Pimatic hap configuring

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Is there an overview which homekit services are currently supported - and which services are mapped to pimatic devices. Which services can be selected (are implemented) with the device hap / service attribute? Cannot find a documentation which describes this.

@chris321 what are you missing here: https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-hap/blob/master/README.md?

it describes which devices in pimatic are supported, but not which homekit services are used with this devices in default mode. Also their is no description which alternate hap/homekit services for which device classes can be attached (if the default service which is used doesn’t work well with siri). There is only the example with service: lightbuble in the documention. Does it mean that no other services can be mapped at the moment?

I want to use it as garage opener with siri. “Garagentor öffnen” doesn’t work with device as switch, only “Gargentor einschalten” - which doesn’t make sense. In Homekit there are specific services for Lock/Unlock - how to use this with the hap plugin?

Just try the shutter device. I think, this is the Garageopener device.
https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-hap/blob/master/accessories/shutter.coffee

@chris321 said in Pimatic hap configuring:

it describes which devices in pimatic are supported, but not which homekit services are used with this devices in default mode.

Please refer to the source code of every accessory in https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-hap/tree/master/accessories. It would be just too much to document this. Most of the time there is just one service that makes sense.

Also their is no description which alternate hap/homekit services for which device classes can be attached (if the default service which is used doesn’t work well with siri). There is only the example with service: lightbuble in the documention. Does it mean that no other services can be mapped at the moment?

Yes, currrently that is the only place where it makes sense (I’ve updated the README.md, thx for the hint). There might be other places, but be aware that this feature doesn’t do more than changing the service. This implies that the interchangeable services must have the same characteristics. The list of services and their characteristics can be found here.

I want to use it as garage opener with siri. “Garagentor öffnen” doesn’t work with device as switch, only “Gargentor einschalten” - which doesn’t make sense. In Homekit there are specific services for Lock/Unlock - how to use this with the hap plugin?

@schmucke is right, you should use a ShutterController in pimatic to open your garage. This device is supported by pimatic-hap and the command will then be “Garagentor öffnen”.

Thx for your detailed answer. I tried:

stopped pimatic, added in config.json for my garage switch the following configuration settings:

  "hap": {
"service": "ShutterController",
    "exclude": false
  }

Then I deleted the hap-database dir in pimatic-app and deleted the pimatic homekit bridge in eve on my iOS device.

But: after starting pimatic and pairing the pimatic homekit bridge again - my device is still shown as power device in Eve (as before).

=> I’m using already iOS 10. What did I make wrong?

@chris321 As i said, you must use a ShutterController device in pimatic, then pimatic-hap will automatically create a corresponding device in HomeKit.

"devices": [
    {
      "id": "shutter",
      "class": "DummyShutter",
      "name": "Shutter"
    }
]

DummyShutter is just the dummy implementation in pimatic. You might use HomeduinoRFShutter if you control your garage with homeduino. If you can’t use this. You can still leave the DummyShutter and add a rule to pimatic like

when shutter is closed then turn the switch on

Understood. So changing the service within the hap group doesn’t change the behavior - or only for lightbulb - correct?

@chris321 This feature currently just works for “converting” a switch to a light bulb. This conversion is easy because both can be switched on.