Can't add Homebridge to Home app

Like the tittle says I can’t add homebridge to my Home app, I have already tried reinstalling every plugin and even homebridge itself but I can’t make it work. Also tried removing persist and accessories folders, and changing the username, pin and port number.

The plugins I have installed are:

• homebridge-config-ui-x
• homebridge-sonoff-tasmota-http

This is my current config.json file:

{
	"bridge": {
		"name": "Homebridge",
		"username": "F4:8E:38:F4:62:0D",
		"port": 51826,
		"pin": "001-01-001"
	},
	"description": "test3",

	"platforms": [
		{
			"platform": "config",
			"name": "Config",
			"port": 8080,
			"sudo": false
		}
	],

	"accessories": [
		{
			"accessory": "SonoffTasmotaHTTP",
			"name": "Sonoff1",
			"hostname": "192.168.1.5"
		}

	]

}

I’m running homebridge on Windows 10 fully updated, and I’ve tried connecting through an iPhone 8 with iOS 12 beta 5 and through an iPhone 7 plus with iOS 11.4.1 .

This is an screenshot from the PowerShell

And this one is from my phone, I’m sorry it’s in spanish, it says something like it couldn’t find the accessory and that I should make sure it is connected to my network. Both my pc and my phone are connected to the same network.

[nahueldl]

Finally I managed to make it work by following this issue’s solution #1957. I added the line "mdns": {"interface": "192.168.1.14"}, “192.168.1.14” is my laptop’s local ip address. This forces the multicast lib to bind to an specify interface.

{
	"mdns": {"interface": "192.168.1.14"},
	"bridge": {
		"name": "homebridge",
		"username": "22:34:56:78:9A:BC",
		"port": 51826,
		"pin": "031-45-154"
	},
	"description": "Prueba3",

	"platforms": [
		{
			"platform": "config",
			"name": "config",
			"port": 8080,
			"sudo": false
		}
	],

	"accessories": [
		{
			"accessory": "SonoffTasmotaHTTP",
			"name": "sonoff1",
			"hostname": "192.168.1.5"
		}

	]

}

Thank you all for your help, I wish this may help you.

[henrik]

This is a bit silly, but after trying almost everything else (restarting the Mac running Homebridge, resetting Homebridge, regenerating username/PIN etc), what fixed it was… restarting my phone 🤦‍♂️

I think that after the restart, I opened Home.app, hit the “+”, Add Accessory, “I Don’t Have a Code or Cannot Scan”, and then it showed me a list of accessories including Homebridge. I could just add it through there. But I’m pretty sure I tried that flow before and the restart is what fixed it.