I am fairly new to all this smart tech, is there any way to make the light trigger in the app when using the lights manually as at the moment if I turn the lights on or off manually Hubitat doesn’t communicate this through to HomeKit
Might be something for others to comment on, but I expect they will want to know what type of lights you are using, e.g. Philips Hue, Sengled, Lifx, etc, and probably the model / style of light.
Also, how have you connected them to your HE hub, are they Zigbee bulbs paired directly to Hubitat, or are they Wi-Fi?
This may be more obvious to those who use HomeKit, but how are you connecting the HE hub to Homekit?
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It’s hard to understand what you’re asking.
Are you using the Hubitat mobile app?
Hubitat has no native HomeKit integration, but there is a way to use it with the apple home app if you’re willing to run an external app called Homebridge on another machine.
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If possible, I would pair the light directly with Hubitat and let Homekit poll hubitat for state using a 3rd party integration.
I have the aeotec duel nano switch that's on zwave, I have 2 of those installed. I also have 2 sonoff minis on zigbee aswel as 3 Ajax rgb bulbs that will only show white at the moment. all function fine but if i want to use this for security I need to know for sure its communicating correctly with my HomeKit .
its communicating with HomeKit through home bridge
So are these paired with your HE hub directly? If so, what drivers are you using (for others to interpret....)
I am using home bridge, I have adjusted a few settings on my Hubitat like the dns server to match my Eero. I am just going to see if that done anything
yes they our paired directly and the aeotec is native to Hubitat, and the sonoff is on the native nue zigbee switch. all function correctly when using HS directly but the info isn't getting through to HomeKit
ok, hopefully others can help you narrow down the issue with the state changes getting through.
thank you,,
do you mind me asking was I correct to add port 8000 in the setting of my Eero for both Hubitat and homebridge and also, change the dns to the one that my Eero server has? have I got that correct at least lol
So, the issue sounds like it is related to the HomeBridge Plugin you're using. I would recommend you post any HomeBridge specific questions in the appropriate discussion thread for the plugin you've chosen.
ok thanks, I am using the Homebridge Hubitat Tonesto7. it looked simple enough but I must have done something wrong there as it seems your right the break in the chain seems to be there. I will see I can find out what I have done thank you
it appears there's a bug with Homebridge Hubitat Tonesto7 and the only fix is to just keep re adding them until they work. I may try home assistant to see if I have more luck with there hub maybe they can link Hubitat a little more reliably
I use @dan.t's MakerAPI Homebridge plugin and it works great. It is nice to have options! Good luck!
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thank you I will try it out
HERE IS THE BUG: When you add devices by going through the App's config, select the device in the section, click "Update", then click "Done" at the very bottom, and, importantly , then just leave the screen. The device even though is getting added to the app's config, will not be subscribing to get events, even if you reboot the hub. So, the solution? You must complete the asinine sequence of the config screens, because clicking "Done" does not really mean done, no! After clicking the "Done" once in the config and after the screen refreshes, you must scroll down again, and boom!, there is now a "Next" button, which you must click, which brings you to the "Please Donate" screen, where you must click "Done" again. And that will make device behave as expected. .
that was a copy and past sorry
for some reason my paste isn't working and the config is too complicated for me to type out with the makerAPI option
