I have create a node-red flow for my Hassio instance to start my homekit after all the available homekit entities are available. It copies the the homekit configuration.yaml file (I use !includes, you may need to modify this to match your config) to a folder node-red can see then node-red checks HA to see it they return valid states. The pass/fail response is then sent to my ios notification.
Why I did this is I have some LIFX bulbs that can take a while to show on HA. These would then be dropped from ios homekit. when they are added again later they do not have the room settings etc se in the app. Also when if i broke the config then i would loose all my homekit config.
This could be adapted to other uses as well. For instance i was having issues with my hue hub connecting on previous version but if i restarted HA it would come back (usually within a few goes). This could easily be modified to do this.
To do:
- Better error handling. it currently fails to do or tell anything if the file is missing.
- Include ios notification actions to override etc.
shell command
homekit_share: "cp /config/include/components/homekit.yaml /share/nodered/homekit.yaml"
Node red flow
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