PIR-Sensor with relay

[PottiMc]

Hi all,

I try to run a relay which is cutting down the power to my lcd monitor. The PIR-Sensor module works fine as long as i don’t use the relayPin command. I get the following error message in the logs:

{ Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, write
at Object.fs.writeSync (fs.js:707:3)
at Gpio.writeSync (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/onoff/onoff.js:243:8)
at Class.activateMonitor (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_helper.js:27:24)
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_helper.js:124:30
at gpio._listeners.slice.forEach.callback (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/onoff/onoff.js:135:9)
at Array.forEach ()
at pollerEventHandler (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PIR-Sensor/node_modules/onoff/onoff.js:134:32) errno: -1, syscall: ‘write’, code: ‘EPERM’ }

Can somebody tell me what to do?

[sdetweil]

@PottiMc i would guess that you have the wrong pin for the relay

from the onoff library

Note that EPERM: operation not permitted, write isn't actually related to permissions. An EPERM error occurs when an operation is not permitted because it doesn't make sense. In this case it looks like the EPERM error occurred because an an attempt was made to write data to an input. Here's an example:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /sys/class/gpio/
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/gpio $ echo 17 > export 
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/gpio $ cd gpio17
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/gpio/gpio17 $ echo in > direction 
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/gpio/gpio17 $ echo 1 > value 
-bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
pi@raspberrypi:/sys/class/gpio/gpio17 $ 
Errors related to permissions are usually EACCES errors.

[PottiMc]

Thank you. I managed it! The problem was that my start script didn’t switch the gpio to output correctly. You gave me the right direction.

[sdetweil]

@PottiMc awesome… glad it worked out