(Using userauth-24120-7745fb8d build in Docker)
There's a filtering capability for entities in reactor.yaml, but I have a case where I don't want to filter an entity altogether, but would like to "throttle" it, as this sensor updates every 1-2 seconds (and therefore unnecessarily takes database space).
Sensor data comes through home assistant, and seems that there's no way to control update interval at that end.
So I'm asking if plugin configuration could support limiting/throttling updates for certain entities?
I need a handful of victims volunteers to help test previews of the next build of Reactor. A long-standing request was for "a simple login mechanism," but in practice, adding user authentication and competent access control turned out to be a pretty big project with a lot of big changes on both server and client sides. It's a bit more than I'm comfortable testing myself and springing out to everyone at once, so I'd like to work with a small group to put it through "sea trials."
Major changes/features include:
User authentication with hashed password storage; User group configuration with application restriction (admin, dashboard, API); Detailed control over API access, with user- and token-based authentication/authorization; Improvements to the HTTPS service; Improvements to UI coordination with the core for Rules and Reactions.If this sounds like something you'd like to help with, drop me a reply here in this thread or privately.
Good morning,
Hopefully this is a simple request. I believe the title should be self explanatory, but just in case, I'll elaborate.
On the status tab, we all get alerts if a device state has changed (i.e., been removed). This is great, but when I go into the entities tab, I have to either type the name (or a portion thereof) of the device that has been removed, or I need to scroll all the way through my list of devices. This is infrequent, however, yesterday I replaced a failed device in my HAAS environment. It was a Z-Wave switch that is added using the Smart Scan QR code, which normally makes it pretty easy. However, some devices don't get fully added the first time around, so it'll add multiple entries into HAAS until it get's the S2 authentication correct and the device fully included. It did this to me yesterday, and I had to delete the incomplete device from my installation. MSR still saw the entities of that failed/incomplete switch entity, and I was left with 8 alerts and entities that I needed to removed.
It's not a huge problem, but this example was just one switch. If I were to add replace multiple devices at once, this could be a bit more annoying to remove. It would be helpful to be able to filter by removed entities, so I can find them all quickly and delete them. Continuing that train of thought, it would also be useful to have check boxes next to those lines, and perhaps do a select all type of thing so they could be deleted in one mouse click.
@toggledbits I have finally finished up the SSL using Let's Encrypt and am getting this from my local browser:
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I know you said in the docs that using a self-signed could lead to this but this is LE.
Hi @toggledbits,
I don't know if I'm the only one, so I'm reporting here first instead of opening a bug.
Basically, with the latest 2-3 updates of Reactor and MQTTController, after a restart previous statuses are lost (for both Virtual and MQTT entities), until they're restored.
It's particularly annoying for Virtual Entities, because I have to set them all over again (I've coded some defaults at startup if the values are empty, but sometimes these are not the correct values before the update).
Not easy to reproduce, and logs are gone, but the first time I tought it was me hallucinating, the second one didn't bother too much, after the third I realized it's something not coming from me.
the behavior could be seen in this screenshot:
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Any hint is appreciated.
Build 21228 has been released. Docker images available from DockerHub as usual, and bare-metal packages here.
Home Assistant up to version 2021.8.6 supported; the online version of the manual will now state the current supported versions; Fix an error in OWMWeatherController that could cause it to stop updating; Unify the approach to entity filtering on all hub interface classes (controllers); this works for device entities only; it may be extended to other entities later; Improve error detail in messages for EzloController during auth phase; Add isRuleSet() and isRuleEnabled() functions to expressions extensions; Implement set action for lock and passage capabilities (makes them more easily scriptable in some cases); Fix a place in the UI where 24-hour time was not being displayed.I'm slowly migrating all my stuff to MQTT under MSR, so I have a central place to integrate everything (and, in a not-so-distant future, to remove virtual devices from my Vera and leave it running zwave only).
Anyway, here's my reactor-mqtt-contrib package:
Contrib MQTT templates for Reactor. Contribute to dbochicchio/reactor-mqtt-contrib development by creating an account on GitHub.
Simply download yaml files (everything or just the ones you need) and you're good to go.
I have mapped my most useful devices, but I'll add others soon. Feel free to ask for specific templates, since I've worked a lot in the last weeks to understand and operate them.
The templates are supporting both init and query, so you have always up-to-date devices at startup, and the ability to poll them. Online status is supported as well, so you can get disconnected devices with a simple expression.
Many-many thanks to @toggledbits for its dedication, support, and patience with me and my requests 🙂
Good morning,
So Home Assistant decided to change the default weather home format that I've been using for the past year and a half. I had two Global Expressions set up to pull the high and low temp forecast for the day. Now it's pulling null values.
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In the dev tools, it now uses a new service (Weather. get forecasts), plural, where the old Weather.get forecast is depreciated and now longer functions.
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It shows a templow field, and a temperature field, which I presume is the forecast high.
When I head back over to MSR, I'm having a hard time finding those values in the Entities tab.
