Deleting device in Pimatic doesn't seem to delete it also in Homekit

[pplucky]

Is it just me, or this still doesn't work properly? Should be, according to this enhancement.

Every time I remove a device in Pimatic, is still appears as not responding in Home app. If I try to delete it from there, I always get an error message.

What can I arrange (logs, whatever), for you to check this, please?

Thanks in advance.

[michbeck100]

What type of devices are you removing? Looking at the code it seems that removing sensors will not work properly.

[michbeck100]

I did test this for "normal" devices and couldn't find any issues, so I'm closing this. Changes for sensor are released with v0.10.0

[pplucky]

Hello.

Sorry for not replying earlier, but this seems to happen for devices with type 'VariablesDevice'.

I currently use these in Homekit, by using a temperature or humidity variable, to display its value in iOS.

Can you please check?

Thanks in advance.

[michbeck100]

There was indeed a bug for VariablesDevice which was fixed with the referenced changes. So it should be solved with 0.10.0

[pplucky]

Unfortunately I already have 0.10.0 and I had this same issue of deleting a 'VariablesDevice' in Pimatic and it still appeared in Homekit.

Deleting in Homekit yielded an error, so I had to deleted hap-database manually, restart pimatic and then deleting the Bridge on iOS and adding it later again.

Do you need me to produce any debug log, anything?

[michbeck100]

Please provide me with a sample config of your VariablesDevice. I will try to reproduce this error as soon as I find the time.

[pplucky]

Here is the config for 2 VariablesDevice:

{
  "variables": [
    {
      "name": "temperature",
      "expression": "$temp-quarto-diogo",
      "type": "number",
      "unit": "ºC"
    }
  ],
  "xAttributeOptions": [],
  "hap": {
    "service": "Lightbulb"
  },
  "id": "temp-quarto-diogo",
  "name": "Temperatura Quarto Diogo",
  "class": "VariablesDevice"
},
{
  "variables": [
    {
      "name": "humidity",
      "expression": "$rhum-quarto-diogo",
      "type": "number",
      "unit": "%"
    }
  ],
  "xAttributeOptions": [],
  "hap": {
    "service": "Lightbulb"
  },
  "id": "rhum-quarto-diogo",
  "name": "Humidade Quarto Diogo",
  "class": "VariablesDevice"
},

I think this issue also happens for ShellSensor devices, but from pimatic-hap perspective, both should be treated as generic based on 'humidity' or 'temperature', right?

[michbeck100]

Yes, that's right. Could you please test if you get the same behavior with a DummyTemperatureSensor?

[pplucky]

I will test them all and get back to you. It may take a couple of days, but this is a workaroundable issue, not critical at all.

Do you need any debug log for these tests?

[pplucky]

Hello.

I finally managed to test this with the following results:

• Dummy Sensor --> deleted from Pimatic, still appears in Home app as if it was not even deleted;
  { "xAttributeOptions": [], "hap": { "service": "Lightbulb" }, "id": "dummy-sensorz", "name": "Dummy sensorz", "class": "DummyTemperatureSensor" }

• Variables Device (config as above) --> deleted from Pimatic, still appears in Home app as not supported;

• TPlinkHS100/TPlinkHS110 --> deleted from Pimatic, still appears in Home app as not supported.
  { "class": "TPlinkHS100", "name": "Tomada Sala", "id": "TomadaSala", "ip": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", "interval": 60, "hap": { "service": "Switch" }
  If I try to manually remove any of these in Home app, it simply tells me it is not possible.

Do you need me to do any more tests?

[michbeck100]

First, thanks for testing. I will have a look whats wrong with this feature. I was thinking that it worked (at least someday in the past).

[pplucky]

No problem.

The other day I tried with another device type and this one worked properly (I wonder it might help you analyzing your code):

• OrviboOutlet --> deleted from Pimatic, and was also deleted from Homekit (disappeared in Home app).
  { "class": "OrviboOutlet", "name": "Orvibo", "id": "orvibo", "ip": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", "mac": "xxxxxxxxxxxx", "hap": { "service": "Switch" } }

[michbeck100]

Removing devices was implemented with 911375c. But i seems that sometimes devices still appear in the home app as disabled but don't get removed. There's nothing i can do at the moment. Therefor i close this issue for now.