Suddenly stop working

[kernal69]

Hi

This is a great plugin when it works.
But it has a problem.
Suddenly it just stop working,
It happens mostly when i remove a device in Homeseer or make som other reconfiguration on Home Assistant.
If i restart Home Assistant everything works again.

A change in a home controlling system is not unusual.
So this is a problem.
I can not trust this plugin.

Could this be solved ?
If you need some logs or something just tell me what you need.
I really want this to work.

[marthoc]

Thanks for the report. You will need to provide logs (follow the instructions in the README to enable detailed logging) of when the problem occurs so that I can see what is reported.

[waynehead99]

@kernal69 I notice that this happens whenever you make a change to the homeseer integration... you need to restart Core to re-establish the connection. I haven't seen a retry mechanism when the connection is lost.

[marthoc]

There is definitely a retry mechanism, the question is what changes are you making that leads to this state - it may be the case that after certain things are updated the integration is not reaching the point where it is establishing a connection again. Debug logs would be helpful here.

[waynehead99]

All you need to do is restart HomeSeer and everything stops working. HA will not connect back without restarting the core. Reloading the integration itself is hit/miss on the reconnecting.
This tripped me up for a while until I realized what was happening.

[kernal69]

Hi
I can not send you logs on this.
Because of this problem i could not use it and i have uninstalled it.
I use MQTT insted.

Maybe if it works in future i look into again.

[marthoc]

@waynehead99 Is it possible for you to enable debug logging per the instructions in the README and then get it to a non-working state? If you can paste the logs here I can hopefully have some evidence of why it is not reconnecting. See #70 which I believe is the same issue. I am happy to fix, but I need to see what's going wrong.

[TheBartoMan]

I agree with this. I'm constantly finding Home Assistant has stopped all communication with Homeseer.

A simple way for anyone to regenerate this is to restart Homeseer and you will find Home Assistant is no longer communicating with it .

I then do a restart of Home Assistant and it all comes back.

I wish Home Assistant would constantly check and reconnect.