Using noble with developing Homebridge plugins. In situations where, for example, a user is running from a raspberry pi with no bluetooth, this leads to an error which cannot be caught and results in the node process crashing. I managed to recreate this by disabling the bluetooth on my pi by adding dtoverlay=disable-bt to my /boot/config.txt file.
Homebridge logs on plugin init:
/home/pi/govee/node_modules/@abandonware/noble/lib/hci-socket/hci.js:160
this._socket.bindRaw(this._deviceId);
^
Error: ENODEV, No such device
at Hci.init (/home/pi/govee/node_modules/@abandonware/noble/lib/hci-socket/hci.js:160:20)
at NobleBindings.init (/home/pi/govee/node_modules/@abandonware/noble/lib/hci-socket/bindings.js:100:13)
at /home/pi/govee/node_modules/@abandonware/noble/lib/noble.js:61:24
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:77:11)
[27/07/2023, 08:07:33] [Govee] Child bridge process ended
[27/07/2023, 08:07:33] [Govee] Process Ended. Code: 1, Signal: null
[27/07/2023, 08:07:40] [Govee] Restarting Process...
With this PR fix, these logs become
[27/07/2023, 08:13:05] [Govee] ***** No devices found to initialise. *****
[27/07/2023, 08:13:05] [Govee] [BLE] Initialisation of USB device failed: ENODEV, No such device.
Current Situation
Using noble with developing Homebridge plugins. In situations where, for example, a user is running from a raspberry pi with no bluetooth, this leads to an error which cannot be caught and results in the node process crashing. I managed to recreate this by disabling the bluetooth on my pi by adding
dtoverlay=disable-btto my/boot/config.txtfile.Homebridge logs on plugin init:
With this PR fix, these logs become
Fixes https://github.com/abandonware/noble/issues/132