no logs

[hirbod]

My bridge is using "systemd", but the logfiles are empty. Well, my 4th issue. Guess this is a big alpha state-plugin, not really working for me, as I still have to do so much on terminal everytime.

[gismo141]

Hey please check the wiki pages for nearly all your problems, it seems that you have not given the correct rights to your user executing the homebridge!

There is an extra section just for systemd!

[hirbod]

Which wiki? My setup is correct. Also added user "homebridge" and it has correct permissions

[gismo141]

https://github.com/gismo141/homebridge-server/wiki/Usage

[hirbod]

Thanks. That worked! Didn't see this section.

[gismo141]

No problem!

I think I should add the link to the projects-README (maybe just for this startup-system-cases.

I'll push an update in half an hour or so for the hotlink-problem.

May I close this one?

[rjmcfadd]

I am having this problem too as well as reboot not doing anything.

I followed the wiki and entered

sudo usermod -a -G systemd-journal homebridge

When I click log it's blank and shows this in the terminal window

[Homebridge Server] Executing: journalctl --no-pager -u homebridge --since yesterday

[gismo141]

What is the username executing your homebridge-service?

Depending on the way you added the user, you could try to login as this user and issue the same commands.

I'm going to make the log-messages more verbose to help users identify the specific problems.

[rjmcfadd]

Thank you for the help. I think the username is either pi or homebridge.

I figured out the problem with the log. I didn't copy my config file from /home/pi/.homebridge to /var/homebridge.

I'm still having trouble with the rebooting though. When I click reboot, this appears in the log

Jan 13 16:37:01 raspberrypi homebridge[412]: [1/13/2017, 4:37:01 PM] [Homebridge Server] Executing: journalctl --no-pager -u homebridge --since yesterday
Jan 13 16:37:26 raspberrypi sudo[1193]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Jan 13 16:37:26 raspberrypi sudo[1193]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [homebridge]
Jan 13 16:37:26 raspberrypi homebridge[412]: [1/13/2017, 4:37:26 PM] [Homebridge Server] Executing: sudo systemctl restart homebridge

[gismo141]

The username is very important for the command you entered.

The sudo usermod -a -G systemd-journal homebridge means basically that the super user modifies the rights of user homebridge adds him to the group systemd-journal grants him the ability to read the systemd logs.

You can see the user in the homebridge.service-file and should adapt the call accordingly.
For example if the user you're using to execute is pi then the call should look like:

sudo usermod -a -G systemd-journal pi

As well you need to add the user to the needed sudoers-file according to the wiki because a normal unix-user is not allowed to execute the wanted commands.

[rjmcfadd]

Ok thanks for the reply. The user is homebridge but the problem was with the sudoers file because my systemctl file is located at /bin/systemctl not /usr/bin/systemctl.

[gismo141]

Ah okay, sorry for that. I'll add that to the wiki ASAP.

Thanks for the reply and I hope everything is working now ;)

[rjmcfadd]

No problem! Thanks for helping me, everything seems to be working great now!