Not able to install "socket.io" on my BBB -> npm ERR! Error: connect ETIMEDOUT

[Ara Bedrossian]

I need to create an interactive webpage to be able to control the BBB and be able to render the measured values from BBB onto this page.

I'm trying to run the example provided at: http://isolasoftware.it/2012/04/23/beaglebone-and-websockets-a-full-example-that-turn-onoff-a-led/
When I'm running the code I getting: Error: Cannot find module 'socket'

So I tried to install the "socket.io" package. As a result I'm getting the following error:

root@beaglebone:~# npm install socket.io

npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io

npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io

npm http GET http://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io

npm ERR! Error: connect ETIMEDOUT

npm ERR!     at errnoException (net.js:770:11)

npm ERR!     at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:761:19)

npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:

npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>

npm ERR! or email it to:

npm ERR!     <np...@googlegroups.com>

npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.13

npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "socket.io"

npm ERR! cwd /home/root

npm ERR! node -v v0.8.22

npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.14

npm ERR! syscall connect

npm ERR! code ETIMEDOUT

npm ERR! errno ETIMEDOUT

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:

npm ERR!     /home/root/npm-debug.log

npm ERR! not ok code 0

Please advice!

[Roland Groeneveld]

Make sure to install socket.io in the /var/lib/cloud9 directory:

cd /var/lib/cloud9

npm install socket.io

For more details and an example on using socket.io, see https://github.com/lgxlogic/BoneScript-SocketIO

Hope this helps.

Roland Groeneveld

Logic Supply

www.logicsupply.com