homebridge for fibaro doesnt get connected when the homecenter lite controller restarts

[allwyn007]

my home bridge gets disconnected with fibaro hcl controller whenever the controller restarts... please suggests a way that whenver fibaro homecenter lite restart after 5 minutes homebridge(raspberry pi)should also restart

[ilcato]

There's no "state" between homebridge and hc, so it shouldn't care if hc/hcl restart.
By the way how often do you need to restart hc ?

[allwyn007]

once power goes off, both hc and homebridge(raspberry pi) gets off. once power comeback fibaro needs atleast 2-3 minutes to get started at the same time homebridge starts and is not able to get connected with hc. so i have to restart the homebridge whenever there is power outage and then only its get connected with hc and thus works with homekit..

[ilcato]

I can suggest to insert a 5 minutes delay in your homebridge startup script. What are you using for the homebridge management?

[allwyn007]

docker

[ilcato]

how are you starting it?

[allwyn007]

Start Homebridge
Run this command to start Homebridge
docker run -d --restart=always --net=host
--name=homebridge
-v /storage/homebridge:/homebridge
-e HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI=1
-e HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI_PORT=8581
oznu/homebridge:raspberry-pi

[allwyn007]

Homebridge Starts on Boot
Open /storage/.config/autostart.sh for editing in nano:
nano /storage/.config/autostart.sh

[allwyn007]

@ilcato can you please suggest script.. i am new to coding

[ilcato]

show me the /storage/.config/autostart.sh file

[allwyn007]

docker restart homebridge

[allwyn007]

this command is added to the bottom of the line /storage/.config/autostart.sh file

[ilcato]

insert sleep 300 before it

[allwyn007]

so the command will be 'sleep 300 docker restart homebridge'

[allwyn007]

sleep 300 && docker restart homebridge &
is this command okay!?

[ilcato]

No:
sleep 300
docker restart homebridge

[allwyn007]

i tried to add but it says no such file or directory

[ilcato]

In wich operating system are you running the script?

[allwyn007]

raspbian

[allwyn007]

[ilcato]

Try with sudo before the nano command

[allwyn007]

i tried still it says same

[allwyn007]

https://github.com/oznu/docker-homebridge/wiki/Homebridge-on-LibreELEC

i followed the above to setup homebridge

[ilcato]

Did you try the approach described in the last 2 pages?

[allwyn007]

in which last 2 pages?

[ilcato]

You posted another to a pdf page before the previous one

[allwyn007]

yes i tried that but that was not working

[ilcato]

Please execute: ls /storage/.config/autostart.sh

[allwyn007]

it says la command not found

[ilcato]

Sorry ls

[allwyn007]

it says like this
ls: cannot access '/storage/.config/autostart.sh': No such file or directory

[ilcato]

But you previously said that it contains:
docker restart homebridge

[allwyn007]

i thought so but now iam trying to nano its not showing... is it possible to create again

[ilcato]

You must create the .config Folder before with mkdir /storage/.config

[allwyn007]

it says like this
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/storage/.config’: Permission denied

[allwyn007]

i tried with sudo
its created

[ilcato]

use sudo mkdir /storage/.config

[allwyn007]

its created ... can you tell me the next step

[ilcato]

sudo nano /storage/.config/autostart.sh

[allwyn007]

i did it and i pasted the sleep 300 docker restart homebridge but still the problem exists

[allwyn007]

i mean the homebridge is not getting restarted

[allwyn007]

with respect to 300

[ilcato]

Did you put th 2 commands into 2 different lines?

[allwyn007]

yes...
still not working

[ilcato]

Did you restart the raspbian machine ?