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Home-Automation with node.js and Raspberry PI

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Error with heimcontrol #64

Closed Adill14 closed 9 years ago

Adill14 commented 10 years ago

I am still fairly new with working with the pi along with all this stuff. It is a learning process. I am currently working on a home automation system and I have mongodb working properly on my raspberry pi. When I try to start heimcontrol.js i get an error.

WARNING: change secret string in config/development.json info -socket.io started connect.multipart() will be removed in connect 3.0 heimcontrol.js listening on port 8080

events.js:72 throw er; //unhandled 'error' event ^ Error: Cannot open /dev/

Thanks much for any and all help.

Adill14 commented 10 years ago

I have also looked at issues 50 and 57. I tried the things that were done in 50 but had no success. Not sure what is the problem.I get the same error still.

demonic645 commented 10 years ago

Hi Adill14,

Is your Arduino board plugged in? Its needs to be plugged in when you boot up your pi.

EmbeddedSam commented 10 years ago

as far as I remember the arduino didn't need to be plugged in originally, I don't want to use an arduino as I don't have one or have any interest in using them. How do I get the library up and running without an arduino? thanks

Opulence commented 10 years ago

...try removing the Arduino plugin files before booting. They're recursively loaded in, so I'd imagine that'd solve it. ...as in it wouldn't initialise the Arduino.

tjanson commented 9 years ago

This is still current: Heimcontrol requires an Arduino to be plugged in (and found etc.), which imho needs to be fixed in two ways:

[x] Make the error message more meaningful. It’s presumably the most common Heimcontrol issue by far. Just adding “Cannot open /dev/ — failed to connect to Arduino” would help a ton.
[x] Don’t exit if the Arduino is not found. Heimcontrol can definitely be useful without it, so why require it??

~~It’s on my todo; it’s really rather simple. (No promises.)~~

Done, see #97 and ni-c/duino#4.