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Doug: /* Per node-i2c module readme on Raspbian */

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‎Per node-i2c module readme on Raspbian

2013-10-24T12:41:50Z

‎Installing NPM Modules

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‎Installing & Configuring Node (on Raspbian)

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   crw------- 1 root root 89, 1 Oct 23 20:03 /dev/i2c-1
-And make it writeable.
+==== Giving proper permissions to the i2c devices ====
-  sudo chmod o+rw /dev/i2c*
+Here we modify our udev rules in order to modify the i2c device to be owned by root. In the usermod command replace "pi" with the username of your choice, if you so wish.
 == Setting up syslog ==

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 === Installing NPM Modules ===
-Install "forever" as a global npm module. To do this you might have to set the proper path as root.
+Install "forever" as a global npm module. To do this you might have to set the proper path as root. "sudo su" is used here as a stop gap / work-around, I don't recommend it as a habit. If I could've done it a different way here, I would've. However, this worked so it's worth the two lines as su.
   sudo su
   PATH=/opt/node/bin/:$PATH
-  sudo npm install forever -g
+  npm install forever -g
   exit

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 And then log out and back in.
 === Installing NPM Modules ===
-Install "forever" as a global npm module
+Install "forever" as a global npm module. To do this you might have to set the proper path as root.
   sudo npm install forever -g
 (If you install it local first, before that, you might have to uninstall both, and then install globally)

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   NODE_JS_HOME="/opt/node"
-  PATH="$PATH:$NODE_JS_HOME/bin"
+ NODE_PATH="/opt/node"
 And then log out and back in.

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-== Installing & Configuring Node (on Raspbian) ===
+== Installing & Configuring Node (on Raspbian) ==
-I used a guide @ [http://blog.rueedlinger.ch/2013/03/raspberry-pi-and-nodejs-basic-setup/ rueedlinger.ch] for installing an up-to-date Node.js, as the one from apt-get was quite out of date.
+I used a guide @ [http://blog.rueedlinger.ch/2013/03/raspberry-pi-and-nodejs-basic-setup/ rueedlinger.ch] for installing an up-to-date Node.js, as the one from apt-get was quite out of date. Also, I didn't have luck with Node 10.5, so I went with Node 10.2.
 You download binaries, so it's very straight forward.

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 Change the default profile with
-  nano /etc/profile
+  sudo nano /etc/profile
 And add these lines before "export PATH"
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   NODE_JS_HOME="/opt/node"
   PATH="$PATH:$NODE_JS_HOME/bin"
 === Installing NPM Modules ===

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:18, 23 October 2013
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−	== Installing NPM Modules ==	+	== Installing & Configuring Node (on Raspbian) ===
		+
		+	I used a guide @ [http://blog.rueedlinger.ch/2013/03/raspberry-pi-and-nodejs-basic-setup/ rueedlinger.ch] for installing an up-to-date Node.js, as the one from apt-get was quite out of date.
		+
		+	You download binaries, so it's very straight forward.
		+
		+	sudo mkdir /opt/node
		+	wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.2/node-v0.10.2-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
		+	tar xvzf node-v0.10.2-linux-arm-pi.tar.gz
		+	sudo cp -r node-v0.10.2-linux-arm-pi/* /opt/node
		+
		+	Change the default profile with
		+
		+	nano /etc/profile
		+
		+	And add these lines before "export PATH"
		+
		+	NODE_JS_HOME="/opt/node"
		+	PATH="$PATH:$NODE_JS_HOME/bin"
		+
		+	=== Installing NPM Modules ===

	Install "forever" as a global npm module		Install "forever" as a global npm module

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		+	== Installing NPM Modules ==
		+
		+	Install "forever" as a global npm module
		+
		+	sudo npm install forever -g
		+
		+	(If you install it local first, before that, you might have to uninstall both, and then install globally)
		+
		+	=== Per node-i2c module readme on Raspbian ===
		+
		+	After installing i2c, you'll need to configure that the modules are available.
		+
		+	sudo vi /etc/modules
		+
		+	And add
		+
		+	i2c-bcm2708
		+	i2c-dev
		+
		+	Then edit
		+
		+	sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
		+
		+	And comment out the i2c module so it looks like:
		+
		+	# blacklist i2c-bcm2708
		+
		+	Load the kernel module
		+
		+	sudo modprobe i2c-bcm2708
		+
		+	...You may need to reboot at this point.
		+
		+	Check that it's there
		+
		+	pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo ls /dev/i2c-* -l
		+	crw------- 1 root root 89, 0 Oct 23 20:03 /dev/i2c-0
		+	crw------- 1 root root 89, 1 Oct 23 20:03 /dev/i2c-1
		+
		+	And make it writeable.
		+
		+	sudo chmod o+rw /dev/i2c*
		+
	== Setting up syslog ==		== Setting up syslog ==

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	sudo service syslog restart		sudo service syslog restart
		+
		+	You'll probably also want to rotate this log, go and edit instructions for syslog
		+
		+	nano /etc/logrotate.d/veeop
		+
		+	And fill it with:
		+
		+	/var/log/veeop.log {
		+	missingok
		+	notifempty
		+	size 5M
		+	yearly
		+	create 0600 root root
		+	}

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	# Save veeOP daemon messages to veeop.log		# Save veeOP daemon messages to veeop.log
	local5.* /var/log/veeop.conf		local5.* /var/log/veeop.conf
		+
		+	Then restart the daemon with
		+
		+	sudo service syslog restart