SimCopy

This is a small command line utility (written in Swift!) that's been written out of a need to synchronize HomeKit configurations between iOS simulators.

If you run the HomeKit Simulator (available from Xcode -> Open Developer Tool -> More Developer Tools… ) on the same machine as the iOS Simulator, you can actually add simulated HomeKit devices to the simulator and test your app there! 🎉

But there's a catch: Each simulator is a new device, and needs a new connection to the simulated HomeKit devices. However: A HomeKit device can only be added once and then it needs to reset. So the solution is to copy the HomeKit configuration (that's homed and KeyChain) to all the other simulators once you have configured it for one. I couldn't find anything that does this, so I wrote a little tool.

Note: This is only as sophisticated as I needed it, and can be improved on versatility, robustness and error handling. Feel free to fork send a Pull Request if you want to extend it

Here's how to use it:

• Have a working Xcode toolchain (If you made it this far, you probably have…)
• Make the simcopy file executable

Use this tool to copy the HomeKit Configurations between iOS simulators.

  simcopy help
    Prints this help.

  simcopy copyhome <sourceUDID> <targetUDID>
    Copies the HomeKit configuration and KeyChain from one simulator to the other.

  simcopy spreadhome <devicename>
    Copies the HomeKit configuration from the simulator with the specified name to all simulators with the same runtime (OS version).

Have "fun" ;-)