Repeater install fails repeatedly on existing Pi5

[porkrind]

Hi all,

I'm looking to consolidate a shelf-full of Pis running various services to as few as possible. Got a Pi 5 that I'd like to use for both ADS-B feeding and pyMC_Repeater.

Installation that works fine on other Pis repeatedly fails on this board.

Hat is a Waveshare SX1262 (SPI) that works fine on a 3b+.

Install following the procedures on the project home (git clone https://github.com/rightup/pyMC_Repeater.git) always completes successfully but fails to start the service and appears to be missing files/directories.

The end of the install looks like this:

Installing collected packages: pymc_repeater
Attempting uninstall: pymc_repeater
Found existing installation: pymc_repeater 1.0.5
Uninstalling pymc_repeater-1.0.5:
Successfully uninstalled pymc_repeater-1.0.5
Successfully installed pymc_repeater-1.0.5

✓ Python package installation completed successfully!
Failed to start pymc-repeater.service: Unit pymc-repeater.service not found.

sudo bash manage.sh "logs" shows this:

Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman systemd[1]: pymc-repeater.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 10464.
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman systemd[1]: Started pymc-repeater.service - pyMC Repeater Daemon.
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: File "", line 88, in _run_code
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/dist-packages/repeater/main.py", line 556, in
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: main()
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: ~~~~^^
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/dist-packages/repeater/main.py", line 532, in main
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: config = load_config(args.config)
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/dist-packages/repeater/config.py", line 62, in load_config
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: raise FileNotFoundError(
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: ...<4 lines>...
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: )
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: FileNotFoundError: Configuration file not found: /etc/pymc_repeater/config.yaml
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: Please create a config file. Example:
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: sudo cp /etc/pymc_repeater/config.yaml.example /etc/pymc_repeater/config.yaml
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman pymc-repeater[3443866]: sudo nano /etc/pymc_repeater/config.yaml
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman systemd[1]: pymc-repeater.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 22 12:23:31 pironman systemd[1]: pymc-repeater.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Not clear how to debug this loop it's in.

[rightup]

Have you tried the dev branch?

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