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Systemd Service for homebridge on Raspberry Pi

Check location of homebridge

pi@raspberrypi:~/.homebridge $ which homebridge
/usr/bin/homebridge

Create file /etc/systemd/system/homebridge.service

[Unit]
Description=Node.js HomeKit Server 
After=syslog.target network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=pi
ExecStart=/usr/bin/homebridge
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
KillMode=process

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then Enable and run the service (first time) with the following commands:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable homebridge
sudo systemctl start homebridge

You can check the status of the service by calling

sudo systemctl status homebridge

Check logs

sudo journalctl -u homebridge
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