Ring Alarm (via ring-mqtt)

For security I use Ring Alarm system which is Z-Wave S2 and I pay for professional monitoring which includes LTE backup for controlling unit. It is one of my few internet connected devices but it’s 100% reliable. I use ring to mqtt to expose it to home assistant and ring plugin for homebridge to expose to HomeKit. Only issue I have had is that ring to mqtt occasionally loses connection and addons needs to be restarted if internet drops. However this is the reason I keep homebridge ring integration because it never loses connection even with internet outage once internet comes back. I …

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I have a Ring system integrated via MQTT. Mainly because I need the alarm system to be independent of HA for ease of use for pet sitter and my kids, and the Ring monitoring service is pretty cheap. I can run automations based on all my Ring sensors, which is nice, and I can control the alarm state via HA. Not fully cloud-free nor is it subscription free (but I’m getting monitoring), and the alarm works fully local with cellular backup if my internet goes out.

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The problem I started noticing my alarm wasn't showing up in HomeKit and tracked it back to this. It happens every time I restart my HAOS setup. I'm using https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon to provide the alarm entities. Not sure where the core issue is, seems like a race condition where homekit bridge starts before the addon has finished running, but seems like homekit bridge shouldn't just skip it. Manually restarting the homekit integration fixes the issue. Can reproduce on two different (but similarly setup) HA installs. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? …

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