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Work has progressed today in separating the modules from the core emoncms code, and the various repositories are now populated with the respective modules, all of which are in the main emoncms git account.

The first module to be fully detached is the 'device' module, and for all new installations this module will not be installed by default, but can easily be added by cloning the device module into the emoncms/Modules folder.
Also, whenever existing systems are updated via a git pull, you will notice that the device module will be removed, but again, can be re-added as above.

In either case, to add the device module;

cd /var/www/emoncms/Modules && git clone https://github.com/emoncms/device.git

The installation guide will be updated shortly. done

Paul

Tonight, the 'dashboard' module has been separated from the main emoncms core files in the 'master' branch, and placed into it's own repository.

The result of this will be that if you make a new installation using the master branch, or git pull 'master' from an existing installation, the dashboard module will not then be installed. However, it can be easily installed (or re-installed) by following this guide, and git cloning the dashboard module into your Modules folder.

Please note: as all existing dashboard settings are stored in MYSQL, re-installing the dashboard module will restore your dashboards! - they are not deleted.

Eventually, this will also apply to the 'stable' branch too.

Paul

Hi Paul Reed, today I'm installing a fresh emoncms with this new version and I add the dashboard, it works half, because the graphics work well but just that, all other widgets are missing in view mode

I can see them in edit mode, but not in view mode

I found the same problem locally and on site http://emoncms.org/

I would try clearing your browser cache, maybe even trying a different browser altogether.
Modulisation is not changing the code, it's the same code that was installed previously.

Paul

Hi Paul thanks, I actually use two different browser(Firefox and Chrome) and a private windows(Incongnito window) also, to avoid cache problems but the same result. I have and old version in another server and that work fine

I see the same thing using the emoncms v9 Beta SD image.

I have two dashboards.  One containing a couple of widgets (cylinder and jgauge) works normally, another containing a multigraph works OK if selected through Setup>Dashboards and then click on 'view'

However the same dashboard selected through 'Dashboards' gives a blank dashboard

OK I found the cause of my dashboard problem.

If there is an underscore in the alias of the dashboard, then it does not work accessed through 'Dashboards' which builds the url as http://servername/emoncms/dashboard/view/dashboardalias

Going via setup/Dashboards builds the url as http://servername/emoncms/dashboard/view?id=x

The solution is to delete the alias, or change it to one without underscores.

Hi derek_j thanks for answering. And happy new Year :)

I followed all their recommendations. Although I did not have underscore in dashboards or spaces.

On the platform emoncms.org I succeeded, fix with something very simple, apparently feed must also be public, but that not fix the problem on my server.

In the browser I was seeing if any error or important message and popup, I see one (On my server):

SyntaxError: unterminated string literal

It referes to this line in "view" archive(line #208-209-210):

  $('body').css("background-color","#<br />
<b>Notice</b>:  Undefined index: backgroundcolor in <b>/var/www/html/emoncms/Modules/dashboard/Views/dashboard_view.php</b> on line <b>36</b><br />
");

I just have that error.

On emoncms.org I try to load the page to see what message it throw, and I see this

Object { embed: "1", feedid: "103666", colour: "000000", units: "C", dp: "2", scale: "1", fill: "" } rawdata:59:1
Object { embed: "1", feedid: "103667", colour: "000000", units: "", dp: "2", scale: "1", fill: "" }

No problem on emoncms.org

Trystan pushed an update a couple of days ago to correct a mysql issue revealed as a result of the dashboard separation. Can you ensure that you are up to date with the latest git version.

Raul Reed Thanks. I'm already updated, but the problem persist

Following my last comment, indeed the error is that line. The original line of code is this

$('body').css("background-color","#<?php echo $dashboard['backgroundcolor']; ?>"); 

Apparently the CSS can not find the right color so it generates an error.

This error -> Undefined index: backgroundcolor

I changed the line of code and I put any color, like this :

 $('body').css("background-color","#be4141");

That solves the problem momentarily

This is the file with the problem in line 34:

emoncms/Modules/dashboard/Views/dashboard_view.php

Hi,

I'm new of emoncms

Last night I've experienced the missed Dashboard menu problem in a Windows local emoncms 9.2 installation.

I've upgradad to 9.3 but the dashboard problem persisted. Then (after a big search through the site and google) I discovered that the new installations doesn't install the Modules Device and Dashborad (and Schedule I suppose).

I followed the instructions on this thread and finally the Dashboard appeared.

Unfortunately the instructions mentioned before refers to Raspberry only.

Then in Windows I simply copied the missed modules under C:\wamp\www\emoncms\Modules\dashboard and under C:\wamp\www\emoncms\Modules\device

Afterthat upgrade the DB as noticed in the previous post.

In order to avoid problems to others new emoncms user I suggest to upgrade the installation documentation for all the kind of installations or include the Dashboard, Device, Schedule folders to the new 9.3 installer.

