No status updated after some time

[Kepete]

I have a physical switch connected to the Sonoff. If I turn it ON or OFF from the physical switch it instantly shows the right status in the home app. Everything works fine until some time and then the status stops updating in the home app. Sometimes it is few hours until it doesn't update the status anymore. Sometime few days. Always a restart to homebridge helps and it starts working again.

My config should be right, because it is working nicely at the beginning. But here it is anyway:

{
            "accessory": "mqtt-switch-tasmota",
            "switchType": "lightbulb",
            "name": "Room light",
            "url": "mqtt://192.168.1.1",
            "username": "***",
            "password": "***",
            "topics": {
                "statusGet": "stat/sonoff_test/POWER2",
                "statusSet": "cmnd/sonoff_test/POWER2",
                "stateGet": "tele/sonoff_test/STATE"
            },
            "onValue": "ON",
            "offValue": "OFF",
            "activityTopic": "tele/sonoff_test/LWT",
            "activityParameter": "Online",
            "startCmd": "cmnd/sonoff_test/TelePeriod",
            "startParameter": "60",
            "manufacturer": "ITEAD",
            "model": "Sonoff",
            "serialNumberMAC": "sonoff_test"
        },

I also checked my Mosquitto MQTT broker and it receives always correctly the state on the topic.

[peros550]

Hi, I have exactly the same issue. The plugin unpredictably stops updating the status back to the home app. I also subscribed for the relevant messages in the Mosquitto broker and I can see them coming. The issue was resolved by reloading the Homebridge which also isolotes the problem to the plugin side of things.

[Kepete]

@peros550 What do you mean by reloading homebridge?

[peros550]

I have setup homebridge to run as a service. Here is what I do to reload Homebridge in my case:

sudo systemctl stop homebridge
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable homebridge
sudo systemctl start homebridge

[Kepete]

In my experience this helps for a while, but the problem reoccurs always. Sometime it is working fine for 1 week sometimes for few hours.

[peros550]

Yes, what I mentioned is just a work around, not a solution. :) I'm considering to put these commands on a script and run it every ... 12 hours. This will make homebridge unavailable for a few seconds. As said, not a very clean solution, just a workaround.

I hope @MacWyznawca have time to address this issue,

Thanks,

[Lubanski]

I have the same issue. I paste in crontab: 0 6 * * * sudo systemctl restart homebridge 0 8 * * * sudo systemctl restart homebridge 0 10 * * * sudo systemctl restart homebridge 0 12 * * * sudo systemctl restart homebridge ....... etc

every 2 hours homebridge reload.

[Kepete]

Lately I discovered that not always all Sonoff's seem to encounter the problem. I have 10 Sonoffs around the house and just now everything was working fine except one Sonoff. This one Sonoff had 4 different channels and all of them where not updating the state. But every channel is configured separately in the config.json. MQTT commands from Sonoff where sent correctly.

[Kepete]

The other thing I discovered was that the temperature plugin from @MacWyznawca has the same problem. The temperature sensor connected to Sonoff wouldn't update the state either.

[iandronowicz]

same here, I have 12 Sonoffs, and it happens randomly on most of them... never could figured it out...