Thermostat (using community driver) not available in HomeKit

[Sebastien]

I mostly use HomeKit now for my dashboard and realized I was missing our main thermostat (for our Fujitsu Mini-Split).

I tried adding it from the HomeKit Bridge, but unfortunately, it doesn’t appear in the list. So I wonder if there’s something that needs to be added to the driver to make it available?

Others (Sinopé via community driver) are available in the Bridge:

This is the community driver that I use to control it:

Here are the metadata and preferences for the driver. I can share more as needed:

[csteele]

My Honeywell Thermostat does show in the HomeKit Integration list and this is the Capabilities portion of my driver:

Temperature Measurement seems the most likely missing Capability. You might want to add that to get confirmation then discuss it with CybrMage

[chrisbvt]

I agree, also capability "Sensor" is missing. I would add both of those.

[Sebastien]

Thanks! I’ll give it a try.

[Sebastien]

Success! I added both « Temperature Measurement » and « Sensor ». It is now available in HomeKit. . Thanks both!

[csteele]

Sensor isn't a "functional" Capability and neither is "Actuator". Either are used as a possible Selector when users pick devices. It's correct to include Sensor because the device does sense temperature. But it's the TemperatureMeasurement that did the trick.

Looking at the documentation, TemperatureMeasurement has no commands and duplicates the Temperature Attribute found in Thermostat. This means just adding it is all that's needed, no coding to parse incoming commands, etc.

[Sebastien]

Makes sense - and the important thing… It worked!!!