Can not start brigde - Could not parse config.json

[jantum]

Hello,

since two week I'm not longer able to start the brigde on my RPI3. When I try to start the bridge the following error appiers:

~/landroid-bridge$ node dist/server.js
/home/openhabian/landroid-bridge/dist/Config.js:29
throw new Error("Could not parse config.json");
^

Error: Could not parse config.json
at Config.loadConfig (/home/openhabian/landroid-bridge/dist/Config.js:29:19)
at new Config (/home/openhabian/landroid-bridge/dist/Config.js:13:14)
at Object. (/home/openhabian/landroid-bridge/dist/Config.js:36:19)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:654:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:665:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:566:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:506:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:498:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:11:18)

The bridge worked for month without Problems and I did not any changes on my config then on my overall setup.

Thank you for your help.
Jan

[orakel77]

Same here. Any information on this?

[riker09]

Could you please paste your config.json that is causing the issue? Make sure to remove your email and password before you do.

You can try and check your file with a JSON validator. I'm a huge fan of http://json.parser.online.fr/beta/

[riker09]

Is the config.json in the same folder where you call the script? When you enter node dist/server.js the config.json should not be in the dist/ folder, afaik.

PS: You can use backticks (`) to format code in GitHub issues. So when you do this:

>  ```yaml
>  foo: bar
>  lorem:
>    ipsum: dolor
>  ```

or this:

>  ```json
>  {
>    "foo": "bar"
>    "num": 42
>  }
>  ```

You have to remove the arrow brackets, of course.
you should get much better formatting.

Here is your config nicely formatted:

{
  "http": {
    "port": 3000
  },
  "landroid-s": {
    "enable": true,
    "email": "mail@home.de",
    "pwd": "password",
    "dev_sel": 0
  },
  "mqtt": {
    "enable": true,
    "url": "mqtt://MYUSER:MYPASSWORD@localhost",
    "topic": "landroid"
  },
  "logLevel": "info",
  "scheduler": {
    "enable": false,
    "cron": false,
    "weather": {
      "provider": "wunderground",
      "apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY",
      "latitude": 16.4711,
      "longitude": 2.34567
    },
    "db": "./scheduler.db",
    "earliestStart": 11,
    "latestStop": 21,
    "startEarly": false,
    "offDays": 2,
    "squareMeters": 300,
    "perHour": 50,
    "mowTime": 75,
    "chargeTime": 75,
    "daysForTotalCut": 2,
    "rainDelay": 120,
    "threshold": 30
  }
}

[jantum]

Hello,
some days ago I was able to fix my issue by adding one more line (topic or clientID) to the config.json.

So see here my actual config:
`{
"http": {
"port": 3010
},
"landroid-s": {
"enable": true,
"email": "xxx@yxx.de",
"pwd": "xxxxxx",
"dev_sel": 0
},
"mqtt": {
"enable": true,
"url": "mosquitto://user:pw@localhost",
"topic": "landroid",
"clientId": "openhab2",
"allowSelfSigned": true
},
"logLevel": "info",
"scheduler": {
"enable": false,
"cron": false,
"weather": {
"provider": "wunderground",
"apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY",
"latitude": 50.0982164,
"longitude": 8.221404
},
"db": "./scheduler.db",
"earliestStart": 11,
"latestStop": 21,
"startEarly": false,
"offDays": 2,
"squareMeters": 300,
"perHour": 50,
"mowTime": 75,
"chargeTime": 75,
"daysForTotalCut": 2,
"rainDelay": 120,
"threshold": 30
}

So right now I can start the bridge again, but as my mover is not online yet I could not test it finally.

Thank you.
Jan

[int5749]

If you were able to fix, are you using this landroid-bridge, or iobroker instead?
If you are using the bridge, you will either running into same issue than some others (bridge reports mstt error when connectiong to mower) or you might have a different Version ;-)
So would you mind dropping your landroid for testing to see, if your bridge is 100% working?

[riker09]

The only difference I can spot is

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
         "enable": true,
         "url": "mosquitto://user:pw@localhost",
         "topic": "landroid",
+        "clientId": "openhab2",
         "allowSelfSigned": true
     },
     "logLevel": "info",

I will try this - hopefully tonight - and report back here if that makes a difference (which I doubt).