2-cmd?

If you installed it with npm you can change t manually. In this line: https://github.com/infeeeee/kimai2-cmd/blob/ca8c54da0004f5b367712b64b1472696d69fca36/kimai2-cmd.js#L77 add .body behind options, so it should look like this:

debug("request options: " + options.body)

If you installed a prebuilt, I just created a new build with this extra debugging: https://github.com/infeeeee/kimai2-cmd/releases/tag/1.3.1

Post the output of the same command with this new version

[GordianDziwis]

This helped, the issue is that all my activities have the same name Work. Kimai2-cmd queries by name for the activity id and if there exists multiple activities with the same name, it just uses the first one. Which could belong to another project.

[infeeeee]

You can use global activities instead: https://www.kimai.org/documentation/activity.html#global-activities They are working perfectly in kimai2-cmd.

I don't know how I could solve this client side.

[GordianDziwis]

This helps, thanks!