HomeKit

🧰 Built-In Apps and Drivers HomeKit
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User z-wave and zigbee drivers are directly supported by HomeKit integration.

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How come user virtual devices aren't? Seems like there shouldn't be an issue with the apple agreement...

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There's no universal way to tell that a driver is a virtual one. We can selectively (and manually) flag our own drivers as "virtual" because we own the code and know that they are.

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So no way to just flag all code as good or does that break discerning allowed from not allowed devices?

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You could create:
capability Virtual

and have it be honor system, like

capability Sensor
capability Actuator

or have it function as a disable of Async etc. to prevent LAN drivers.

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Any reason why this one doesn’t show up then?

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Apple only allows builtin devices to show up in Homekit. Ok so I guess this changed for user devices but virtual devices did not make it for some reason.

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Could a command or something that we could add in the code be used for this purpose so that our virtual devices could be added?

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Virtual switches show up in HomeKit for me.

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Community virtual devices vs builtin that show up in Homekit

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Both the inbuilt virtual and a custom driver thermostats work fine for me :

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@gopher.ny is the "supportedThermostatFanModes" an obligatory attribute for the HomeKit integration (even if the thermostat does not support any fans, like the eTRVs for example) ?

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I'll have to revisit that. Can you point me to the source code for the driver?

I don't see a way to do that and to enforce Apple's "no IP based devices" rule, which is mandatory for getting HomeKit certification, at the same time.

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@gopher.ny Would it be possible to create a Hubitat driver that is a virtual presence switch driver. The community one from @ogiewon shows up for me in Homekit, but I don’t want to move this automation off of Homebridge to the HomeKit beta to have the user driver stop working.
Edit: actually, the virtual driver must have stopped being included with one of the recent updates.

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Probably, can I get a link to the community one? If @ogiewon doesn't mind, I'm really good at copy/paste engineering...

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Here's an alternative:

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@gopher.ny can you tag this one as good? I don't think @cwilson08 would mind...

metadata {
definition (name: "Virtual contact with Switch", namespace: "cwilson08", author: "cwwilson08") {
capability "Sensor"
capability "Contact Sensor"
capability "Switch"
}
}

def on() {
sendEvent(name: "contact", value: "closed")
sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "on")
}

def off() {
sendEvent(name: "contact", value: "open")
sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "off")
}

def installed() {
}

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+1. I have this exposed via Homebride for our presence given I can't get the native homekit (beta) integration to see these devices.

Thank you @gopher.ny !

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@gopher.ny Would it be possible to get HSM and modes too or are those in the forbidden list? Thanks!

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I don’t mind at all.

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