4.3.3

Major enhancements to support [email protected]:

• Support for external accessories, not being bridged by the Homebridge accessory, but exposing their own HAP server;
• Support asynchronous initialisation of delegates.
  • Accessories are only exposed once initialisation has completed.
  • Automatic cleanup of services and characteristics restored from cache, for which no delegate has been created during initialisation.
  • (Final subclass of) the delegate needs to emit and initialised event to indicate initialisation has been completed.
• Enhanced CharacteristicDelegate:
  • Support getter and setter functions for synchronous reads and writes by HomeKit;
  • Support for monitoring through didSet events, emitted after HomeKit has been updated;
  • Support persisted values without a corresponding HomeKit characteristic;
• Loose the peer dependency setup:
  • homebridge-lib can no longer be loaded by Homebridge; you might want to uninstall it using sudo npm -g un homebridge-lib;
  • Each plugin specifies homebridge-lib, once again, as a regular dependency, so npm will install it automatically with the plugin. This results, once again, in multiple installations of homebridge-lib;
  • The first plugin (based on homebridge-lib) loaded by Homebridge also registers homebridge-lib with Homebridge, and provides the hearbeat and UPnP listener to the other plugins.
• Major code cleanup in an attempt to provide more consistency (causing some breaking changes):
  • Better distinction between characteristic vs characteristicDelegate. E.g. addCharacteristicDelegate() instead of addCharacteristic().
  • Better distinction between Characteristic (class), Characteristics (collection of classes), characteristic (instance) characteristics (collection of instances). Note: Characteristics.hap.*, Characteristics.eve.* vs Characteristic.Format vs Characteristic.Formats.*
• Added developer documentation (work in progress).