Don't install node 23 cause you will get an old version of matterbridge

[duskiez]

Hello,

I installed Matterbridge + Shelly on a fresh raspberry pi with node.js. It seems that I can't get it to update to the newest releases in any way. There are no error in the logs, I see a message that "package matterbridge is installed correctly" but after the automatic reboot, the version is still 1.6.5. and the update is offered again.

Would appreciate some help in understanding what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks!

[Luligu]

Hi,
thanks for your interest.

What I dont get is a fresh installation...
How did you made it?
Explain me the steps, cause matterbridge latest is 2.1.5.
So why you have 1.6.5 that is months ago old?
Did you use any unofficial script taken somewhere?

[duskiez]

Hey, thanks for taking the time to reply. No, I did not use any weird script, I used the instructions in your readme. I installed nodeJS using the instructions here https://github.com/nodesource/distributions. Are there installation logs somewhere that I can extract and check?

[Luligu]

Ok then you should have done like in https://github.com/Luligu/matterbridge?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

sudo npm install -g matterbridge --omit=dev

This should have installed matterbridge 2.1.5.

You can try to redo it and send me the output from the terminal.

Also do

sudo npm list -g

and send me the output from the terminal.

Now you have to also setup matterbridge.service since you don't want to keep a terminal opened.
Follow here: https://github.com/Luligu/matterbridge/blob/main/README-SERVICE.md

Can you make me a screenshot of the frontend too please?

[duskiez]

I installed it using the same command you posted. I can try a reinstall if there are no other ideas, because if I do that, I would have to reprogram a lot of other stuff that depends on the shelly devices in matterbridge... so I would like to avoid that if possible. :)

Output of sudo npm list -g

/usr/lib
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

Frontend:

[Luligu]

This is really a mistery... never seen before.

The issue is that you should not have node 23.7. That is just experimental and not supported by any packages. That is the reason of the issue.

It is clearly marked here:

If you don't have Node.js already install, please use this method to install it on a debian device: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions. The supported versions of node are 18, 20 and 22. Please install node 22 LTS. Nvm is not a good choice and should not be used for production.

Open a terminal and follow here to setup the correct node:
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions?tab=readme-ov-file#using-debian-as-root-nodejs-22

Then restart and update first the plugin then matterbridge.
It will restart with all updated.

Let me know if you need more help.

[duskiez]

changed to node 20.18 and it worked like a charm! thanks, it seems I made a mistake when I initially installed node.

[Luligu]

Yeah sure but actually as I wrote older version of matterbridge didn't have the limitation on the engine in package.json.
I added after 1.6.5 cause all other packages were not supporting it correctly so...

[Luligu]

I was too curious and I tried it... if you install node 23 npm install the wrong matterbridge cause version 1.6.5 didn't have the correct supported engine in package.json.

root@ubuntu:/# node -v
v23.7.0
root@ubuntu:/# npm install matterbridge -g --omit=dev

added 176 packages in 12s

39 packages are looking for funding
run npm fund for details
npm notice
npm notice New major version of npm available! 10.9.2 -> 11.1.0
npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v11.1.0
npm notice To update run: npm install -g [email protected]
npm notice
root@ubuntu:/# npm list -g
/usr/lib
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
`-- [email protected]

[Luligu]

Solved.