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wx.asoftime=null wx.ceiling=null wx.ceiling_unit=null wx.cloud_cover=null wx.condition_code=null wx.description="partlycloudy" wx.feels_like=null wx.humidity=57 wx.humidity_unit="%" wx.icon=null wx.location=null wx.precipitation_1hr=null wx.precipitation_24hr=null wx.precipitation_other=null wx.precipitation_type=null wx.precipitation_unit="in" wx.pressure=30 wx.pressure_unit="inHg" wx.temperature=55 wx.temperature_unit="°F" wx.visibility=null wx.visibility_unit="mi" wx.wind_compass=210.3 wx.wind_conditions=null wx.wind_direction="SSW" wx.wind_gust=null wx.wind_speed=6.28 wx.wind_speed_unit="mph" x_hass.domain="weather" x_hass.entity_id="weather.forecast_home" x_hass.services=["weather"] x_hass.state="partlycloudy" x_hass_attr.attribution="Weather forecast from met.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute." x_hass_attr.cloud_coverage=85.9 x_hass_attr.dew_point=40 x_hass_attr.friendly_name="New Windsor Weather" x_hass_attr.humidity=57 x_hass_attr.precipitation_unit="in" x_hass_attr.pressure=30 x_hass_attr.pressure_unit="inHg" x_hass_attr.supported_features=3 x_hass_attr.temperature=55 x_hass_attr.temperature_unit="°F" x_hass_attr.visibility_unit="mi" x_hass_attr.wind_bearing=210.3 x_hass_attr.wind_speed=6.28 x_hass_attr.wind_speed_unit="mph"There is a x_hass_attr.temperature, but that appears to be the current temperature, not the high that I found on the dev tools screenshot.
Any ideas?
Running:
Core
2024.4.3
Supervisor
2024.04.0
Operating System
12.2
Frontend
20240404.2
MSR: latest-24057-e9add9f5
Hey Patrick, I recently have been noticing that MSR has been acting up ie. it's been needing restarts and has been slow. I began trouble shooting by looking at the logs and have noticed the following errors for a lot of entities. I thought maybe a simple reboot of RPi was needed and I kept seeing the same errors in the system logs. I am oddly enough not seeing these same errors in the MSR logs. Where things started getting weird is whenever I rebooted MSR it wouldn't come back online .I would have to restart the RPi then it would come back online. I just restarted MSR again to capture logs and it restarted fine, so I guess its good for now? I think this is more or so a corrupted SD card issue rather a MSR issue but well being troubleshooting from here. The SD card is about 1-2 years old.
Apologies if this post is everywhere, I cannot consistently recreate any oddities that are happening, that's what is leading me to believe my SD is going bad.
PS: If anyone knows how to diagnose a corrupt SD card please chime in.
MSR latest-24057-e9add9f5
Home Assistant 2024.4.3
Raspberry Pi 3b+
This system has been running flawlessly year after year for the time changes twice a year literally since MSR came out so I was caught off-guard when this happened this morning.
Time in MSR browser is EST, time on RPi is local time (DST).
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I've rebooted the RPi I've restarted MSR after double-checking the time on the RPi. Used a completely different browser to eliminate any caching concerns. Double-checked MSR reactor.yamla5f23151-d691-4343-8499-8e77a55528e5-image.png
What am I missing here @toggledbits ?
Hi,
For the standard capabilities MSR sends both a value record and a units record to InfluxDB. The latter I would like not to send as they are not really any use for me and it will reduce the number of records send to my InfluxDB.
Is there a quick way to do this with a filter_entities line like: *>units?
Or do I have to update all capabilities to read like this:
power_sensor:
attributes:
value: true
Cheers Rene
I'm trying to replicate this
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into a MQTT entity where I could set a number with a min and max value.
I can't find a standard capability that fits or any documentation on local MQTT capabilities and the only post on the forum mentioning local MQTT capabilities is this post, is it even possible in current release?
My trial and error work in local_mqtt_capabilities.yaml isn't much to show as it's just a copy of mqtt_capabilities.yaml with changed names and then I got stuck.
Any guidance, examples, documentation, future feature request or denial would be much appreciated, thanks!
Reactor 24057-e9add9f5 bare metal
MQTTController 24050
Hi guys,
I've recently bought a new Govee outdoor permanent lights set, and I love it. WAF is pretty high, and the product is good quality. I hope to never run lights in the front of the house.
This new addition has found me searching for something to control these lights, locally. Govee has officials remote and LAN APIs and Home Assistant has it supported, but some undocumented stuff that's integrated into an Homebridge plugin that seems very promising. Without this plugin, my playlist is orchestrated via the cloud and that makes zero sense.
In the past I got some inspiration from plugins running on other platforms and Homebridge seems one of the most active. I could map its devices via HomeKit-local on HA, but I've decommissioned Homebridge years ago when we settled to Alexa (and I want to stay simple), so I had an idea: why get inspiration and rewrite things, when you could write an Homebridge adapter that could load any Homebridge plugin and run them natively under Reactor (MSR)?
I'm not sure if that's viable or made any sense, so I'm posting here to get feedback, encouragement and your thoughts. Anyone could be potentially interested in such a thing?
