[homekit] IOS app OK, control center accessory is dead

[JacekKac]

favorite accessories in control center are often frozen, but if you go to home app they are working ok.

Steps to reproduce:

1/ .items metadata config : sometimes wrong config hangs ios app and control center - both in the same time.

2/ Config ok items are working from IOS app

3/ Some of items are not working (from control center ) but working from IOS APP

How to solve this issue: 4/ remove accesory from "Favorites" and and it again. It will unfreez not only this accesory but also others with are hanging in control center 5/ sometimes it helps going to Settings-> Control Center -> Show home controls - and turn it off and on again

at the same time on other iOS phone everythink is OK (both app and control center)

short movie explaining steps 1-3 : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S07kgBgIRkTdJTqF3mH32W1gHrmeHR-v/view?usp=sharing

any idea if we can fix it by openhab site?

[yfre]

@JacekKac thanks for detailed reporting. im afraid, we cannot do much about it in openhab. The integration specified by Apple is very basic: ios requests a list of accessories and we send this list back. there is no indication whether it is for home app and control center. we always send the same response.

there is one openHAB specific however: apple idea was that there are many different devices responding directly, i.e. ios device sends 100 requests in parallel and get 100 small responses. but openHAB is acting as a bridge - ios device sends 1 request to openhab and 1 big response. so, it can take longer to ios device to understand response also longer for openhab to create response.

how many items you have in openhab with homekit tag?

[JacekKac]

not much i think, but its kind of development system, so i am still changing the items config and often generating new item config - dont know if this is helpful

openhab> openhab:homekit list 874514676 Zraszacz 3 1743619906 Wilgotnosc 874514677 Zraszacz 4 1476267153 AktualnaTemperaturaP 344188245 Wilgotnosc 14912315 null 704059656 AktualnaTemperatura 625599125 Lampa 5 625599124 Lampa 4 1686384380 AktualnaTemperatura 1736869226 Wilgotnosc 1184241368 Podlewanie auto 1702394975 Wilgotnosc 625599121 Lampa 1 625599123 Lampa 3 46730900 AktualnaTemperatura 625599122 Lampa 2 1355133068 Domofon 874514674 Zraszacz 1 312438165 Podlej jednorazowo 874514675 Zraszacz 2

[yfre]

it is indeed not much. i have 100+ items and pretty smooth experience with control center one thing you should try - if you have any homekit bridges (ipad, apple tv, homepod), try to disable them.

[yfre]

@JacekKac im checking the still open homekit issue. do you still have this issue?

if yes, i saw in your list of accessories above that one "14912315 null" this could lead to issue in home app. please add name/label to that openHAB item and try one more time.

if you dont have this issue anymore, please close this ticket

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