Adding other homebridge plugins
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:06 am
Have just updated HBB to 1.0.1 and delighted to say it was absolutely flawless. Thank you!
I'm now trying to figure out how I can add other HB plugins (particular homebridge-zp which talks to Sonos). Some questions:
1. Is the version of the basic homebridge platform that is bundled with HBB using the latest version of node.js etc?
2. If I want to install another homebridge plugin, do I need to run another instance of homebridge somewhere else (so in ~/.homebridge?
3. If I understand correctly, I at the very least need to put an appropriate config.json in that directory, but that should only contain the configuration for the additional plug-in.
4. Do I also need to do anything to get HBB to look at that config.json (especially if I have changed it) or does it check every time it loads in order to update the custom homebridge server?
Sorry if some of these are very basic questions. I'm a bit confused as to how precisely to proceed.
I'm now trying to figure out how I can add other HB plugins (particular homebridge-zp which talks to Sonos). Some questions:
1. Is the version of the basic homebridge platform that is bundled with HBB using the latest version of node.js etc?
2. If I want to install another homebridge plugin, do I need to run another instance of homebridge somewhere else (so in ~/.homebridge?
3. If I understand correctly, I at the very least need to put an appropriate config.json in that directory, but that should only contain the configuration for the additional plug-in.
4. Do I also need to do anything to get HBB to look at that config.json (especially if I have changed it) or does it check every time it loads in order to update the custom homebridge server?
Sorry if some of these are very basic questions. I'm a bit confused as to how precisely to proceed.