Hi- looking for a hint in where to start. My goal is to set a PIN code in a zwave kwikset lock triggered in a rule.
The device isn’t exposing methods to help. The x-hass.call-service looks promising, but what would the service name be?
Plan b would be send the zwave controller a config command- I don’t see any way to explicitly send a command through JS Zwave in my environment.
Running reactor bare metal. JS Zwave is running as an add on inside HASS OS.
Any tips are appreciated.
Hey crew, I'm trying to use MSR to control the RGB values of a Z-Wave bulb in Home Assistant.
Problem I'm running into - I would like to use 'rgb_color.set' to control this, but it doesn't work, instead it always passes the values '255,255,255' to HA no matter what values I enter within MSR.
More notes and examples below - I'm wondering if this is a formatting issue that I'm missing? Thanks for any help!
NOTES FROM TROUBLESHOOTING:
'rgb_color.set_rgb' works successfully, which seems strange. You'd think they would both be affected I've tried a couple different formats, like adding quotes, adding/removing spaces between the RGB values, nothing has fixed it.EXAMPLES:
When I use 'rgb_color.set_rgb', the values successfully carry over to Home Assistant:
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But when I use 'rgb_color.set', the values DO NOT successfully carry over to Home Assistant:
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DETAILS:
Bulb is LZW42 by Inovelli MSR version: stable-23242-5ee8e1d4HA DETAILS
Core 2024.2.5 Supervisor 2024.02.1 Operating System 12.0Hi,
I’m running MSR in a docker container on my Synology Nas. The container is automatically updated using watchtower weekly.
It was working. Now, after the update, Reactor webpage is able to load, and all indications on the webpage suggests that it is working fine. However, the updated statuses from Home Assistant and Vera are not being detected.
The container logs show the following error
Reactor stable-23344-5aad7754 app 23344 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.516Z <app:null> Reactor build stable-23344-5aad7754 starting on v16.15.1 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.517Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #69057 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:02:28 CST 2024; locale (undefined) [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.517Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.517Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.696Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v23172 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.698Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v23331 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.780Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.790Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.794Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22353 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:49.866Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v23069 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.030Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.031Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v22146 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.066Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v23211 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.581Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v23093 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.595Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.600Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v23107 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.614Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22324 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.617Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v23339 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.635Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v23058 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.680Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v23172 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.789Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.790Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v23109 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:50.971Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v23344 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:51.716Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v22313 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:52.253Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v23331 i18n: missing en-US language string: The version of nodejs you are using ({0}) is now end-of-life, and so is deprecated for use with Reactor. Please upgrade nodejs to {2}.{3} or higher as soon as possible; the current LTS version is recommended. Releases of Reactor produced after {1} will not run under this version of nodejs at all. [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:52.256Z <Controller:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:464:51 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at SystemController._restoreEntities (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:458:36) at new Controller (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:45:42) at new SystemController (/opt/reactor/server/lib/SystemController.js:29:9) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:101:37 Trace: The version of nodejs you are using ({0}) is now end-of-life, and so is deprecated for use with Reactor. Please upgrade nodejs to {2}.{3} or higher as soon as possible; the current LTS version is recommended. Releases of Reactor produced after {1} will not run under this version of nodejs at all. at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:468:37) at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:126:25) at /opt/reactor/app.js:381:140 [stable-23344]2024-02-28T21:57:59.313Z <app:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at IndividualFileStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/IndividualFileStrategy.js:114:54) at DelayWriteCacheStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/DelayWriteCacheStrategy.js:87:50) at Container.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Container.js:69:67) at Function.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Data.js:37:179) at Rule.getRuleStates (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:507:100) at Rule.getConditionState (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:538:47) at new Rule (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:378:47) at Function.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:387:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:263:53 i18n: missing en-US language string: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. Trace: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:468:37) at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:126:25) at HassController.sendWarning (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:197:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1117:370 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)I’ve tried using “latest-amd64” and it does not work either. The logs show similar json input error.
