Home Theatre Controller (Pioneer AVR + USB PowerMate)

[HNBC84]

I am a bit stuck, i'm running domoticz from a raspberry.
And the install part does not match for me...

Allready found out the NPM part, but still can't find it how to install. Ps. im a bit of a n00b on the linux part

Still love this project so i wont give up, only need to find some time for it

[nayr]

what are you getting stuck on? being a bit of a noob is okay, tha'll keep me on my toes

I got my version of NodeJSv4 from here: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

[HNBC84]

I'm not home at the moment so i need to try it a bit later this week.

For shure thats not what i had.

[nayr]

let me tweak the npm requirements, since the powermate is optional and its kinda hard to build... next time you try do a fresh pull.

Ordered stuff today to put a nice FM antenna in the attic, I get nothing in the server room so I am looking forward to having the FM Tuner at my disposal.. have never used until now simply because it was unusable with the remote install.. Also ordered a cable to run to the garage, going to finally hookup Zone3 so I have something to test with.

[HNBC84]

I will start freshly Big thx!

[HNBC84]

I think i got it.

For (my) raspberry i need to mkdir service.


pi@domoticz ~/htc $ sudo cp systemd/htc.service /etc/systemd/system/
pi@domoticz ~/htc $ nano systemd/htc.service
pi@domoticz ~/htc $ sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/service
pi@domoticz ~/htc $ sudo cp systemd/htc.service /etc/systemd/service/
pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ls


pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ./server.js
FATAL AVR ERROR: Error: connect EHOSTUNREACH

Now need to do the config parts.


./server.js is working, me happy

but now:


pi@domoticz ~ $ sudo systemctl enable htc
sudo: systemctl: command not found

?

[nayr]

sweet, let me do some googling on your Pi.. thats just the startup script so you can leave it dangling for now and start it up by hand.. ./daemon.js start will launch the server.js into the background... and ./daemon.js stop will of course stop the server.

It looks like you dont use SystemD, so Im going to have to write startup scripts specific for the Pi.. I bet Rasbian is based off Wheesy and I am working off Jessie. (Old Stable Debian and New Stable Debian)

I went ahead and ordered me another usb to RS232 adapter as I decided I want serial control over my AVR.. it should not make much difference but be more stable for my setup, as a result HTC will support both serial and IP connections soon.. I loose HDMI DRM handshake every few days so I have a hard timer on my AVR to reset every night, this causes the HTC to crash and have to be restarted.. wont have that problem with serial as the connection will remain open always, regardless if I hard cycle the Pioneer.

a big reason for my init script was to restart the htc server automatically if it crashed, in some cases it is designed to crash.. like if the network goes away or the receiver is unreachable.. this way it can cleanly exit and keep retrying until everything comes back online.. I dont know if that same recovery method will work without SystemD.. I guess I can have you load a crontab to make sure its still running from time to time.

try this:

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crontab -l > ~/crontab
echo '*/5 * * * * ~/htc/daemon.js start' >> ~/crontab
crontab ~/crontab

that will try to start it every 5 mins, if its already running it will do nothing.. so it should recover from network issues.

[steppi]

Hello everyone! Congratulations on this project, is a long time that I try to work with my AVR Pioneer SC-2024 ..
I would like to install this handout (Pioneer) also Homebridge .. Some of you would be able to help me?

thank you! Hello!

[nayr]

looking at homebridge for the first time right now it seems it would be better if you got that to interface with Domoticz, then it would have access to all the Domoticz devices.. including your Pioneer with the help of this app.

as for getting your Pioneer setup in Domoticz, read through this thread.. its got alot of information to get you started.. let me know if you have problems and I'll get you a solution. Your Pioneer looks very much like mine, just with an extra HDMI out port and built in Bluetooth.. I dont have any support for multiple outputs right now so if you need that working we'll have to come up with something.. perhaps one input selector for each output.

[nayr]

Ok I checked in code today that should finish up support for Zone2 Input Selector. have not really tested it so let me know how it works.. once everyone is happy with Zone2 I can reuse the code for the other zones.

*edit* tested zone 2 a bit and its not quite there, dont enable zone2 selector in your config its bugged out.

Also fixed a bunch of bugs and did alot of testing, added SysLog support so I can leave debug on while running in the background.. my poor family is involuntary beta testers

I am going to let anything not Zone2 related simmer for a while and just fix any issues that come up.. see how the family copes with it, wife is asking for a usermanual... sigh.

