Accessory name shound't contain "_"

[yangm97]

It seems like hc converts spaces into underlines, but homekit doesn't like it.
HAS actually uses spaces on names so I guess it's the way to go.

[brutella]

That's because of http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=4931940373233664

[yangm97]

I see. Hope it gets fixed soon, the fact home.app hates _ is actually what makes this issue a bigger problem than it should be.

Great work on the library btw, been using it flawlessly.

[brutella]

hc only replaces spaces with "_" for the published dns-sd service name. The accessory should still appear without spaces in HomeKit. Can you please check that.

[yangm97]

Last time I checked (long time ago, iOS12) it was showing up "_"s at the Home.app. Gonna try again with the latest hc version.

[brutella]

Apple Home should only show an underscore when you add the accessory to HomeKit.
Once added to HomeKit, the name should be correct.

[travishaagen]

Something in iOS12 may have changed recently to make this worse. Yesterday, with hc v1.2.1 I added my bridge accessory to HomeKit and it complained about the underscore in the name. It would not let me click Next unless I changed the name in the UI. This wasn't happening when I was testing a couple weeks back.

I was able to rename my bridge accessory to have hyphens instead of spaces, so that works for me.

[brutella]

Hm, I never seen that error. I will try to reproduce it.