Arduino-HomeKit-ESP8266
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Mixiaoxiao
Accessory not responding
I do now have five accessories in place (switches, garage door, blinds, ...) - great library btw!!! - but one accessory, a weather station, does always react unresponsive after some hours. I optimized threading and sequencing as much as I could, but what lets HomeKit assume an accessory does not respond? my accessories all do have web interfaces, and they are very responsive via http...
ok, now I found out that this happens only if there are custom characteristics defined. If I stay with stock characteristics, the accessory works responsive....
ok: that's funny: whenever I use .description statements in characteristics definitions like
homekit_characteristic_t cha_max_wind = HOMEKIT_CHARACTERISTIC_(CUSTOM, .description = "Böen", .type = "1b3d4324-9d68-11e8-9d55-f7a461994af7", .format = homekit_format_float, .unit = homekit_unit_kmh, .min_value = (float[]) {0.0}, .max_value = (float[]) {300.0}, .min_step = (float[]) {0.1}, .permissions = homekit_permissions_paired_read | homekit_permissions_notify );
the accessory does not want to connect resp. it's pure luck if a connection is possible. Whenever I leave that out it behaves correctly. But I need those descriptions for custom characteristics! @Mixiaoxiao any idea?
I have a similar issue, when using siri (with my homepod), accesory doesn’t respond, but when I use homkit app on my smartphone, accessory is doing well...
My issue is now fixed and All is ok. I’ve read another post in another issue and applied the proposed solution : I’ve add MDNS.announce() every 5s, and it is working well. Thanks for your job @Mixiaoxiao
Please consider, this workaround makes mass of undesired UDP traffic in the local network. More accessories - more garbage traffic.
Ok thks @d4rkmen , that’s the reason why I add MDNS.announce each 5s. Do you have a best solution ?
Have same issue. Try like said @hdirand with MSDN.announce() but it doesn’t help. Any ideas?
Any updates here? I am suffering from same... It says disconnected in Homekit. (Though WIFI fine, I can ping the device). I have no clue what is causing that and how to prevent. Any help appreciated. Its so said as this is a brilliant library/Project!!!! ... will it work better with an ESP32?
