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[Taragorm]

Thanks. I'll leave that alone for now then. :)

[Taragorm]

Another question - what is the best procedure for visualisation development?

I have a local project (under home) that contains the development package; I can install that using the customURL function.

So far, so good.

After I've changed the package, and re-installed, nothing seems to change, so there must be more to it.

[Bluefox]

@Taragorm Have you seen that? https://github.com/ioBroker/ioBroker/wiki/How-to-debug-vis-and-to-write-own-widget-set

[Taragorm]

@Bluefox I have, and I think I followed the instructions, but if I reinstall my adaptor using "from custom URL", nothing much seems to change, even if I restart iobroker.

Clearly I'm doing something wrong?

[Bluefox]

@Taragorm I do it like this.

My folder structure is like this one:

/opt/iobroker
        iobroker.my-new-adapter
        node_modules
               ...
               iobroker.js-controle
               iobroker.xxxx
               ...

Then I install my new adapter by writing npm i iobroker.my-new-adapter in /opt/iobroker.
As result the npm creates a sym-link to my developer folder:

/opt/iobroker
        iobroker.my-new-adapter
        node_modules
               ...
               iobroker.js-controle
               iobroker.my-new-adapter (symlink)
               iobroker.xxxx
               ...

after that I develop my adapter as usual in /opt/iobroker/iobroker.my-new-adapter even as a git repo.

after every change I write iobroker r vis && iobroker u vis This should work 100%.

Additionally I can write iobroker visdebug my-new-adapter and if I see the output
Disable cache I restart the iobroker (only for the first time).

After that I can directly modify the file /opt/iobroker/iobroker-data/files/vis/widgets/my-new-adapter.html and after every browser refresh it will be loaded anew from disk. So you can fast see your changes.

But, the changes in /opt/iobroker/iobroker-data/files/vis/widgets/my-new-adapter.html must be copied to /opt/iobroker/iobroker.my-new-adapter/widgets/ manually and you may not call iobroker u vis till you do that, else they will be overwritten

[Taragorm]

Thanks - that's exactly what I needed to know

[Taragorm]

Hmm.

The module is iobroker.vis-taragorm

iobroker@iobrokerdev /o/iobroker> iobroker visdebug vis-taragorm

/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup/setupVisDebug.js:64
            if (!adapterDir) throw 'Adapter not found. Tried: ' + adapterNames2Try.join(', ');
                             ^
Adapter not found. Tried: vis-vis-taragorm, vis-taragorm
iobroker@iobrokerdev /o/iobroker> 

however, vis-taragorm.html does exist in widgets, and there is an instance installed ok. I can't see my widget in the list though.

Possiby unrelated, I should also note that I got some errors installing (and many warnings, but I didn't include those):

unix_dgram.target.mk:101: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/unix_dgram/src/unix_dgram.o' failed
make: *** [Release/obj.target/unix_dgram/src/unix_dgram.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/opt/iobroker/node_modules/unix-dgram/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:197:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:254:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /opt/iobroker/node_modules/unix-dgram
gyp ERR! node -v v11.10.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: unix-dgram@0.2.3 (node_modules/unix-dgram):
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: unix-dgram@0.2.3 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Exit status 1

The last message implies this isn't fatal, but I'm new to NodeJS...

The dev env is Debian Stretch

iobroker@iobrokerdev ~/projects> uname -a
Linux iobrokerdev 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Bluefox]

Участник @Taragorm написал в getting started with visualisations:

/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/

It would be easier, if I can see the repo on github.
Do you have file /opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.vis-taragorm/widgets/taragorm.html ?

[Bluefox]

BTW, you can deliver in your adapter https://github.com/Taragorm/ioBroker.evohome the widgets too. It is even better.

[Taragorm]

Thanks for the quick response!

The repo is up at: https://github.com/Taragorm/ioBroker.vis-taragorm

It's mostly template right now.

This is intended for some generic visualisations (and to practice in) so I didn't include it in the evohome repo. I'll add some specific visualisations there once I know what I'm doing.

[Taragorm]

@Bluefox

iobroker@iobrokerdev ~/projects> ls -l /opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.vis-taragorm/widgets
total 12
drwxrwxrwx+ 4 iobroker iobroker 4096 Mar  2 10:26 vis-taragorm/
-rw-r--r--+ 1 iobroker iobroker 6521 Mar  2 11:47 vis-taragorm.html

Seems to be there...

