bluetooth-hci-socket not installing

[ccimrie]

Hi,

I've recently got a sphero mini and found your repo. I'm having difficulties unfortunately with the installation. Specifically when I do

yarn install

I get build errors when it comes to bluetooth-hci-socket. I've also never done javascript before (hoping this would be a great way to learn!) so I researched into this and there seems to be a general problem with bluetooth-hci-socket and higher node versions. I found that going back to version 8 would fix the problem, however if I do that then I encounter the error:

The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=10.0.0". Got "4.2.6"

Thanks!

[igbopie]

Hi!

Sorry for the delay, looks like your node version is not 8, is 4.2.0. Also, for some other issues with other lib, I had to specify node > 10. You can manually disable that restriction removing the engine section in the package json.

Let me now!

[igbopie]

Yes, looks like for the raspberry, in order to compile bluetooth-hci-socket you need node 8:

noble/noble#253

Maybe I need to remove that node restriction.

[igbopie]

Removed the restriction. You should use node 8. I need to update docs to reflect that.

[ivesdebruycker]

bluetooth-hci-socket also won't compile on node 10: noble/node-bluetooth-hci-socket#84
It seems both noble and bluetooth-hci-socket are abandoned, so the abandonware forks should be used..

[igbopie]

Yes, but I made a specific fix for raspberry. I need to test that too.

[gazialankus]

I can't yarn install it in Raspberry Pi 4, either. Nodejs v10.15.2. I had used the abandonware version fine when trying to use cylon.js.

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