Very excited that version 1 is out
installed as per doco
discovery of my pro and wifi worked
added zones but no items show up in homebridge
Removed my hubitat plugin in homebridge, as I have konnected on hubitat. still not working, should I remove the apps on the hubitat?
what else to should I try?
@David,
Let me know if that fixes things.
Hi there
I deleted the file as suggested. Restarted Homebridge
No luck.
I should mention when using the .5 version it did put the zones in Homebridge, but as they only showed them but did not function yet, all the zones showed as contacts only (as you said they would)
I switched to Hubitat while you worked on this.
Now, that half worked. Because I have one pro and one wifi, the first one I would install would fully function, but the 2nd, the hubitat konnected homebridge app would not properly subscribe the items. This seemed to perplex the developer
When I saw your update I immediately jumped back.
Anyway, did you perhaps want some logs?
@David,
Thanks for the information. Since I've never used Hubitat in my development process, I would wager a guess that there's something still lingering in the setup with your panels.
Your setup, as I understand your scenario, seems to have a "multiple personality" situation where it's mixing Homebridge accessories with Hubitat accessories, and maybe Homebridge is attempting to discover both panels and having an issue with those that are Hubitat? I'm grasping at straws here.
Also, it sounds like you're not new to DIY and I can go out on a limb to ask you to attempt to flush any Hubitat-konnected devices from your Homebridge-Homekit completely and factory resetting both of your Konnected panels. As well remove any of Hubitat's attempted discovery.
Removing the cachedAccessories file should have cleared up any problematic 0.0.5 -> 0.1.0 ghost accessories.
Also could you provide some of the following details:
We'll get there, and I appreciate your detailed response, this is already very insightful!
There is a new beta version out, it doesn't show up as an update in homebridge/hoobs .. you have to manually install it.
The following command will install it globally on the system:
npm install -g homebridge-konnected@0.1.2-beta.0
If you prefer to install it in a specific directory that you've navigated to, just perform the above command, without the '-g'.
Feel free to install it and see if that helps.
Hello same problem here with 1.2 too
Homebridge version 1.3.4
Node Version 14.17.0
Npm Version 6.14.13
Os Linux (3.12.7)
I can’t be certain if you followed all of the steps David was told to perform. Also, please provide the details asked of him in my comment prior to the v0.1.2 install guide.
Yes I created a fresh home bridge install too with only the connected plugin
(could be that I have connected the panel with Home assistant too?)
Thanks Michele,
Looking at your config.json, the arming switch doesn't really do anything effective in v0.1.2-beta.0
I would remove that
Did you happen to register the pro panel with the Konnected mobile app to Home Assistant first? If so, then you may need to factory reset your Konnected panel, reinstall the latest firmware for the panel.
Hello, just to understand, the switch to activate the alarm is not working yet right? I'm using the stable version 0.1.2 not the beta, are there any differences?
Yes I have registered the Konnected with the mobile app, so do I have to reset it? I would Luke to use home assistant and homebridge together.
The differences between v0.1.2-beta.0 and v0.1.2 can be seen here: https://github.com/konnected-io/homebridge-konnected/releases
Both v0.1.2-beta.0 and stable v0.1.2 treat the arming switch as a standard switch and nothing else. Unless you want that to be an actuator switch, there's no real usefulness beyond just setting it to a regular switch.
Registering the panel with the mobile app is fine, but inside the app, have you associated it with Home Assistant or any of the other controllers (like SmartThings or Hubitat)?
At this point I would recommend not using the panel with more than one SmartHome Platform. That doesn't mean that you can't have Home Assistant control any other smarthome devices in your house, just not konnected.
Using Homebridge and Home Assistant together on the device has not been tested and I don't plan to have any provisions to support both controlling the panel at the same time.
Ok understand so I have to flash the panel anyway right? Maybe the solution could be use mqtt to use both homeassistant and homebridge
Do you have Home Assistant hooked up to HomeKit?
Yes I have a raspberry with hassio and inside with portainer a docker with homebridge...only because the homebridge/homekit integration is better and more stable
Sorry, I think there was some confusion in my question. Are you using Home Assistant to add devices to HomeKit as well? (ignore Homebridge for the time being)
ahhh sorry my bad, yes but it's unstable. Now I flashed the Konnected Panel with esp to have Mqtt support.
no problem with the motion sensors but I have some trouble to configure the switch to arm and disarm the alarm. Do you have some tips?
So if you are using Home Assistant to connect the panel to HomeKit, and also try to use Homebridge to connect the panel to HomeKit as well, you will create TWO alarm systems in HomeKit - that's bad for various obvious reasons.
I don't know what you mean by flashing esp to have MQTT support. Is it still using the Konnected firmware or have you replaced it completely with some other firmware?
If it is some other firmware, that's completely out of scope of Konnected's support and you're on your own.
My recommendation is to remove Home Assistant from the scenario if all you are using it for is for the Konnected Alarm Panel. If it is being used for other devices, then do not use Home Assistant with Konnected and have it work with Homebridge <-> HomeKit exclusively.
Yes I have flashed it with ESPHome, the situation is this: in my office not all have an iPhone so I created a home assistant panel for the "others". for those using homekit i had used homeassistant integration for homekit but it is very unstable. I then switched to homebridge which is much more stable. But I didn't want to take away the possibility for those with android to be able to use the alarm.
I understand the scenario now.
My question is, are you using this https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit_controller/ to control homekit? or are you using something else to expose Home Assistant integrations to HomeKit?
yes that's right before I used that and it worked without problems, unfortunately, however, due to homeassistant and that integration, after a short time all the accessories became unreachable and I had to restart homeassistant, this thing does not happen with homebridge and they always remain reachable so I thought of using for homebrdige homekit which appears to be more stable