Reactor latest-24057-e9add9f5 app 24052 configuration from /var/reactor/config NODE_PATH /opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.466Z <app:null> Reactor build latest-24057-e9add9f5 starting on v20.10.0 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.522Z <app:null> Process ID 1 user/group 0/0; docker; platform linux/x64 #69057 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:02:28 CST 2024; locale (undefined) [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.522Z <app:null> Basedir /opt/reactor; data in /var/reactor/storage [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.522Z <app:null> NODE_PATH=/opt/reactor:/opt/reactor/node_modules [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.667Z <Structure:null> Module Structure v23172 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.673Z <Capabilities:null> Module Capabilities v23331 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.780Z <Plugin:null> Module Plugin v22300 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.787Z <TimerBroker:null> Module TimerBroker v22283 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.791Z <Entity:null> Module Entity v22353 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.796Z <Controller:null> Module Controller v23069 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.811Z <default:null> Module Ruleset v22293 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.811Z <default:null> Module Rulesets v22146 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.821Z <GlobalExpression:null> Module GlobalExpression v23211 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.890Z <Predicate:null> Module Predicate v23093 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:30.958Z <AlertManager:null> Module AlertManager v22283 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.027Z <Rule:null> Module Rule v24057 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.033Z <GlobalReaction:null> Module GlobalReaction v22324 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.036Z <Engine:null> Module Engine v24023 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.042Z <httpapi:null> Module httpapi v24057 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.216Z <wsapi:null> Module wsapi v24057 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.296Z <TaskQueue:null> Module TaskQueue 21351 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.297Z <VeraController:null> Module VeraController v24050 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.365Z <HassController:null> Module HassController v24048 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.659Z <DynamicGroupController:null> Module DynamicGroupController v22313 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.668Z <SystemController:null> Module SystemController v23331 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:31.673Z <Controller:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:464:51 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at SystemController._restoreEntities (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:458:36) at new Controller (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:45:43) at new SystemController (/opt/reactor/server/lib/SystemController.js:237:9) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:101:37 [latest-24057]2024-02-28T22:27:38.845Z <app:CRIT> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input [-] SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at IndividualFileStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/IndividualFileStrategy.js:51:45) at DelayWriteCacheStrategy.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/DelayWriteCacheStrategy.js:89:49) at Container.getDataObject (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Container.js:69:65) at Data.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Data.js:45:179) at Rule.getRuleStates (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:515:101) at Rule.getConditionState (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:546:47) at new Rule (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:371:47) at Rule.getInstance (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Rule.js:380:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/Engine.js:828:53 i18n: missing en-US language string: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. Trace: HomeAssistant on {0:q} may be an unsupported version. The reported version ({1}) has not been certified/tested with this version of Reactor and may cause errors. You must either modify your HomeAssistant install, or see if an update to Reactor has been made available. at _T (/opt/reactor/server/lib/i18n.js:614:37) at AlertManager.addAlert (/opt/reactor/server/lib/AlertManager.js:128:25) at HassController.sendWarning (/opt/reactor/server/lib/Controller.js:197:36) at /opt/reactor/server/lib/HassController.js:1133:374 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)How do I fix this?
Noticed right away last night at closing time that the open/close had become inverted with the update to v23326.
It wasn't an awful bit of lift to change all Reactions to reflect the change but it was jarring initially when everything flipped.
Are there release notes on that version, @toggledbits ?
Installing latest-24052-d039d560 and I did a dumb thing: moving too quickly, I deleted package.json instead of package-lock.json because the latter didn't exist.
Ran the installer script - but in the wrong directory so I moved package.json manually.
Everything has come back EXCEPT for my MQTT Cloud OwnTracks entities. They're erroring because of this:
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(Don't heckle my folder structure - it's run this way for three years)
reactor.yaml is fine, all MQTT configs exactly as they should be.
The folder mqtt_templates is present:
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The file it says is "unreadable" is present and hasn't changed (today's date is the Changed date because I did a quick nonsense edit to see that it was not corrupted in some way).
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The logs show:
[latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.320Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_device_cfg, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.321Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_mfg_spec, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.321Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_device_ver, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.322Z <ZWaveJSController:WARN> zwavejs_capabilities defines x_zwave_values, which is not consistent with the recommended naming [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.323Z <Controller:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs loaded zwavejs capabilities ver 23194 rev 1 format 1 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.338Z <Controller:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs loaded implementation data ver 23254 rev 1 format 1 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.339Z <Structure:INFO> Starting controller SystemController#reactor_system [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.345Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller SystemController#reactor_system is now online. [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.572Z <HassController:INFO> HassController#hass device mapping data loaded; checking... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.574Z <HassController:WARN> HassController: implementation of capability battery_maintenance does not provide attribute state [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.577Z <HassController:WARN> HassController: implementation of capability input_select.selector does not provide attribute values [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.586Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt can't read/load templates from /home/reactor/Documents/reactor/config/mqtt_templates/owntracks_sensor.yaml: [Error] Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.595Z <MQTTController:CRIT> Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. at Object.safeLoad (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/node_modules/js-yaml/index.js:10:11) at MQTTController._load_implementation (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:807:38) at async MQTTController.start (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:95:13) at async Promise.allSettled (index 3) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.597Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 can't read/load templates from /home/reactor/Documents/reactor/config/mqtt_templates/owntracks_sensor.yaml: [Error] Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.603Z <MQTTController:CRIT> Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. [-] Error: Function yaml.safeLoad is removed in js-yaml 4. Use yaml.load instead, which is now safe by