Homebridge - losing the will to live

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Using Hombridge by Tonesto on RPI

Long story short. I updated pi os and migrated everything across. Homebridge was working with a small issue with one plugin. Along comes ChatGPT to break everything. Now I've lost all Hubitat devices from the home app. They were showing no response. I've deleted Homebridge from home hubs and bridges in the Apple Home app but it's that long since I set this up and I cannot get it re added. Not a clue what I'm doing.

It seems to be there - all of the devices are controllable from the Homebridge web ui but I cannot see any of them in my Home app. Any help appreciated.

Edit: getting somewhere but now I've got to move every bloody device from 'default room' one by one - joy.

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I assume since you mentioned moving devices from the default room, you got things going.

Iā€™ve been using Homebridge for quite some time now, so if you need anything please post back and Iā€™ll do my best to provide answers.

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Yeah Iā€™ve got it somewhere near thanks. One thing thatā€™s bugging me is how to get rid of the ā€˜set up accessoriesā€™ prompt in Home when Iā€™ve already done it once on the Mac. Everything is how I want it but it seems Iā€™ll have to go through it all again on the phone to permanently get rid of the prompt

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For next time, Homebridge should be setup to make automatic backups. I have had the whole thing get hosed twice now and just reloaded from the latest backup, and poof, all went back how it was.

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TLDR - I'm not sure quite where it went to crap. The job was to get my Pi with 32 bit Buster migrated to 64 bit Bookworm. To do that I temporarily needed to get everything working on an SD before repeating the process to get it working on my current SSD.

It started ok - I imaged a new SD with Bookworm, booted from that, mounted the old SSD and copied relevant files across (for Homebridge, camera.UI, node-red), installed the programs, restored the configs. I t was now all working great in the interim using the SD.

It was when I wiped and imaged the SSD with Bookworm I started to have problems:

  • After a clean install I booted from SSD, copied the config files back from the working SD and installed apps but it went bad so I cloned the newly working SD to the SSD.
  • Major issues getting the Pi to run from the SSD without the SD being in place. Boot order wouldn't save/was ignored in raspi-config. It needed to boot from the SD initially and wouldn't boot without it (despite it running from the SSD once booted) It was caused by a UUID or something being cloned so that it always used the SD first. I eventually got that sorted. At that point I was up and running again....

But I was left with one tiny problem, that with hindsight I should've left alone. ffmpeg wouldn't start a camera stream in Home when the tiles thumbnail was clicked.

Somehow trying to get that last issue with Camera.ui fixed caused everything from Hubitat to go into 'no response' in Home. I don't know why that happened, as the plugins run as child bridges.

Apart from camera.ui (which I will remove) it seems to be working now - time will tell.