[Bluefox]

@Taragorm No matter. With iobroker r vis && iobroker u vis it should work.
Not Fast, but work.

Just tried to execute (windows):

and cannot see any errors

[Taragorm]

Something broken with my install, maybe?

I added a bit of logging to the empty catch block (line 24 here):

    this.enableDebug = function (widgetset) {
        console.log( "widgetset=" + widgetset );

        if (widgetset) {
            // Try to find out the adapter directory out of a list of options
            var adapterDir;
            var adapterNames2Try = ['vis-' + widgetset, widgetset];
            if (adapterNames2Try[0] === adapterNames2Try[1]) adapterNames2Try.splice(1, 1);
            for (var i = 0; i < adapterNames2Try.length; i++) {
                try {
                    var adapterDir2Try = tools.getAdapterDir(adapterNames2Try[i]);
                    // Query the entry
                    var stats = fs.lstatSync(adapterDir2Try);

                    console.log(stats.toString() );

                    // Is it a directory?
                    if (stats.isDirectory()) {
                        //found it!
                        adapterDir = adapterDir2Try;
                        break;
                    }
                } catch (e) {
                    console.error(e);
                }
            }

            if (!adapterDir) throw 'Adapter not found. Tried: ' + adapterNames2Try.join(', ');
        }

and got this:

obroker@iobrokerdev /o/iobroker> iobroker visdebug vis-taragorm
widgetset=vis-taragorm
TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be one of type string, Buffer, or URL. Received type object
    at Object.lstatSync (fs.js:857:3)
    at VisDebug.enableDebug (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup/setupVisDebug.js:52:36)
    at /opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup.js:2464:30
    at Object.connected (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup.js:3145:70)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/states/statesInMemClient.js:87:68)
    at Socket.Emitter.emit (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/node_modules/component-emitter/index.js:133:20)
    at Socket.emit (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:138:10)
    at Socket.onconnect (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:335:8)
    at Socket.onpacket (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:232:12)
    at Manager.<anonymous> (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/component-bind/index.js:21:15)
[object Object]

/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup/setupVisDebug.js:67
            if (!adapterDir) throw 'Adapter not found. Tried: ' + adapterNames2Try.join(', ');
                             ^
Adapter not found. Tried: vis-vis-taragorm, vis-taragorm

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[Bluefox]

@Taragorm Can it be, that you have js-controller 1.4.2? Please update to 1.5.7

[Taragorm]

Certainly looks to be 1.4.2

iobroker@iobrokerdev /o/iobroker> npm outdated
Package                 Current  Wanted  Latest  Location
iobroker.js-controller    1.4.2   1.4.2   1.5.7  iobroker.inst
yargs                     7.1.0   7.1.0  13.2.2  iobroker.inst

main iobroker package calls for "stable", rather than a particular rev - do I just alter the depend there and npm update - or is there a "proper" way to do it?

[Bluefox]

@Taragorm via npm is ok. Just stop iob before update

[Taragorm]

Update

Reloaded iobroker from scratch, just to be sure
Updated iob.js-controller to 1.5.7

iobroker@iobrokerdev /o/iobroker> npm list iobroker.js-controller
iobroker.inst@2.0.2 /opt/iobroker
└── iobroker.js-controller@1.5.7 

Same error on iob visdebug

Also

Lots of warnings caused by this:

iobroker.inst@2.0.2 /opt/iobroker
└─┬ iobroker.js-controller@1.5.7
  └─┬ winston-syslog@1.2.6
    └── UNMET OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY unix-dgram@~0.2.1

Is there any way to suppress it? I hate clutter in the logfiles!

Also2

I can't see my widget in the vis builder. There's no obvious error in the log tho.

[Taragorm]

done a bit more digging into the visdebug error, and it seems like the project folder isn't being recognised as a directory:

Trying:/opt/iobroker/iobroker.vis-taragorm
Got stats:{"dev":2049,"mode":41471,"nlink":1,"uid":1001,"gid":1001,"rdev":0,"blksize":4096,"ino":792374,"size":24,"blocks":0,"atimeMs":1552471012718.894,"mtimeMs":1552471012714.892,"ctimeMs":1552471012714.892,"birthtimeMs":1552471012714.892,"atime":"2019-03-13T09:56:52.719Z","mtime":"2019-03-13T09:56:52.715Z","ctime":"2019-03-13T09:56:52.715Z","birthtime":"2019-03-13T09:56:52.715Z"}  isDir=false

trace code:

                    console.log("Trying:" + process.cwd() + "/" + adapterNames2Try[i]);
                    var adapterDir2Try = tools.getAdapterDir(adapterNames2Try[i]);
                    // Query the entry
                    var stats = fs.lstatSync(adapterDir2Try);
                    console.log("Got stats:" + JSON.stringify(stats) + "  isDir=" + stats.isDirectory());

