Homebridge Plugin

[djstiky]

Ok that worked but it broke homebridge. I get this when checking with "sudo systemctl status homebridge":

Process: 569 ExecStart=/usr/bin/homebridge $HOMEBRIDGE_OPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

And it's a endless loop of crashing and relaunching.

[aficustree]

it's probably erring out, have you run your config.json through jsonlint.com or can you get the logs of what the crash message is?

[djstiky]

jsonlint.com says "Valid JSON"

How can I check the log?

[aficustree]

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tail -f /var/log/homebridge.log
tail -f /var/log/homebridge.err

[djstiky]

ok, I have it running as a service so I just did "tail -F /var/log/daemon.log". This part is interesting:

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Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]: Load homebridge-alarmdecoder-platform.alarmdecoder-platform
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]: /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-alarmdecoder-platform/index.js:33
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:         this.port = config.port;
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:                            ^
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]: TypeError: Cannot read property 'port' of null
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at new AlarmdecoderPlatform (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-alarmdecoder-platform/index.js:33:28)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Server._loadDynamicPlatforms (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:345:30)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Server.run (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:87:8)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at module.exports (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/cli.js:40:10)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/bin/homebridge:17:22)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge homebridge[13437]:     at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
Jun 18 11:58:18 homebridge systemd[1]: homebridge.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE


[aficustree]

looks like your config file is missing the port entry. it should look something like below

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{
            "platform": "alarmdecoder-platform",
            "name": "Alarm",
            "port": "8888",
            "key": "API KEY GOES HERE",
            "stateURL": "http://10.0.1.4:2222/api/v1/alarmdecoder",
            "zoneURL": "http://10.0.1.4:2222/api/v1/zones",
            "setURL": "http://10.0.1.4:2222/api/v1/alarmdecoder/send",
            "setPIN": "1234"
        },


port is an open port on your server that the alarmdecoder webui will connect to, the URL entries should reflect your alarmdecoder webui host/port

[djstiky]

This is what I have in my config.json

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"platform": "alarmdecoder-platform",
                        "name": "Alarm System",
                        "port": "911",
                        "key": "Whatever my key is",
                        "stateURL": "https://ip-of-alarmdecoder-gui:80/api/v1/alarmdecoder",
                        "zoneURL": "https://ip-of-alarmdecoder-gui:80/api/v1/zones",
                        "setURL": "https://ip-of-alarmdecoder-gui:80/api/v1/alarmdecoder/send",
                        "setPIN": "1234",
                        "DSCorHoneywell": "DSC",
                        "DSCStay": "<F4>",
                        "DSCAway": "<S5>",
                        "DSCReset": "<S7>",
                        "DSCExit": "<S8>"


In Alarmdecoder's config, I have:

URL: ip-of-homebridge:911
Path: /api/v1/
Method: POST
Type: JSON

So port is there, not sure what else to check.

[aficustree]

can you try a port above 1025, i don't know if it'll work with reserved ports.

[djstiky]

Changed port to 5001 in both notification settings of Alarmdecoder and config.json. Still got the same error.
I then tried something else:

For The URLs in config.json, I noticed AlarmDecoder runs HTTPS in my browser. So I changed it to:

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"stateURL": "https://192.168.222.7:443/api/v1/alarmdecoder",
"zoneURL": "https://192.168.222.7:443/api/v1/zones",
"setURL": "https://192.168.222.7:443/api/v1/alarmdecoder/send",


Notice the "https" and port 443

But it doesn't seem to change the fact that its still broken.

[aficustree]

config is passed by homebridge into the constructor so there's something wrong with your JSON. Are you sure you've loaded the snipped section into the PLATFORMS section and not the ACCESSORIES section?