Homebridge crashing of error loading plugin about homebridge-wol HOT 9 CLOSED

Are you running the server on a Rasperry Pi or similar? The error seems to be that node-gyp (the build tool that compiles native modules) hasn't been run correctly on install. This is not your fault and can happen for various reasons. One of which is that node-gyp isn't installed on your system. Sometimes Rasperry Pis can be a tricky target for a Node environment.

What you could try is to install the beta which has no need for node-gyp usage since it has no native modules. This also removes the need for sudo / raw socket abilities.

To install the beta, go over here and follow the instructions.

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The beta has now been merged, so try the latest version of the package.

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Having the same issue running on macOS.

This happened after I updated to the latest version of nom (version 5.2.4). Here's the output from terminal:

`/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/api.js:64
throw new Error("The requested accessory '" + name + "' was not registered by any plugin.");
^

Error: The requested accessory 'Computer' was not registered by any plugin.
at API.accessory (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/api.js:64:13)
at Server._loadAccessories (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:254:42)
at Server.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/server.js:81:38)
at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/lib/cli.js:40:10)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/bin/homebridge:17:22)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
at run (bootstrap_node.js:389:7)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
at bootstrap_node.js:504:3`

Here's module in the config.json (just that part of the json file):

{
"accessory": "Computer",
"name": "PC",
"mac": "XX: XX: XX: XX: XX: XX",
"ip": "192.168.1.72",
"pingInterval": "0"
}

Also, I'm running the latest version of the wol plugin.

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The error suggests that you haven't installed homebridge-wol correctly. Please run npm ls -g homebridge-wol on your mac.

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Nick$ npm ls -g homebridge-wol
/usr/local/lib
└── [email protected]

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@nicknicknickos I have reason to believe your issue differ from this one. Please open a new issue and follow the template provided.

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@AlexGustafsson - I figured it out. Turns out when I updated your plugin, I didn't change the "accessory" name to "NetworkDevice". That was breaking it in homebridge.

Thanks for taking a look!!

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@nicknicknickos I should've spotted that. Great thing you solved it. Do you think I could clarify the breaking change even more somehow?

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@AlexGustafsson No worries :)

I think this will only affect users who have an older version of the plugin, and then update with npm install -g homebridge-wol. New installers won't have this problem - and it was my fault for not reading the 'readme.md' file properly. Only when I looked at the stack trace a little closer did I figure it out.

Maybe you could add a section like:

'If you're updating from an older version of this plugin, be sure to follow these steps:
1- Run npm ls -g homebridge-wol
2- If version is older than VERSION BEFORE NETWORKDEVICE ADDED, please change your accessory name to 'NetworkDevice'.
3- Install the latest version of wol with npm install -g homebridge-wol

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