Two things. First, it will only let me select one contact sensors instead of multiple. Second, I am getting this error when it tries to run:
I have updated the app. Looks like it may be working correctly, but I will do some more testing. Seem to be having an issue with Presence detection. I disabled Presence, but it seems the app is still honoring it. I reset App states.
Will let you know how it goes.
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Hi Aaron,
I'm having install problems when I get to the enabling service steps.
I configured roomba.service as follows:
[Unit] Description=Roomba Service After=network.target
[Service] WorkingDirectory=/rest980 ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start Restart=on-failure User=pi
[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
My full directory path is /home/pi/rest980 (which I tried as well but that doesn't work either).
When I run
sudo systemctl enable roomba.service
I get:
Failed to enable unit: File roomba.service: Bad message
Any pointers? Probably missing something simple.
Your working directory is incorrect. Based on your configuration it should be /home/pi/rest980
I've tried that as well with the same results. Everything up to that step worked properly. Should I wipe and do a reinstall?
To be honest I have had issues with RPi and using the /home/pi root. I am not as savvy as I would like to be with linux. My setup uses Samba on all RPi's for ease of access and moving files.
I used this samba article: Samba: Set up a Raspberry Pi as a File Server for your local network — The MagPi magazine for setup and now I can access my code remotely through Visual Studio verses doing everything in nano or vi. If you follow the samba route you should have zero issues. I would just create a new directory /share/rest980 and then for the "Install Rest980" I would do that step all in the /share/rest980 directory you created. Then follow all the other steps and it should work without issues.
Hm. Still seeing the same results unfortunately, and I started from scratch, too. I suspect there's something else wrong on this PI. Going to try to out on a fresh one soon and we'll see what happens then.
I'd really love to make this work, but unfortunately i'm in the same boat as mikewoodld. I was successful up until I started the service.
Unfortunately I know nothing about Linux syntax, so I don't have much to offer in terms of a problem statement. I initially tried to install in the root directory without success. I saw above that it was advised to create a share folder. I did that, but I got the same result. (All i did was mkdir /share and cd share)
I'm using a Pi-Zero and followed the instructions here to install Node.JS Install Node.js On A Raspberry Pi Zero W Without NodeSource
Could this be the problem?
Thanks!
Do the samba portion of setting the chmod on the /share directory
Thanks for the tip - I still couldn't get it to work. I'm going to see if I can find a regular Pi to try it one. It may not like the Zero
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I'm a total noob and your app is my first attempt at a Raspberry Pi
I'm stuck at this part of the install
Rest980 Configuration (recommended to have two SSH windows open):
- [SSH Window #1] Edit ../rest980/config/default.json
I keep getting the error Error: no "edit" mailcap rules found for type "application/json"
any help here would be appreciated
Thanks
edit spelling
Edit means use your preferred editor. RPi has nano as a default editor. Makes sure to have sudo in front of the nano.
Ok so I got to the next error
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! rest980@2.1.0 start: node ./bin/www
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the rest980@2.1.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-02-02T19_52_23_660Z-debug.log
anything you can help with would be much appreciated.
How did you install npm?
I don't know that I did. let me go run that down
Hi - been trying this out and so far so good, but I observed the behavior mentioned before about presence where it will start running when everyone leaves. Did this get addressed and I didn't see it?
To me it should respect the schedule, but only when no one is home - or at least it should be an option. I come and go a lot and it would be kind of silly for it to start when I pop off to the grocery store or something just to return to the dock when I get home. I suppose I could create another presence mode/sensor that waits till no one is home AND it hits my schedule that the scheduler could watch, but that's kind of a hassle..
It does respect the schedule and starts after a certain number of minutes. What are you experiencing?
I'm not actually sure what its doing with the schedule - it seems to just start going whenever I leave (regardless of the time), but the schedule is definitely set, and the roomba itself doesn't have a schedule stored in it using its own software.
It also doesn't seem like its going home at the set battery percentage - though I'm still working out the things the roomba can't drive over and gets stuck on.... 
Aaron, thanks for all of your work on this. It looks like dorita980 now supports specifying a room to clean for i7/S9 models [ cleanRoom(args)]. I wonder if it would be possible to add the ability to specify a room to clean via your hubitat implementaiton?
