Paul, your tutorials are always so helpful. Add me to the list of those anxiously waiting for the HomeKit Devices tutorial. Thank you.

@smart_home_australia

9 күн бұрын

LOL... Will do! just waiting on a new Apple TV to arrive.

This video is very useful resource for homekit and smart home topics. Thanks a lot! Please deep dive the next videos :)

@smart_home_australia

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. I can do the deep dive on the next video on this topic as it is something that II use extensively myself. It all a part of the constant battle of tuning your videos to the audience. I aim at the beginner / intermediate. But I might start to raise the bar and put out some more advanced topics as it seems to be asked for more and more.

Thanks for another amazing video! What do you do when HomeKit bridge recognise the device(which is a light switch) as a Switch, and not a light? Just add it as a switch and reconfigure it inside the Home app into Light? Also, Say the Switch added is actually a gate but recognised as a Switch. How to redo it into a gate/window/garage door? The only options Home app lets you choose is Fan/Light/Switch. Thank you and I hope you make more of these videos!

@smart_home_australia

13 күн бұрын

Thanks Dr Z :) Depends which side it wrongly classifies it. One Apple Home, select the device, press the cog in the bottom right, change "display as" to fan, light, or power point. On the HA side, SETTINGS>DEVICES and SERVICES> HOME BRIDGE> DEVICES> Select DEVICE> Select main control>COG>Display as> select appropriately. Regards changing the icon to something outside of what is offered, currently I don't think that you can, yet :) Check out the following for more details Ref: www.makeuseof.com/how-to-change-device-icons-apple-home-app/

Hi Paul, great video. I tried to do this some years back without success. After watching your video I’m ready to try it again. Thanks Eddie.

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Eddie. I think you’ll walk it. If not we are here to help you 😊👍

Great video! Would love to see the couple of other videos you mentioned. Definitely want to see homekit devices integration.

@smart_home_australia

Ай бұрын

I have it on the Wishlist. 🤞

Nice video. From experience… I would suggest a couple of changes.. Create a bridge per room in HomeKit. Put the bridge in the correct room and not in any “SYSTEM” room. Once you establish the bridge in the room any subsequent changes to entities included will automatically be added to the correct room in HomeKit. Thankfully the old days of loosing connection and having to repair the bridge seem to be over but you will thank yourself if it happens and you don’t need to worry about putting the entities back in the correct room and not have everything show up in SYSTEM.

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Now I like that I idea. What a great suggestion. I’ll try it out and see how I go. Thanks 🙏

Great video , as always❤

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Thanks again!

I think there are a lot of Apple users. Thanks for the video

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

I think you are right. With the recent improvements in the Apple integrations things are looking very good. I'm planning on a follow-up video for the Apple Devices integration as there still seems to be some confusion about the two.

Please do a deep dive on the difference between HomeKit Bridge and HomeKit Device in HA. Also would it make sense to create a HK Bridge similar to the “by Room” suggestion above and create multiple HK Bridges by “Device type” while still keeping the Bridge library in the HK “System” Room you created in your video? One of the difficulties I have is understanding how to add or remove individual devices and attributes to HK after the HASS Bridges are set-up in HK. Maybe that’s where HomeKit Devices in HA comes in?

@mhaka621

2 ай бұрын

As your connected/smart home environment grows you may well start to bump into limitations. Having multiple bridges allows you to work around the 150 device per bridge limit. The reason why I moved from bridge by “Device Type” to by Room is it reduced the work required to move the device to the correct room after. When I had all bridges in a single room all devices I included would first be placed in that room… then I would need to manually move them to the correct rooms. FYI the Home Assistant naming of HomeKit integrations is pretty hideous. Simplified… use HomeKit Bridges for exposing Home Assistant stuff to HomeKit and HomeKit Devices to pull in HomeKit stuff into Home Assistant.

@jpileggi1

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thought process. Part of my issue is that my devices have been repurposed as my Smart Home grows and I add additional devices, so I am concerned about the designation of HA Bridges by Room strategy. I know my idea of organizing by Device will involve greater setup time to start, but I also want the greatest flexibility to move devices from room to room as my ecosystem grows.

