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Raspberry Pi Based Energy Monitor. Hardware, Firmware & related software for the PI.
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EmonSD Build Guide Error on Installing EmonHUB #55

Closed davidski closed 7 years ago

davidski commented 7 years ago

The SD-card-build.md document currently reads: 

The emon-pi variant of emonHub locates the config file in the RW partition /home/pi/data/emonhub.conf, this config file includes the default emonpi MQTT authentication details. Symlink the latest default config file:

    sudo rm ~/data/emonhub.conf
    sudo ln -s /home/pi/emonhub/conf/emonpi.default.emonhub.conf /home/pi/data/emonhub.conf

    sudo service emonhub start

The emonhub/install process the user is instructed to launch just prior to this step moves the emonpi.default.emonhub.conf file to the /home/pi/data directory, causing:

  1. the ln -s to link to a non-existent file
  2. emonhub to fail to start
  3. much sadness :sob:

The above quoted section can either be removed completely from the build doc or comments can be added that this is an optional step if not running emonhub/install. I vote for removing completely. :smile:

glynhudson commented 7 years ago

Thanks, fixed 👍

Sorry for the hassle.