EspruinoHub and Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy), let's have a go!

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Posted at 2021-12-02 by PuckU

I am a newbie who got EspruinoHub working a while ago but broke it with updates.
I have been trying to get it working with the latest releases with too many problems to mention.
In my use of Raspberry Pi Imager I noticed today that there are new OS options and after Googling I found...
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-old-functionality-with-raspberry-pi-os-legacy/

“New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) 2nd Dec 2021
Gordon Hollingworth

I am prepping my SD card now.

Questions:
What hardware is best? Zero, Pi3B+, Pi4?
Should I even try?

Thanks from a first time poster,

P

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2021-12-16 by @gfwilliams

Hi, Sorry for the delay - I missed this!

EspruinoHub should work fine on any of the Pi versions. A Pi Zero W makes a nice tidy installation but the install will take quite a bit longer :(

Otherwise I believe they all use basically the same Wifi/Bluetooth chip so should all work about the same

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2021-12-16 by myownself

Ah that link is useful. I had trouble installing EspruinoHub on a Pi Zero W recently. The issue was related to nodejs in Raspberry Pi OS stable. I might have another go with Legacy before going down the AlpineLinux route.

Maybe having pre-prepared images for raspberry pi's would be useful?

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2022-01-05 by @gfwilliams

Maybe having pre-prepared images for raspberry pi's would be useful?

I guess we could suggest a specific firmware version that works.

... while it'd be useful, the effort of doing that vs the number of people that actually use EspruinoHub probably means it's not worth it...

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Posted at 2022-01-15 by kab

Thanks @pucku for this pointer. Was also having a heck of a time getting this installed, with lots of versioning errors. Legacy Raspbian seemed to work, at least with a lot fewer errors.

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Posted at 2022-01-15 by PuckU

I have Espruino Hub working on both a Raspberry Pi Zero W and Raspberry Pi4.

I prefer the Raspberry Pi 4 because it runs the python commands I am using with Node-Red faster. I am using the PuckJs to toggle on and off my TP-Link Kasa smart bulbs and sockets via Node-Red and the "python-kasa" library.
https://python-kasa.readthedocs.io/
It works a lot faster than IFFT and does not require TP-Link cloud services over the internet.

I am still having an issue with autostart on boot...

[Config] Config config.json loaded
[HTTPProxy] config.http_proxy=false, not enabling Bleno/Proxy
[MQTT] Connecting...
[HTTP] Server is listening on http://localhost:1888
[HTTP] www directory found at /home/pi/EspruinoHub/www. Web server at http://localhost:1888
[History] history_path value is empty, thus not providing history.
[MQTT] Connected
[Discover] Re-sending presence status of known devices
[MQTT] Write to f7:e3:xx:xx:xx:xx but not in range
[Discover] Noble StateChange: poweredOn
[Discover] Starting scan...
[Discover] Scanning started.
[Discover] Scanning stopped.

A restart "sudo systemctl restart EspruinoHub.service" gets it running normally though.

I have looked at the logs and tried some config changes but I have found no fix yet.

:-P

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2022-01-24 by @gfwilliams

I have looked at the logs and tried some config changes but I have found no fix yet.

I guess maybe it starts and then something happens to bluetooth later on in the boot. You could try adding a 30 second delay to the startup script (or even EspruinoHub itself?).

@pucku is that working with the new OS? I need to have a look and see what's wrong with the versions - it shouldn't really be a big deal to install

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2022-01-27 by PuckU

Thanks @gordon, a sleep 30 command in start.sh did the trick.
Sorry for the delays in responding here, things are busy at work.

I am going to install again on a fresh new Zero 2 W, I will follow the tutorial for EspriunoHub and Node-RED and let you know if there are any errors here.

:-P