One of the Homebridge plugins was whining about “node” being out of date. Sure enough, when running this with Terminal:<\/p>\n
node –version<\/p>\n
Showed my Mac mini was running “v16….” and it needed to be upgraded to 20. Easy enough with brew:<\/p>\n
brew install node@20
\nbrew unlink node@16
\nbrew link node@20 -f –overwrite
\nnano ~\/.zshrc<\/p>\n
In nano I edited the following line from:<\/p>\n
export PATH=”\/usr\/local\/opt\/node@16\/bin:$PATH”<\/p>\n
to<\/p>\n
export PATH=”\/usr\/local\/opt\/node@20\/bin:$PATH”<\/p>\n
Exit and save with:<\/p>\n
Control (key) and X
\nYes<\/p>\n
Next I closed the Terminal window, opened a new Terminal window, and typed in:<\/p>\n
node -v<\/p>\n
Which now proudly says:<\/p>\n
v20.9.0<\/p>\n
Yes!<\/p>\n
** UPDATE 3-8-2026 **
\nFor future upgrades, the information here looks helpful:<\/p>\n
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