i have the same issue. A workaround is to define the inbox detected item again in the .items file. That works for me but is a hack while investigating how to add the require (“Lighting”) tags etc via the GUI.
For me it works, if I use the HABmin UI. During the creation of an item from a thing (section channels), I can add the “Lighting” or “Switchable” Tag.
Re-Adding items OH1 way made the items controllable from homekit. But this is a shortcoming that has to be sorted out. A simple field on the paper UI should do the trick.
Does anyone have a working config for the release version of OpenHAB 2.0 ? My phone sees the openHAB accessory but nothing happens when trying to add it after entering the PIN
I don’t see any log entries from the homekit addon when the phone tries to connect, but while loading openHAB it does output about 30 repeated lines like these:
2017-01-27 20:32:25.986 [INFO ] [com.beowulfe.hap.HomekitRoot ] - Added accessory null
2017-01-27 20:32:26.006 [INFO ] [pl.http.impl.NettyHomekitHttpService] - Resetting connections
I thought it would just ignore items that didn’t have the correct tags assigned, it almost seems like something gets stuck trying to parse my item configs? Should I see any output from HomeKit about the items that have the Switchable tag assigned while starting up?
For the love of me, but I can’t understand how am I suppose to configure homekit. Where is the “tag” field I should put “lightning” in?
You have to define the tags in the item definition textfile for now, HABmin can show them but can’t edit them. The syntax is here http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/items.html#item-syntax
itemType itemName “itemLabel” (itemGroup) [“itemTag”] {bindingconfig}
Note that the order is important, i tried modifying an old item by sticking the tag block after the binding block but that confuses the config parser.
I finally got my iPhone to pair with OpenHAB today by disabling simple mode item linking in Paper UI and following the instructions from this post: Unable to discover openHAB2 with Homekit (iOS 10)
Beware that this will reset your configuration completely except for what is defined through the classic text files.
I think the HomeKit binding probably got stuck trying to parse all mye Hue lamps that had the Lighting tag, and my Hue hub has direct HomeKit support anyway so I don’t want OpenHAB to present those twice.
@ssvenn that much I got but I can’t find an item definition file on my whole machine. The items folder just contains a “readme”. And yes, it’s the same for me in habmin, the text field is disabled.
actually I facing same issue when I link to homekit,
I found most of issue can sort by restart openhab, sometimes I think restart machine will necessary in few circumstance
once the Tag [Lighting] in items in correct positions, home kit should able to show up the devices. in my case, homekit able to show the devices status in instance (like you turn on/off device by other method and homekit will indicate it’s on/off) but not able to control, homekit think it’s changed the status but it’s not, issue solved by restart openhab.
so I suggest you keep restart openhab once setting have changed
you can make tag in habmin or you can delete the items which create by paper ui and manually create a file call xxx.items in items folder by txt editor, items create by Paper UI stored in .db in difference location.
You have to create it 
If you are unfamiliar with the old openHAB 1.x way of doing things, go grab the demo setup package from http://www.openhab.org/downloads.html to have some examples to study. There’s also lots of information in the old bindings wiki.
Any binding that has a new 2.0 version will need to be configured as { channel=“binding:instance:detail” } , if you go look at the Things listing in Paper UI it will show you the correct syntax and you can copy and paste that into your items text file.
openHAB 2 does not maintain the old text files for you when you make changes through the GUI, the “new” item link configurations done through Paper UI and HABmin end up in /var/lib/openhab2 while the “old” style configuration files end up in /etc/openhab2/ - and there’s also a /usr/share/openhab2 for installing non-bundled bindings.
It’s confusing to have the config in three different locations but it was probably the only reasonable way to keep clean backwards compatibility.
I’ve shared the three directories through Samba on my openHAB linux server so that I can mount them on my mac and run Eclipse Smarthome Designer there to get a nicer editor.
How can I set the tag in habmin?
Configuration > Things > the thing you need to set eg: ABC > Right hand side Channel > Below Linked itmes have an icon in blue, click that
i do as all other here will do, I just learn how to setup openhab in 2 months ago and I get help from all gentleman here.
Thanks, I was unaware of that method. The fields are read-only in the HABmin Items list but not in the Things list!
That saves me from a lot of text-file editing, I just tested it and it works great with HomeKit
It looks like the HomeKit binding tries to add new Accessories as soon as they are tagged but they don’t actually show up on my phone until I either restart openHAB or the binding.
if you just a quick shot or only few items to controll, this is a way to go and you only do control on homekit,
otherwise, you may still need to do the text way as you can’t define Group in GUI way, if you got lot of items to control, group management is better way to go.
a few days ago I started with homebridge and openhab1. I managed to make them work, I am able to control items from openHab using Siri. But in config.json I have added as “customattrs” only 2 items (just for testing purposes), but homebridge added all items that could be found on openhab (like 70) and so I have them all on my iPhone and I don’t need them.
How the configuration should look like in order to have only the desired items from OpenHab in Homekit?
Thanks
I am stuck, confused and need help.
I’ve dug through the forums here, but I can’t seem to find a single document showing how to setup the HomeKit integration step by step (in a brand new installation).
I installed the binding, configured it. Created an items and sitemap file manually (proper order as mentioned earlier here in the thread).
But it seems that the moment I try to add an accessory on my iphone - I see in the log that a new connection is made and almost immediately dropped, as shown below:
21:44:39.102 [INFO ] [.hap.impl.http.impl.AccessoryHandler] - New homekit connection from /10.0.0.208:50958
21:44:39.105 [TRACE] [pl.http.impl.NettyHomekitHttpService] - READ UnpooledUnsafeDirectByteBuf(ridx: 0, widx: 125, cap: 1024) [/10.0.0.208:50958]:
00000000 50 4F 53 54 20 2F 70 61 69 72 2D 73 65 74 75 70 POST /pair-setup
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21:44:39.110 [INFO ] [ulfe.hap.impl.pairing.PairingManager] - Starting pair for openHAB
21:44:42.434 [INFO ] [ap.impl.http.HomekitClientConnection] - 200 /pair-setup
21:44:42.439 [TRACE] [pl.http.impl.NettyHomekitHttpService] - WRITE UnpooledUnsafeDirectByteBuf(ridx: 0, widx: 512, cap: 512) [/10.0.0.208:50958]:
00000000 48 54 54 50 2F 31 2E 31 20 32 30 30 20 4F 4B 0D HTTP/1.1 200 OK.
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21:44:42.524 [INFO ] [.hap.impl.http.impl.AccessoryHandler] - Terminated homekit connection from /10.0.0.208:50958
This is even before the iphone asks me if I want to type in the code manually.
My items file:
Switch hkLRoomLightSwitch "LRoom Light" (LRoom) [ "Lighting" ] { channel="zwave:device:AeotecUSBZStickGen5:node14" }
Sitemap file:
sitemap homekit label="HomeKit" {
Frame label="HomeKit" {
Switch item=hkLRoomLightSwitch label="Living Room" icon="light"
}
}
Has anyone had a problem like that?
Or maybe there’s a simple step by step guide I can follow to try to set it all up?
I believe this has been broken in newer iOS releases. I’ve tried 100 different ways to get this working with no luck.