HomeKit Controller - Integration randomly failed to connect

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I’ve had a HomeKit Controller based integration working for quite some time (connected to a Polypipe Smarthub) and its been working flawlessly.

Recently it failed to connect with the following error:

2022-09-29 08:58:21.882 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry 'Polypipe SmartHub' for homekit_controller integration not ready yet: Timeout while waiting for connection to device 169.254.8.217:4238; Retrying in background

That IP address is not the IP found in the configuration file and removing the configuration in core.config_entries: (pairing data removed for this post, but it is correct)

      {
        "entry_id": "68d13588bf24a3f3a0e801d539ebdd98",
        "version": 1,
        "domain": "homekit_controller",
        "title": "Polypipe SmartHub",
        "data": {
          "AccessoryPairingID": "85:B1:51...",
          "AccessoryLTPK": "83c42eb72cf60a6e324d...",
          "iOSPairingId": "b783c4fc-c7ca-4e0e-...f",
          "iOSDeviceLTSK": "9d3fa62d3b761b49f40afe6cb...",
          "iOSDeviceLTPK": "40ba2bd7fc8eec8e6d2a01d6...",
          "AccessoryIP": "192.168.1.216",
          "AccessoryPort": 4238,
          "Connection": "IP"
        },
        "options": {},
        "pref_disable_new_entities": false,
        "pref_disable_polling": false,
        "source": "zeroconf",
        "unique_id": "85:b1:51...",
        "disabled_by": null
      },

If I remove this entry, reboot the device, re-add the config and reboot the config works again for a period (a few hours maybe).

The Polypipe kit is up and working, pings fine and everything is up as far as I can tell. Not really sure what else to try? Any help would be much appreciated!

Edit:

Some information regarding my config:

Home Assistant 2022.9.7
Supervisor 2022.09.1
OS 9.0
Frontend 20220807.2-latest

Running on a Raspberry Pi

Regards, Daniel

2

Anyone got any ideas? I’ve tried disabling it for a while then re-adding it but still get the same problem

3

I just started having this same issue with my ecobee thermostat. The regular ecobee integration works fine, but I like using the local homekit control since it adjusts faster. Haven’t upgraded anything recently either.

Did you ever figure anything out?

4

It simply started working again in the latest versions so it appears to have been fixed; at least from my end. Sorry!