Devices not disappearing after excluding from config about homebridge-shelly HOT 6 CLOSED

The exclude setting is now always honoured in version 0.10.0.

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Yes, if a device has been cached by homebridge it won't be excluded when exclude is set to true later on. This is due to the way homebridge is designed, it doesn't allow plugins to disregard cached accessories upon launch, which adds complexity to this plugin. I deliberately kept it this way in the current version because I'm working on adding support for specifying the type of accessory for a device (switch, outlet etc.) which will also require this plugin to go over all cached accessories after they've been loaded and remove or reload an accessory if its configuration has changed.

In the meantime, what you can do is to clear the cache manually, either by removing the cache file (.homebridge/accessories/cachedAccessories) or by editing it and only removing the accessories you want to exclude.

As for the crash when no configuration is given, that's an easy bug to fix. It'll be fixed in the next version.

Edit:
I just published version 0.9.2 that no longer crashes when the config is missing.

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Great thanks! If you provide the option to select the type, there is no need for me any longer to use MQTT. By the way, do you think about a fakegato history support? This would be awesome for temperature sensors.

Maybe you can add a garage door support later. I use the shelly relay to send the impulse to the motor and the input in detached mode to provide the closed status. There is a great MQTT Plugin for that: https://github.com/iomax/homebridge-mqttgaragedoor/blob/master/README.md
I would write a wiki entry for that if wanted ;)

Another thing which is maybe useful also for others is a configuration in the opposite way, so you have to include wanted devices and all others are excluded (great for big setups).

Maybe you can add also an option to define that devices will not be removed even if they are not reachable. If for example a wifi repeater in your house is damaged and the shellys in this area have no connection anymore, they will be removed after the timeout and you have to configure everything again in homekit.

Maybe you found my suggestions interesting,
have a nice week.

Greetings Ron

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Another issue. I removed the config entry from other instances (with the newest version). Now they added all devices their self. Great 100s of Shellys more in Home, can't laugh anymore. Please fix this soon.

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+1 for this feature to work, I connected one of my shellies to another service, and don't want this one to be discovered/controlled by this plugin.

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Great

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