Not sure if it’s just wishful thinking, but after weeks of “No Response” and HE reboots, I haven’t had the issue for several days.
While trying to debug this issue, I created a “is HomeKit connected” rule.
I created two virtual switches, pingHome and pingAck, and shared them with HomeKit.
I added a simple HomeKit Automation that turns on pingAck whenever pingHome is turned on.
In the rule, I first turn off both switches and delay for a couple of seconds.
Then I turn on pingHome and wait for pingAck to be turned on, with a 20 second timeout.
Then I check if pingAck is on (or if it timed out.)
I log the result.
The rule is triggered each minute.
Well, I got timeouts, but the next attempt one minute later ALWAYS succeeded.
Checking the logs revealed no suspicious activity.
So, I put two of the “both off, delay, pingHome, check for pingAck” sequences in a row and only checked if the second one failed. It hasn’t yet, and the No Response issue hasn’t returned.
I have recently moved the check to once every 15 minutes and I only log failure (none yet).
I’m a happy camper for now.
