Homekit Bridge (org.openhab.io.homekit) to control AV Receiver

Add-ons Bindings
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Hi guys,

I am playing around with the org.openhab.io.homekit addon and it works great so far with the few things I have enabled.
I am able to turn my AV Receiver ON and OFF with Siri and I am wondering if it is also possible to have other controls enabled for it like:
“Mute Receiver”
“Unmute Receiver”
“Receiver Volume Up”
“Receiver Volume Down”

The wikipage only mentions lights and thermostats?

2

You’re restricted by what Siri supports as control phrases for home automation devices, not by the HomeKit extension.

As far as I know, none of those are possible I’m afraid.

3

for me it works with the Onkyo-Receiver Binding by adding the adding the lighting-tag via Rest-API to a sound volume item.

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4

Thanks for the tip.
I tried that just now and my head almost exploded when I told Siri to turn the volume on in the living room and it set the volume to 100% in a very loud movie scene :wink: :smiley:

But those commands work then with Siri when I call the item “Volume”:
Turn the volume to 30%
Set the volume to 30%
etc.

What does not work properly but Siri responds ok are the following commands:
Turn off the volume -> Siri will set the HomeKit item to OFF, but it does not change the volume or anything else.
Turn on the volume -> Siri will set the HomeKit item to ON and volume goes to 100%, brace yourself

When saying “Mute the volume” Siri responds that it does not support this feature.

I use the Yamaha Binding
My item config is the following:

Dimmer Yamaha_Volume_HK “Volume” (F1_Livingroom, AVR, Entertainment) [“Lighting”] { channel=“yamahareceiver:yamahaAV:XXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXX:volume” }

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