未捕获的SyntaxError：意外的令牌{使用JSON.parse

I'm working on a web interface for a DYI project. I have limited coding skills as i am on the learning process.

This is part of my code:

var lights_array = [22,23,24,25,26];
function pull_light_status (lights_array){
    var devices = {};
    devices.veraip = "10.20.174.10";
    create_device_array (devices, lights_array);        
    $.post( "resources/php/individual_json.php", devices)
        .done(function (json) {
        var vera_obj = JSON.parse(json);
        console.log(vera_obj);

    }); 
}

function create_device_array (devices, ligh_arr){
    $.each(ligh_arr,function(key,value){
        eval("devices.device_"+key+"="+ value);           
    });          
}

pull_light_status(lights_array);

What im trying to do is to generate a post to the invidiviual_json.php so it will process the json request for all the devices and then send me an response i can use in js.

This is the content of individual_json.php

<?php
$veraip = $_POST['veraip'];
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value){
switch ($key){
case "veraip":
    break;
default: 
    echo damejson ($veraip,$value);
    break;
}
}
function damejson ($ip,$device){
$url = 'http://' . $ip . '/port_3480/data_request?id=status&DeviceNum=' . $device;
$jsondata_ind = file_get_contents($url);
return $jsondata_ind;
}
?>

Whenever i add the line var vera_obj = JSON.parse(json); i get an error Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token {

Can someone explain me what am i doing wrong and maybe what can i do to fix it? What i would like is to have a js object in vera_obj i can work with

Thanks in advance

J

EDIT -------------- Changed it to this, i got nothing in console

    function pull_light_status (lights_array){
    var devices = {};
    devices.veraip = "10.20.174.10";
    create_device_array (devices, lights_array);        
    $.getJSON( "resources/php/individual_json.php", {device:devices})
        .done(function (vera_obj) {
        console.log(vera_obj);
        console.log(typeof(vera_obj));

    }); 
}

function create_device_array (devices, ligh_arr){
    $.each(ligh_arr,function(key,value){
        eval("devices.device_"+key+"="+ value);           
    });          
}