I hope this helps

 Massimo 

Massimo, you are of course correct, all of the guides need to be maintained.
I (as a community contributor) try to keep the Raspberry Pi guides up to date, but I dont have a Windows system, so I can't really maintain the guide.
It would be good to have someone with a Windows system to look at that guide and try to maintain it. Any volunteers?

Paul

I did update to "low-write 9.3 | 2016.01.16" version, with no error message. Than did also install Dashboard.

However, now my old Dashboards are messy, with error messages and blank items. I am also not able to modify or delete them. I am also not able to create new Dashboards from "new" Dashboard menu, because when I click "New" nothing happens.

http://192.168.1.11/emoncms/dashboard/list.json

[{"id":1,"name":"West Plaza Local","alias":"local","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":false,"published":false,"public":false},{"id":3,"name":"West Plaza Internet","alias":"wplaza","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":true,"published":true,"public":true},{"id":7,"name":"Openhab","alias":"openhab","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":false,"published":false,"public":false},{"id":8,"name":"Raspberry","alias":"rpi","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":false,"published":false,"public":false},{"id":9,"name":"no name","alias":"","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":false,"published":false,"public":false},{"id":10,"name":"no name","alias":"","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":false,"published":false,"public":false},{"id":11,"name":"no name","alias":"","showdescription":false,"description":"no description","main":false,"published":false,"public":false}]
 

Devices Menu I have the same problem...
I am able to view and click "New Device", but nothing happens, and it shows me this:

http://192.168.1.11/emoncms/device/list.json

[{"id":"1","name":"New Device","description":"","type":"","nodeid":"New Node","devicekey":"xxxxxxxxxxx","time":false},{"id":"2","name":"New Device","description":"","type":"","nodeid":"New Node","devicekey":"xxxxxxxxxxx","time":false},]

Is there a way to "debug" this? Anyway to find what can be doing wrong?

Followed steps:
1) http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/11407
2) https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/blob/master/docs/RaspberryPi/general.md#module-installation

Thanx!!

This is more to do with your upgrade path than 'Modulisation of emoncms', please post in your own thread.
Why are you installing the device module, are you intending to use a devicekey per device that is user configured, instead of an apikey??

Paul

Sorry...
I did it here, because it looks like BUG when install new "Modulisation of emoncms" over updated Emoncms.
If I had Dashboards already, than they do Dashboard not to work.

I have error message like: Notice: Undefined index: colour in /var/www/emoncms/Modules/vis/vis_controller.php on line 111

I'd like to use devices to create "different interfaces" for each device, because I have many devices sending data to Emonhub, for different reasons.

We have done a fresh clean install on a Raspberry Pi 2 with a full version of Jessie Raspbian.  Then we followed the installation instructions and installed the latest stable repository version.  Our website says its 9.3 2015.12.30 at the bottom.  We installed Emonhub and have the radio working and receiving data.  We are also running from an external usb HD and just booting from the SD card.

We tried to install the dashboards modules by:

cd /var/www/Modules

git clone https://github.com/emoncms/dashboard.git

But they do not appear.  We have also tried the config and device modules and do not see those either. 

Running and update database just says that it is up to date already.  Error logs do not show any errors.

Any ideas on what to try next?

Did you follow the Raspbian Jessie installation guide - if so, emoncms should be installed at /var/www/emoncms & the Modules Installation guide tells you install modules within /var/www/emoncms/Modules

You appear to be installing the modules to the wrong location /var/www/Modules

Paul

sry, I mistyped that.  I did follow that guide and it is at the /var/www/emoncms/Modules directory

So just to double check that there hasn't been any other mistypes ;-)
can you confirm what you get;

ls -l /var/www/emoncms/Modules/dashboard

Paul

Sure, not a problem  :)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -l /var/www/emoncms/Modules/dashboard
total 48
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 3538 Jan 20 12:44 dashboard_controller.php
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 1264 Jan 20 12:44 dashboard.js
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 8952 Jan 20 12:44 dashboard_langjs.php
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 1728 Jan 20 12:44 dashboard_menu.php
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi 7555 Jan 20 12:44 dashboard_model.php
-rw-r--r--  1 pi pi  833 Jan 20 12:44 dashboard_schema.php
drwxr-xr-x 10 pi pi 4096 Jan 20 12:44 locale
drwxr-xr-x  3 pi pi 4096 Jan 20 12:44 Views
drwxr-xr-x 12 pi pi 4096 Jan 20 12:44 widget
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

That's strange, I can't replicate that here.
From a Jessie installation only completed last night, I've just added the dashboard module as per the guide, and it installed OK.

Paul

Ok, thanks for the quick responses.  I'll start over and see what I missed. 

Reloaded using Wheezy this time and it worked perfectly.  I'll have to try again later with Jessie.

Here everything works again... but I have no idea how.