Runtipi•8mo ago

help with home assistant and home kit bridge integration

I’ve recently started running home assistant. Everything runs great, just that I’m not able to connect HomeKit bridge to my phone. How do I make this work? Currently it tries to connect for a while and fails.

45 Replies

Nicolas•8mo ago

Do you have access to any sort of logs from the mobile app? Is home kit bridge giving error logs aswell?

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

I don’t observe any logs, possibly because the ios home app is not able to reach the device. Found some messages of the past at https://discord.com/channels/976934649643294750/1137613881531961354/1252353396263096422 i think it’s the same issue, but I did not fully understand the solution 😅

Nicolas•8mo ago

I unfortunately have little experience with these tools :/ Is the app exposed or you try to access from the same network via IP?

JigSaw•8mo ago

Under same network it should be fine First step is to reach home assistant if the problem is here there is a network problem on your side

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

@JigSaw both my phone and my laptop are able to reach to 192.168.0.106 (IP of my home server.) both of them run tailscale, but I'm guessing that should not be a problem since I can hit them directly in the local network using IP I then followed https://community.home-assistant.io/t/using-homekit-component-inside-docker/45409/41 and started mdns repeater with host being enp1s0 & docker NIC to be the br-fd25fe76ed1f. I got this by running docker exec f9a ifconfig & route -n after which I restarted home assistant, removed the homekit integration, restarted HA, re-installed home kit, no luck still..

JigSaw•8mo ago

just to start is your home assistant app working on phone ?* (I use tailscale too)

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

yeah, works on the phone 👍

JigSaw•8mo ago

ok so your problem is only for homekit integration right ?

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

yeah

JigSaw•8mo ago

can you drop the result of your cmd route -n

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

tower@linux:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 enp1s0
172.17.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 docker0
172.18.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 br-fd25fe76ed1f
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 enp1s0

tower@linux:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 enp1s0
172.17.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 docker0
172.18.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 br-fd25fe76ed1f
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 enp1s0

result from the server

JigSaw•8mo ago

oh man wait in your configuration.yml drop this:

homekit:
  name: Bridge
  port: 21063
  advertise_ip: "192.168.0.106"

homekit:
  name: Bridge
  port: 21063
  advertise_ip: "192.168.0.106"

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

cool, restarting HA now 🤞

JigSaw•8mo ago

cf. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/#home-assistant-bridge-doesnt-appear-in-the-home-app-for-pairing---docker

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

installed home kit bridge & connected. no luck. one sec, I'll also check avahi status

JigSaw•8mo ago

if not added, this is the reason 😉 hm avahi is not necessary as you use the mdns app in Tipi 🙂

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

I see, should I disable it then? disabled, tried connecting. does not work still 😢 how can I verify if mdns is forwarding packets? the logs look empty pretty much

mdns-repeater  | mdns-repeater: dev enp1s0 addr 192.168.0.106 mask 255.255.255.0 net 192.168.0.0
mdns-repeater  | mdns-repeater: dev br-fd25fe76ed1f addr 172.18.0.1 mask 255.255.0.0 net 172.18.0.0

mdns-repeater  | mdns-repeater: dev enp1s0 addr 192.168.0.106 mask 255.255.255.0 net 192.168.0.0
mdns-repeater  | mdns-repeater: dev br-fd25fe76ed1f addr 172.18.0.1 mask 255.255.0.0 net 172.18.0.0

JigSaw•8mo ago

hm mdns-repeater | mdns-repeater: dev eth0 addr 192.168.xx.xx mask 255.255.255.0 net 192.168.xx.xx mdns-repeater | mdns-repeater: dev br-5813ba86106f addr 172.22.0.1 mask 255.255.0.0 net 172.22.0.0 I've the same 😉 So, Assume it's working, try to add the bridge now to homekit directly and you will see immediately if it works aah another thing ^^' you need to open additionnal port on ha app

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

JigSaw•8mo ago

RunTipi/user-config/homeassistant-1/docker-compose.yml

services:
  homeassistant-1:
    dns:
      - ${DNS_IP}
    ports:
      - 21063:21063

services:
  homeassistant-1:
    dns:
      - ${DNS_IP}
    ports:
      - 21063:21063

save, restart ha app on tipi 😉 i've taken many hours initially to get it working lol it's not really well explained

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

I'm getting pairing notifications for HASS Bridge:21064 should it be for 21063 instead? 🤔

JigSaw•8mo ago

where ?

