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homebridge-plugins / homebridge-roomba2

Homebridge plugin to connect iRobot Roomba devices with Homebridge/HomeKit.
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How to get BLID & password #59

Closed m-opserc closed 3 years ago

m-opserc commented 3 years ago

I am an extreme newbie to this so I apologize in advance. Any help would be greatly appreciate. I am having trouble getting the blid and password necessary to run this plugin for my Roomba. I am not really sure what the author meant by CD into where your plugins are installed. I have typed in sudo npm run getrobotpwd 192.168.x.xxx (Roomba actual address) into the homebridge terminal and all I get is "npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! path /var/lib/homebridge/package.json npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/var/lib/homebridge/package.json' npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2021-09-11T05_33_42_760Z-debug.log." I have looked at the config options in homebridge UI and attempted to place the same command with no luck as well. I have also placed that same command in my Mac terminal with no luck. Im pretty certain once I can obtain the blid and password the rest I can do on my own. Again any help would be greatly appreciated.

rcoletti116 commented 3 years ago

CD means 'change directory.' It's a linux command. You need to know where the homebridge-roomba2 plugin is installed and run the command from within that directory.

For example, I'm running the Official Raspberry Pi image and my plugins are installed in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ so in order to change to that directory I would type cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.

If you don't know where your plugins are installed, you can type the command npm root -g which may help (if you installed your plugins as global packages). Maybe this will help - how did you install homebridge and how did you install this plugin?

m-opserc commented 3 years ago

It took me a couple of days but I was finally able to get it. I am using the official imager from homebridge for the pi. Terminal was giving me issues at first with those commands (I probably missed typed the commands) I am new to running codes on terminal so I couldn't figure out what cd meant and how to correctly type the command in terminal but its working flawlessly now. Thank you for your help/response.

karlvr commented 3 years ago

@m-opserc great that you have it sorted. @rcoletti116 thank you for helping out. I've made some improvements to the README in this respect and we have some more coming, hopefully, in #61.