setOn is locked

[awesole]

setOn is locked

[kopiro]

Hello everyone, the setOn is locked is a preventive timing measure to make sure that the library that we use underneath and the communication with the Playstation works correctly.

What you're seeing then it may be happening because you're just "testing" the plugin and hammering the Playstation with burst of connections, and not using it like you should on a daily basis; something like an Heisenbug.

I've been using the plugin myself for many months now, and you can rest assured that unless you're hammering it, it should do the job.

Let me explain more technically: I observed many errors when trying to switch on/off the console via RemotePlay in a short burst of time; this is happening because the opening of the RemotePlay connection takes some time (is not persistent, as it won't be needed for this feature) - therefore whenever you want to switch on/off, we open a RemotePlay connection, send command and close.

Because this is happening over the Internet, negotiating the initial connection may take sometime; therefore to avoid having these errors and making sure that we don't overload the Playstation, whenever you turn the Playstation on/off via HomeKit, I've a put a 20s timeout that, in case of successful connection it will be released "immediately".

How much immediately really depends on many factor, but what I observed is around 6s to open the connection, send the command, cleanup resource and close connection.

Try it yourself: switch the Playstation On via HomeKit - wait around ~20s - and then try to switch it off; everything should work as expected.

[kopiro]

What I can try to do is explain this better is the error-message so that people are aware of this limitation :)

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[lorenzomigliorero]

Same issue

[valerioceniccola]

same issue for me

[briancrink]

Same Issue.

[briancrink]

Hello everyone, the setOn is locked is a preventive timing measure to make sure that the library that we use underneath and the communication with the Playstation works correctly.

What you're seeing then it may be happening because you're just "testing" the plugin and hammering the Playstation with burst of connections, and not using it like you should on a daily basis; something like an Heisenbug.

I've been using the plugin myself for many months now, and you can rest assured that unless you're hammering it, it should do the job.

Let me explain more technically: I observed many errors when trying to switch on/off the console via RemotePlay in a short burst of time; this is happening because the opening of the RemotePlay connection takes some time (is not persistent, as it won't be needed for this feature) - therefore whenever you want to switch on/off, we open a RemotePlay connection, send command and close.

Because this is happening over the Internet, negotiating the initial connection may take sometime; therefore to avoid having these errors and making sure that we don't overload the Playstation, whenever you turn the Playstation on/off via HomeKit, I've a put a 20s timeout that, in case of successful connection it will be released "immediately".

How much immediately really depends on many factor, but what I observed is around 6s to open the connection, send the command, cleanup resource and close connection.

Try it yourself: switch the Playstation On via HomeKit - wait around ~20s - and then try to switch it off; everything should work as expected.

Thank you for clarifying. It's helpful for users to understand the limitations of the plugin so to not label it as an issue.

Perhaps, it would be resourceful to add the limitations to README.md :)