Northern Man

This plugin uses node-gyp, which requires this setup for use https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-macos Most homebridge platforms have this bundled, but am thinking your Mac doesn't

This is something under the covers needing Distutils. My package itself doesn't leverage python, but something must be leveraging it under the covers. Am thinking node-gyp

A couple of comments 1 - When I wrote the plugin I did not take into account the esp8266 having a username/password required and running on a different port than...

The not responding is by design to prevent requests being sent while the fireplace is busy This is the setting that causes is "on_busy": 32000, What says don't respond for...

I would expect the each remote/fireplace to be unique. The remote protocol has room in it for a unique Id. One nice thing is that after using this for a...

I forked it at the time, and is still sitting on GitHub https://github.com/NorthernMan54/ESP8266-HTTP-IR-Blaster This is from my device ( PS It has 3 outputs configured ( 315Mhz, 303Mhz and IR...

Am thinking that this is an issue within hoobs, and its logging of debug output from the plugin. As your using hoobs, not sure how to disable that.

You need to remove the plugin code itself, and it will stop It has a auto config feature if homebridge finds the code base.

There are multiple possible locations depending on the NPM command used to install and the account used. I really can't say where it is in your system Google shows this...

Strange, did you also look in /usr/local?