I'd like an option in the built-in HomeKit Bridge to export a parent device together with its component children as a single HomeKit accessory with several services.
Current behaviour (platform 2.5.2.129)
- Each Hubitat device becomes its own HomeKit accessory, and component children are separate devices, so each one gets its own tile in the Home app.
- The Bridge has no setting to combine devices. Extras only cover a fixed set of extra capabilities on the same device.
Why it matters
The Home app shows an accessory with several services as one tile by default, and opens to show every control. Separate accessories cannot be combined that way by the user: the Home app's own grouping makes same-type accessories act as one, which is something else.
My case is a fan driver with three component switches (oscillation, move left, move right). That is four tiles per fan, and nothing in the Home app shows that the switches belong to the fan. The same applies to any parent/child driver: multi-outlet strips, multi-gang switches, devices with a few auxiliary toggles.
Request
A per-device option in the Bridge, on a parent device: "Include component children in the same accessory". Each selected child would be added as an extra service (Switch, Outlet, and so on) with the child's name, instead of as a separate accessory.
Keeping the current behaviour as the default would avoid changing existing setups.