Report HC2 Unresponsive/dead accessories

[lboue]

Hello,

I would report unresponsive accessories to HomeKit app. For exemple if device is not powered on, the HC2 REST API reports is as dead: dead: "true",

I found explanations here on the HAP-NodeJS github Change updateValue to return not responding status #556

Explanations

We can init an err variable and then trigger an error

    var err = null; // in case there were any problems
    ...
    err = new Error("Polling failed");

Or use a boolean like the dead attribute:

    var err = null; // in case there were any problems
    var isAccReachable = false;  // Set Reachability
    isAccReachable ? err = null : err = new Error("Polling failed");

Fake Outlet hap-nodejs test

I did a test with hap-nodejs et that file:
Outlet_accessory.js.
If I change isAccReachable to true, the Outlet become reachable withHomeKit

pi@raspberrypi:/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/node_modules/hap-nodejs $ sudo nodejs Core.js 
HAP-NodeJS starting...
Are we on? No.
Are we on? No.
Are we on? No.

Do you think it could be implemented? I can help for testing.

Regards

[ilcato]

It's in my to do list.

[lboue]

Hello @ilcato.

You can try with my test file here:
https://github.com/lboue/HAP-NodeJS/blob/no_response/accessories/Light_accessory.js

Did you had time to work on this?

[ilcato]

Very busy at the moment...