nodejs sense hat

[auron89]

hi guys ,do you know any library to display values from the sense -hat using Node.js ?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/

I tried using nodeimu (https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodeimu)
but can not find the necessary files to the operation do you have any other suggestions ?

Thank you all!

[Heater]

auron89,

What do you mean "...can not find the necessary files to the operation..."?

Do you have node.js installed?

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$ sudo apt-get install nodejs 

Do you have git installed? (Can't recall if git is installed out of the box on Raspbian)

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$ sudo apt-get install git 

Did you follow the instructions for installing nodeimu ?

Be sure you are in the nodeimu directory at this point.

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$ git clone https://github.com/rupnikj/nodeimu --recursive && cd nodeimu
$ npm install node-gyp -g
$ npm install
$ node test.js

The test should run.

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node testSync.js

Those tests are right there in the nodeimu directory.

I see no documentation on how to use this but everything you need to know can be found by reading test.js and testSync.js. It's not complicated.

[auron89]

I 've followed all the steps from the library

I get this error
Error: Cannot find module './out/NodeIMU'


but I must say I have not installed Node.js by apt -get it from another source.

[auron89]

my node version was
4.2.1

test.js and testSync.js produce the same output

Error: Cannot find module './out/NodeImu'

[shanereaume]

The error you are getting is related to the version of node, npm install was not done on the application and/or because of the issue with nodejs not linked to "node".

I fixed the issue by installing node with nvm (https://github.com/creationix/nvm) and was able to get a new version of node (7.5) so I can use the latest JavaScript. That also fixed this issue for me.

I take it when you did the npm install step against your nodeimu repository it failed due to older node version and you did not realize or the issues with nodejs vs node that is common in Ubuntu. The nvm fixes that clusterfudge.

[ngmraspi]

The application is having trouble opening the I2C and SPI busses. Is there a configuration prereq for this application to work?

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pi@raspberrypi:~/SourceProjects/nodeimu $ node test.js
Settings file RTIMULib.ini loaded
Failed to open I2C bus 1
Failed to open SPI bus 0, select 0
Failed to open SPI bus 0, select 1
No IMU detected
Using fusion algorithm RTQF
Failed to open SPI bus 0, select 1
No pressure sensor detected
Failed to open SPI bus 0, select 1
No humidity sensor detected
No IMU found