Yes, I tried it. Didn't work. Thanks tho.
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My experience too.. I have yet to find a homebridge plugin that controls the AppleTV reliably. I'm hoping that In the new TVos/Homekit that they put the hooks in to control it from HomeKit.
Or maybe "Matter" compliant...
I've got Homebridge v2 plugin v2.5.11 running on my Hubitat, and Homebridge seems to be communicating with it, but I'm getting the errors "[Hubitat-v2] getDevices Connection failure | Message: Request failed with status code 404" and "[Hubitat-v2] sendUpdateStatus Connection failure: Message: read ECONNRESET". What have I not got configured right? Thanks!
The plugin is not able to communicate with the Hubitat app. Make sure your plugin configuration is correct
So I need to install the Hubitat app on a mobile device? Or are you talking about communication between the plugin and the host application on the Hubitat hub itself?
no the homebridge app that you installed under Hubitat UI
I see the problem, I had AppID as "5" in the configuration on the Homebridge instance rather than "15" as shown in the generated config file in the Hubitat app. It's working now!
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Same issue for me. How did you resolve this 'plugin' update error? I've tried rebooting Hubitat and Homebridge devices, no luck.
How do I get rid of the error in Hubitat saying the homebridge plugin needs to be updated?
You have to update the plugin from the Homebridge server itself, not within Hubitat. My Homebridge setup has been running so well that I forgot about the server piece.
My homebridge is running on Hoobs, the plugin does not appear ready to be updated. Will just ignore this for now I guess
Can someone confirm that I have to install this and then install the UI part in some other device like Raspberry Pi?
Is it required to have a companion piece run on another device besides Hubitat?
Yes that's correct... the HomeBridge server bit runs separately. @tonesto7's HE app creates the bridge between HB and HE..
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Thanks.
One more question:
Where do I copy and paste the JSON config from the HUBITAT app?
Right here:
This goes into a bit more depth and also introduces multiple "child instances"... good if you have multiple hubs.
Thanks, I just powered through and installed the Web interface and then when that came up I saw a place for it. I got it running.
Questions:
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The Hubitat configuration side doesn't seem to have support for locks. Did I miss something?
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I think I installed the RPi piece twice or at least using two commands due to the instructions showing two ways.
First:
`npm i -g homebridge`
Then:
`sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge`
I also created a custom config,json file under .homebridge directory while troubleshooting before installing the UI and realizing there is an easy place where it should go.
Am I going to run into any issues?
Is it OK to get rid of the manually created config.json file in the .homebridge directory?
Also if you want to run it as a service do this:
sudo hb-service install --user homebridge
Hard to say whether or not you will run into issues - the only sorts of trouble I've had is a node/npm installation funkiness after an update of Node-RED. Once Homebridge is up and running it's very stable. The plugins are community built so you do get occasional weirdness. You might lose your bridge connection between Apple Home and HB and have to redo - but this is very rare.