default. at Object.safeLoad (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/node_modules/js-yaml/index.js:10:11) at MQTTController._load_implementation (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:807:38) at async MQTTController.start (/home/reactor/Documents/reactor/ext/MQTTController/MQTTController.js:95:13) at async Promise.allSettled (index 4) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.608Z <HassController:NOTICE> HassController#hass connecting to ws://192.168.1.198:8123/api/websocket [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.616Z <MQTTController:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt instance topic ident is mqtt [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.617Z <Controller:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.619Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt connecting to broker at mqtt://192.168.1.198:1883/ [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.691Z <MQTTController:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt2 instance topic ident is mqtt2 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.692Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14p uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.697Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone8 uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.726Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14jay uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.730Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14jen uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.735Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14addie uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.768Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_iphone14bella uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.773Z <MQTTController:ERR> MQTTController#mqtt2 entity owntracks_androidaa uses_template=owntracks_sensor, template not defined [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.777Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_androidaa no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_androidaa for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.781Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14addie no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14addie for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.786Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14bella no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14bella for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.790Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14jay no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14jay for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.794Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14jen no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14jen for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.798Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone14p no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone14p for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.802Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 device owntracks_iphone8 no longer available, marking BinarySensor#mqtt2>owntracks_iphone8 for removal [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.807Z <Controller:INFO> MQTTController#mqtt2 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.808Z <MQTTController:NOTICE> MQTTController#mqtt2 connecting to broker at mqtts://7ef71f0117fe40d28c2df12205c4a0d0.s2.eu.hivemq.cloud:8883 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.816Z <VirtualEntityController:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual configuring virtual Driving Flag - 2 (virt1) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.826Z <VirtualEntityController:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual configuring virtual Far Away Flag - 2 (virt2) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.827Z <VirtualEntityController:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual configuring virtual Garage Door Momentary Contact vSwitch (virt3) [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.828Z <Controller:INFO> VirtualEntityController#virtual 0 dead entities older than 86400000s purged [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.829Z <ZWaveJSController:INFO> ZWaveJSController#zwavejs connecting to ws://192.168.1.198:3000 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.836Z <Controller:NOTICE> Controller VirtualEntityController#virtual is now online. [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.839Z <app:NOTICE> Starting HTTP server and API... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.845Z <httpapi:NOTICE> httpapi: starting HTTP service on port 8111 [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.854Z <app:NOTICE> Starting Reaction Engine... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.856Z <Engine:INFO> Reaction Engine starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.857Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rule sets... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:40.880Z <Engine:INFO> Checking rules... [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.421Z <Engine:INFO> Data check complete; no corrections. [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.571Z <Rule:NOTICE> Driving Flag (rule-l97r2umw in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.572Z <Rule:NOTICE> Driving Flag - Far Away (rule-l97r814k in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.573Z <Rule:NOTICE> DST (rule-l118lzpd in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.573Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Cooling Master (Local APIs) (rule-ktinsq18 in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.574Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Heating before Alarm times (rule-l7hirm3d in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.574Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Heating Master (Local APIs) (rule-ktio3vc1 in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.575Z <Rule:NOTICE> HVAC Neutral Master (rule-ktint8c3 in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24052]2024-02-22T01:04:41.575Z <Rule:NOTICE> It's Raining (rule-lfs6r1lq in Shared Rules) starting [latest-24I'm flummoxed.
Help updating node.js for bare metal install
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I just read on the last MSR update that we need to update node.js. I just checked and on my Linux Debian machine its version 16.17.0.
I then at the terminal ran this command but it says I already have the latest version of node.js which doesn't seem right.
sudo apt-get install nodejs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nodejs is already the newest version (16.17.0-deb-1nodesource1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Any tips?
Thanks
EDIT:
I ran these commands instead to update all packages.
sudo apt update
then
sudo apt upgrade
I then did a node -v and now its version 16.20.2
However the announcement says "all nodejs versions earlier than 18 are now end-of-life".
EDIT2:
I then tried these commands:
npm install -g n
n latest
Now a node -v says its version 21.4.0
However after restarting MSR I still get this alert error:
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Looks like it changed the path of the node installation? Maybe MSR is still looking at the old path?
This was from the terminal output:installing : node-v21.4.0 mkdir : /usr/local/n/versions/node/21.4.0 fetch : https://nodejs.org/dist/v21.4.0/node-v21.4.0-linux-x64.tar.xz copying : node/21.4.0 installed : v21.4.0 (with npm 10.2.4) Note: the node command changed location and the old location may be remembered in your current shell. old : /usr/bin/node new : /usr/local/bin/node If "node --version" shows the old version then start a new shell, or reset the location hash with: hash -r (for bash, zsh, ash, dash, and ksh) rehash (for csh and tcsh)
There is a file called "node" under both usr/bin and usr/local/bin directories, I can see these using WinSCP to look at the file structure.
This was also in the terminal before the above:
npm install -g n added 1 package, and audited 2 packages in 2s found 0 vulnerabilities npm notice npm notice New major version of npm available! 8.19.4 -> 10.2.5 npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v10.2.5 npm notice Run npm install -g npm@10.2.5 to update! npm notice root@HP-Thin01:~# ^C root@HP-Thin01:~# npm install -g npm@10.2.5 npm ERR! code EBADENGINE npm ERR! engine Unsupported engine npm ERR! engine Not compatible with your version of node/npm: npm@10.2.5 npm ERR! notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: npm@10.2.5 npm ERR! notsup Required: {"node":"^18.17.0 || >=20.5.0"} npm ERR! notsup Actual: {"npm":"8.19.4","node":"v16.20.2"} npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2023-12-08T14_42_53_914Z-debug-0.log
I am stuck now and don't know how to fix this?
