Crash on failed connection attempt & losing connection after a while.

[jessevl]

Hi,

I seem to have two related problems with this node and I'm having a hard time figuring out how it could be fixed:

1. Whenever another application is connected to the Max Cube (e.g. the desktop app) the node fails to connect. While I know is a limitation of the cube itself, in my instance the entire Node-Red Docker container goes down because of this unhandled exception (logs):

2016-12-30 21:24:02 { [Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 192.168.0.49:62910]
2016-12-30 21:24:02   code: 'ETIMEDOUT',
2016-12-30 21:24:02   errno: 'ETIMEDOUT',
2016-12-30 21:24:02   syscall: 'connect',
2016-12-30 21:24:02   address: '192.168.0.49',
2016-12-30 21:24:02   port: 62910 }
2016-12-30 21:24:02 30 Dec 21:24:02 - [red] Uncaught Exception:
2016-12-30 21:24:02 30 Dec 21:24:02 - Error: Uncaught, unspecified "error" event. (undefined)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at MaxCubeLowLevel.emit (events.js:144:17)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at Socket. (/data/node_modules/node-red-contrib-maxcube/node_modules/maxcube/maxcube-lowlevel.js:46:10)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at emitErrorNT (net.js:1269:8)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)
2016-12-30 21:24:02     at process._tickCallback (node.js:356:17)
2016-12-30 21:24:02
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2. Another issue that I seem to be having is that even when not using any other applications it will disconnect from node-red after a time (an hour or so maybe) and won't reconnect automatically afterwards. Node-Red won't crash in that case, but commands will fail. The log output is like this:

2016-12-31 10:43:17,stdout,31 Dec 10:43:17 - [error] [maxcube out:b53a8714.1bfd48] Error: Maxcube not initialised
2016-12-31 10:43:16,stdout,31 Dec 10:43:16 - [error] [maxcube in:f19f204d.16c07] Error: Maxcube not initialised

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!
Jesse

[dude2k]

Same here, looses connection.
"Error: Maxcube not initialised"

[am78]

Same Error Here. Die anybody found a solution already?

[feldi740]

Yep, error still exists. Only chance to get the rest of Node-Red working is to delete the config node and re-deploy. Already tried the "/maxcube" fix from the pull request by pvgennip (adding the handler into ~/.node-red/node_modules/maxcube/maxcube-lowlevel.js) but it doesn't seem to solve the issue in case of node-red-contrib-maxcube.
Please provide a fix because it is causing the whole home-automation to stop working if the maxcube becomes offline. Thanks.