leiweibau
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1 month ago The user running Pi.Alert should install the packages as follows (the installer actually does the same).
pip3 -q install mac-vendor-lookup --break-system-packages --no-warn-script-location
pip3 -q install fritzconnection --break-system-packages --no-warn-script-location
pip3 -q install routeros_api --break-system-packages --no-warn-script-location
pip3 -q install pyunifi --break-system-packages --no-warn-script-location
ankonaskiff17
I was setting up Pi-Hole and in process of looking for blocklists found the original Pi.Alert along with your comment about being abandoned so came to your Github repo. I'm not a programmer but I can figure out some things. Since I already had Pi-Hole up and running I found what appeared to be an okay entry point to install Pi.Alert Everything was going well until I got to the step for installing
mac-vendor-lookupandfritzconnectionand started getting messages about the packages were externally managed or along those lines. The "How to" page I link to below has a verbatim picture of the error I was getting when trying to install the above.I have run into various Bookworm issues which this is another. To get those packages installed I had to create a virtual environment, which I did, and they were all able to be installed but this is where my lack of programming skills fail. I used this web site How to Install Python Packages in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm that got me able to install but again in a virtual environment which is something I've not dealt with.
I have stopped at step 5 as there is this comment at that site I linked to;
I don't really know what my next step should be and how to proceed because I'll certainly be rebooting the Pi or it will reboot itself when there is a hiccup on the grid and my power goes off momentarily.
As a side note which is also Bookworm related, there is now a network manager so making a static IP address is not readily done and the Pi-Hole folks need to revise their Pi-Hole instructions too.