Thanks
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This is the contents of that log file it mentioned:
0 verbose cli /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/npm 1 info using npm@8.19.4 2 info using node@v16.20.2 3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 1ms 4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 7ms 5 timing config:load:file:/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 3ms 6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 3ms 7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 10ms 8 timing config:load:env Completed in 1ms 9 timing config:load:project Completed in 26ms 10 timing config:load:file:/root/.npmrc Completed in 10ms 11 timing config:load:user Completed in 11ms 12 timing config:load:file:/usr/etc/npmrc Completed in 1ms 13 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms 14 timing config:load:validate Completed in 1ms 15 timing config:load:credentials Completed in 6ms 16 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 4ms 17 timing config:load Completed in 73ms 18 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 74ms 19 timing npm:load:mkdirpcache Completed in 4ms 20 timing npm:load:mkdirplogs Completed in 1ms 21 verbose title npm install npm@10.2.5 22 verbose argv "install" "--global" "npm@10.2.5" 23 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 5ms 24 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 14ms 25 timing npm:load:display Completed in 24ms 26 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:/root/.npm/_logs 27 verbose logfile /root/.npm/_logs/2023-12-08T14_42_53_914Z-debug-0.log 28 timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 25ms 29 timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms 30 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms 31 timing npm:load Completed in 138ms 32 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 1 files 33 silly logfile done cleaning log files 34 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm 126ms (cache hit) 35 timing command:install Completed in 275ms 36 verbose stack Error: Unsupported engine 36 verbose stack at Object.checkEngine (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-install-checks/lib/index.js:14:25) 36 verbose stack at Install.exec (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/commands/install.js:109:16) 36 verbose stack at async module.exports (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli.js:78:5) 37 verbose pkgid npm@10.2.5 38 verbose cwd /root 39 verbose Linux 4.19.0-21-amd64 40 verbose node v16.20.2 41 verbose npm v8.19.4 42 error code EBADENGINE 43 error engine Unsupported engine 44 error engine Not compatible with your version of node/npm: npm@10.2.5 45 error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: npm@10.2.5 45 error notsup Required: {"node":"^18.17.0 || >=20.5.0"} 45 error notsup Actual: {"npm":"8.19.4","node":"v16.20.2"} 46 verbose exit 1 47 timing npm Completed in 774ms 48 verbose code 1 49 error A complete log of this run can be found in: 49 error /root/.npm/_logs/2023-12-08T14_42_53_914Z-debug-0.log
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So i ran into almost the exact same issue and this is how I managed to update NodeJS. Instead of running
sudo apt update
andsudo apt upgrade
I followed the install instructions on NodeJS Github.To make Reactor happy I copied the path the old
nodejs
file was in and in my case it was/home/arman/.local/lib/nodejs
I believe yours looks like it should be the same. Before doing anything copy and delete theNodeJS
folder and put it somewhere where you can access it again if you run into any issues. Following the steps replace anywhere where it says/usr/local/lib/nodejs
with/home/{user}/.local/lib/nodejs
. This is where I have a band-aid repair to get Reactor back up and working. I renamed the new folder in the/home/{user}/.local/lib/nodejs
directory from the new version of NodeJS to the previous version. In my case it I changed it fromnode-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l
tonode-v16.15.1-linux-armv7l
. Then Reactor was happy and no error saying I need to update Node. This is a temporary fix however.I am no Linux expert so please take my advice with caution lol!
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Thanks for the replies and tips.
In the end after more Googling for my Debian Buster install this seems to have fixed it for me.
I removed the new /usr/local/bin/node directory that got installed the other day.
rm /usr/local/bin/node
Then running the command "which node" the path was back to the old path of /usr/bin/node and "node -v" was showing the old version again of 16.20.2
I then found these commands on Google and tried them:
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_current.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
This seems to have upgraded the 16.20.2 version with a newer version, I saw this line in the terminal output
Unpacking nodejs (20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1) over (16.20.2-deb-1nodesource1)
Now when I do a node -v it says its version 20.5.1 and the alert message in MSR has now gone.
"which node" still says the path is the original path of /usr/bin/node also.
I have no idea if this was the correct way to do it but I think it has worked.
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I think we all have a similar problem. My step-by-step was as follows.
sudo apt remove nodejs sudo apt remove npm sudo apt autoremove sudo apt purge nodejs sudo apt purge npm sudo apt autoremove sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg NODE_MAJOR=20 echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_MAJOR.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs -y
Now comes the very rare story, if I'm not as toot I get this information.
node -v v20.10.0 npm -v 10.2.3
PERFECT!!
But after the su --, I become root and the version that comes is 12? and then I really don't understand. I did the tasks like this, as root and without root, in the same way.
If any expert can help me understand this madness.
Thanks.
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The PATH environment variable for root is different from that of regular users. You can
echo $PATH
in each to see the differences. The path is processed in order, first come first served. -
Well, I've just solved my problem, whether it's the right way or not I can't say, but it was brute force, I used the "which node" command, I located all the directories regardless of version and deleted them (rm node -r), this while being root. Then I did a fresh install solved.
