Hey looking for some help, pushing a ring doorbell to HomeKit via homeykit and it only shows as a motion sensor. Is there another app or a setting.
TIA
Hey looking for some help, pushing a ring doorbell to HomeKit via homeykit and it only shows as a motion sensor. Is there another app or a setting.
TIA
It depends on the device class and its capabilities if HomeyKit is able to recognise it properly.
To find out, go here: Homey Developer Tools
Then find your device and tell me its class and which capabilities are defined for it.
It says sensor, but in homey I can view as a camera
If the Ring app says it’s a sensor, then HomeyKit doesn’t know any better.
You’d have to ask the app developer why they didn’t choose for the doorbell
class:
The doorbell is defined as a sensor and uses alarm_generic for the ‘doorbell ring’ functionality. It also uses alarm_motion for it’s motion sensing (obviously )
That doesn’t translate well to HomeKit, which expects a device class doorbell
(with alarm_generic
), so to get it working it would require creating a virtual device of the correct class and with the correct capability.