HomeBridge `listenerPort` is re-assigned after reboot

[heythisisnate]

If a listenerPort is not specified in the config.json, HomeBridge randomly assigns a listenerPort. This is fine, except this port number is not persisted anywhere and doesn't survive reboots. The impact is that if a Konnected device is provisioned with a randomly assigned listenerPort, then after reboot the device would not be able to contact HomeBridge at the new port until it is re-provisioned (it's unclear if this happens automatically).

Workaround: set listenerPort to any available HTTP port number in the advanced section of the config.json. See README for example.

to Fix: persist the listenerPort in the config so that it survives Homebridge reboots.

[fleish]

Thanks for this, I think it causes the panel to go into a reboot loop when it cannot contact the homebridge. It seemed to figure it out on it's own eventually but I've now set it to be static so it shouldn't move.

Also, Konnected support told me they no longer support Homebridge for what it's worth. It's still listed on their website tho, but this git repo looks to be abandoned. https://github.com/mkormendy/homebridge-konnected is more up to date (v1.3.2 released in 2024) and is what I got when I added the plugin to Homebridge.