Issues with Homekit Bridge including devices when no domains are selected

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Hi Forum,

i am new to HA so i may be doing something wrong but I want to see what is really going on here. I dont have much integrated into my HA right now. I have an aqara zigbee contact sensor, via MQTT (mosquitto + zigbee2mqtt). Now upon installation of HA, also there is a “person” entity with my name also.

when I go to create a homekit bridge device, per screenshot, even if i do not select ANYTHING, once i scan the QR code, BOTH of these devices get imported, even tho I have not selected anything.

Why is that?

second question: how does the removal of devices from homekit work if you have removed them within homekit bridge?

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Checking the documentation, it looks like by default all devices are bridged to HomeKit unless you specifically configure / select a filter. Unfortunately the GUI makes this unnecessarily complicated, I actually find the YAML config to be easier for filter definitions, plus you get additional options for entity config.

You can’t delete a device that is exposed by a bridge, you have to remove it from the bridge config and it will automatically disappear from Apple Home after the next reload.

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So if i exclude a device added , like a contact switch, then it takes 10 mins or so but it gets deleted from homekit