[HNBC84]

I update all, raspberry,Domoticz beta HTcontroller and now i get this error:


pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ./server.js

/home/pi/htc/config.js:18
log : false // Extra Debug Logging
^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/server.js:6:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
pi@domoticz ~/htc $


And for the NodeJS i get this back is this a problem?:

pi@domoticz ~/htc $ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nodejs : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16) but 2.13-38+rpi2+deb7u8 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) but 4.8.2-21~rpi3rpi1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
pi@domoticz ~/htc $

[nayr]

oops I ommited a comma in the example.config, its missing after the syslog line.. checked in a fixed example.

crap it looks like wheezy/rasbian cant run the latest NodeJS on arm platform.. wtf, sigh.. okay I guess you'll have to use whatever comes with it and hope it works.

[steppi]

thanks nair
My only goal is to manage my Pioneer SC-2024, I do not care the TV Android, and more ..
I tried to install your package, but I can not go .. I block bonfire here:

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pi@domoticz:~/htc $ ./server.js

/home/pi/htc/config.js:18
	log		: false			// Extra Debug Logging
	^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/server.js:6:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
pi@domoticz:~/htc $ 

Would you be able to help me please? Thank you very much!

[nayr]

i left out a comma in the config example, in your config simply add the missing comma on the syslog line above.. ie

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	syslog	: false,		// Log to Syslog
	log		: false,		// Extra Debug Logging
};

see: https://github.com/nayrnet/domoticz-htc ... 3ea2daca0f

Ive corrected the example upstream if you update and review.. this is one of those projects I have no other option but to work on it late at night when everyone is asleep, else I catch flack for breaking the TV.

[nayr]

ok I had time to play around a bit with it today, and do alot of Zone2 testing and I believe Zone2 Input selector is fully working as of now.. I dont have speakers hooked up but as far as watching the console all the right things are happening that if I did they would be playing.. I'll do some more testing then start expanding the code for Zone3 & Zone4.

Just create another dummy selector switch, set it up to match the zoneInputs configuration object for HTC.. then get that switch IDX from the Devices window and put it in the zone2 config under switches.. zone2/3/4 will all have to share the same input list, I see no reason why they need to be unique.

my external antenna for the Radio tuner should be here this week, I'll get it hooked up then I should be able to finish up the FM tuner.. it too is a little hard to verify with no audio output.

now to get you guys running it and see if any new issues spring up, almost got volume sliders working.. getting close to that Version 1.0 release

[HNBC84]

Love the fast and good support That i did't see the , error.


New problem and i cant see where its link from:

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pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ./server.js

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'request'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/hardware/pioneeravr.js:6:17)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    
pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ls
config.example  daemon.js  LICENSE       README.md  screenshots  systemd
config.js       hardware   package.json  rsyslog.d  server.js

pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ./daemon.js

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'daemonize2'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/daemon.js:4:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    
pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ./daemon.js start

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'daemonize2'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/daemon.js:4:14)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
pi@domoticz ~/htc $

[nayr]

run 'npm install' from the base of the htc folder.. your missing the required modules.

[HNBC84]

npm was the missing link, i deleted the HTC folder.
Today i start over and give it a new try...

Yesterday i had the same issue

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pi@domoticz ~/htc $ ./server.js

/home/pi/htc/server.js:481
        console.log("ERROR: " + err)
                ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'log' of undefined
    at process.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/server.js:481:10)
    at process.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at process._fatalException (node.js:301:26)
pi@domoticz ~/htc $

[steppi]

Nayr Hello! Unfortunately, I have also had the same problem!

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pi@domoticz:~/htc $ ./server.js

/home/pi/htc/server.js:481
	console.log("ERROR: " + err)
	        ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'log' of undefined
    at process.<anonymous> (/home/pi/htc/server.js:481:10)
    at process.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at process._fatalException (node.js:272:26)

How come I can not let go of this? Where am I wrong?

[nayr]

ouch that was unexpected, okay that was a bug introduced when I added syslog support.. pushed a fix upstream.. do a 'git pull' and try again.

fix: https://github.com/nayrnet/domoticz-htc ... a22cfa415a

other than that hope you guys find success, its been running over a week now for me without any crashes or waking up to a house mad that the TV wont turn on