Santa was good to me and I received a rasberry pi 3 for Christmas. This project has been my main reason to want to get a rasberry pi. Thanks for all the hard work that you have put into it!
I read through a good portion of this thread (I missed a few pages in the middle) and read documentation on Git Hub. I hope I didn't miss anything important, but I did initially struggle a bit.
I'm a complete noob when it comes to Rasberry PI's and Python, so I thought perhaps it was something I was doing wrong (although I work in IT and troubleshoot plenty of code). Hopefully I'm not bringing up something painfully obvious.
However, after looking at the logs and looking at console.py, I think the minimal install might be a bit too minimal (or error handling could be done differently). I installed following your install scripts and used the minimal config. I kept seeing something like this in the logs:
12-30-17 22:32:08 Sev: 1 -LParam: KeysPerRow: 2
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
Python 2.7.13: /usr/bin/python
Sat Dec 30 22:32:10 2017
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
/home/pi/consolestable/console.py in <module>()
321
322 LogBadParams(config.ParsedConfigFile, "Globals")
323 LogBadParams(alertspec, "Alerts")
324 """
325 Dump documentation if development version
LogBadParams = <function LogBadParams>
alertspec = None
/home/pi/consolestable/console.py in LogBadParams(section=None, name='Alerts')
71
72 def LogBadParams(section, name):
73 for nm, s in section.iteritems():
74 if isinstance(s, Section):
75 LogBadParams(s, nm)
nm undefined
s undefined
section = None
section.iteritems undefined
To me it appeared the code at line 323 was balking and the LogBadParams section (line ~72) wasn't receiving a variable for "section" from the earlier section. Best I could figure it was throwing an error because there was no alert section. Without doing more digging in the code, I added an alert section and now the the console loads with the minimal configuration!
This was all the I added to the config.txt:
[Alerts]
[[AutoVersion]]
Type = Periodic
Interval = 3 hours
Invoke = AutoVersion.CheckUpToDate
I have to dig to see what that "alert" does exactly, but I presume from it's name it's probably pretty safe for now. After adding this, I don't see any more errors in the logs.
