Use abandonwares noble fork

[zilluss]

Apparently, noble is not maintained anymore (See noble/node-bluetooth-hci-socket#84). I noticed this when I tried to install nubli-homebridge on my Raspberry 3 B, which failed to build on Node 10. I would suggest to switch to @abandonware/noble, which appears to be a well maintained fork.

[henry-spanka]

Hi,
looks reasonable. Can you install nubli if you replace the package vendor in package.json?

[zilluss]

Yes, I just tried it. I also tried building the unmodified checkout to confirm the build error. noble 1.9.1 fails with:
binding.target.mk:99: recipe for target 'Release/obj.target/binding/src/BluetoothHciSocket.o' failed

Changing to @abandonware/noble builds just fine. I had to bump the version to 1.9.2-2 though.

[zilluss]

While it does compile, it doesn't work quite right (yet), presumably related to this issue:
abandonware/noble#15
I was able to pair with my lock (although only with bridge=false). But any operation that requires pairing won't work. I will post an update once I got everything running using Node 10 and Linux/Raspberry.

[henry-spanka]

Okay. I am currently getting my hands on the new ODROID N2. I will probably switch to Node 10/11 too and will try to use abandonware's fork instead.

[henry-spanka]

I couldn't get it working either. I think we must wait until the issue is resolved in the upstream repo. Alternatively you can run node 8 in a docker container, that's what I did now.

[zilluss]

I tested nubli on Node 12 with @abandonware/noble and it works fine (using an USB BT dongle). May I create a PR that uses the abandonware package instead?

[henry-spanka]

Please do. Unfortunately I don't have a Nuki smart lock anymore so I can not test it.

[muratcorlu]

@zilluss I couldn't see any PR. Are you still able to use it? Does it also work with Node 14?

[zilluss]

I didn't use this plugin in a while, I will test it and get back at you. The problem at the time was that I had to create a PR at the noble fork with additions to the typescript bindings, which are merged by now. So hopfefully using the abandonware fork should be as easy as replacing a line in the package.json.