updated systemd-service and readme

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Daniel Sommer 2022-02-24 23:25:20 +01:00
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**the node-hid module is a bit picky about node.js's version - use node.js 8.x or 15.x** **the node-hid module is a bit picky about node.js's version - use node.js 8.x or 15.x**
## setup ## setup (as root)
- install nvm
- to load nvm restart your terminal or `source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh`
- clone the project (to '/opt/blinky') - clone the project (to '/opt/blinky')
`git clone https://git.velvettear.de/velvettear/blinky.git /opt/blinky` `git clone https://git.velvettear.de/velvettear/blinky.git /opt/blinky`
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- execute blinky - execute blinky
`nvm run 15 blinky.js` `nvm run 15 blinky.js`
- if you get this error message on linux:
`Error: cannot open device with path /dev/hidraw0`
run:
`echo "KERNEL==\"hidraw*\", SUBSYSTEM==\"hidraw\", ATTRS{idVendor}==\"20a0\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"41e5\", MODE=\"0666\"" | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/85-blinkstick-hid.rules`
and reboot your system
## systemd ## systemd
**for security reasons it is highly recommended to not run blinky with root permissions!** **for security reasons it is highly recommended to not run blinky with root permissions!**
- create a new system user - create a new system user
`useradd -r -s /usr/bin/nologin blinky` `useradd -U -r -s /usr/bin/nologin node`
- symlink the provided systemd-service file and modify it according to your needs - make your install of nvm available to the new user
`cp -R ~/.nvm /opt/nvm`
`chown -R node /opt/nvm`
- symlink the provided systemd-service file
`ln -s /opt/blinky/blinky.service /etc/systemd/system/blinky.service` `ln -s /opt/blinky/blinky.service /etc/systemd/system/blinky.service`
- reload systemd-services - reload systemd-services
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- enable and start blinky as a systemd-service - enable and start blinky as a systemd-service
`systemctl enable --now blinky` `systemctl enable --now blinky`
- if you don't use nvm otherwise remove it and remove it from your shell-profile
`rm -rf ~/.nvm`
`vim ~/.zshrc`
### scripts ### scripts
- blinky-feed.sh - blinky-feed.sh

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[Service] [Service]
Type=simple Type=simple
User=blinky User=node
Group=blinky Group=node
ExecStart=nvm run 15 /opt/blinky/blinky.js WorkingDirectory=/opt/blinky
ExecStart=/opt/nvm/nvm-exec node blinky.js
[Install] [Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target WantedBy=multi-user.target