just a quick qeustion about the setup of HomeKit, as I was able to successfully configure my items and add them to the homkit app on my ipad. However now I wonder if it is necessary to run the OSGi command
smarthome:homekit allowUnauthenticated true
everytime I restart openHAB2?
Is this required every time to allow access?
Is it possible to add this setting to eg. my services/homekit.cfg file?
Or should it be stored automatically (which doesn’t seem to happen in my system)?
Did some more investigation the last days and found that I probably misunderstood the meaning of this setting.
It would be great if soneone is able to provide me a short explanation of this setting…
Getting Homekit to run I found that there seems to be a problem if the avahi-daemon is running on the machine at the same time!
Avahi-daemon binds itself to the udp port 5353 to allow for zeroconf network configuration and eg. name resolution.
I saw that openhab2 (the java process) binds to the same port. It looks like the openhab homekit is not announced properly if avahi-daemon is running. I had several issues seeing openhab on my iPad in the LAN.
After disabling avahi-daemon (systemctl disable avahi-daemon) on my raspberry I found openhab always listening on 5353/udp and I was able to see openhab any time on my ipad since then …
Is anybody able to confirm my findings? What was/is your experience about this?
Btw. I tried to pair my iPad with a fresh install of openhab and pairing was working perfectly even without setting the parameter (allowUnauthenticated) in OSGi.
allowUnauthenticated is just there for debugging. Your iPhone/iPad always authenticates.
As far as the UPNP advertisement goes, I can see how that would conflict with avahi. I actually don’t know how advertisements on different ports are handled. Maybe check if there’s a port configuration for avahi you can change?
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