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@wmarcolin That may have worked, but it's not strictly right and may lead to complications down the road, like versions of
node
andnpm
being out of sync.NOTE: Some of this can be used as instructions. Read all carefully and understand what you are doing before you actually do anything. If you don't understand, ask first, understand first, then proceed (always with caution and careful attention to detail).
Generally speaking, it's not a good idea to tamper with the system-installed version of any utility if there is one. If you use a command like
apt-get install node
or similar and it puts a version into/usr/bin
, that's where you should leave it, and never change it (unlessapt
oryum
does). That's because the system packages are versioned together as a group, so other system utilities may have dependencies on that system-blessed version of the package and its associated utilities and libraries.When you want a newer version of
node
, the generally-recommended way is to do a custom install, which can be done either to a user-specific directory (so that one user can have a private version), or system-wide in a location under/usr/local
(usually installed in/usr/local/lib
with symbolic links from/usr/local/bin
for the executables).Either way, the version of
node
that runs is the first one encountered in thePATH
environment then in effect.Reactor has been tested with all three common install methods: the native system packages, when up to date; a
/usr/local
install; and a user-directory-specific install. All work fine.Taking the structure of one of my RPis running Raspbian Buster (Debian 10), but should apply to almost any Linux-based platform...
The default system install puts a
node
andnpm
in/usr/bin
:pi@rpi4-2:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/node -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5536 Feb 24 2023 /usr/bin/node pi@rpi4-2:~ $ /usr/bin/node -v v10.24.0 pi@rpi4-2:~ $
Notice that when I ran the
node
command, I ran it with a full path (i.e. as/usr/bin/node
and not just typingnode
). That's because I have a newer version of node installed in/usr/local
that is configured to take precedence. And also notice how old that system-installed package is!My later-version installation in
/usr/local/lib
(specifically) looks like this:pi@rpi4-2:~ $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 26 08:59 nodejs drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 4096 Nov 26 09:13 python2.7 drwxrwsr-x 3 root staff 4096 May 7 2021 python3.7 pi@rpi4-2:~ $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/nodejs total 42112 drwxr-xr-x 6 1001 1001 4096 Oct 13 10:03 node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20932900 Oct 13 10:05 node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22182716 Nov 22 07:30 node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz pi@rpi4-2:~ $
You can see here, I have a
nodejs
subdirectory in/usr/local/lib
. In here, I've got the downloaded archives for two versions (an 18 and a 20), of which the 18 is currently unpacked in the directorynode-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l
. That's a completely self-contained package for nodejs, ready to run. All that was needed was to configure it to run.Configuring this version of node to run took two additional steps. First, I went to
/usr/local/bin
, and symbolically linked the executables from the v18 package, like this (notice I'm doing this step asroot
) :root@rpi4-2:~# cd /usr/local/bin root@rpi4-2:/usr/local/bin# ln -sf /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l/bin/* . root@rpi4-2:/usr/local/bin# ls -l total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 Dec 11 12:30 corepack -> /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l/bin/corepack lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Dec 11 12:30 node -> /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l/bin/node lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Dec 11 12:30 npm -> /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l/bin/npm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 Dec 11 12:30 npx -> /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v18.18.2-linux-armv7l/bin/npx root@rpi4-2:/usr/local/bin#
The first command changes directory to
/usr/local/bin
, and the second symbolically links all files in the package'sbin
subdirectory to the current directory (which is our/usr/local/bin
). Thels
command shows the result of that operation. So you can see, the executable in/usr/local/bin/node
isn't an executable at all, it's a symbolic link to the executable in the package directory. Same with the other nodejs commands in the package.The last step is to get that executable in
/usr/local/bin/node
to take precedence over the older version in the system install (i.e. the one in/usr/bin/node
). All that is required to do this is that/usr/local/bin/node
be seen by the shell before/usr/bin/node
. This is done by making sure/usr/local/bin
comes before/usr/bin
in thePATH
environment variable. On most systems, this is already the default case -- it's set up that way and you don't need to do anything. On some systems, you may need to add it. This can be done by adding a snippet like the following to the end of/etc/profile
(to make it a system-wide change):PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH export PATH
This puts
/usr/local/bin
at the head of thePATH
. Again, this usually isn't necessary, because/usr/local/bin
is already early in the path on most systems by default. You can check your path by doingecho $PATH
as I said before. If you do end up having to make this change, you'll need to log out and log back in to make it take effect. And, any time you edit anything in/etc
, it's a good idea to make a backup copy of the unmodified file first, in case you goof something up and need to revert (cp /etc/profile /etc/profile.old
is sufficient).If you're installing a per-user version of nodejs, the structure is fairly similar, but rather than unpacking the nodejs archive into
/usr/local/lib/nodejs
, you unpack it into~/.local/lib/nodejs/
(remember~
is a synonym for$HOME
and means the current user's home directory path) with the same structure that I showed above for/usr/local/...
