diff --git a/plugins/homekit/.npmignore b/plugins/homekit/.npmignore
index 441544bce..5442c0c95 100644
--- a/plugins/homekit/.npmignore
+++ b/plugins/homekit/.npmignore
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ dist/*.js
 dist/*.txt
 HAP-NodeJS
 .gitmodules
+tsconfig.json
diff --git a/plugins/homekit/.vscode/settings.json b/plugins/homekit/.vscode/settings.json
index f1342f03f..f5aba09f8 100644
--- a/plugins/homekit/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/plugins/homekit/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 
 {
-    "scrypted.debugHost": "koushik-mac"
+    "scrypted.debugHost": "127.0.0.1"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/homekit/package-lock.json b/plugins/homekit/package-lock.json
index 1f5534abd..8d65649ad 100644
--- a/plugins/homekit/package-lock.json
+++ b/plugins/homekit/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
    "name": "@scrypted/homekit",
-   "version": "1.1.45",
+   "version": "1.1.46",
    "lockfileVersion": 2,
    "requires": true,
    "packages": {
       "": {
          "name": "@scrypted/homekit",
-         "version": "1.1.45",
+         "version": "1.1.46",
          "dependencies": {
             "@koush/werift-src": "file:../../external/werift",
             "check-disk-space": "^3.3.0",
diff --git a/plugins/homekit/package.json b/plugins/homekit/package.json
index 1c9856001..01e9fb993 100644
--- a/plugins/homekit/package.json
+++ b/plugins/homekit/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
    "name": "@scrypted/homekit",
-   "version": "1.1.45",
+   "version": "1.1.46",
    "description": "HomeKit Plugin for Scrypted",
    "scripts": {
       "scrypted-setup-project": "scrypted-setup-project",
diff --git a/plugins/homekit/src/types/camera/camera-streaming-ffmpeg.ts b/plugins/homekit/src/types/camera/camera-streaming-ffmpeg.ts
index c7d6f189e..1529b13b4 100644
--- a/plugins/homekit/src/types/camera/camera-streaming-ffmpeg.ts
+++ b/plugins/homekit/src/types/camera/camera-streaming-ffmpeg.ts
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ export async function startCameraStreamFfmpeg(device: ScryptedDevice & VideoCame
                 // by default opus encodes with a packet time of 20. however, homekit may request another value,
                 // which we will respect by simply outputing frames of that duration, rather than packing
                 // 20 ms frames to accomodate.
-                opusFramesPerPacket = 1;
+                // the opus repacketizer will pass through those N frame packets as is.
 
                 audioArgs.push(
                     '-acodec', ...(requestedOpus ?