Unable to add Homebridge to Homekit under iOS 16.x

Current Situation

I’m unable to add my Homebridge to Homekit under iOS 16.1.2

A week ago all my Homebridge devices stopped working in Homekit. From previous experience i waited a few days and hoped this would resolve itself, as it sometimes did in the past. Today i decided to remove the Homebridge from the Home app and then add it back - this step also helped me in the past with previous iOS versions.

But here starts my dilemma: I can’t add back the Bridge to the Home App

The App shows the detected bridge, then reports that it is an unsupported device and after some time the Home App says that the device is incompatible. If i try again right away, the third message changes to ‘Device already added. To add it again you need to reset it first.’

Logs

[04/12/2022, 12:02:10] [HB Supervisor] OS: Linux 5.15.76-v7l+ arm
[04/12/2022, 12:02:10] [HB Supervisor] Node.js v18.12.1 /usr/bin/node
[04/12/2022, 12:02:10] [HB Supervisor] Homebridge Path: /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge/bin/homebridge
[04/12/2022, 12:02:10] [HB Supervisor] UI Path: /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-config-ui-x/dist/bin/standalone.js
[04/12/2022, 12:02:16] [Homebridge UI] Homebridge Config UI X v4.50.2 is listening on :: port 8581
[04/12/2022, 12:02:16] [HB Supervisor] Starting Homebridge with extra flags: -I
[04/12/2022, 12:02:16] [HB Supervisor] Started Homebridge v1.6.0 with PID: 13912
[04/12/2022, 12:02:18] Loaded config.json with 3 accessories and 7 platforms.

Configuration

{
    "bridge": {
        "name": "Homebridge 5B64",
        "username": "0X:AX:EX:DX:XD:X7",
        "port": 51398,
        "pin": "306-02-137"
    },
    "accessories": [
        { ... }

Environment

• OS: Raspbian GNU/Linux Bullseye (11)
• Software: Homebridge 1.6.0
• Node: v18.12.1
• npm: 8.19.2

Process Supervisor

hb-service

Additional Context

No response

[adamengineering]

As per dschrander’s comment in this [https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/issues/3279] i downgraded Homebridge to 1.5.1 and changed the mDNS Advertiser to ‘Avahi’. Did a full reset and after the restart of the Homebridge i was able to add it back again to the Home App, all devices came back and are reporting their correct status and are usable for now.

–> my conclusion for the moment is that something in HB 1.6.0 isn’t behaving the same as in 1.5.1

I will make a backup of my current working installation and the try again to update and see if something breaks. Will report back here…

[mdrayner]

I had the same issue. For me it turned out that the network interface in settings was no longer correct. I haven’t changed anything so might have broken in an update? Anyway. Changed the interface in the settings to the correct one and all back and running again!