Needed packages are not available anymore during installation

[KroPIixx]

It seems that several needed packages are not available anymore during installation. At the end the Server could not be started. I would like to setup such a train server, but I wasn't able to fix this issue - can someone help?

[firien]

I haven't booted this up in a while. did you try the newer node-16-update branch?

[KroPIixx]

Yes, now I have tried nearly every possible combination. Errors always occur during installation and certain packages cannot be found on GitHub.

[firien]

can you post your errors? and what system you are on?

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I did a fresh clone of repo (on macOS 14.2.1, node v18.12.1) and was able to

• npm install
• node server.js

without any issues on both main & node-16-update branch.

[firien]

node-20-update has added @abandonware/bluetooth-hci-socket dependency.

see: nathankellenicki/node-poweredup#176

node-20-update branch currently defaults to port 3020, I will switch it back to port 3000 when merged.

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FYI - I did just boot this up on a fresh new pi zero 2 W

[KroPIixx]

hi, I bought a new Pi Zero 2 W and got it running with Node 16. I think the problem is with the first generation PI Zero. Thank you!

[firien]

good to hear. But fyi this is more unstable than before. I ran this on node 8 on original pi zero for years without issue. It is crashing frequently now.

[firien]

I tagged the old stable node 8 code, if you want to try that on old pi zero w
https://github.com/firien/duplo-train/releases/tag/pi-zero-w-node-8