I haven't played factorio for a while. Just returned and fixed the issue with the info.json so its compatible with factorio 1.1.
In the future if I fail to update for a while and the mod breaks with factorio 1.2 you can manually unzip the mod and edit some of the values in info.json(specifically the factorio version and base>=x version) to force it to run with an older version of the mod which may work. The transition from 1.0 to 1.1 just needed a the mentioned edits to the info.json file.