Apple TV is found twice - plugin fails about homebridge-apple-tv HOT 15 OPEN

How exactly to you get the credentials manually? I am facing the same issue, and would like to use the plugin until this gets resolved.
Thanks.

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Using the appletv command line tool, check the referenced issue.

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Sorry, where do you set the option to disable automatic discovery?
config.json of Homebridge? Should be in the AppleTV platform section right?

EDIT
Sorry, it was to early yesterday.
Pair devices manually and add them to the config in advance. Also set the "showPairSwitches" option to false after platform and name in the platform section. The auto discovery will still run, but it will not try to add the switches so it will not crash because of two same named switches.

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I had a similar problem and resolved it by adding "showPairSwitches": false to my config.json

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Hi @normen: "Using the appletv command line tool, check the referenced issue.". Can you please add a link? Thanks in advance ..

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Hi @MsCopernic, can you look at the first post for the link? Thanks in advance...

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Hi @normen, thanks, after installing the command tool, I'm getting the following error:

iMac-de-Jorge:~ jorgelperez$ appletv pair
? Which Apple TV would you like to pair with? Alcoba (192.168.1.57:49154)
✔ Connecting to Alcoba
✔ Initiating Pairing
? Enter the 4-digit pin that's currently being displayed on Alcoba 0864
✖ Completing Pairing
Cannot read property 'toString' of undefined
iMac-de-Jorge:~ jorgelperez$

Any idea?

Regards

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Hi @MsCopernic, it looks like it can't read the property "toString" of a nullpointer.

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Yup, that's clear for me @normen, but from where and why? How do I fix this problem?

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Hi @normen, I tried again today and it worked ??? I have made no changes. Thanks anyway.

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As said before or some where else, the AppleTV responds so fast, that they is/are detected twice:

❯ Alcoba (192.168.1.57:49154)
Estudio Merce (192.168.1.53:49154)
Alcoba (192.168.1.57:49154)
Estudio Merce (192.168.1.53:49154)

The only difference from what I did yesterday, is that this time I selected the ones from the second detection. I assume that if you choose the first ones, the information from that detection is gone, that may conduce to the null pointer error.

Regards

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I also encountered this issue on my Pi and resolved it via the suggestions above. I found the manual pairing process to be a bit confusing at first, so if it helps anyone:

First I found the file location of the plugin on my Pi. For me it was: /usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-apple-tv/node_modules/node-appletv/bin

Then I opened up a terminal window from that folder location and ran: cd node_modules/node-appletv/bin

Then I ran: ./appletv pair

My AppleTV popped up twice - I chose to pair with the second one and followed the on-screen prompts.

Lastly, I added "showPairSwitches": false to my config file directly under the "platforms" section and pasted the pairing code I got above into the appropriate credentials place.

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So I'm getting this error and Homebridge not starting I have followed the above posts and paired my ATV manually but HB still will not start. Here is the error message and the part of my config file:

[3/13/2019, 9:23:25 PM] [Apple TV] [INFO] Discovered Apple TV (Crox Apple TV 4K) at 192.168.0.25
[3/13/2019, 9:23:25 PM] [Apple TV] [INFO] Discovered Apple TV (Crox Apple TV 4K) at 192.168.0.25
[3/13/2019, 9:23:25 PM] [Apple TV] [INFO] Connecting to "Apple TV 4K"
[3/13/2019, 9:23:25 PM] [Apple TV] [INFO] Connected to "Apple TV 4K"
(node:4142) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of undefined
at connectToDevices (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-apple-tv/helpers/devices.js:31:29)

(node:4142) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:4142) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

{
"platform": "AppleTV",
"showPairSwitches": false,
"name": "Apple TV",
"hideWelcomeMessage": true,
"devices": [{
"id": "lounge",
"name": "Apple TV 4K",
"credentials": "2ECA59F4-7BE6-441B-9F82-8CD602C5A657:30323445354434432d384630412d343342442d423044432d354235364535334635303236:33336133643661352d383663392d343961322d393365322d316139316438346666383064:0a885827cf204e1ae151a4530cf4b91fad22ee0b9c3b0290823fb6e3839ae72f:6295837a2dd0d0d34cc05af55bf69e41e9f64632c1d9e691b69a47db291da41c"
},
Any more ideas please?

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Fixed it, changed the name of Apple TV and now working

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Which name did you change @Crox77 ? The name under “devices”:[] or the name under “platform”: ?

Thanks!

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