Other homekit types through node-red

What “service” are you using for your HomeKit node?

There’s no reason this won’t work - but if you’re using “switch” as the type then you’ll need to send:

{"On":true}
{"On":false}

As your payloads.

We’ve had a lot of recent discussion in another thread - I even put together a pretty detailed tutorial of how I handle all of my items. Perhaps you’ll find something helpful over there: