"ui" Issues

[bubffm]

Again issues with ui, I am afraid. After I tested that everything is working, I moved my homebridge / deconz setup from my old raspi3/raspBee1 to a new raspi4/raspBee2 setup. All is working fine. Zigbee devices and other homebridge stuff all showing up. But I want to stop that the new gateway (raspbee2) throwing so many log entries. Did a 'ping' against the gateway and received a "pong" back.

But trying to set loglevel via "ui" gets me this error. I checked for beautifications, but all looks fine to me

Any idea whats wrong? Could there be a rights issue?

[bubffm]

I do get a message in the Log that ui server is listening.

ui server: listening on http://127.0.0.1:36841/

From Instructions: "In case ui fails to locate config.json, set the HOMEBRIDGE_DIR environment variable to the Homebridge user directory."

If I would just know where to set this...

[ebaauw]

npm -g installs symlinks to the command-line utilities in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, depending on how you installed NodeJS. Local npm installs the symlinks in .bin. Make sure the directory is included in $PATH, or the shell won’t be able to find the command.

[bubffm]

I installed homebridge from the standard setup procedure in Github. The homebridge-settings/plugins got restored on the new Pi via the UI-X interface from a backup

Issuing "npm -g gives me: pi@homebridge:~ $ npm -g -bash: npm: command not found

Where do I need to check for that $PATH entry? Sorry but this all sounds a but beyond me...

[ebaauw]

Sorry, closing this issue as this has nothing to do with Homebridge deCONZ.

I installed homebridge from the standard setup procedure in Github. The homebridge-settings/plugins got restored on the new Pi via the UI-X interface from a backup

npm is the package manager that comes with NodeJS. I don't know what the "standard setup procedure is" nor what kind of installation that would result in. Apparently, it doesn't install NodeJS nor plugins in a way that they can be used from user pi. You might try and issue the commands from the Terminal in the Homebridge UI. Otherwise, ask for help with Homebridge Config UI X, or Homebridge itself.

$PATH or $HOMEBRIDGE_DIR are Linux environment variables. There are dozens of sites on the Internet explaining those.

[bubffm]

'You might try and issue the commands from the Terminal in the Homebridge UI'

That worked. Thank you.

[rhwood]

For anyone else struggling with ui not being in the path, you can use sudo hb-shell to get a terminal with ui in the path (and running as the correct user).