. Notice we are not root here!# For user-local install, all work is done NOT as root. Here, I'm just "pi" pi@rpi4-2:~ $ mkdir -p ~/.local/lib pi@rpi4-2:~ $ mkdir -p ~/.local/bin pi@rpi4-2:~ $ cd ~/.local/lib/ pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/lib $ mkdir -p nodejs pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/lib $ cd nodejs pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/lib/nodejs $ wget 'https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v20.x/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz' --2023-12-11 12:46:55-- https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v20.x/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz Resolving nodejs.org (nodejs.org)... 104.20.23.46, 104.20.22.46, 2606:4700:10::6814:162e, ... Connecting to nodejs.org (nodejs.org)|104.20.23.46|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 22182716 (21M) [application/x-xz] Saving to: ânode-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz.1â node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.x 100%[==========================================================>] 21.15M 18.5MB/s in 1.1s 2023-12-11 12:46:57 (18.5 MB/s) - ânode-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz.1â saved [22182716/22182716] pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/lib/nodejs $ ls node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/lib/nodejs $ tar xJf node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz # J is for .xz, z is for .gz pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/lib/nodejs $ cd ~/.local/bin pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/bin $ ln -sf ~/.local/lib/nodejs/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l/bin/* . pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/bin $ ls -l total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 66 Dec 11 12:48 corepack -> /home/pi/.local/lib/nodejs/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l/bin/corepack lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 62 Dec 11 12:48 node -> /home/pi/.local/lib/nodejs/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l/bin/node lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 61 Dec 11 12:48 npm -> /home/pi/.local/lib/nodejs/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l/bin/npm lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 61 Dec 11 12:48 npx -> /home/pi/.local/lib/nodejs/node-v20.10.0-linux-armv7l/bin/npx pi@rpi4-2:~/.local/bin $
Reading these steps, the first five commands create the structure of the
.local
subdirectory needed, with subdirectoriesbin
,lib
andlib/nodejs
within just like we would have in/usr/local
. At this point, the current directory is~/.local/lib/nodejs
, and thewget
command is used to download the nodejs package we want (change version and architecture to what you need if you are actually doing this). Then we un-tar
it right where we are. After un-tar
ing it, we change directory to our own~/.local/bin
and make the symbolic links for the nodejs commands in the package directory, just like we did for/usr/local
.The last step is again, and this may be default, is making sure this user's
PATH
environment variable includes our new local~/.local/bin
directory. Check it withecho $PATH
to see if you need to make the addition. If so, the easiest way to do that is to add the following snipped to~/.profile
, which is the per-user equivalent to/etc/profile
(the per-user script runs after the/etc
script at login) to set up the shell environment. My Raspbian Buster (Debian 10) systems seem to have this done already as a default, so before making any changes, check yourPATH
and/or~/.profile
.PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH export PATH
Log out and back in, and then a
which node
should give you~/.local/bin/node
(or/home/username/.local/bin/node
). You then have a per-user custom version of nodejs that doesn't interfere with any system versions.Now, for running Reactor as a service, you need to be aware of where you are running it, and as who. It's generally not recommended to run Reactor as root on any bare-metal system (it runs as root on docker containers, but that's OK because the container is a constrained virtual environment). So when setting up, for example, your systemd profile for Reactor, you would want to make sure the profile contains both a
User
directory to set the correct (non-root) user for the running process, and a full path to the correctnode
executable inExecStart
(e.g.ExecStart=/home/pi/.local/bin/node app -p
).One last point: nodejs is so well-written that its entire dependencies exist entirely within its package structure, so whatever
node
command runs knows automatically where to find everything else it needs — you don't need to set a bunch of other environment variables to make each version work properly. That means you could, for example, run/usr/bin/node
and see a perfectly working v10.24.0 as I showed above, or/usr/local/bin/node
and get a perfectly-working v18.18.2 if that's what is installed there, and~/.local/bin/node
to get a fine v20.9.0 environment if that's what's installed there. Not all packages are this tight, and we can be grateful for it.Tip: don't stop at
which node
when you are trying to figure out what is running. nodejs itself makes extensive use of symbolic links, so doingwhich node
is only the tip of the iceberg. You need to then dols -l /that-path
and see if it's a symbolic link to somewhere else, as I showed in the output above. Keep following those links until you find the "real deal" and you'll find which version is actually running and where it actually lives.I hope some of this clarifies how nodejs is installed, and highlights how you can actually have multiple versions of it installed on the system and they co-exist quite well, you just have to be careful.
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@toggledbits fabulous post, there. Thanks. 18.19.0 in /usr/local/bin for Reactor and, apparently working fine
Any particular reason not to go to 21?
Cheers
C
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@CatmanV2 said in Help updating node.js for bare metal install:
Any particular reason not to go to 21?
Yes! Only even-numbered versions of nodejs are LTS (long-term support). For the longest life of the system between upgrades like this, use the LTS versions only. That's why I recommend 18 and 20.
Here's their release and support calendar: https://nodejs.github.io/nodejs.dev/en/about/releases/
Notice that 21 will be EOL far sooner than either 18 or 20.
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Super thanks for the master class!!!!