Error with heimcontrol

[Adill14]

I am still fairly new with working with the pi along with all this stuff. It is a learning process.
I am currently working on a home automation system and I have mongodb working properly on my raspberry pi. When I try to start heimcontrol.js i get an error.

WARNING: change secret string in config/development.json
info -socket.io started
connect.multipart() will be removed in connect 3.0
heimcontrol.js listening on port 8080

events.js:72
throw er; //unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: Cannot open /dev/

Thanks much for any and all help.

[Adill14]

I have also looked at issues 50 and 57. I tried the things that were done in 50 but had no success. Not sure what is the problem.I get the same error still.

[demonic645]

Hi Adill14,

Is your Arduino board plugged in? Its needs to be plugged in when you boot up your pi.

[EmbeddedSam]

as far as I remember the arduino didn't need to be plugged in originally, I don't want to use an arduino as I don't have one or have any interest in using them. How do I get the library up and running without an arduino? thanks

[Opulence]

...try removing the Arduino plugin files before booting. They're recursively loaded in, so I'd imagine that'd solve it. ...as in it wouldn't initialise the Arduino.

[tjanson]

This is still current: Heimcontrol requires an Arduino to be plugged in (and found etc.), which imho needs to be fixed in two ways:

• Make the error message more meaningful. It’s presumably the most common Heimcontrol issue by far. Just adding “Cannot open /dev/ — failed to connect to Arduino” would help a ton.
• Don’t exit if the Arduino is not found. Heimcontrol can definitely be useful without it, so why require it??

It’s on my todo; it’s really rather simple. (No promises.)

Done, see #97 and ni-c/duino#4.