Homebridge: Avahi errors?

Created on 23 Sep 2017 · 3Comments · Source: homebridge/homebridge

Any ideas how I can resolve this Warning on my Raspberry Pi installation? suggested URL doesn't exist.

* WARNING The program 'node' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
WARNING Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
WARNING For more information see http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=node
WARNING The program 'node' called 'DNSServiceRegister()' which is not supported (or only supported partially) in the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
WARNING Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
WARNING * For more information see http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=node&f=DNSServiceRegister

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JangoBritt

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This is a warning many of us have seen before and is nothing to be alarmed about, most of us ignore it. No need to worry about it I think.

EdwinJS on 24 Sep 2017

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This is a warning many of us have seen before and is nothing to be alarmed about, most of us ignore it. No need to worry about it I think.

EdwinJS on 24 Sep 2017

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It has something to do with using emulated Bonjour support within Avahi (which is a similar but competing protocol). It's just saying that it wants you to use native Avahi instead of Bonjour. Homebridge uses Bonjour since that's the Apple standard. You can safely ignore the error.