presence service with openhabianpi

[Mikeww1]

Hi

I tried to install the presence server on my pi with openhabian. Unfortunately that does not seem to work.

Installation seems to work but - as I read in another post - the subdirectories are not created and the subdirectory structure is different.

The service module is in the correct directory. I created the necessary directories manually under home and put the content of the zip there.

Then I ran all the commands from the script manually but I cannot connect on port 5555. Openhab2 and mosquitto is running on the same machine.

 I ran the following command , maybe it helps. I am no Linux Guru and cannot debug that myself.

[10:06:48] openhabian@openHABianPi:~$ sudo journalctl -xe

[sudo] password for openhabian:

Jan 26 09:55:35 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Unit presence.service entered failed st

Jan 26 09:56:18 openHABianPi sudo[29656]: openhabian : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi/

Jan 26 09:56:18 openHABianPi sudo[29656]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened

Jan 26 09:56:18 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Reloading.

Jan 26 09:56:19 openHABianPi sudo[29656]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed

Jan 26 09:56:35 openHABianPi sudo[29676]: openhabian : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi/

Jan 26 09:56:35 openHABianPi sudo[29676]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened

Jan 26 09:56:35 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Reloading.

Jan 26 09:56:36 openHABianPi sudo[29676]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed

Jan 26 09:57:29 openHABianPi sudo[29719]: openhabian : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi/

Jan 26 09:57:29 openHABianPi sudo[29719]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened

Jan 26 09:57:29 openHABianPi sudo[29719]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed

Jan 26 10:02:58 openHABianPi sudo[29850]: openhabian : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/etc/syst

Jan 26 10:02:58 openHABianPi sudo[29850]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened

Jan 26 10:05:01 openHABianPi CRON[29910]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened

Jan 26 10:05:01 openHABianPi CRON[29914]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /d

Jan 26 10:05:01 openHABianPi CRON[29910]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed

Jan 26 10:06:08 openHABianPi sudo[29850]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed

Jan 26 10:06:19 openHABianPi sshd[27599]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed

Jan 26 10:06:42 openHABianPi sshd[29973]: Accepted password for openhabian from

Jan 26 10:06:42 openHABianPi sshd[29973]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened

Jan 26 10:07:02 openHABianPi sudo[30383]: openhabian : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/ope

Jan 26 10:07:02 openHABianPi sudo[30383]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened

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[nemik]

Seems like it might be restarting itself and not able to connect to MQTT? Check the systemd service file's "ExecStart" variable to make sure your MQTT parameters are correct. Run the presence server with "-h" to see the help file and the available command-line options. If your MQTT server is not on local host, or running on a different port, or needs a username/pass, then you need to include those when starting the server.

[Mikeww1]

Thanks for the hints.

I started to edit the presence.service file and corrected the directory paths that were wrong and I corrected the user because I dont know if user pi exists.

It looks like that now

[Unit]

Description=presence

[Service]

ExecStart=/home/pi/presence/presence -http_host_path=0.0.0.0:5555 -mqtt_host "localhost:1883" -mqtt_user$t_username "xxxxxxxx" -mqtt_password "yyyyyy"

WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/presence

User=openhabian

Group=pi

Restart=always

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

But I have still no response on port 5555.

Are there any prerequisites for running the server on the pi ?

What are the commands to debug this ? I have only basic knowledge of Linux.

[Mikeww1]

In addition :

I am not sure how to start the service with parameters-

[20:04:02] openhabian@openHABianPi:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo service presence -h

Usage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]

[20:10:24] openhabian@openHABianPi:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo service presence --status-all

presence: unrecognized service

[20:12:20] openhabian@openHABianPi:/etc/systemd/system$ sudo service presence --status

presence: unrecognized service

[Mikeww1]

I found some additional information regarding the start problems of the presence server in the daemon.log:

Feb  5 15:39:07 openHABianPi presence[3602]: 2018/02/05 15:39:07 open presence.db: permission denied
Feb  5 15:39:07 openHABianPi systemd[1]: presence.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb  5 15:39:07 openHABianPi systemd[1]: Unit presence.service entered failed state.

What permissions are necessary to avoid that error ?

[nemik]

I'm not sure what user you're running as, but that user must be able able to open and write to that presence.db file which stores state for the presence server.

Can you find the presence.db file on your system and if you do "ls -al presence.db" there, it will tell you which user it belongs to and which permissions. Then those could be changed with "chmod". If you ran the presence server manually  before with sudo, it may have created the DB file with root permissions, so a regular user now can't use it. You can either change its permissions with 'chmod' or remove the file entirely if you don't have many beacons added and stored.

As for your previous question about the "-h" flag, you don't run it with 'service', so instead just fine where "presence" executable is located and run "./presence -h" to see the options, without service.

[Mikeww1]

I solved the problem.

The directory pi was assigned to root. I changed that to openhabian:openhabian and now it runs !!

Thank you for your support.

[nemik]

Great! Sorry the installation is so minimal and specific to Raspbian for now, but I'm glad you got it sorted.