If Apple Home is configured to use your Apple Watch as your presence, then maybe. That would be something that needs happen on the Apple Homekit framework.
I donât have a watch so canât test this.
So if you can configure your home/away status in Apple Home based on your watch, then this should work.
Iâm using this way of working almost the same for some years for a 4 person household. Works (almost) flawlessly.
I made it a little bit more simple because not all persons are configured in homey:
Define one virtual device âsomebody homeâ and make HomeKit automations based on âfirst person comes homeâ and âlast person leaves homeâ.
Also worth to mention is that you must have a HomeKit hub (HomePod, Apple TV or iPad) in your house. And iPads canât be used in new HomeKit architecture.
Does anyone here know how to use the sleep mode of an Apple Watch to put Homey into sleep mode and not sleep mode? I can enable sleep mode, but I canât disable it.
The icon used for the virtual device is standard from Homey. To change the icon, you will need to use the mobile app and go to the settings of the selected device.
Some device apps provide additional icons that can be selected at the time of pairing. Or use as with Device Capabilities app, the icon can be changed later. a Device Capabilities appâs device has more custom icons.
Currently, Homey does not have a way to load custom icons as standard. This is only available if the app developer has implemented this into the app.
Hi OH2TH,
I am relatively new to Homey and do not yet have much experience with virtual devices.
I have another question about your flow, specifically about the if function - Mode Changed
I have used the build in Homey Virtual Devices and only have the flow cards âSwitched Onâ and âSwitched Offâ. But the flow does not work with this.
I have tried Device Capabilities app, I donât know exactly which template to use, furthermore these virtual devices are not supported by HomeyKitti.
Can you please give me a tip on which virtual device I need to use so that I can also select the âMode Changeâ for the Wenn Card?
The virtual device used in this sample, is the one you get with Homeyâs builtin virtual device. However you will need to enable the Virtual Devices experiment from your Homey settings.
By the way, in case anyone is looking to get this same effect but is not otherwise using HomeKit / HomeKitty, thereâs a simple way to do so using only built-in capabilities. Roughly speaking:
Create Homey flow(s) triggered by webhook events (find the When flow card for Webhook event received under âLogicâ) and use then cards to update presence (similar to the first post above). You can the use logic card âtext tag is exactlyâ to check the value of the tag from the webhook for the values âhomeâ and âawayâ to distinguish between arriving and departing - and then cards to set presence accordingly.
Use the Shortcuts app on iPhone to create a new personal automation. Select âArriveâ as the trigger, choose the location and edit the geofence size, leave âAnytimeâ ticked and make sure you select âRun immediatelyâ. Then add a single action: get contents of URL - and paste the Homey webhook URL from step 1 in here. Will look something like: https://webhook.homey.app/[your homey cloud ID]/[your event name]?tag=home. Save the automation.
Repeat step 2 but with âLeaveâ as the trigger for the automation, and remember to use ?tag=away in the URL. So my full webhook URLs are: https://webhook.homey.app/[my homey cloud ID]/jon_presence?tag=home and https://webhook.homey.app/[my homey cloud ID]/jon_presence?tag=away
Thatâs it. You need to set up these 2 personal automations on each personâs main device and the associated Homey flows for each person (I have these all in the one advanced flow for ease of management). But you donât need to set up HomeKit, use the Home (or Homey) app on the phone or HomeKitty or the virtual devices experiment on Homey.
