# \[App\]\[Pro\] HomeKitty 😸 (aka HomeyKit 3.0) **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, tools, devices, homey-pro\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-homekitty-aka-homeykit-3-0/72824 "2022-11-29T13:25:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-homekitty-aka-homeykit-3-0/72824/1 "2022-11-29T13:25:03Z")
# HomeKitty (AKA HomeyKit 3.0) HomeKitty is an almost complete rewrite of HomeyKit and serves the same purpose: expose your Homey devices to HomeKit so you can control them using iOS, Siri and Shortcuts. ### Current version - Stable: [v2.4.4](https://homey.app/a/name.klep.homekitty/) - Test: [v2.5.8](https://homey.app/a/name.klep.homekitty/test/) You should be able to run it next to HomeyKit without getting in the way. See follow-up post for installation instructions. _Please be aware_: I don’t use Homey or HomeKitty myself, so I can only test with a _very_ limited amount of (virtual) devices, and am reliant on community users to test it fully with their apps. ### COMMON ISSUES Please read this before creating a diagnostics report or posting an issue report on Github! It’s very common for iOS to have issues that are not related to HomeKitty, and can therefore not fixed by me. - **_“No Response”_** - **_App crashes_** This doesn’t happen very often (I get notified when it happens, and it doesn’t happen a lot), but the most common reason is when you have two Homey’s in the same network and both are using the same HomeKit identifier. An identifier has to be unique in the network, so when this happens, change the identifier from the app settings (after first turning off HomeKitty on the other Homey). Do be aware that changing the identifier is basically a reset, so you will have to start over with the HomeKit configuration for the new Homey. - **_iOS losing devices or places them back in the Default Room_** After Homey reboots/restarts, HomeKitty will try to wait for all devices of all your apps to be created before it starts communicating with iOS. However, if apps take a really long time before creating their devices, HomeKitty might “miss” these devices and they are added to HomeKit after communication with iOS has already started. Such devices are considered to be “new” by iOS (a major flaw in the HomeKit protocol) and will be placed in the default room. To make HomeKitty wait longer, starting with v2.2.0, there’s a configuration option to delay the start of HomeKitty by a fixed amount of time. If you have this issue, it’s recommended to set this option to about 10 or 15 minutes, just to make sure that all devices have been created before HomeKitty starts. - **_Unable to add HomeKitty to iOS_** Make sure that both Homey and your iDevice(s) are on the same network segment (in other words: if your Homey is part of a separate VLAN/IoT/guest network, there’s a good chance it won’t be found). ### Still having issues? You can file an issue report here: [Issues · robertklep/name.klep.homekitty · GitHub](https://github.com/robertklep/name.klep.homekitty/issues) ### Changelog - v2.5.8 — Support thermostats with `operational_state` capability - v2.5.7 — Support for occupancy sensors - v2.5.6 — Support for onoff sprinklers - v2.5.5 — Fixed issue with Adaptive Lighting discovery - v2.5.4 — Revert changes to home alarm map - v2.5.3 — Fixed crash issue with thermostat devices - v2.5.2 — Support thermostat devices with “onoff” capability - v2.5.1 — Removed Night mode from home alarm, since Homey doesn’t have an equivalent - v2.5.0 — Support for `fan_speed` capability - v2.4.4 — Fixed issue with “heater” map - v2.4.3 — Increased “settle time after reboot” to 30 minutes - v2.4.2 — Added support for “airconditioning” devices - v2.4.1 — Fixed issue with lights becoming dimmable when they weren’t - v2.4.0 — Adaptive Lighting support - v2.3.5 — Hopefully fix issues with thermostat temperature units - v2.3.4 — Set Homekit target temperature limits to match Homey’s - v2.3.3 — Also allow “other” device class to be considered for window coverings - v2.3.2 — Fixed issue with temperature units for thermostats - v2.3.1 — Tilt support for window coverings - v2.3.0 — Don’t expose hidden/maintenance capabilities to iOS - v2.2.18 — Work around `button.remove_node` capabilities that get added to Matter devices 🤦🏼‍♂️ - v2.2.17 — Bugfix for v2.2.16 - v2.2.16 — Added support for `heatpump` device class - v2.2.13 — Correctly set temperature display units for thermostat and heatercooler - v2.2.12 — Allow outlets/sockets to be dimmable - v2.2.11 — Fixed issue with tv’s being mapped twice - v2.2.10 — Added (partial) support for televisions - v2.2.9 — Fixed issue with Bold locks using `onoff` the wrong way around - v2.2.8 — Added support for `onoff` locks (Bold) - v2.2.7 — Fixed issue with v2.2.6 - v2.2.6 — (unreleased) fix low battery status - v2.2.5 — Use `alarm_battery` for low battery status - v2.2.4 — Added optional tamper state for other types of sensors - v2.2.3 — Added optional tamper state for water leak sensors - v2.2.2 — Added support for battery levels (`sensor` and `other`) and updated `homey-api` to latest version - v2.2.1 — Added support for devices of class `sensor` and capability `button` (e.g. Heimdall Alarm switch) - v2.2.0 — Added option to delay start of HomeKit bridge after Homey reboot - v2.1.0 — Fixed issue introduced by rc88 firmware - v2.0.1 — Home alarm state fixes - v2.0.0 — Compatibility with HP2023 and `homey-api@3` - v1.4.2 — Upgraded to latest `homey-api` - v1.4.1 — Sort device list - v1.4.0 — Debounce changes to dim/brightness for light devices - v1.3.2 — Bugfix - v1.3.1 — Support onoff capability for sensor devices - v1.3.0 — This version should handle app crashes/restarts much better: devices belonging to such apps should retain their room assignments, automations, etc, once the app is back up again. - v1.2.10 — Work around issue in Web API related to (un)exposing devices to HomeKit - v1.2.9 — Hopefully fixed issues with state-only window coverings implementation - v1.2.8 — Updated to latest version of `homey-api` and allow contact sensors with “other” device class - v1.2.7 — Support for Eufy doorbell devices - v1.2.6 — Fixed issue with virtual devices losing their configuration - v1.2.5 — Fixed more issues with positionless window coverings - v1.2.1 — Fixed issue with positionless window coverings - v1.2.0 — Rewritten/restyled app settings, bugfixes, additional device support - v1.1.0 — Rewritten mapping logic and streamlined app settings page some more - v1.0.5 — Improved app settings - v1.0.4 — Bugfixes - v1.0.3 — Bugfixes - v1.0.2 — Bugfixes, more device support, and Flow Starter device - v1.0.1 — Bugfixes - v1.0.0 — Initial (test) release ### Further plans In no particular order: - ~~Reach a stable version~~ - Implement various virtual devices: - ~~a Virtual Switch device to trigger HomeKit automations from Homey~~ - a Virtual Service, basically a virtual device. See below for more info. - More/better device support. ### Flow Starterᵇᵉᵗᵃ device (since v1.0.2) The Flow Starter device can be used to create a HomeKit button to trigger flows. It’s a regular Homey “button” device with the “Button Pressed” action card. By renaming the device _in HomeKit_ (you can rename it on Homey too, but that will not change its name in HomeKit) you can get Siri to trigger on any name you like. Because of limitations in HomeKit, this device actually appears as a switch (on/off) which, when turned on, will turn itself off after 300ms. This is still an experimental feature, so it might be subject to change. ### Virtual Service device (unreleased) HomeKit supports [a long list of Services](https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/master/src/lib/definitions/ServiceDefinitions.ts) (somewhat equivalant to Homey device classes). These services have required (and possibly optional) [Characteristics](https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/master/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts) (somewhat equivalent to Homey device capabilities). With a Virtual Service device you can create a HomeKit device based on a service, and set the characteristics of that service from Homey flows. Basically the same as the Virtual Devices app for Homey, but for HomeKit. ### Why a rewrite? HomeyKit is now 5 years old. During that time, it has had various “main developers”, the last one being myself (@robertklep). It’s a relatively complex app because it has to deal as good as it can with incompatibilities between Homey devices and HomeKit devices. This complexity means there’s a lot of unstructured “special case handling” in the code, which makes it difficult to maintain. For the upgrade of HomeyKit to SDKv3 I initially planned to also do a cleanup of the code, but ran into issues with outdated external dependencies. Updating these dependencies meant an upgrade would be backward incompatible, breaking the HomeKit setup for _all_ HomeyKit users once they upgraded to the new version. So I decided it was best to do a complete rewrite and release it as a separate app, HomeKitty. This also means that HomeyKit will, as of now, drop into maintenance mode, meaning that I will probably do one or two new releases (including an upgrade to SDKv3) but no more. Once HomeKitty is published as a stable v1.0.0 in the app store, I will ask Athom to hide HomeyKit from the store (meaning that new users will not be able to find it in the store anymore). ## Donations Donations are very welcome! You can make donations [through Paypal](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/robertklep). --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-homekitty-aka-homeykit-3-0/72824)._