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Hello Andy, emonview is in a very early stage of development so there will be a lot of bugs and the install docs are incomplete. But the problem appears to be redis-server not starting which is a dependency. perhaps see if you can find out why redis is not starting. There may be something in /var/log/redis

Hi Andy, I was in fact just installing Emonview V2 yesterday as well, and came across this thread having similar issues. I was able to get it going and thought I would share a couple points in case they may be of help. My install is on a RaspberryPi B+, but I assume it's similar.

• Make sure you have emonview, feedwriter, redis-server and emonhub all successfully running. Following the install notes, emonhub is run manually (seems like you have that going fine). Check the others like so:
  sudo /etc/init.d/​emonview status
  sudo /etc/init.d/feedwriter status
  sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server status
  Running sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server start will return a failed error if redis is already running. I was hung up on this trying to find the problem, when there wasn't any.
• If you need to check redis logs, ensure you have logging enabled by un-commenting the logfile configuration in /etc/redis/redis.conf (the Emonview install notes will have had you comment this out). In my case, I had to also manually create the log and permissions:
  sudo mkdir /var/log/redis
  sudo touch /var/log/redis/redis-server.log
  sudo chown -R redis:redis /var/log/redis
• As it's currently coded, emonview expects to be installed at /home/pi/emonview, and writes node data to /home/pi/data/store. These values are hard coded, so unless you change the code you'll have to adhere to those locations. If you followed the linked RaspberryPi install doc, you will have already setup the data dir. To get feedwriter (writer.py) started without error, I had to manually create the store dir as well:
  mkdir /home/pi/data/store
• ​Emonview hosts the web application through Flask on port 8000 (last line in server.py), so you'll have to specify that when addressing the page from a browser. In your case: http://192.168.0.132:8000.

Hope that helps someone. I now have Emonview running pretty solid, monitoring and logging my wood stove temperatures!

Zeke

The redis error got me for a while too until I found this thread: http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/9996

I got it. The redis-server was already running. The error message was just a bit confusing.

One can check by typing

redis-cli ping

As an answer i got

PONG

Yes, in fact it was that same post that tipped me off as well.. kudos to anjur!