OH2 shows up as "not supported" in Homekit on iOS (after successfull pairing)

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Hello everybody,

I’m new to OpenHAB and installed OH2 Beta4 on my Linux machine yesterday for testing purposes. But I cannot establish a proper Homekit connection. I installed and configured it using the Paper UI GUI. At first Homekit didn’t find OH, but after I added the ip-address parameter to the Homekit Integration service and restarted OH2, I was able to see OH from the Homekit app and successfully pair it. But on the bottom of the OH device-icon is written “Not supported” (“Nicht unterstützt” in german). When I tap and hold the icon a screen opens which tells me that “This device is currently not supported by the Home-App”. I am using the latest version of iOS (10.1).
Do you guys have an idea what’s going wrong? Is there a known issue?

Thanks in advance for your help!

regards,
Stephan

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Hi
That happened to me when I configured the bridge but I had no items tagged for HomeKit.
Regards.

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Hi jjmeseguer,

thanks for your answer. How can I tag items for Homekit?
I’ve set up a simple config with just a simple switch with no real hardware connected:

house.items:

Switch Light_Test          "Light Livingroom"

house.sitemap:

sitemap Haus label="My Sitemap"
{
    Frame label="Test" {
        Switch item=Light_Test
    }
}

Where do I have to add those “tagging”?

regards,
Stephan

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Found the answer myself. On this page https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/tree/master/addons/io/org.openhab.io.homekit you find examples for how to add Tags. For my simple single lighting switch I editied the house.items like this:

house.items:

Switch Light_Test          "Light Livingroom" <light>      [ "Lighting" ]

The last parameter is the “Homekit Tag”. Nevertheless, I had to rebind OpenHAB2 to my iPhone. I also cleared the pairings “openhab> smarthome:homekit clearPairings” and set “openhab> smarthome:homekit allowUnauthenticated true” to be sure that these aren’t the problem. Afterwards I restarted OH and successfully paired the devices and can see my switch in Homekit.

regards,
Stephan

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I did everything mentioned above and still get “Not supported” in the OpenHAB bridge item after successfully pairing.

I taged a few devices in my .items file with [ “Lighting” ] but do not see them in HomeKit :rolling_eyes:

Anything I can do?

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Hello,
I have the same problem. I use a file .items but if I add at one light the tag [“Lighting”] I have the string “Not supported”.
If I create a new .items file, the error are the same.
Is there a solution without delete my personal items files?
Thanks

8

Ok I solved it moved the item that homekit use at first of .items file

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by moving the item to the top, it worked? that seems odd. Homekit used to work fine for me, but now I’m getting Not Supported. Even with items tagged correctly.

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Yes @russell, the first element of my items are the thinks that I included in homekit. The next elements are incluted only in sitemap and in this case homekit works.

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Hello all,
I have the same issue. I inserted these 2 items at beginning of my .items file:

Switch  SwitchGarage <blinds>  [ "Switchable" ] {mqtt=">[HOME_IVAN:openhab/garage:command:ON:default],>[HOME_IVAN:openhab/garage:command:OFF:default],<[HOME_IVAN:openhab/garage:state:default:.*]"}

Switch  SwitchGate <garagedoor> [ "Switchable" ] {mqtt=">[HOME_IVAN:openhab/gate:command:ON:default],>[HOME_IVAN:openhab/gate:command:OFF:default],<[HOME_IVAN:openhab/gate:state:default:.*]"}

Could you help me to solve this issue?
thanks

12

Hi Ivan,

I’ve the same issue. Seems to me that the issue start coming when some items have the {} binding section.
Did you solved?

13

Same problem with {} sections here. Simply adding:

{ autoupdate="false" }

to the end of any HomeKit-tagged item causes the whole HomeKit integration to fail and appear as Not Supported in the Home app.