Allow motion and leak accessories to be backed by Contact items
Some Z-wave devices configure these things to expose their channels as an OpenClosedType, rather than OnOffType, due to the fact that Contact items are read-only. In this release, we allow these boolean-like status accessories to be backed by either a Switch or a Contact item.
For Motion sensors, Open is considered “motion detected” (think “window open” as the actionable event). Similarly, leaks are reported if the backing Item is Open.
Debounce the refreshing of Homekit items
The plugin now waits for items to be stable for a full second before creating, removing, and deleting the associated homekit accessories. This greatly reduces the chaos, overhead, and misleading log messages when adding, removing, or changing multiple items at a time.
Contact and Occupancy Sensors support
Support is added for contact and occupancy sensors.
WindowCovering is brought back
I have fixed the issue with WindowCovering in my upstream fork of HAP-Java. WindowCovering now functions properly and has been re-enabled.
Sorry, things are in flux as we’re working to get upstream HAP-Java to a point for a new release. You’ll need to uninstall the extension installed via paper-UI right now, and download and add the JAR manually. I know this isn’t ideal. Bleeding edge etc.
Will be the features of this release (Homekit release 4) be included in the next official openhab release (2.5) or is this an extra repository which isn’t merged into the openhab addons repo?
