Siri / HomeKit support for Domoticz

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 11:05

SwordFish wrote:this works great.
But when i close the putty sessie after run npm run start its stop working?
Is there a way to keep it running? Or do i mis something.

Have you tried the forever command? It's about 8 comments up I think.. I've not set this ups yet but intend to today so can't really help.. Sorry.

SwordFish · Post by **SwordFish** » Saturday 13 June 2015 12:24

Yes i tried, but i get this warning.

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root@domoticzpi:~# forever start /root/homebridge/app.js
warn:    --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms
warn:    --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms
info:    Forever processing file: /root/homebridge/app.js

G3rard · Post by **G3rard** » Saturday 13 June 2015 13:52

I am using Eve and it's working great

Thanks for sharing this!!!

G3rard · Post by **G3rard** » Saturday 13 June 2015 13:53

SwordFish wrote:Yes i tried, but i get this warning.

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root@domoticzpi:~# forever start /root/homebridge/app.js
warn:    --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms
warn:    --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms
info:    Forever processing file: /root/homebridge/app.js

I get those warnings to when running forever, but apparently this doesn't matter because homebridge is working.

emke · Post by **emke** » Saturday 13 June 2015 13:55

That's not a critica's warming. After that it should run.

I also got a couple of switches that disconnected and can't find anymore. Restarting homebridge doesn't have any effect. Someone found a solution?

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 14:00

Your a lot closer than I am. I followed the wiki to the letter and I get this error when trying to run npm run start

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Saturday 13 June 2015 14:05

simon_rb wrote:Your a lot closer than I am. I followed the wiki to the letter and I get this error when trying to run npm run start

i think you should use the program "putty", and i think there is a lot more debug log above

i remember i had an error with "mdns" not sure how i solved it, but for sure you have to add the required packages first (with apt-get) before installing this.

if you did not do the apt-get , i suggest to remove the solver, do this, and start again

something like

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnss-mdns libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 14:07

Start from the beginning you mean? I did use apt-get. I don't know how to remove it though. I'm not too good with the command line side of raspberry pi. Thank you for the reply

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Saturday 13 June 2015 14:09

simon_rb wrote:Start from the beginning you mean? I did use apt-get. I don't know how to remove it though. I'm not too good with the command line side of raspberry pi. Thank you for the reply

you should have a homebridge folder in your home folder

cd ~
sudo rm -Rf homebridge

simonrg · Post by **simonrg** » Saturday 13 June 2015 14:20

gizmocuz wrote:
simon_rb wrote:Start from the beginning you mean? I did use apt-get. I don't know how to remove it though. I'm not too good with the command line side of raspberry pi. Thank you for the reply
you should have a homebridge folder in your home folder

cd ~
sudo rm -Rf homebridge

It looks like simon_rb might have the same problem as I do, as gizmocuz says the errors above are more informative - it seems to try to use a port out of bounds - which is in a dns routine, gizmocuz what did you do with mdns to sort this out?:

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/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:56
  dns_sd.DNSServiceRegister(self.serviceRef, flags, ifaceIdx, name,
         ^
Error: argument 8: port number is out of bounds.
    at Error (native)
    at new Advertisement (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:56:10)
    at Object.create [as createAdvertisement] (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:64:10)
    at Object.startAdvertising (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/Advertiser.js:7:28)
    at Object.publishAccessory (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/Accessory.js:10:29)
    at createHAPServer (/home/pi/homebridge/app.js:167:15)
    at /home/pi/homebridge/app.js:92:17
    at Request._callback (/home/pi/homebridge/platforms/Domoticz.js:62:5)
    at Request.self.callback (/home/pi/homebridge/node_modules/request/request.js:373:22)
    at Request.emit (events.js:110:17)

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Saturday 13 June 2015 14:22

good question, not sure anymore

#1 use the above apt-get command
#2 install the mdns packet
npm install mdns
#3 remove the homebridge folder
#4 start the homebridge tutorial again

something like this, and google helped me too

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 15:18

gizmocuz wrote:good question, not sure anymore

#1 use the above apt-get command
#2 install the mdns packet
npm install mdns
#3 remove the homebridge folder
#4 start the homebridge tutorial again

something like this, and google helped me too

Done above and I have the same errors. It does find all my devices but can control them as it doesn't stay running. I am running default ports on Domoticz.. I'm completely at a loss. No idea what to google to try and get it working.

v40jlt4 · Post by **v40jlt4** » Saturday 13 June 2015 16:11

Tried npm install --verbose and get:

............................
npm verb request uri https://registry.npmjs.org/ip
npm verb request no auth needed
npm info attempt registry request try #1 at 15:50:40
npm verb etag "2CPEK6B74CEVLLFG2E792DIY5"
npm http request GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ip
npm verb gentlyRm vacuuming /home/pi/homebridge/node_modules/wemo/node_modules/request/node_modules/combined-stream/node_modules/delayed-stream
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bunyan-prettystream
npm verb get saving bunyan-prettystream to /home/pi/.npm/registry.npmjs.org/bunyan-prettystream/.cache.json
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/bunyan
npm verb get saving bunyan to /home/pi/.npm/registry.npmjs.org/bunyan/.cache.json
npm verb tar unpack /home/pi/.npm/delayed-stream/1.0.0/package.tgz
npm verb tar unpacking to /home/pi/homebridge/node_modules/wemo/node_modules/request/node_modules/combined-stream/node_modules/delayed-stream
npm verb gentlyRm vacuuming /home/pi/homebridge/node_modules/wemo/node_modules/request/node_modules/combined-stream/node_modules/delayed-stream
npm verb afterAdd /home/pi/.npm/lodash/2.4.2/package/package.json written

Then it hangs.

Any ideas??

pvm · Post by **pvm** » Saturday 13 June 2015 17:09

Simon_rb, it does not stay running after Restart of your machine?

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 17:25

Pvm, it doesn't run at all. It crashes before it runs. It finds all of my devices but then crashes. My devices show up within the insteon app on my iPhone but can't do anything with them as they do not respond...

Very puzzling.

spudgunman · Post by **spudgunman** » Saturday 13 June 2015 18:01

I added a little to the wiki and cleaned up some syntax for ease of use.

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 18:41

I ran NPM Test and got the same error

simonrg · Post by **simonrg** » Saturday 13 June 2015 19:04

simon_rb wrote:I ran NPM Test and got the same error

What happens if you run npm test in the Hombridge directory?

I don't think homebridge provides a test package - see npm help:

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ npm help test
NAME
       npm-test - Test a package

SYNOPSIS
           npm test [-- <args>]
           npm tst [-- <args>]

DESCRIPTION
       This runs a package's "test" script, if one was provided.

       To run tests as a condition of installation, set the npat config to true.

So running in homebridge directory should give:

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pi@raspberrypi ~/homebridge $ npm test

> [email protected] test /home/pi/homebridge
> echo "Error: no test specified"

Error: no test specified

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 19:24

simonrg wrote:
simon_rb wrote:I ran NPM Test and got the same error
What happens if you run npm test in the Hombridge directory?

I don't think homebridge provides a test package - see npm help:
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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ npm help test
NAME
       npm-test - Test a package

SYNOPSIS
           npm test [-- <args>]
           npm tst [-- <args>]

DESCRIPTION
       This runs a package's "test" script, if one was provided.

       To run tests as a condition of installation, set the npat config to true.
So running in homebridge directory should give:
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pi@raspberrypi ~/homebridge $ npm test

> [email protected] test /home/pi/homebridge
> echo "Error: no test specified"

Error: no test specified

That's correct. That's the error I got.

I don't know what to try now!

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 22:30

Maybe I need to remove npm, node from the system completely and start again.. What would be the best way of doing that? Tried sudo NPM Unintsall but that didn't work