Issue with Homebridge as a Service with Broadlink

[bobjoylove]

Hey I'm having an issue with Broadlink only when I run Homebridge as a server. It works great if I run homebridge from the command line. I followed the instructions here and my JSON and service is located in var/homebridge and /usr/local/bin/homebridge as per steps 2.1 and 5

Mar 11 12:29:42 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:42] Registering platform 'homebridge-legacy-plugins.LIFx'
Mar 11 12:29:42 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:42] Registering platform 'homebridge-legacy-plugins.SmartThings'
Mar 11 12:29:42 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:42] Registering platform 'homebridge-legacy-plugins.TelldusLive'
Mar 11 12:29:42 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:42] Registering platform 'homebridge-legacy-plugins.ZWayServer'
Mar 11 12:29:42 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:42] ---
Mar 11 12:29:43 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:43] Loaded plugin: homebridge-smartthings
Mar 11 12:29:43 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:43] Registering platform 'homebridge-smartthings.SmartThings'
Mar 11 12:29:43 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:43] ---
Mar 11 12:29:44 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:44] Loaded plugin: homebridge-smartthings-routine
Mar 11 12:29:44 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:44] Registering accessory 'homebridge-smartthings-routine.SmartThingsRoutine'
Mar 11 12:29:44 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:44] ---
Mar 11 12:29:44 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:44] Loaded plugin: homebridge-smartthings-routine-triggers
Mar 11 12:29:44 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:44] Registering accessory 'homebridge-smartthings-routine-triggers.HomebridgeRoutineTrigger'
Mar 11 12:29:44 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:44] ---
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] Loaded plugin: homebridge-broadlink-rm
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] Registering platform 'homebridge-broadlink-rm.BroadlinkRM'
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] ---
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] Loaded config.json with 0 accessories and 2 platforms.
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] ---
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] Loading 2 platforms...
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] [SmartThings] Initializing homebridge-smartthings.SmartThings platform...
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] [SmartThings] Fetching Smart Things devices.
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: [2018-3-11 12:29:45] [Broadlink RM] Initializing BroadlinkRM platform...
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:90
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: throw err0;
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: ^
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/homebridge'
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:905:18)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at sync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:71:13)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at sync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:77:24)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at Function.sync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:77:24)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at LocalStorage.parseStorageDirSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:619:2
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at LocalStorage.initSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:142:14)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at Object.nodePersist.initSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/node-persist/src/node-persist.js:37:32)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at Object.init (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/homebridge-platform-helper/helpers/persistentState.js:10:15)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi homebridge[8551]: at new HomebridgePlatform (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-broadlink-rm/node_modules/homebridge-platform-helper/platform.js:14:21)
Mar 11 12:29:45 raspberrypi systemd[1]: homebridge.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Here's the content of /home

cd /home/
pi@raspberrypi:/home $ ls
pi

Thanks!

[lprhodes]

@bobjoylove I assume you got this working given the others issues? If not, does sudo homebridge work? If so then that should give us a good starting point to determining what the issue is.

[bobjoylove]

Hi lprhodes

Broadlinkrm works great if I start Homebridge from the command line.

It's when I try to autostart Homebridge as a service that I have the issue.

It just looks like a hardcoded directory issue?

[lprhodes]

Ah I see, could this be of help? https://github.com/lprhodes/homebridge-broadlink-rm#overriding-the-homebridge-directory-aka-where-the-consigjson-file-lives

[bobjoylove]

Woot woot!
I made the following file changes to both JSONs

sudo nano /home/pi/.homebridge/config.json
sudo nano /var/homebridge/config.json
before:

                       "platform": "BroadlinkRM",
			"name": "Broadlink RM",
			"accessories": [

after:

                       "platform": "BroadlinkRM",
			"name": "Broadlink RM",
			"homebridgeDirectory": "/var/homebridge/",
			"accessories": [

fixed and confirmed working. Thank you!

[lprhodes]

Awesome. I'm glad it's sorted.

[cubilon]

could be useful avoiding the "homebridgeDirectory", this becouse sometimes happens to launch different homebridge instances from different users but using the same config.