[App][Pro] HomeKitty 😸 (aka HomeyKit 3.0)

No, that’s not possible with the way HomeKitty works, you would need some sort of ā€œdevice builderā€ where you take a Homey device and allow to user to interactively build a HomeKit device from it.

Ok thank you. However the current garagedoor implementation is in my eyes suboptimal. In homey itā€˜s only a button which can bi on/off and in homekit it reflects open/closed state and you can switch between the states.
My garage door has just one button (close/stop/open/stop). So the button never represents the right status when you have a mixed operation with a real button and the homekit garage door. And stop in the middle is as well an issue. I hope itā€˜s clear
@robertklep do you see any optimization potential for the garagedoor implementation?

HomeKitty can’t just make stuff up, it depends entirely on how Homey implements garage door support :man_shrugging:t3:

For what it’s worth, because the Tuya app doesn’t seem to pass my controller as a ā€œgaragedoorā€ class, i installed a Tuya plugin on my homebridge (running on syno nas already als another HomeKit hub for my hikvision camera streams) to control my garagedoor (also has up/stop/down/stop) it does show correct positions, even when interrupted manually or by remote, as long as the sensor does not detect its ā€œclosedā€ it will show the HomeKit button as open/opening or closed/closing (if stopped it wil take a few seconds to update)

Does this also work with cameras?
So if I expose my Ring doorbells will I be able to see the video feed inside Apple Home and use Apple Secure Home video?

No, Homey doesn’t support video.

Oh.
Homey does not support any video functions from devices?

No. But it can have the doorbell send it’s stream to a Ggl Hub or such.
Athom has announced streaming will become possible on the dashboard, with certain cams / cam brands;
ETA: some day.

No, just still picture snapshots.

Status and control with Apple Home doesn’t work anymore since this morning. I see in the update logs that my homey pro is updated to 12.4.9. Did this update break the homekit integration?

It’s common for random stuff to break after a Homey update, try taking it off power for about 10 minutes.

Thanks, I’ll try that when I’m at home tonight. Tried a reboot and it doesn’t fix it.

update: Rebooting the Homepod did fix the connection issue. Thanks for you help Robert

First, I want to say that this is a great app! But I do have a small suggestion for improvement — if it’s possible, of course. Would it be possible to make the device that you see in HomeKit also visible in Google Home? That way, when I go to bed, I could turn off that device and set my phone to sleep mode (using a Google Home Hub).

Homey has its own Google Home integration. I don’t understand the relation with HomeKit(ty).

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I created a device with HomeKitty, but I don’t see it on the Google Home Hub.(flow starter)

That’s an issue with the Google Home Integration, I can’t fix that.

Too bad, I’ll figure it out. I’ll create a virtual device then, but I already have so many — it’s becoming a mess. Thanks anyway!

Is there a way to control my Eve aqua through this app? I’ve now created a virtual button that I can see in my homekit. I’m trying to use this virtual button to automate my Eve Aqua when I press it. However, I can’t select the Eve aqua in this automation. Is this a limitation of Homekit? Is there a way i’m missing or is it impossible?

You can create an issue about this here.

The ā€œFeature request/Unsupported deviceā€ template will ask about some information that I need to be able to answer your questions.

Question: Is there a way to create a virtual device in Homey that gets published to HomeKit by HomeKitty as a doorbell which chimes my HomePods when operated from Homey?

What I’ve tried: I created a virtual device using the Virtual Devices app of class doorbell with a button and an alarm_generic capability. This is being published to HomeKit by HomeKitty and appears in the Apple Home app. However, neither operating the device button in Homey nor setting its alarm_generic to True causes the HomePods to chime. Also the device as it appears in Apple Home doesn’t have any of the HomePod chime settings that I see online are generally present for official HomeKit doorbell devices. Is there some other capability / config which is known to work?

My use case, for background:

I am using a physical button (an Aqara zigbee button) that’s connected to Homey as my doorbell. I want this to use the native doorbell chime functionality of my HomePod Minis (I’ve tried using HomeKit automations to play a doorbell chime sound from Apple Music and it kind of works but doesn’t behave well when I am already streaming radio from a device to the HomePod, which is a lot of the time). Currently I can do this using a plugin for HomeBridge which also publishes a virtual doorbell button to HomeKit and which does chime the HomePods (interestingly, this device as it appears in HomeKit also doesn’t have any of the HomePod chime settings but it still seems to be able to chime my HomePods). This works OK and I can trigger it from Homey via a call to a URL on HomeBridge but for this I have to run HomeBridge on a separate always-on device just for this use case which is annoying and introduces another thing to go wrong.