HomeKit & LG ThinQ App & Device Out of Sync about homebridge-lg-thinq HOT 21 OPEN

Quick update, ran over night and here's LQ Apps energy use report that shows where the AC didn't power on as expected.

For some reason the homebridge log was truncated, excluding overnight activity. For some reason the "Plug-in Log" view for this plugin is blank:

In each event, HomeKit reports the AC as on. LG app when refreshed will show the appliance as off.

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Quick update, I continue to find that HomeKit falls out of sync with Device. I have adjusted the "ping" value to 30 seconds from 600 to further troubleshoot the issue.

Testing this morning found HomeKit reported the device as on when it was off . This breaks automation triggered by AC status and keeps temperature triggers from firing as they see the state of the device incorrectly.

please let me know what info I can share here to help narrow this issue down. It's unclear if it's a breakdown between HomeKit, homebridge, or LG server.

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Quick update, I continue to have issues with the AC falling out of sync with HomeKit. It's about 80% accurate I think, hard to monitor as I only use this setup when sleeping.

Over the last 3 days I've moved the plugin to its own child bridge and I've streamlined my HomeKit automation.

The expected action is this:

AC turns ON when Hue Temp Sensor rises above 75 F. This triggers a UV light and Booster fan.

AC should turn OFF when the Hue Temp Sensor falls below 75 F. This triggers the UV Light and Booster Fan to remain on for 3 minutes to extract remaining cold air from AC.

Generally this works 80% of the time now with the plug in configured as a Child Bridge and the poll interval set to 30 seconds.

However I still run into situations where HomeKit and LG fall out of sync. Either the AC will continue to run while HomeKit thinks it's off (thus not triggering automation), or it thinks it's OFF when it's actually on.

I have several Hubs, and I've restarted them all multiple times to troubleshoot this issue.

All devices and software are running current versions. Let me know what further detail I can provide to assist.

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I'm troubleshooting this issue today and noticed this value come across in the debug log:

airState.energy.onCurrent":1030

This occurred after I power cycled the AC using the LG app as I was trying to determine possible causes for HomeKit falling out of sink.

Is this value used by the plug in to report device status?

[4/16/2024, 10:27:34 AM] [homebridge-lg-thinq] [Air Conditioner] Received snapshot: {"airState.windStrength":6,"airState.bellSound.control":1,"fwUpgradeInfo":{"upgSched":{"upgUtc":"0","cmd":"none"}},"static":{"deviceType":"401","countryCode":"US"},"airState.tempState.current":26,"airState.diagCode":0,"airState.lightingState.displayControl":1,"airState.wDir.hStep":0,"mid":72394897,"airState.energy.onCurrent":1030,"airState.reservation.sleepTime":0,"airState.quality.sensorMon":0,"airState.tempState.target":16,"airState.DR.northAmerica":0,"airState.operation":1,"airState.reservation.targetTimeToStart":0,"meta":{"allDeviceInfoUpdate":false,"messageId":"oen04ZnQT3iKQdrDaVagIw"},"online":true,"airState.opMode":0,"airState.reservation.targetTimeToStop":0,"airState.filterMngStates.maxTime":250,"airState.filterMngStates.useTime":125,"timestamp":1713299232435}

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Is this value used by the plug in to report device status?

no, plugin only use airState.operation to report device status ON/OFF

when AC fall of sync, any mqtt message appear is homebridge debug log?

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