Permission denied - Newbie about homebridge-http-webhooks HOT 7 CLOSED

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The changing of the path didn't work (for me)

Had to give the user /etc/passwd root privileges

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@benzman81 thanks.. I change to /var/homebridge/cache and it immediately stopped erroring. /persist was mentioned at smartapfel.de so I just kept it.

now my devices aren't reacting at the home app, but I guess this is another thread. thanks a lot und schönen Abend :-)

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See #15

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Problem occurs at my config too. I added the cache_directory and I also added root privileges to the homebridge user.
any ideas?

EDIT: cleaning up /var/lib/persist after adding the user to root-group seems to make the change. I keep you updated.
EDIT2: it came up with "[Homebridge UI] [npm] Failed to check registry.npmjs.org for updates: "timeout of 5000ms exceeded" "

but npm was up and available. After a restart of homebridge the old failure came back;
"Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: [3/17/2021, 6:47:11 PM] Error: [PARSE-ERROR] /var/homebridge/persist/AccessoryInfo.0E7605603A4E.json does not look like a valid storage file!
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at LocalStorage.parseFileSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-http-webhooks/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:647:19)
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at LocalStorage.parseStorageDirSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-http-webhooks/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:596:26)
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at LocalStorage.initSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-http-webhooks/node_modules/node-persist/src/local-storage.js:141:14)
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at Object.nodePersist.initSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-http-webhooks/node_modules/node-persist/src/node-persist.js:37:32)
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at new HttpWebHooksPlatform (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-http-webhooks/src/homekit/HttpWebHooksPlatform.js:25:16)
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/src/server.ts:440:40
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at Array.forEach ()
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at Server.loadPlatforms (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/src/server.ts:372:27)
Mar 17 18:47:11 raspi-ctrl homebridge[3578]: at Server.start (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge/src/server.ts:159:29)"

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@dtrywets https://github.com/benzman81/homebridge-http-webhooks#cache-directory-storage-cache_directory

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@benzman81 folder is drwxr-xr-x 2 homebridge root 4096 Mar 17 19:08 persist
as I deleted it manually to get the mkdir. it's writeable due to user homebridge beeing part of root-group or am I getting things wrong here?

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@dtrywets It looks like you choose the folder where homebridge persists its files. The folder ste as cache directory must be empty.

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