openHAB2, Homematic, Homekit and Thermostat combination not working properly

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Hey, I’m using the current Dock version of openHAB-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT. So far I got everything up running including Homekit (Siri) and Alexa. Yesterday I tried to integrate the Homematic thermostats. I was able to change the temperature through the iOS home app. But there are two things, that are not working.

1.) The modes: As soon as I click on a mode a get the message “not responding” and there seems to be no communication with openHAB (I activate the trace log). This is not Important because I usually don’t use this function, but it’s supposed to work.

2.) Scenes: I have some scenes in the home app (there a reasons I didn’t have them in openHAB). If I added a thermostat to a scene I just get the message “updating” on the thermostat and nothing happens. I can’t set the destination temperature.

Because of 2.) I switched back to homebridge just for the thermostats. I’d rather let them be handled by openHAB2.

Any suggestions what I’m doing wrong?

Cheers,
Björn

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Probably nothing. The HomeKit emulation is buggy.

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Ah, okay. Is it because I use the snapshot version? Or is it in general?

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In my case I am still on the OH2 release and here HomeKit is not working reliable.

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I have problems with the thermostats and also problems with items in Homekit losing the room assignment and are set back to “standard room”.

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Hi @bbubbat having the same problem with room assignment, did you find a solution?

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Hi @theo69, the whole HomeKit support ist still pretty unstable. So I stopped assigning rooms and left them in the default room. Hope this will be fixed in the near future.

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Hi @bbubbat okay than I am not stupid ;-). I am new to this. How stable is your homekit binding working in general? What items are you using?

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Hi @theo69 no, you are not stupid :slight_smile: HomeKit integration in OH2/2.1 does not work very well. Currently HomeKit crashes after several hours. So I have to restart OH at least once a day.

At the moment I only use remote switches and sockets. Most of them are from Homematic. I stopped using Homematic thermostats in HomeKit because they do not work as expected. Prior to OH2 I used homebridge which works nearly perfect with HomeKit. But it lacks the flexibility of OH.

Because of the broken HomeKit integration I started using Alex which works pretty well with OH. But I still have hope that the HomeKit integration will improve some day.

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Thanks @bbubbat I am just switching to homebridge, and its running without problem since 3 days… now waiting for my Xiaomi Stuff and aqara switches :slight_smile: