jensenoz commented 2 years ago

When running the following command:

sudo -E -H ./setup.sh step1

An error message pops up saying that the NPM package is not installed. It references line 43 and if install NPM and re-run the command it works fine.

greiginsydney commented 2 years ago

Hi Jensen(?),

Have you built your Pi from the Homebridge Raspbian Image, as NPM should have been pre-installed.

It's mentioned in Step 1 in the setup.md pre-req's.

- G.

jensenoz commented 2 years ago

Hi Greig,

Did indeed. I installed the Homebridge product from the imaging software. It looks like an update has just been applied.

Screen Shot 2022-06-15 at 12 38 26 pm

The odd thing is that I had to also manually install the Homebridge CUBS plugin and I'm also getting this message when running the step 2 command.

Assuming project name = JACKT, and setting C-Gate project.start & project.default values accordingly. '/usr/local/bin/cgate/tag\JACKT.xml' -> '/usr/local/bin/cgate/tag/JACKT.xml' Skipped: already in config.json Warning: Stopping homebridge.service, but it can still be activated by: homebridge.timer Exited step 2 OK.

Hope that helps.

jensenoz commented 2 years ago

I should say I'm building this on a different network to where my CBUS CNI is based (do some work in the office and home is where the CBUS network is). I don't know if that matters to the beautiful product you created.

Regards,

John Jensen

jensenoz commented 2 years ago

If it helps I've formated by sd card and re-run the process. Here is the actual error message.

pi@homebridge:~ $ sudo -E -H ./setup.sh step1

download jq: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done jq is already the newest version (1.6-2.1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

download homebridge-cbus: ./setup.sh: line 43: npm: command not found

greiginsydney commented 2 years ago

The odd thing is that I had to also manually install the Homebridge CUBS plugin ...

That's to be expected as NPM was meant to have installed it.

I wonder if this is your issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/homebridge/comments/o0eicr/suddenly_getting_npm_not_found_on_homebridge_via/

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade was this person's fix.

- G.

jensenoz commented 2 years ago

Hi Greig,

My thanks for the suggestion.

I tried your suggested command:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

and got the following response.

**_pi@homebridge:~ $ sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Get:1 https://repo.homebridge.io stable InRelease [3,242 B] Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bullseye InRelease [23.7 kB]
Get:3 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye InRelease [15.0 kB]
Get:4 https://repo.homebridge.io stable/main armhf Packages [570 B]
Get:5 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bullseye/main armhf Packages [279 kB] Get:6 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye/main armhf Packages [13.2 MB] Fetched 13.5 MB in 19s (708 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

Next, I look at the provided command and assumed what you meant was the following (found at step 20 in your doco):

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

I had success with the above command.

Lastly, I continued on with steps 21 to 25 but got the same error message again.

**_pi@homebridge:~ $ sudo -E -H ./setup.sh step1

download jq: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done jq is already the newest version (1.6-2.1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

download homebridge-cbus: ./setup.sh: line 43: npm: command not found_**

To be completely transparent I'm running the above testing on a raspberry pi 4

Regards,

John Jensen