[pimatic-hap] How does the database work?

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Hi,
I have used pimatic-hap for some time but it was not very stable for me (will try the latest version as soon as possible as I think it got much better). When I was having the problems I was wondering how the database/device management works.

For managing it on the iPhone I used EVE.

Problems I had:

1. After removing one sensor in the eve app I was not able to get it back.
2. After removing the device I was not able to connect again.

I was associating all the switches/sensors with rooms and icons which all is lost after deleting and re adding the pimatic-hap bridge.

How are freshly added devices communicated to the bridge? Can they just appear or is there a kind of resync mechanism?

Thanks
x

@michbeck100 could you pls. have a look at the above question? Thx!

That’s strange. I didn’t have any problems to remove devices with eve (You don’t really remove them but hide them). AFAIK the hap-nodejs database contains just the paired iOS devices like an user database. Nothing about the devices that are published with the HomeKit bridge. This is stored on the iOS device respectively in iCloud.
But I’m not that familiar with the internals. I’m just using the hap-nodejs library.