HomeKit Integration: Losing Config After Changing an Item

[crxporter (Garrett Porter)]

@pnuding (and all) - we’ve had some recent discussion on this. The reasoning in this thread (HomeKit losing config) is why I dumped OH HomeKit and went for NodeRed.

The link from Dan is about nodejs - in my opinion NodeRed is probably going to be easier to work with.

Check it out:

My node-red + HomeKit + OpenHAB setup

I know others have connected their devices and everyone has their own twist on how to do this. My preferred method is to use function nodes wherever possible. This keeps things from getting too messy with all of the switch and change nodes that come up in similar setups. It came up today when I started showing @rkrisi how to use MQTT+Node-Red to send command line codes to other computers. So here goes. A couple of prerequisites: -Install node-red (obviously) -Add the flow “node-red-contrib-h…