error in python script (for energy meter)

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Hello,

i'm having issues with a script which I found on https://github.com/datenschuft/SMA-EM

It's a script to read out and write away to some file the values of the energy meter which it has been created for.

I tried contacting the creator, but seems he has no clue either, or his instructions were not very complete.

Anyhow, I hope anyone can point me in the right direction regarding the following error:

Error:
/home/SMA-EM $ sudo python3 sma-daemon.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/configparser.py", line 1136, in _unify_values
sectiondict = self._sections[section]
KeyError: 'SMA-EM'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sma-daemon.py", line 30, in <module>
smaemserials=parser.get('SMA-EM', 'serials')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/configparser.py", line 779, in get
d = self._unify_values(section, vars)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/configparser.py", line 1139, in _unify_values
raise NoSectionError(section)
configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'SMA-EM'

I get this error after running this script:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# coding=utf-8
"""
 ....
"""
import sys, time
from daemon3x import daemon3x
from configparser import SafeConfigParser
import smaem

#read configuration
parser = SafeConfigParser()
parser.read('/etc/smaemd/config')

smaemserials=parser.get('SMA-EM', 'serials')
serials=smaemserials.split(' ')
smavalues=parser.get('SMA-EM', 'values')
values=smavalues.split(' ')
pidfile=parser.get('DAEMON', 'pidfile')

class MyDaemon(daemon3x):
def run(self):
emparts = {}
while True:
emparts=smaem.readem()
for serial in serials:
#print(serial)
#print(emparts['serial'])
if serial==format(emparts['serial']):
#print("match")
for value in values:
file = open("/run/shm/em-"+format(serial)+"-"+format(value), "w")
file.write('%.4f' % emparts[value])
file.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
daemon = MyDaemon(pidfile)
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
if 'start' == sys.argv[1]:
daemon.start()
elif 'stop' == sys.argv[1]:
daemon.stop()
elif 'restart' == sys.argv[1]:
daemon.restart()
else:
print ("Unknown command")
sys.exit(2)
sys.exit(0)
else:
print ("usage: %s start|stop|restart" % sys.argv[0])
print (pidfile)
sys.exit(2)

and it refers to this config file as well (which I needed to create myself given the instructions)

[SMA-EM]

*serials of sma-ems the daemon should take notice
*seperated by space
serials=1900254500
*measurement values
values=pregard psurplus qsurplus ssurplus

[DAEMON]
pidfile=/run/smaemd.pid

I tried running python v3 and the base version (2.7...) with sudo ofcourse.

The issue i posted on this github, which gave me no info :

https://github.com/datenschuft/SMA-EM/issues/9


Thanks for anyone who wants to help out here.