[NorthernMan54]

Breaking Changes

• Retired the usage of axios for making HTTP requests. Now uses fetch instead.
• getCharacteristic() and refreshServiceCharacteristics() now set status on each characteristic and throw a HapCharacteristicError (check error.name) when it is nonzero, leaving value at its last good reading. Before, they only logged the error, so a stale value looked current.

Changed

• feat: debugRawPackets option (with debug: true) logs raw event-monitor packets and getValue() exchanges. They can contain the bridge PIN
• feat: when a service's StatusActive changes, refresh its other characteristics before emitting service-update
• fix: setCharacteristic() and setCharacteristics() treat an empty (204) reply from the bridge as success again. Since the switch to fetch they had thrown Failed to control accessory even though the write worked (Fix empty HAP characteristic write responses #95)
• fix: remember a refused pin on the client, so an unregistered bridge is named once, not every cycle
• feat: take the list of our own bridges, so another homebridge's refused pin logs at debug, not warn
• fix: add a bridge that registers after the monitor started to it, so it gets live updates too
• chore: remove the unused axios dependency
• chore: run the type generator with tsx instead of ts-node
• chore(deps): dependency updates

Release notes

• Promotes beta-5.4.0 to latest. Replaces Release v5.4.0 #97, which came from a separate release-5.4.0 branch that has now been removed. The code is identical.
• Since beta.8, the betas added: getResource rejecting HTTP errors again, and a failed monitor sync reconnecting the bridge's existing subscriptions (both restore 5.3.0 behaviour, from the Copilot review on Release v5.4.0 #97); removal of the unused axios dependency; a publish summary in the release workflow; and a files allowlist that ships only dist, README, LICENSE and CHANGELOG.
• The breaking changes above ship in a minor release. homebridge-config-ui-x 5.29.1 already runs against them through the betas.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Unresolved synchronization races can overwrite newer characteristic state, reopen connections after client destruction, and remove subscriptions after failed reads.

8 open issues

• Propagate each service read's outcome to synchronization · New
• Invalidate pending synchronizations on destroy or monitor replacement · New
• Prevent stale refreshes from overwriting newer characteristic state · New
• Use the supported instanceAllowList configuration property · New
• Retry failed late-bridge synchronization on discovery cycles · New
• Preserve explicit service selections during synchronization · New
• Log raw exchanges before throwing on HTTP errors · New
• Retain pinRefusalLogged as a deprecated optional HapInstance field · New

What changed in this PR

Promotes HAP Client v5.4.0 to the stable release, migrating HTTP requests to fetch and improving characteristic status handling, bridge discovery, and live monitoring.

Changes:

• Adds characteristic error statuses, raw diagnostic logging, and support for empty write responses.
• Updates monitor synchronization and PIN-refusal handling.
• Refreshes dependencies, examples, package contents, and release tooling.

File	Description
tsconfig.json	Reformats compiler option arrays.
test/​test.js	Adds a manual characteristic and monitoring diagnostic.
test/​backyard-tree.sh	Adds a direct temperature polling script.
src/​monitor.ts	Adds packet logging, status refreshes, and bridge synchronization.
src/​monitor.test.ts	Tests monitor synchronization and event handling.
src/​interfaces.ts	Updates characteristic status and bridge interfaces.
src/​index.ts	Migrates HTTP requests and updates discovery and monitoring behavior.
src/​index.test.ts	Migrates mocks to fetch and adds regression coverage.
src/​hap-types.ts	Adds proximity-control type mappings.
src/​eventedHttpClient/​index.ts	Exposes outgoing packets for diagnostic logging.
src/​eventedHttpClient/​index.test.ts	Reformats existing request-length tests.
src/​eventedHttpClient/​httpParser.ts	Reformats parser expressions without changing behavior.
README.md	Documents raw logging and availability refreshes.
package.json	Sets v5.4.0, updates dependencies, and limits published files.
nodemon.json	Adds automatic example rebuilds and restarts.
examples/​README.md	Documents accessory monitoring examples.
examples/​backyard-tree.js	Adds an accessory inspection and monitoring example.
eslint.config.mjs	Reformats an existing lint rule.
CHANGELOG.md	Records v5.4.0 changes and breaking behavior.
.npmignore	Removes exclusions in favor of the package allowlist.
.github/​workflows/​release.yml	Adds a package publishing summary.

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