But it surely is a dir:

iobroker@iobrokerdev /o/iobroker> ls -l
total 248
-rw-rwxr--+   1 iobroker iobroker   1474 Mar 13 09:40 CHANGELOG_INSTALLER_LINUX.md*
drwxrwxr-x+   3 iobroker iobroker   4096 Mar 13 09:40 install/
-rwxrwxrwx+   1 iobroker iobroker    169 Mar 13 09:41 INSTALLER_INFO.txt*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 iobroker iobroker     22 Mar 13 09:41 iob -> /opt/iobroker/iobroker*
-rwxrwxr-x+   1 iobroker iobroker    209 Mar 13 09:41 iobroker*
drwxrwxrwx+   4 iobroker iobroker   4096 Mar 13 09:42 iobroker-data/
drwxrwxrwx+   8 iobroker iobroker   4096 Mar 13 09:59 iobroker.vis-taragorm/
-rw-rwxrw-+   1 iobroker iobroker     92 Mar 13 09:41 killall.sh*
drwxrwxr-x+   2 iobroker iobroker   4096 Mar 13 09:40 lib/
-rw-rwxr--+   1 iobroker iobroker   1137 Mar 13 09:40 LICENSE*
drwxrwxrwx+   2 iobroker iobroker   4096 Mar 13 09:41 log/
drwxrwxr-x+ 451 iobroker iobroker  20480 Mar 13 09:56 node_modules/
-rw-rwxrw-+   1 iobroker iobroker    658 Mar 13 09:56 package.json*
-rw-rwxrw-+   1 iobroker iobroker 166878 Mar 13 09:41 package-lock.json*
-rw-rwxr--+   1 iobroker iobroker   6101 Mar 13 09:40 README.md*
-rw-rw-rw-+   1 iobroker iobroker   5868 Mar 13 09:51 reinstall.js
-rw-rwxrw-+   1 iobroker iobroker    709 Mar 13 09:41 reinstall.sh*

it's as if fs is misbehaving?

[Bluefox]

@Taragorm is the normal iobroker upload vis does not work?

You can force all the steps manually.

1. Copy your widgets files into /opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.vis/www/widgets directory.
2. Change /opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.vis/www/js/config.js
3. Change /opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.vis/www/cache.manifest (just add/change some char to change the hash)
4. iobroker u vis
5. To be sure clear the browser cache

[Taragorm]

fyi, in enableDebug I think:

var stats = fs.lstatSync(adapterDir2Try);

maybe should be
var stats = fs.statSync(adapterDir2Try);

As diagnostics suggest we're finding the link, and lstatSync() returns the link itself, rather than the target of the link.

Changing it, lets things go a bit further, but it still fails somewhat messily:

Trying:/opt/iobroker/iobroker.vis-taragorm
Got stats:{"dev":2049,"mode":16895,"nlink":8,"uid":1001,"gid":1001,"rdev":0,"blksize":4096,"ino":791105,"size":4096,"blocks":8,"atimeMs":1552471286715.824,"mtimeMs":1552471172270.63,"ctimeMs":1552471172270.63,"birthtimeMs":1552471172270.63,"atime":"2019-03-13T10:01:26.716Z","mtime":"2019-03-13T09:59:32.271Z","ctime":"2019-03-13T09:59:32.271Z","birthtime":"2019-03-13T09:59:32.271Z"}  isDir=true isLink=false
Upload "/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.vis/www/index.html.original"
fs.js:119
    throw err;
    ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup/../../../iobroker.vis/www/index.html.original'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:448:3)
    at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:348:35)
    at VisDebug.enableDebug (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup/setupVisDebug.js:91:23)
    at _objects (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup.js:2460:30)
    at Object.connected (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/setup.js:3133:17)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.js-controller/lib/states/statesInMemClient.js:87:68)
    at Socket.Emitter.emit (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/socket.io-client/node_modules/component-emitter/index.js:133:20)
    at Socket.emit (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:136:10)
    at Socket.onconnect (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:328:8)
    at Socket.onpacket (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:224:12)

For now, I'm going to switch my development environment to Windows, as that seems to be working for you.