Changing the State of an Accessory "Outside of HomeKit"

[AlexMaghen]

I'm using your GarageDoor example and I have it working but I am confused about one thing: In the very simple Python file I've included, the "GarageDoor" class's change_state() function gets called beautifully when a user taps on the accessory in iOS Home (or wherever). But what happens if the door changes state for other reasons (user opens it manually, whatever)? I don't understand how I instruct the accessory that I've created that it's status HAS CHANGED from inside my code. I think I need to use an Accessory base class function but I'm having trouble understanding this from the documentation.

Anyone's help most appreciated with this amazing library!

Ale
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[Pythonaire]

two ways:

1. permanent polling the device (i think, not a good idea), described as "service callback" (@Acessory.run_at_interval(3)).
2. let the device inform HAP-Python about state change. See the http.py example.
   I use 433 MHz devices instead of Wifi, to communicate over longer distance. A device as an example send state changes, HAP-Python forward this to the homekit. https://github.com/Pythonaire/HAP-Python-RFM69