It seems that every time I restart openhab I have to reset and repair HomeKit. Does anyone else experience this issue? Could there be something wrong with my installation that I can fix to prevent this issue?

Yep, I’m experiencing the same. After restart of openhab i need to do a smarthome:homekit clearPairings and pair again on iOS to get it working again.

How do you restart openHAB? If I remember it right, you have to stop openHAB (using sudo systemctl stop openhab2.service) to make configuration persistent, because openHAB will store it’s configuration when stopped properly.

It uses the configured ESH persistence service to store the values. Out of the box, OH uses mapdb, which seems to work well. The changes are committed to disk immediately. Are you using an alternative persistence service?

@rrgeorge How do you go about resetting and repairing Homekit? Is it via OSGI or another way? This may appear a dumb qestion but ive trawled the internet for answers and cannot find a clear solution! Essentially, i have homekit installed on OpenHab2 that no longer responds and i need to start over. …

Could you provide step-by-step instructions to issue smarthome:homekit clearPairings command to Openhab? I tried this in the Terminal but get -bash: smarthome:homekit: command not found

Sorry, you need to do it from the osgi console. ssh -p8101 openhab@localhost (Password is habopen)

Clearing pairings shouldn’t be necessary unless you’re using a new iCloud account or you reset HomeKit from your phone. Are you both seeing the same error message that @sbrandon reported in Testing HomeKit add-on on OpenHAB 2 - #61 by sbrandon ?

@beowulfe I believe so. If you are referring to this one: 2016-09-20 21:00:54.416 [WARN ] [nhab.io.homekit.internal.HomekitImpl] - Could not find existing MAC in org.eclipse.smarthome.storage.mapdb.MapDbStorage. Generating new MAC. This will require re-pairing of iOS devices.

I was able to fix this by adding the mapdb persistence binding and uninstalling homekit and adding it back. For some reason, this is NOT installed out of the box. I also had to create the mapdb.persist file in the conf/persistence folder and add default=mapdb. Everything is working great now. N…