I’m running the cheerlights.py program om blinkt, it’s works for a while then stops working I restart it and works sometime for 20 or so hours then quits again. I ran it with nohup and get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “cheerlights.py”, line 16, in
col = r.json()[‘field2’]
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/models.py”, line 793, in json
return json.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py”, line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py”, line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py”, line 384, in raw_decode
raise ValueError(“No JSON object could be decoded”)
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
I’m not a programmer how i make python ignore this and keep it running?
Putting the timeout in made it faster than before so not the answer to my
problem. Error I got with the timeout=2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “cheerlights.py”, line 14, in
r = requests.get(‘ http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/1417/field/2/last.json’, timeout=2)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py”, line 60, in get
return request(‘get’, url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py”, line 49, in
request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 457,
in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 569,
in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 422,
in send
raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: HTTPConnectionPool(host=‘api.thingspeak.com’,
port=80): Read timed out. (read timeout=2)