homebridgeinstallscript's Introduction

Homebridge automated Installation Script

Automated Script to install Homebridge and a few other things on a Raspberry Pi. This script was inspired by the Smartapfel.de Community.

This script provides the following things in an automated way:

Installation of available Raspbian Updates (apt-get update/apt-get upgrade) Optional you can update the Raspberry Firmware (rpi-update)
Checks the Raspberry Version and considers this for the NodeJS Installation.
NodeJS in desired Version will be installed. If no Version is provided 9.11.2 will be installed.
Libavahi DNS package Installation
The latest Version of NPM
The latest Version of Hombridge Application
After the first steps you will be asked to install some Homebridge Plugins. Provide the name (e.g. for homebridge-harmonhub provide harmonyhub) and teh desired version of the plugin (no provided Version means latest available)
You are able to provide your own config.json (in case of backup for example). If not a default config.json will be copied to /var/homebridge. You need to edit this config.json if you want to make the pluginconfiguration
Next step ist the configuration of the systemd Service (Start of Homebridge App after every boot and failure). This scripts creates a new user called homebridge to start the Homebridge service. Every needed file will be copied to the correct destination.
The script creates a few desktop shortcuts to start, stop and restart the Homebridge Service and to view the current log from Homebridge (Journalctl) on the desktop of the signed in user.
Cleanup of Installation leftovers and old configuration files
At least the script asks you to restart the Raspberry Pi

Call the HomebridgeInstall File via Terminal by calling "bash <path to the script>" or make the file executable and call it with a doubleclick and start with the terminal

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