Plugins tab not loading

[henkhb]

Hey,

tab is not loading (or after long waiting / refreshing)
Both of my installations are affected. Server down / slow?

If I restart container, it gives "Error loading Plugins: http error. Unknown error"

Regards
Hendrik

[afharo]

Might be related to #280 ?

I can't see the list of plugins because I have the plugins installed in the local project folder (not npm -i g option)

[henkhb]

I don't think so. Iam using the docker version and did not change the installation, only updated to actual version of ConfigUI. Same issue on both of my containers.

Both containers also have a news error during startup, that was not existing before the update:
Plugin /homebridge/node_modules/homebridge-lib package.json does not contain the keyword 'homebridge-plugin'.

Same error on both, but with different plugins.

[desq42]

…same here. Plugin-Tab not loading…

[fighterzg6]

…same here. Plugin-Tab not loading…
install 4.2.0 it works

[desq42]

…how do you downgrade to 4.2?

[fighterzg6]

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-config-ui-x@4.2.0

[desq42]

downgraded. No cigar. Still no Plugin-Tab.

[fighterzg6]

restart the system, and wait any seconds

[oznu]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure this one out - I can't replicate this on any of the platforms I test on.

So far the only error I've seen that's relevant is this one from @henkhb in Slack:

npm registry: communication error ESOCKETTIMEDOUT on https://registry.npmjs.org/

The npm registry is also currently doing some strange things like not returning search results for some recently published packages which may be related:

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/qg46dsfk1vt2

However, the code to return a list of plugins is not dependant on being able to reach the NPM registry; if it can't connect it just won't have extra metadata like the author, links to GitHub, update notifications etc. I've tested this by setting the timeout on the http calls to the registry to 1ms and watching them all fail, but the list of plugins is still returned (error messages about not being able to lookup plugin info is also logged correctly).

So I can try and figure out a pattern here, any users that are having these issues, can you please provide:

• The Homebridge logs after you refresh the Plugins page showing any errors
• A list of homebridge plugins you have installed using this command: npm -g list | grep "homebridge"

Also try the next version that adds a much shorter timeout to the registry calls (5 seconds, down from Linux default of 20-120 seconds):

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-config-ui-x@next

[fighterzg6]

it works

[desq42]

same here. Works now. ( - homebridge-config-ui-x v4.3.1-beta.4)

[oznu]

Thanks @fighterzg6 @desq42 - are there any messages in the console like error ESOCKETTIMEDOUT while refreshing the plugin page?

[fighterzg6]

2019-5-6 14:22:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 energy consumption
[2019-5-6 14:22:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 temperature
[2019-5-6 14:23:04] [Alexa] alexaDiscovery - returned 78 devices
[2019-5-6 14:23:48] [FritzBox-Drach8] Updating guest WLAN
[2019-5-6 14:23:48] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting guest WLAN state
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Updating outlet 087610002504
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 state
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 power usage
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 in use
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 energy consumption
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 temperature
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Updating outlet 087610002503
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 state
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 power usage
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 in use
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 energy consumption
[2019-5-6 14:23:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 temperature
[2019-5-6 14:24:04] [Alexa] alexaDiscovery - returned 78 devices
[2019-5-6 14:24:34] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:34] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:35] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:37] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:38] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:40] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:48] [FritzBox-Drach8] Updating guest WLAN
[2019-5-6 14:24:48] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting guest WLAN state
[2019-5-6 14:24:57] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Updating outlet 087610002504
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 state
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 power usage
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 in use
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 energy consumption
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002504 temperature
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Updating outlet 087610002503
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 state
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 power usage
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 in use
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 energy consumption
[2019-5-6 14:24:58] [FritzBox-Drach8] Getting outlet 087610002503 temperature
[2019-5-6 14:24:59] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:25:01] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:25:02] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
[2019-5-6 14:25:04] [Alexa] alexaDiscovery - returned 78 devices
[2019-5-6 14:25:09] [homebridge-config-ui-x] Error: ESOCKETTIMEDOUT
pi : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/var/homebridge ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/journalctl -o cat -n 500 -f -u homebridge
pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)

[fighterzg6]

yes

[oznu]

@fighterzg6 - this is good! It means the problem was what I suspected - the npm registry is being slow to respond.

[fighterzg6]

ok, whatever you say

[afharo]

same here. Works now. ( - homebridge-config-ui-x v4.3.1-beta.4)

It didn't fix it for me. I'm just receiving an empty list of plugins after line: https://github.com/oznu/homebridge-config-ui-x/blob/master/src/modules/plugins/plugins.service.ts#L60

My installation is local (using npm i instead of npm i -g because I've got my project defined in a package.json for easier portability).

It used to work but stopped working after version 4.x.x.

I've added my local node_modules folders to the initialisation of paths in this line: https://github.com/oznu/homebridge-config-ui-x/blob/master/src/modules/plugins/plugins.service.ts#L424 and it works. Is there any way to also check the local node_module folder (the same where this module is installed)?

===UPDATE===
I've been looking further and the reason is because https://github.com/oznu/homebridge-config-ui-x/blob/master/src/modules/plugins/plugins.service.ts#L427:
paths = paths.concat(require.main.paths); is compiled by webpack to paths = paths.concat(__webpack_require__.c[__webpack_require__.s].paths), which is undefined. I've manually changed that webpack replacement back to require.main.paths and it works perfectly!

[oznu]

@afharo - thanks for discovering that, it will be fixed next release.

[oznu]

The timeout issue and @afharo issue is now published in 4.4.0.

[afharo]

Thank you! It works like a charm!