Install fails on Homebridge on Raspberry Pi3+ about homebridge-bluetooth HOT 6 OPEN

This plugin relies on the noble utility to implement a BLE Central device. The bluetooth-hci-socket version relied upon by the noble package does not work with nodejs versions newer than v8. The abandonware version of bluetooth-hci-socket will build on my RPi using nodejs v14. (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/@abandonware/bluetooth-hci-socket). I'm still working to get noble to use the alternate bluetooth module.

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Any solution to this issue yet?

I have successfully installed home bridge-bluetooth but homebridge log shows the following error:

Any help is much appreciated.

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The solution suggested by @gdavids57 actually works for me. Please do not forget to change all instances of require('bluetooth-hci-socket') to require('@abandonware/bluetooth-hci-socket').

Moreover, the chalk version 5 does not work for this plugin as the moment. So what you need to do is to downgrade chalk version to version 4. What I have done is as follow:

sudo npm uninstall chalk
sudo npm install [email protected]

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I have a Bluetooth version of Xiaomi Power Strip 2 (model: qmi.plug.pvs3). It connected ok, but no service discovered.

This is my config file:

 {
     "platform": "Bluetooth",
     "accessories": [
         {
             "name": "Xiaomi Outlet 2",
             "address": "68:AB:BC:07:50:AD",
             "services": [
                 {
                     "name": "JBL",
                     "type": "Outlet",
                     "UUID": "80c77a06-ec5c-11ec-8ea0-0242ac120002",
                     "characteristics": [
                         {
                             "type": "On",
                             "UUID": "80c77a06-ec5c-11ec-8ea0-0242ac120002"
                         }
                     ]
                 }
             ]
         }
     ]
 }

The log on Homebridge as follow:

[15/06/2022, 9:43:48 pm] [Bluetooth] [Xiaomi Outlet 2] Connected | Xiaomi Outlet 2 (68:AB:BC:07:50:AD)
[15/06/2022, 9:43:48 pm] [Bluetooth] [Xiaomi Outlet 2] No services discovered

What have I done wrong?

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The solution suggested by @gdavids57 actually works for me. Please do not forget to change all instances of require('bluetooth-hci-socket') to require('@abandonware/bluetooth-hci-socket').

Hi @uswong.

Can you please tell me how to find the instances as mentioned in your reply

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cd to your homebridge-bluetooth plugin directory and try using the following command:
grep -r bluetooth-hci-socket *|grep require

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