Home Assistant cannot install dependency python-mirobo 0.2.0

pplucky · September 28, 2017, 12:08pm

Hello everyone.

I just upgraded my Home Assistant to 0.54.0 and afterwards added the following lines to my configuration.yaml, in order to include my Xiaomi Philips LED in the frontend:

light:
  - platform: xiaomi_miio
    name: Xiaomi Philips
    host: 192.168.1.33
    token: !secret philips_token

Still then, when I restarted Home Assistant, it fails loading that platform, with the following error messages:

2017-09-28 12:57:53 ERROR (Thread-3) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package python-mirobo==0.2.0: Command "/srv/homeassistant/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-wnoeza2j/cffi/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-7ut5ehe6-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /srv/homeassistant/include/site/python3.4/cffi" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-wnoeza2j/cffi/
2017-09-28 12:57:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Not initializing light.xiaomi_miio because could not install dependency python-mirobo==0.2.0
2017-09-28 12:57:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Unable to prepare setup for platform light.xiaomi_miio: Could not install all requirements.

Can anyone help me fix this issue?

Thanks in advance.

syssi · September 29, 2017, 8:21am

Do you use hassbian? Do you know how to enter the python virtual environment?

pplucky · September 29, 2017, 3:50pm

Hi there.

Yes to both.

If you can tell me how to install it manually, it would be perfect.

Thanks in advance.

syssi · September 29, 2017, 4:04pm

Switch to your home assistant user and enter the virtualenv:

$ su - homeassistant
$ source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate
$ pip3 install python-mirobo

Please provide the error message of the last command if it fails.

pplucky · September 29, 2017, 4:46pm

Hello again.

It failed, and here it is the result:

syssi · September 29, 2017, 5:02pm

You missed the first paragraph: https://home-assistant.io/components/vacuum.xiaomi_miio/#retrieving-the-access-token

This will solve the problem:

sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev

pplucky · September 29, 2017, 5:09pm

Actually I read but thought it would be done by HASS.

Now that I think of it, it doesn’t really make sense, and I should’ve tried this before I complained.

I’m sorry about that and wasting a bit of your time.

Btw, now that python-mirobo 0.2.0 is a requirement, any plans to include the component for the Xiaomi Powerstrip, as a platform in HASS?

Thanks again for all your help.

syssi · September 29, 2017, 5:46pm

Yes. I’m working on the integration of various xiaomi (miio) devices. The xiaomiplug component wasn’t approved. It needs to be rewritten to satisfy some requirements (naming & structure).