Raspberry Pi 2 with USB Bluetooth and WiFi help about pi-suite

[pdobrien3]

Think I have figured out that it is this error during the npm install?

prebuild-install info begin Prebuild-install version 5.3.6
prebuild-install info looking for cached prebuild @ /home/pi/.npm/_prebuilds/470134-usb-v1.6.3-node-v72-linux-arm.tar.gz
prebuild-install http request GET https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/v1.6.3/usb-v1.6.3-node-v72-linux-arm.tar.gz
prebuild-install http 404 https://github.com/tessel/node-usb/releases/download/v1.6.3/usb-v1.6.3-node-v72-linux-arm.tar.gz
prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.18.1 runtime=node arch=arm libc= platform=linux)

[jeffyactive]

Hi @pdobrien3, the error you observe in your first message is due to the @elastic/elasticsearch package which seems to have a bug in v7.9.1 (the most recent version at the time of this post). The workaround is to install v7.9.0.

I've created a new version of hlc-server (the key dependency of pi-suite) which forces v7.9.0 to avoid this issue, which has been a pain for the few weeks since v7.9.1 was released. Can you try deleting your node_modules folder and running npm install and then npm start once again and confirm that the error message is no longer thrown?

[pdobrien3]

So, flashed a backup and am back to a clean raspbian install. Are you saying I should just be able to follow the instruction on the website (https://reelyactive.github.io/diy/pi-prep/ ) now and things should work?

[jeffyactive]

Yes, if you follow the two Pi tutorials everything should work:

• https://reelyactive.github.io/diy/pi-prep/
• https://reelyactive.github.io/diy/pi-suite/

On the Pi 3B+, you would run the start-hci script with npm to use the onboard BLE radio. If you're using a Pi 2 with BLE dongle, this might also work out-of-the-box, but there's a good chance you'll need to read up on the docs for bluetooth-hci-socket: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@abandonware/bluetooth-hci-socket

Kindly update this issue based on your results either way, thanks!

[pdobrien3]

so i did sudo apt-get install libudev-dev
then after the cd pi-suite command, i did npm install @abandonware/bluetooth-hci-socket
and then followed on with the pi-suite install directions and i am up and running

not sure if the bluetooth-hci-socket was needed or not but thank you very much !!!

[jeffyactive]

Excellent, glad it worked with the libudev-dev prerequisite.

Closing the issue. Have fun exploring ambient Bluetooth data!