How to run matterbridge in the background on Mac with .plist

[clo1116]

I have successfully run matterbridge on my Mac, but I found that I can't keep it in the background, I have to have a terminal open to run matterbridge。Is there any solution for this?

[Luligu]

Hi,
On macOS you don’t have systemd/systemctl—instead you use launchd.

You can run matterbridge “as a service” creating a launchd .plist yourself.

Unfortunately I'm not an expert on mac.

Try to join discord group and maybe there someone can help you better then me.

After would be nice to create a readme with the instructions...

[Luligu]

I posted on Discord...
let see if someone can help.

[michaelahern]

I created a small utility to do this on macOS, akin to hb-service in the Homebridge ecosystem. Should help to get a basic launchd daemon going and is working on my home Mac server. Might be something we can integrate into matterbridge at some point in the future, but not there yet..

https://github.com/michaelahern/mb-service

[Luligu]

If it does work like expected I would be happy to add it to the readme.
You also need to add how you solve the npm install -g issue cause it asks the password I guess or not when you run with plist?
Thanks !

[michaelahern]

Similar to how hb-service works, it checks if the global modules dir is writable by the user running Matterbridge, and if not will chown this directory to allow this (the install command is run by the user as sudo, so this should succeed). This is also similar to how homebrew (macOS package manager) wires up node to avoid npm install -g issues.

[Luligu]

6dffdcc

Thanks so much.