Stuck Pairing Vera Bridge

[gadgetstar]

Hi, I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I have followed the install instructions and ran the npm run start command. I get a similar situation to what another person has raised - where the create accessory goes through the list and stops. I am not sure if this is because it has finished the creation and the program is now running. You can exit out of this by pressing Ctrl C. Assuming this has created all the accessories and is running, I tried to pair my device to the bridge.

I have reset HomeKit and removed the Home. I can see the Vera Bridge but everytime I try to pair using the correct PIN it just spends an age trying before I finally get "Couldn't find Vera Bridge".

I have tried reset the Raspberry Pi and starting over several times but always get the same result.

Can anyone provide some guidance?

thanks in advance.

[rafale77]

This is likely because you have too many devices on the bridge. What you are observing is normal from the bridge. It has completed its device discovery and made them available to homekit. It is a homekit limitation. What I did was remove some device types from the discovery device list. I can't remember what the limitation number was either. It's been over a year since I did this.

[gadgetstar]

There are close to 200 devices and a decent number of Scenes. I have looked for obvious filenames that would contain the discovered device list so I could edit it, but cannot seem to (easily) find it. Do you remember what the file name is where the devices are stored?

Or do I need to edit something in the config file to automatically exclude certain devices?

thanks!

[rafale77]

I think in my case I had to comment out line 35 of app.js to prevent publishing my scenes. I have well over 100 of them. I also have over 200 devices but only lights, dimmable lights, window coverings, locks and garage doors should be published

[bitmerchandise]

The max is 100 devices. Look at the readme for examples on how to ignore devices and scenes. That's how I do it. Good luck

[gadgetstar]

Thanks for the quick responses!
@bitmerchandise, I do not see any examples in the readme though. I also looked at the HAP-NodeJS readme and do not see any. Please can you point me to the readme you are referring to?

Cheers

[bitmerchandise]

Sorry! I didn't realize this was the old bridge that I was using. I have since switched to https://github.com/damianxd/homebridge-vera try that one out. Development is recent!
The README in that one has the info you require :)

[gadgetstar]

Cheers. I will give that a go when I get home later.