This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting

[utezduyar]

I am not sure who is not handling ENETUNREACH but once it happens, homebridge doesn't start anymore due to verisure plugin. I have pages long logs about "this plugin is taking long time...".

Is this something you are familiar?

[5/5/2021, 4:48:30 PM] [verisure] info Entrance Door: Getting current sensor state. [5/5/2021, 4:48:30 PM] [verisure] info Bedroom Door: Getting current sensor state. [5/5/2021, 4:48:30 PM] [verisure] info Laundry Room Door: Getting current sensor state. [5/5/2021, 4:48:30 PM] [verisure] info Living Room Door: Getting current sensor state. [5/5/2021, 4:48:55 PM] Error: send ENETUNREACH 224.0.0.251:5353 at doSend (dgram.js:692:16) at defaultTriggerAsyncIdScope (internal/async_hooks.js:430:12) at afterDns (dgram.js:638:5) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:81:21) [5/5/2021, 4:48:55 PM] Got SIGTERM, shutting down Homebridge... [5/5/2021, 4:49:00 PM] [HB Supervisor] Homebridge Process Ended. Code: 143, Signal: null [5/5/2021, 4:49:05 PM] [HB Supervisor] Restarting Homebridge... [5/5/2021, 4:49:05 PM] [HB Supervisor] Starting Homebridge with extra flags: -I [5/5/2021, 4:49:05 PM] [HB Supervisor] Started Homebridge v1.3.4 with PID: 4890 Initializing HAP-NodeJS v0.9.4... [5/5/2021, 4:49:06 PM] Loaded config.json with 0 accessories and 2 platforms. [5/5/2021, 4:49:06 PM] Loaded 0 cached accessories from cachedAccessories. [5/5/2021, 4:49:06 PM] --- [5/5/2021, 4:49:07 PM] Plugin /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-bluetooth does not contain a package.json. [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] Loaded plugin: homebridge-config-ui-x@4.41.1 [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] Registering platform 'homebridge-config-ui-x.config' [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] --- [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] Loaded plugin: homebridge-verisure@1.14.0 [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] Registering platform 'homebridge-verisure.verisure' [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] --- [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] Loading 2 platforms... [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] [Config] Initializing config platform... [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] [Config] Running in Service Mode [5/5/2021, 4:49:08 PM] [verisure] Initializing verisure platform... (node:4890) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN automation01.verisure.com at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:67:26) (Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created) (node:4890) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag --unhandled-rejections=strict (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2) (node:4890) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code. [5/5/2021, 4:49:28 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:49:48 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:50:08 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:50:28 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:50:48 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:51:08 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:51:28 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:51:48 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:52:08 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:52:28 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/5/2021, 4:52:48 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more i

[utezduyar]

If I restart the server, everything is back to normal.

[5/6/2021, 3:28:48 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/6/2021, 3:29:08 PM] [homebridge-verisure] This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. See https://git.io/JtMGR for more info. [5/6/2021, 3:29:22 PM] [Homebridge UI] Homebridge restart request received [5/6/2021, 3:29:22 PM] [Homebridge UI] UI / Bridge settings have not changed; only restarting Homebridge process [5/6/2021, 3:29:22 PM] [Homebridge UI] Sending SIGTERM to Homebridge [5/6/2021, 3:29:22 PM] Got SIGTERM, shutting down Homebridge... [5/6/2021, 3:29:27 PM] [HB Supervisor] Homebridge Process Ended. Code: 143, Signal: null [5/6/2021, 3:29:32 PM] [HB Supervisor] Restarting Homebridge... [5/6/2021, 3:29:32 PM] [HB Supervisor] Starting Homebridge with extra flags: -I [5/6/2021, 3:29:32 PM] [HB Supervisor] Started Homebridge v1.3.4 with PID: 15755 Initializing HAP-NodeJS v0.9.4... [5/6/2021, 3:29:33 PM] Loaded config.json with 0 accessories and 2 platforms. [5/6/2021, 3:29:33 PM] Loaded 0 cached accessories from cachedAccessories. [5/6/2021, 3:29:33 PM] --- [5/6/2021, 3:29:34 PM] Plugin /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-bluetooth does not contain a package.json.

[ptz0n]

Thanks for reaching out, as your log states:

Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN automation01.verisure.com

Which means:

EAI_AGAIN is a DNS lookup timed out error, means it is a network connectivity error or proxy related error.

In general terms; you seem to have an issue with your Internet connection.

I hope this helps.

[utezduyar]

I noticed that there are problems, however, an intermittent network connection should not block entire homebridge server from starting up. What do you think?

[ptz0n]

I'm not sure for how long we can delay the platform from registering its accessories without having Homebridge freaking out. Closing this one, please see: https://github.com/ptz0n/homebridge-verisure/issues/61

[utezduyar]

Are we not missing something? Once the problem happens we go in to loop of "This plugin is taking long time to load and preventing Homebridge from starting. Even though I could see that I have internet connection. Also, restarting the homebridge re-triggers things. To me, it seems like retry mechanism is not detecting that the uplink has been restored.

[ptz0n]

We do not yet have such a mechanism as part of the plugin. Therefore I referred to the enhancement issue #61

[utezduyar]

ok thanks