Node.js server to link Miniserver to Google Home/Assistant

[Tico]

I have installed a project called Google Assistant Relay. It provides a facility to send text from the Miniserver and broadcasts the content to Google Home/Mini's throughout the house.

It's working well when I manually start it from the terminal. I can send POST commands from Loxone config and the text is broadcast across the home devices.

I'm having trouble trying to make it auto-start after a Loxberry reboot. I should also add I'm a complete Linux newbie and just learning the basics. Please be gentle...

I have created startup.sh in the directory /opt/loxberry/. The contents are -

#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
cd ~/webfrontend/legacy/gar/assistant-relay-2.1.1/
npm run start

I can start the Google Assistant Relay manually if I run -

bash ~/startup.sh

I've edited rc.local and added the following -





It stills refuses to start automatically on Loxberry reboot.

Any suggestions?

[svethi]

Morning Tico,

after starting up manually you are getting back the command line? It looks like you don’t. If you don’t get back the command line, you have to add a blank and a & at the end. So it tells the shell to run the command in background. Your script is runnable itself, so you don’t need to add the sh before.
Try it with ‘/opt/loxberry/starup.sh &’ in the rc.local. But remember, it is possible that your script will be deleted in /opt/loxberry during a loxberry update. Move it to your legacy dir and the run it from this dir.

greetings

[Tico]

Hi svethi,

Yes, that's correct. I don't get back the command line after starting the service manually. I've since been recommended an alternative option that works, a file called relay.service.

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/loxberry/webfrontend/legacy/gar/assistant-relay-2.1.1/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=notell
User=root
Group=root
Environment=NODE_ENV=production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

relay.service is then copied to /etc/systemd/system/ and enabled by "systemctl enable relay.service".

Out of the two options -

1. rc.local with startup.sh in legacy directory
or
2. relay.service in etc/systemd/system

is one better suited to not being overwritten by Loxberry update? I also tried Cron without success.

[svethi]

relay.service is much better. It looks like professional :-)
/etc/systemd will not be overwritten.

Greetings Sven

[Tico]

Thank-you.