Unable to start once supplying Unifi Controller details.

[LeeRoyy91]

Unable to start once I have supplied login details in the config / env files

unifi-parental:server Listening on port 4000 +0ms
TypeError: Cannot read property 'block' of undefined
at controllerLogin (/home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/index.js:159:21)
at controller.login (/home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/index.js:68:17)
at /home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/node_modules/node-unifi/unifi.js:1411:13
at /home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:958:16
at next (/home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/node_modules/async/dist/async.js:5211:18)
at Request._callback (/home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/node_modules/node-unifi/unifi.js:1394:27)
at Request.self.callback (/home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/node_modules/request/request.js:186:22)
at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:214:7)
at Request. (/home/ubuntu/unifi-parental/node_modules/request/request.js:1163:10)
unifi-parental:server Config saved +403ms
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: node index.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/ubuntu/.npm/_logs/2019-01-03T11_51_42_894Z-debug.log
ubuntu@ip-172-31-24-98:~/unifi-parental$

Although within the Unifi controller I can see that there has been two login attempts from the server.

Regards,
Lee

[tatlin]

@LeeRoyy91 I ran into this as well on both win10 and macOS machines running newest node.js and following the readme instructions from this github. I was able to get around this error by generating an ssh key and adding it to the unifi controller following these instructions. https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/235247068-UniFi-Adding-SSH-Keys-to-UniFi-Devices

[tatlin]

hmm, i can ssh into the controller from the mac terminal but unifi-parental still fails to login using the same credentials. Fails at controller.getSelf.controller.login (/Users/mattjezyk/Documents/GitHub/unifi-parental/index.js:68:17)

[tdack]

I think the fix is pretty simple. Edit your config.json and change the line that has blocked to read block:

unifi-parental/config-sample.jsonc

Line 118 in 384c43d

"blocked": [ /* array of mac addresses to be blocked */

 "block": [ /* array of mac addresses to be blocked */ 

I'll fix config-sample.jsonc to reflect what the code expects in the config file.

[tube0013]

I'm getting the same error with the "block" in my config.json

{
  "controller": {
    "host": "192.168.1.xxx",
    "port": 8443,
    "user": "xxx",
    "password": "xxx",
    "site": "default"
  },
  "server": {
    "key": "server.key",
    "cert": "server.crt",
    "port": 4000
  },
  "data": {
    "Group": {
      "name": "Group Name",
      "timers": [
        {
          "day": 0,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 0,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2230"
        },
        {
          "day": 1,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 1,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2230"
        },
        {
          "day": 2,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 2,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2230"
        },
        {
          "day": 3,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 3,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2230"
        },
        {
          "day": 4,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 4,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2400"
        },
        {
          "day": 5,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0000"
        },
        {
          "day": 5,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "0100"
        },
        {
          "day": 5,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 5,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2400"
        },
        {
          "day": 6,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0000"
        },
        {
          "day": 6,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "0100"
        },
        {
          "day": 6,
          "action": 1,
          "time": "0700"
        },
        {
          "day": 6,
          "action": 0,
          "time": "2230"
        }
      ],
      "block": [
        "b8:27:eb:de:91:68",
        "c8:60:00:9a:ba:ca",
        "d8:1d:72:c6:20:96",
        "90:2b:34:05:2f:27",
        "2c:0e:3d:ad:e7:d4",
        "50:1a:c5:a9:91:39",
        "50:1a:c5:a9:91:37"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[tdack]

I've found the problem, but it'll take be a couple of days to fix it up (need to brush up on my JS)

In the interim, there is a simple fix - make sure the name: matches the Group Name in the config file, eg;

...
"data": {
    "Group Name": {
      "name": "Group Name",
...

If they don't match then you'll get the error.

[tube0013]

thanks that got me up and running.