Noob NodeJS questions.

nklerk

Hi guys,

I am trying to write my own homey app. and i need some pushes in the right direction. I have programming knowledge but NodeJS is totaly new to me. and between the trees i can't see the Forrest. lol

For this i am stuck at the very beginning of my code. Including a module.
I cant get the inclusion to work.

I have downloaded the nodeJS module at https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
and placed the files in my app path: nl.nielsdeklerk.homebridge/node_modules/homebridge/

the start of my app.js looks like:

"use strict";
var http = require('http');
var Accessory, Service, Characteristic, UUIDGen;
var homebridge = require('homebridge');   // <- This line fails

Debug output:

-------------------------------------------------
Error: Cannot find module 'homebridge'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/app.js:6:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)

--- INFO: nl.nielsdeklerk.homebridge has been killed ---

What am i overseeing. looks like it's not a module. but when i look at the code of others i dont know where to look for.

jorden

Go commandline, go to the folder nl.nielsdeklerk.homebridge

Create a directory node_modules (in OSX: mkdir node_modules, Windows should be somewhat similar)
Type in:
git clone https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

That should do it. Ofcourse, first you'll have to install git if you don't have it.

EvertorN

You should install the module via npm. Open a commandline window and execute:

npm install homebridge --prefix "C:/users/path_to_your_app_nl.nielsdeklerk/"

This should automatically create a folder 'node_modules' in your root folder and will also install all the dependencies of the homebridge node module

jorden

I actually also do npm install homebridge. Had a brainfart when I typed the git clone thing. 

nklerk

Thanks for all the the help. I am now installing all the building dependancies: git, VS, Windows sdk, python. :-)

nklerk

Ok I gave up :-( To much binaries needed that i'm having issues getting to work. let alone having this working on the homey. Many thanks for the push in the right direction.

eelco2k

I've tried almost the same, but because of some node_modules which are required for a specific os distribution it was not possible for me to get homebridge running on homey itself. i'm getting this error:

/node_modules/mdns/build/Release/dns_sd_bindings.node: invalid ELF header

Because I use a Mac os x to compile this module. it is compiled for Mac os x and not for the Homey os distribution.

Hopefully someone can give me some direction in what kind of OS i need to compile so that these modules will work for Homey. 

eelco2k

Already found the OS which Homey runs on. Raspbian. I tried to use this docker image to emulate ARM. 
https://hub.docker.com/r/jsurf/rpi-raspbian/

But i'm getting some node specific error regarding the os.networkInterface(). So i think i'm not able to compile for ARM cpu.