Trying to get Homebridge working on Mac OSX

Third party integrations Homebridge
1

Here is the error:

Hiltons-iMac:~ Hilton$ homebridge
[8/30/2016, 6:21:21 PM] Loaded plugin: homebridge-homeassistant
homebridge API version: 2
[8/30/2016, 6:21:21 PM] Registering platform 'homebridge-homeassistant.HomeAssistant'
[8/30/2016, 6:21:21 PM] ---
[8/30/2016, 6:21:21 PM] There was a problem reading your config.json file.
[8/30/2016, 6:21:21 PM] Please try pasting your config.json file here to validate it: http://jsonlint.com
[8/30/2016, 6:21:21 PM] 
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:176
    throw err;
    ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token :
    at Object.parse (native)
    at Server._loadConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:170:19)
    at new Server (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:44:23)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/cli.js:26:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/bin/homebridge:17:22)
    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 Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)

Here is my config file:

"platforms": [
  {
    "platform": "HomeAssistant",
    "name": "Home",
    "host": "http://192.168.0.101:8123",
    "password": "yourapipassword",
    "supported_types": ["light", "switch", "media_player", "scene", "rollershutter"]
  }
]

I had to create the file. There was no config.json file in the Homebridge directory.

Please help, if possible.

Cheers

Hilton

2

Is that all you have in your config file? If so, you need to add an opening bracket { to the beginning of the file and a closing bracket } at the end.

So, it should look like this:

{

    "platforms": [
      {
        "platform": "HomeAssistant",
        "name": "Home",
        "host": "http://192.168.0.101:8123",
        "password": "yourapipassword",
        "supported_types": ["light", "switch", "media_player", "scene", "rollershutter"]
      }
    ]

}
3

Thank you. I’ll give it a try at the weekend.