gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

You need to download the RAW file from Github. Use this link for example:

https://github.com/rayshobby/opensprinkler/blob/master/OpenSprinkler%20Pi/software/demos/interval_program/ospi.tar.gz?raw=true

*** This is becoming a re-occurring issue and needs to be addressed in the Wiki or the documentation for the interval program on your blog Ray ***

The “fi” is ok, that’s just the close for the “if”.

I believe it is there in the default rc.local, because sometimes “hostname -I” may fail because the network connection is not yet stable at the time the script runs and so the _IP would not exist and the printf would fail and the script would abort. Note that the “|| true” on the line before the if is there as an override in the case that “hostname -I” fails. If it were not there, the script would abort at that point.

The next line has the potential of failing for the same reason.

host=$(hostname -I | sed 's/ *$//g')

That’s why I added the “sleep 30” in my script. It gives the PI 30 seconds to get the network figured out before it tries to get the IP address and start the ospi.py program.

But, as I look at your script, I think your biggest issue is that you are missing the last line that actually starts the ospi.py program:

/usr/bin/python ospi.py $host$port

But, you want to make sure that is before the

exit 0

/joe

Just run this command from the Raspberry Pi:

/usr/bin/python /home/pi/OSPi/ospi.py

Should at least get the code up. Then you can deal with auto starting?

Update: If it does work just add a crontab line with the following:

@reboot    /usr/bin/python /home/pi/OSPi/ospi.py

Update 2: Just to be clear, this method isn’t as robust as a rc.local configuration. But this should at least get you running.

If anyone prefers to use init.d scripts over rc.local, you can put the following into /etc/init.d/ospi.py

You’ll need to have start-stop-daemon installed (which, at least, comes installed on RPi and likely other systems as well).

Be sure to change the variable $DAEMON_ARGS to your desired settings, and change $DIR to the location of ospi.py

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          OSPi

# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog

# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog

# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 6

# Short-Description: OSPi Interval

# Description:       Runs the OSPi Interval program as a service

### END INIT INFO



# Do NOT "set -e"



# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

DESC="OSPi Interval Daemon"

NAME=ospi.py

DIR=/home/pi/OSPi

DAEMON="$DIR/$NAME"

DAEMON_ARGS="127.0.0.1:8000"

PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME



# Exit if the package is not installed

[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0



# Read configuration variable file if it is present

[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME



# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables

. /lib/init/vars.sh



# Define LSB log_* functions.

# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present

# and status_of_proc is working.

. /lib/lsb/init-functions



#

# Function that starts the daemon/service

#

do_start()

{

# Return

#   0 if daemon has been started

#   1 if daemon was already running

#   2 if daemon could not be started

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec "$DAEMON" --test > /dev/null 

|| return 1

start-stop-daemon --make-pidfile --background --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE -d $DIR --exec "$DAEMON" -- 

$DAEMON_ARGS 

|| return 2

# Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready

# to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend

# on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.

sleep 2

}



#

# Function that stops the daemon/service

#

do_stop()

{

# Return

#   0 if daemon has been stopped

#   1 if daemon was already stopped

#   2 if daemon could not be stopped

#   other if a failure occurred

start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME

RETVAL="$?"

[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2

# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks

# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.

# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code

# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be

# needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to

# sleep for some time.

start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec "$DAEMON"

[ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2

# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.

rm -f $PIDFILE

return "$RETVAL"

}



#

# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service

#

do_reload() {

#

# If the daemon can reload its configuration without

# restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),

# then implement that here.

#

start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME

return 0

}



case "$1" in

start)

[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"

do_start

case "$?" in

0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;

2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;

esac

;;

stop)

[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"

do_stop

case "$?" in

0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;

2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;

esac

;;

status)

status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?

;;

#reload|force-reload)

#

# If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out

# and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.

#

#log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"

#do_reload

#log_end_msg $?

#;;

restart|force-reload)

#

# If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the

# 'force-reload' alias

#

log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"

do_stop

case "$?" in

0|1)

do_start

case "$?" in

0) log_end_msg 0 ;;

1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running

*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start

esac

;;

*)

# Failed to stop

log_end_msg 1

;;

esac

;;

*)

#echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2

echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2

exit 3

;;

esac