Backup and Restore Homekit Config

[Jonas88 (Jonas)]

Hello

is there any way to restore the homekit database and not break the pairing with your phone?
I want to move my existing textual based setup from virtualbox (debian) to docker.
Since i got around 300 items i exposed to Homekit i really would not want to import, sort and adjust icons all over again.

Thanks!

Regards

Jonas

[dirkdirk (Dirk)]

Hi Jonas,
please see here how to backup your homekit config/pairing:

Home (HomeKit) in 2022 : best solution/approaches

there is a backup / restore approach for openHAB this one should copy the homekit configuration. if you only want to copy homekit configuration and pairing then copy homekit.json for pairing information. in my case it is /var/lib/openhab/jsondb/homekit.json copy homekit.config for configuration. in my case it is /var/lib/openhab/config/org/openhab/homekit.config

Dirk

[jamesfawcett]

This is why I like to register the homekit meta on the items instead of in the interface, I have lost all my homekit settings before.

Dimmer office_bulb_dimmer "Office Light" {
    homekit="Lighting, Lighting.Brightness",
    channel="zwave:device:47912b83d3:node59:switch_dimmer",
    zwave="zwave:device:47912b83d3:node59:switch_dimmer"
}

[Jonas88 (Jonas)]

@jamesfawcett

r the homekit meta on the items instead of in the interface, I have lost all my homekit settings before.

My metadate looks the same.
Rooms + Icons set in the homekit app cannot be secified through OH config.

@dirk, thank you for the link, i will check it out.

[Jonas88 (Jonas)]

There seems to be no way to get mdns working on docker mac and since there are further limitations and i needed to update soon anyways i bought a synology ds to set up a linux based docker image for my smart home.

i hope this investment solves most of my problems …