MMM-Fitbit throwing an error

[nakulbende]

I followed the procedure - the module is reading client id and secret right, but failts in a following way.

[10:59:56.939] [LOG]    Set credential request recieved.
[10:59:56.945] [LOG]    { client_id: 'XXXXXX',
  client_secret: 'XXXXXXXX' }
[10:59:56.968] [LOG]    Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[10:59:56.969] [ERROR]  TypeError: PythonShell.run is not a function
    at Class.setCreds (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/node_helper.js:32:15)
    at Class.socketNotificationReceived (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/node_helper.js:18:9)
    at Socket. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/node_helper.js:113:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/socket.io/lib/socket.js:528:12
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
[10:59:56.974] [LOG]    MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[10:59:56.977] [LOG]    If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

It shows the icons in UI, but does not show stats. Also results in mirror crashing after a while. What am I missing?

[sdetweil]

@nakulbende looks like mmm-fitbit has a faulty setup…

the pyhton-shell module dependency wasn’t installed for it…
from the code in node_helper.js

var PythonShell = require('python-shell');

to fix do
change to the MMM-Fitbit folder

npm install python-shell

the author should have provided a package.json to handle this, with instructions for npm install
there was a security fix added in the npm code, if a module (in node_modules) is found, but not referenced by a package.json dependency, that module is removed (in case someone is trying to sneak stuff into the runtime to steal data)

this will happen to you again

[sdetweil]

I opened issue https://github.com/SVendittelli/MMM-fitbit/issues/28
in the module github to try to get this fixed by the author or someone

[nakulbende]

It is still giving me an error:

[09:34:25.018] [LOG]    Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[09:34:25.020] [ERROR]  TypeError: PythonShell.run is not a function
    at Class.setCreds (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/node_helper.js:32:15)
    at Class.socketNotificationReceived (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/node_helper.js:18:9)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/node_helper.js:113:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/socket.io/lib/socket.js:528:12
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
[09:34:25.026] [LOG]    MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[09:34:25.029] [LOG]    If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
[09:34:25.136] [LOG]    Initial run request recieved.
[09:34:25.139] [LOG]    Running getData.py
[09:34:25.143] [LOG]    Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[09:34:25.146] [ERROR]  TypeError: PythonShell is not a constructor
    at Class.getData (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/node_helper.js:43:25)
    at Class.socketNotificationReceived (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit/node_helper.js:22:9)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/node_helper.js:113:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/socket.io/lib/socket.js:528:12
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
[09:34:25.148] [LOG]    MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[09:34:25.150] [LOG]    If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

This is my output of npm install (usually the log for npm audit fix too):

pi@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit $ sudo npm install python-shell -f
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/package.json'
npm WARN modules No description
npm WARN modules No repository field.
npm WARN modules No README data
npm WARN modules No license field.

+ python-shell@1.0.8
updated 1 package and audited 391 packages in 3.359s

1 package is looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

I was able to solve this by invoking npm init and generating a new package.json file. Now, the output to installing pythoin-shell was

pi@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-fitbit $ sudo npm install python-shell -f
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
+ python-shell@1.0.8
added 1 package from 1 contributor and audited 1 package in 1.4s
found 0 vulnerabilities

No cigar, I still get the above error on npm install

[sdetweil]

@nakulbende there is no ‘error’… just warnings and dumb warnings (no package.json file, yeh so what!),.

sadly it looks like this module is way out of date and not updated…

there was another user here creating a new fitbit module

see here
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/12029/what-is-the-procedure-for-reviving-a-dead-module