Home input sporadically disappears and reappears

After more testing Home from the list of available inputs, it will randomly disappear and reappear in the list of selectable inputs for all Apple TV’s utilizing the plug in. I can’t find any discernible pattern as to what is causing this…

Originally posted by @ahwman in https://github.com/maxileith/homebridge-appletv-enhanced/issues/59#issuecomment-1817749819

@ahwman: I’ve definitely enabled the tick box for the Home input on all of my Apple TV’s. When it disappears, it does so from every Apple TV and when it returns it also returns on each Apple TV. What’s interesting is that I’m using it in my automations and even when it disappears, the automations still work correctly…

@maxileith: So when the automations still work, it is most likely a display issue of the Home App and not a bug of the plugin.

@ahwman: Interesting. I wonder why you’re not seeing it on your end?

@maxileith: Is the whole input disappearing or are the inputs just unticked when they disappear?

@ahwman: The whole input disappears and Home is the only input that disappears/reappears…

@maxileith: Can you send me the output of ./appletv-enhanced/AABBCCDDEEFF/apps.json?

@ahwman: I don’t see a folder with that name.

@maxileith: From your homebridge storage path, the relative path of the file is ./appletv-enhanced/AABBCCDDEEFF/apps.json where AABBCCDDEEFF is derivated from the MAC-Address of your Apple TV.

@ahwman:

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        "configuredName": "Arcade",
        "isConfigured": 1,
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        "identifier": 2675918005
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@maxileith: Looks good to me. Currently I have no clue where this problem is coming from ...

@ahwman: I’ll keep an eye on it to see if I can find a pattern and report back. 😀

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Home input sporadically disappears and reappears #75