Accessory count limits

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Accessory count limits

dgburtonbv opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere but could someone please confirm the accessory limits that apply when bridging accessories via Homebridge into HomeKit.

Is the limit 100 accessories across all platforms set up in your config.json?

I.e. If you had the Hue platform with 50 Hue bulbs and the Wemo platform for 50 wemo switches that would be the limit?

I'm seeing that HomeKit fails to sync between my iOS devices when I have more than 100 accessories behind Homebridge (no error is shown in the iOS 10 Home app) and wondered whether this was the issue?

Possible to run multiple Homebridge instances to get around this if it's the case?

Thanks!

Khaos Tian · Answer 1 · Mon Oct 03 2016 23:58:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yeah, HomeKit enforces a limit of 100 accessories per bridge. So if all accessories exposed by your platform exceeded 100, the setup will fail from iOS side.

It's possible to run multiple instances of homebridge, just run the regularly and point each of them to a different config path and persistence path. You can run homebridge --help to see how.

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Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere but could someone please confirm the accessory limits that apply when bridging accessories via Homebridge into HomeKit.

Is the limit 100 accessories across all platforms set up in your config.json?

I.e. If you had the Hue platform with 50 Hue bulbs and the Wemo platform for 50 wemo switches that would be the limit?

I'm seeing that HomeKit fails to sync between my iOS devices when I have more than 100 accessories behind Homebridge (no error is shown in the iOS 10 Home app) and wondered whether this was the issue?

Possible to run multiple Homebridge instances to get around this if it's the case?

Thanks!

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Daniel Burton · Answer 2 · Tue Oct 04 2016 00:58:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Great, thanks @KhaosT

simonrb2000 · Answer 3 · Fri Jun 09 2017 01:46:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sorry using homebridge --help I couldn't find how to do this. I am at my 100 device limit and trying to workout how to run multiple instances

Scott · Answer 4 · Mon Feb 05 2018 09:44:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sorry using homebridge --help I couldn't find how to do this. I am at my 100 device limit and trying to workout how to run multiple instances