GUI stuck on "waiting for socket connection" [solved]

[Kilo95]

NOTE: this topic was split from the NeDB upgrade topic.

Can you tell me the commands so I can copy the newest NeDB zip from github and then unzip it? Thanks

[Felix]

Can you tell me the commands so I can copy the newest zip from github and then unzip it? Thanks

Please see the updated post above to upgrade to neDB 1.5, that is all you need.

[Kilo95]

When I get to the "npm outdated" command I don't see Nedb showing up at all.

[Kilo95]

My gateway GUI is still stuck on "waiting for socket connection". I've tried reinstall of raspbian from your link (with settings.js changed appropriately and password changed). I'm at a loss

[Felix]

You have to do npm outdated in the moteino/node_modules, not one level deeper...
Please  revisit what I did in the post above.

[Kilo95]

Ok. I did exactly as you said, starting from the beginning of those instructions. In ~/moteino/node_modules/. Not any deeper. Still "waiting for socket connection"

[Felix]

Can you look in the browser debug debug window to see if there are any javascript errors?
Can you confirm if gateway.js is running?
run ps aux | grep node  - this will show all running node processes

[Kilo95]

Ok. It was an error in settings.js. Fixed that. It connects now but shows "nodes 0". I used minicom and everything is working fine there. I really apologize for the trouble and thank you for the help while I learn

[Kilo95]

Update. It is working now. All is well. Thank you

[Felix]

Great
Thanks for the update

[beckerdo]

I had this similar message from my Nginx web server on Raspberry Pi 2, but I solved it in a different manner.

I used the pre-generate IMG from Felix, but I noticed some pieces of the software stack were not in place and still needed to be done manually.

1) I needed to generate the self-signed SSL certificate in /home/pi/gateway/data/secure with:

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sudo openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -out server.crt -keyout server.key

2) For some reason, upstart was not available, so I had to install that, reboot, and assure node gateway.js was running:

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sudo apt-get install upstart
sudo reboot
ps aux | grep node

Once I did these steps, Nginx and node gateway.js served up some devices to my browser.
Thanks

[Kilo95]

When I put my email address, mobile number, etc into settings.js, I accidentally put a ' instead of a " or vise versa. Don't remember which it is. That was enough to mess things up. Works like a charm now