Help with config.yaml -> event subscription

Development
1

It seems like OctoPrint is recognizing that I've added two subscriptions to the config.yaml file and it's generically logging that a system command was executed. Since I've got this python script logging each call, it doesn't look like that attempt was successful.

What's the basic setup for invoking a Python script as an event?

  • I created a script in ~/scripts
  • I did a chmod 666 of the script followed by a chmod a+x of same
  • Both script and log file are in the same folder and owned by pi. I did a chmod 666 of the log file.
  • Running the python script manually at the command line works
  • I'm not running user management in OctoPrint's setup wizard, just the standard pi user
  • I used the documentation for Events as my guide

What am I missing here?

2

How did you actually configure it? Could be something as simple as unexpanded paths.

3

The example for events suggests that the security context is running under the pi user.

config.yaml

events:
  enabled: true
  subscriptions:
  - event: ZChange
    command: python ~/scripts/logistics.py ZChange {__currentZ} {__progress}
    type: system
    enabled: true
  - event: MetadataAnalysisFinished
    command: python ~/scripts/logistics.py MetadataAnalysisFinished {result}
    type: system
    enabled: true

~/scripts/logistics.py

from datetime import datetime
import sys
import time

f = open('/home/pi/scripts/logistics.log', 'a')
try:
       	msgPrint = datetime.now().strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M')
	f.write(msgPrint + '\n')
finally:
	f.close()

It now works

I deleted a bunch of things out of it and it now works this morning. It must have been silently failing due to some sort of Python-related bug. (I'm trying to generate a PNG file on ZChange, btw.)