Constantly trying to connect to Home Assistant Bridge

fudgee · October 13, 2024, 1:09pm

I set-up the HomeKit Bridge integration to start some automations from my iPhone. Now I get a log message every minute (see below) that a connection is made to Home Assistant Bridge. It seems excessive and unnecessary to make a new connection every minute but I cannot get rid of it. I tried uninstalling and installing HomeKit Bridge again but nothing seems to help. I hope someone has any idea why it wants to create a new connection every minute? I feel like I probably messed up the settings but I don’t know how to fix it.

2024-10-13 15:00:26.677 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.40', 49383): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:00:33.322 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.226', 50287): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:00:59.173 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.226', 50288): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:01:06.109 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.40', 49384): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:01:42.358 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.226', 50289): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:01:48.952 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.226', 50290): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:02:02.252 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.40', 49385): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge
2024-10-13 15:04:50.784 INFO (MainThread) [pyhap.hap_protocol] ('192.168.1.40', 49387): Connection made to Home Assistant Bridge

Edwin_D · October 13, 2024, 1:58pm

Hi. First of all, are you sure you need Homekit Bridge in order to start things from your phone? Why not simply use the Home Assistant companion app?

fudgee · October 13, 2024, 3:50pm

Thanks for the fast reply! I like to have buttons with home assistant scripts in the control center on my Iphone. If there are other ways to do this without the HomeKit Bridge I would love to hear them.

Edwin_D · October 13, 2024, 3:54pm

You mean like these widgets from the Home Assistant Companion app:

Slightly different place, but just as easy.
There are also the Siri shortcuts you can use:

fudgee · October 14, 2024, 9:47am

Thanks, I have the Home Assistant Companion app but I specifically wanted to put a button in my control screen. It did work using the HomeKit Bridge, only thing I didn’t like was the constant connection attempts in my log.

fudgee · October 14, 2024, 9:55am

After my previous post I updated the Home Assistant Companion App and by a magic coincidence the update introduced the possibility to add scripts, switches and scenes to the control screen. Exactly what I want, so now I can get rid of the HomeKit Bridge .