IOS 10 Beta

Damnit, I was hoping you’d reply saying “don’t worry your pretty little head, I’ve already written one and it’s super awesome and amazeballs!”

Thanks for the reports. I don't have a spare phone that I can use to experiment with iOS betas, so please report any issues with iOS 10 here. Thanks!

On a different note there does seem to be an issue with updating of statuses using homebridge with the Home app on iOS 10. As mentioned before it does an “updating” state when it first opens that can sometimes take a while to clear, and quite often some items will come up stating “not responding”. Running homebridge -D resulted in this error for the devices that come up like this:

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[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Utility%20-%20Extractor%20Fan.json: Error: connect ECONNRESET 127.0.0.1:8080
[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Bedroom%202%20-%20Electric%20Blanket.json: Error: connect ECONNRESET 127.0.0.1:8080
[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Landing%20-%20Light.json: Error: connect ECONNRESET 127.0.0.1:8080
[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Study%20-%20Main%20Light.json: Error: connect ECONNRESET 127.0.0.1:8080
[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Bathroom%20-%20Light.json: Error: connect ECONNRESET 127.0.0.1:8080
[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Lounge%20-%20Venetian%20Blinds.json: Error: connect ECONNRESET 127.0.0.1:8080
[17/07/2016, 01:17:04] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Hall%20-%20Cupboard%20Door%20Lock.json: Error: read ECONNRESET

Not my area of expertise (what is?) but is it possible that too many requests are causing indigo to not respond? Also after about 30 seconds it seems to try again and updates successfully:

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[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Hall%20-%20Cupboard%20Door%20Lock.json
[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Bathroom%20-%20Light.json
[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Dining%20-%20Main%20Light.json
[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Landing%20-%20Light.json
[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Lounge%20-%20Venetian%20Blinds.json
[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Bedroom%202%20-%20Electric%20Blanket.json
[17/07/2016, 01:17:38] [My Indigo Server] Indigo request: http://127.0.0.1:8080/devices/Study%20-%20Main%20Light.json

Edit: and just spotted a write error too:

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[17/07/2016, 01:40:58] [My Indigo Server] Error for Indigo request /devices/Study%20-%20Desk%20Light.json: Error: write EPIPE


Yes, that looks like the new Home app is making a ton of requests in parallel and Indigo can't keep up. I'll have to think about how I can throttle the requests to Indigo.

I've found several times that the Home app won't update or control anything even though Siri will.

Yeah as best I can tell from the logs when that happens it's as discussed above where there's been too many requests.

Has anyone tried adding the Homebridge in iOS 10? For some reason my HomeKit configuration was completely wiped in the second beta so I've had to recreate it. All my actual HomeKit devices were fine to add, but homebridge doesn't want to show up to add.

Are you trying to add it via the home app? I've noticed it won't add any non certified devices like homebridge but will show them and control them if you add them using a different app

Thanks for your work on this!

I'm using the iOS 10 Home app and am having the issue described above with requests timing out.

Did you get anywhere a version that throttles or queues the requests in the plugin? I'd be very happy to test!

Thanks

Thanks for your work on this!

I'm using the iOS 10 Home app and am having the issue described above with requests timing out.

Did you get anywhere a version that throttles or queues the requests in the plugin? I'd be very happy to test!

Thanks

With family commitments, I'm about a month away from having a chance to work on this, so. sorry, I don't have a new version to test.

Understood

Playing with it a bit more today it looks like a part of the problem is the new iOS10 Home app sends both a "power on" and "brightness" command as the user is dragging the dimmer slider. This results in a bunch of "on" and "brightness" commands being sent to Indigo (not aided by the behaviour in the Home app of sending the commands as the user is dragging the slider).

Longer term I reckon we need a lag timer on the commands being sent to Indigo, but what do you reckon about preventing the "on" command being sent when it's sending brightness commands?

Thanks!