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

or maybe it has nothing to do with this..

JigSaw•8mo ago

old notif no ? because it should be 21063 with the name "Bridge" give me a screenshot of "/config/integrations/integration/homekit" in HA

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

I initially had

tower@linux:~/runtipi/user-config/homeassistant-1$ cat docker-compose.yml 
services:
  homeassistant-1:
    ports:
      - 21065:21065

tower@linux:~/runtipi/user-config/homeassistant-1$ cat docker-compose.yml 
services:
  homeassistant-1:
    ports:
      - 21065:21065

now I changed it to

tower@linux:~/runtipi/user-config/homeassistant-1$ cat docker-compose.yml 
services:
  homeassistant-1:
    dns:
      - ${DNS_IP}
    ports:
      - 21063:21063

tower@linux:~/runtipi/user-config/homeassistant-1$ cat docker-compose.yml 
services:
  homeassistant-1:
    dns:
      - ${DNS_IP}
    ports:
      - 21063:21063

restarted HA setup the integration, scanned the QR code and the phone is just stuck at connecting

To set up Bridge:21063 in the Home App, scan the QR code or enter the following code:

To set up Bridge:21063 in the Home App, scan the QR code or enter the following code:

screenshot

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

wait, it just connected!! Thanks a lot @JigSaw !! 🚀 🚀 dude, you are a rockstar! Finally I can control my devices with siri I think my setup got messed up because of port. I used 21065 for some reason. it should have been 21063 I'll do a write up at https://notes.bhartakalluri.com soon on this stuff so that next time someone else finds all this in one place. I'll thank you in that post if you don't mind!

JigSaw•8mo ago

haha nice 🙂 tanks for the post if you can do it ❤️

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

@JigSaw one more thing if you don't mind, on restart do all your devices show that they are switched on? all of my devices show they are switched on, even though the hardware is off. not sure why

JigSaw•8mo ago

not really, it just need some secs to update initially my devices are integrated in HA with Zigbee2MQTT

JigSaw•8mo ago

@Bharat Kalluri next thing to do I think: https://smarthomescene.com/guides/exposing-home-assistant-entities-as-matter-devices/

SmartHomeScene

Expose Home Assistant Entities as Matter Devices

Guide for exposing all supported Home Assistant entities as Matter devices, allowing you to pair them to other ecosystems via the Matter Bridge Addon.

JigSaw•8mo ago

my next work :p

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

just restarted. all my devices show they are on even though the hardware is actually switched off 😢 not sure how I can trigger a hard refresh on device status. I am running tuya integration

JigSaw•8mo ago

ah but it reflect the HA status so it's right

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

very cool!

JigSaw•8mo ago

so the problem seems to be on HA with integration tat's another problem :p

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

hmm

JigSaw•8mo ago

yeah matter is nice because you can switch from Apple to Alexa to Google to anything else without redoing all the pairing etc

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

but matter needs to be supported by the device manufacturer, right?

JigSaw•8mo ago

and in this case you avoid buying each hub to have comaptible matter device the integration "convert" the device to a matter compatible entity and expose it just with one hub ... HA ! 🙂

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

oh nice

JigSaw•8mo ago

like what I do with Philips Hue, removed the bridge, directly added bulbs and all things to HA good luck for your smart home :seemsgood:

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

I'll also explore the matter rabbit hole! Thanks for the tip! and again, thanks a lot for the help. Really means a lot. I'll get back on my promise of docs 👍

JigSaw•8mo ago

No problem, if I can help, it’s my pleasure

Bharat KalluriOP•8mo ago

alright, initial version is out at https://notes.bharatkalluri.com/setting-up-home-assistant-with-homekit-bridge-while-using-runtipi-tailscale/ I'll iterate over it later on sometime. But it should be informative I guess closing this thread now.

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JigSaw•8mo ago

nice thank you @Bharat Kalluri

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