[Bug]: Accessories Not Responding after power failure, have to redeploy homekit bridged node

Describe the bug When the NodeRED host OS restarts due to power outage, the HomeKit accessories show the Accessories Not Responding message. The only way I’ve found to get them back is to:

1. open the NodeRED editor
2. double click one of the HomeKit nodes
3. click Done
4. click Deploy

To Reproduce It seems that this only happens when NodeRED does not shut down cleanly. Restarting the docker container normally does not seem to have this issue.

Expected behavior It should be able to recover on it’s own, whatever code is running when redeploying the node is correcting the issue.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Raspi + Docker
• Node: v10.20.0
• NPM version: 6.14.3
• NodeRed version: 1.0.5
• NRCHKB Plugin Version: 0.4.0

Additional context We lose power quite often, albeit only briefly - so this issue is quite bothersome in my situation.

[PaulWieland]

I didn’t realize I was so out of date as I upgraded from the Pallette and assumed it updated to the latest release (which it clearly did not). I will upgrade and report back.

[PaulWieland]

I finally got a chance to look into this again. My original post was wrong. I am using version 1.2.0 of the node-red-contrib-homekit plugin, not 0.4.0.

version 0.4.0 is another node I have installed and I just looked at the wrong line when filling out this request.

I did upgrade node red though and will report back if this issue occurs again.