pypilot disconnected at startup - Steps toward troubleshooting?

[AlanH]

Ok Sean, I ran update to make sure everything is the most current version.  Staying with 1.2 for now because it (mostly) works and 2.2 is still a bit new.

After update, same story.  No pypilot is running when openplotter starts, but it starts and runs stable from the console.  Changing port assignment to "none" then clicking Auto-Apply also starts pypilot.

Code:

pi@blue:~ $ killall python
pi@blue:~ $ openplotter
[[[[[
[[[[[ Clicking Autopilot Control on the pypilot tab
[[[[[
connect failed to localhost:21311
connect failed to localhost:21311
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pypilot-0.1-py2.7-linux-armv7l.egg/ui/autopilot_control.py", line 231, in onAP
   self.client.set('servo.raw_command', 0)
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'set'
connect failed to localhost:21311
[[[[[
[[[[[ Changing port assignment for /dev/ttyAMA0 to none, then click Auto and Apply
[[[[[ Autopilot now works normally
[[[[[
Warning: Stopping signalk.service, but it can still be activated by:
 signalk.socket
probing arduino servo on /dev/ttyAMA0
arduino servo found
Settings file RTIMULib.ini loaded
Using fusion algorithm RTQF
read_sensors_d waiting for signal to exit
launched pypilot pid 2602
failed to load /home/pi/.pypilot/pypilot.conf Expected object or value
WARNING Alignment and other data lost!!!!!!!!!
failed to load /home/pi/.pypilot/pypilot.conf Expected object or value
WARNING Alignment and other data lost!!!!!!!!!
loading servo calibration /home/pi/.pypilot/servocalibration
WARNING: using default servo calibration!!
failed to open special file /dev/watchdog0 for writing:
autopilot cannot strobe the watchdog
connected to gpsd
Settings file RTIMULib.ini loaded
Using settings file RTIMULib.ini
Using fusion algorithm Kalman STATE4
IMU Name: MPU-925x
min/max compass calibration not in use
Using ellipsoid compass calibration
Accel calibration not in use
autopilot failed to read imu at time: 1585096370.33
servo probe... (u'/dev/ttyOP_ap', 38400)
arduino servo found on (u'/dev/ttyOP_ap', 38400)
serialprobe success: /home/pi/.pypilot/servodevice {u'path': u'/dev/ttyOP_ap', u'bauds': [38400]}
servo is running too _slowly_ 0.0551450252533
autopilot failed to read imu at time: 1585096370.52
arduino server buffer overflow
MPU-925x init complete
autopilot failed to read imu at time: 1585096370.67
nmea source for gps source gpsd 1585096370.88
connect failed to localhost:21311
nmea client connected
listening on port 20220 for nmea connections
connected
IMURead failed!
nmea timeout for gps source gpsd 1585096387.04
nmea source for gps source gpsd 1585096387.54
FitPoints [] [-0.10289744062253131, 0.9786159943966504, -0.17810910202566343]