Hi,
if someone knows a way to integrate the scenes from OH (see below) into the Homekit App?
I tried all possible Metadata without success.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
THX
So that’s an Item called “Scene” but it is not an openHAB Scene: see Rules | openHAB.
I don’t use HomeKit but looking at the list of supported accessory types (see HomeKit Add-on - System Integrations | openHAB) I don’t see anything that would correspond with the concept of a scene.
So I think you’re best bet is to create Switch Items with the names of the scenes and using then Switchable accessory type on those. You can use those to trigger a rule to command this Item as appropriate.
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Yeah unfortunately that’s true. My findings:
1/ You can create a scene in homekit app. Scene doesn’t send any information to the binding, scenes don’t have a state ON/OFF etc.
2/ There is a Scene “ON” in homekit app (the icon is changed to active) when all Items/Conditions inside the scene are met and off if at least one condition is not met.
The only way i get it to work is to put a technical item/switch inside the scene and turn it ON when you fire the scene in homekit app. The problem is that there is no way to “disable the scene” form homekit app.
Example:
Scene GoodNigth:
- Light switch
2. Apple TV switch
3. Technical switch GoogNight scene
You can press or run via siri one button to enable the scene, but you need a way to turn it back at the morning you can use second scene “day” or just disable the GoodNight scene button.
Hope this will help to understand homekit scene behavior:)