@mhaka621

2 ай бұрын

@@jpileggi1 Your reasoning makes complete sense to me… I have shifted the work to ensuring each device I add to HA is put in a Area… all in all it sounds like a perfect opportunity for some enterprising person to build an automation to sync anything designated to be in a HA area with a given HomeKit Bridge…

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Agreed, that would be fabulous if they could implement a Sync function. When you consider that 18.7% of people use the HomeKit Bridge I'm surprised that the HA guys have not through of this, or have they !! ;)

Thanks for great video. Would it be possible to integrate existing CBUS lights / smart switches (currently controlled by Wiser 2) into Home Assistant / HomeKit?

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Sorry I have no experience with CBUS, but doing a little reading it sounds like yes. But with some additional hardware. forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/30x185k1

I’m just getting started, and I’m moving from a HomeKit-only setup to Home Assistant + HomeKit setup. I’ve already done what’s in your video so my HA devices can be passed along to HomeKit, but I’m told by several sources I need to add my HomeKit Devices to Home Assistant first, then let the bridge bring them back over to HomeKit. The problem is when I try to add a new HomeKid device I don’t have the option to add something new, I only get a dropdown showing me the HomeKit devices already on my network.

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

HomeKit Bridge integration allows you to make your Home Assistant entities available in Apple HomeKit. Whereas, The HomeKit Device integration allows you to connect accessories with the “Works with HomeKit” logo to Home Assistant, once they have been paired within HomeKit. I believe this was a change from before, but was not using this integration previously. As an example, I have a love hate relationship, with Lifx globes, great globes, terrible pairing implementation, where if you want to manually pair, you need to put them into pairing mode for 15 minutes BEFORE they will show up outside of an HomeKit pairing mode. I battled with Lifx support for months until I had an epiphany. I just paired them with HomeKit, and they automatically showed up in Home Assistant through the HomeKit Device integration. Now they work perfectly. Looks like I might need to make a video about this as I have received a few questions about it. But basically by implementing both integrations you get all devices in both ecosystems (unless you restrict the devices or domains).

@AlexGower

2 ай бұрын

Sorry I think I’m misunderstanding as well still. So in an ideal situation if the lifx globes could have more easily paired with home assistant you would do that first, and then include in the bridge?

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

@@AlexGower Yes, as a general rule you should always pair direct with HA. In most cases this gives you local control, quicker response and detaches you from the manufacturers web services (just in case they go bust or stop support). The use HomeKit Bridge integration to pass control back to Apple HomeKit. Apple Device Integration is the converse of this, in that I added to Apple HomeKit and then HA discovered them and allowed control within HA. Going this way means that I do not have direct control of the lights and instead are passing the command to Apple HomeKit to action for me. Make sense???

Hi! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! I’m new to smart home and am preparing to setup the HomeKit + HA combi. If I’m using HA to link up devices to HomeKit, do I need a HA Green?

@smart_home_australia

Ай бұрын

You are most welcome. Technically you need a HA installation that will run HACS , so you must have a HA OS or Supervised installs (ref: www.home-assistant.io/installation/). HA Green is a great little device and perfect for new users, but in my opinion is not the best medium to long term option, check out my video about HA Green (ref: www.home-assistant.io/installation/) and then to finally make your decision watch the video for HA on a VM (ref: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iHaMyNiNaajPidI.html). and I believe you will have your ultimate answer.

@elainetohlove

Ай бұрын

@@smart_home_australia thank you for taking the time to respond and explain! Really appreciate it! I’ll start with Green and slowly work my way around. If you have the time, can you consider making videos on how to add major players - google/xiaomi/smartthings onto HA please? I read a lot on the community but I haven’t really seen a video that provides step by step guide on how to do it like this video. Thank you!

@smart_home_australia

Ай бұрын

Thanks :) Regards adding "the major players" yep, can do. Trouble will is that I'm an Alexa household and don't have Smartthings (anymore). Xiamoi on the other hand is Zigbee so is really straight forward, your choice is if you want to use ZHA or Zigbee2MQTT. ZHA is the built in protocol and super easy. SETTING > DEVICES and SERVICE > Add Integration > Add Zigbee device. For Z2MQTT, watch kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZqnvKhpgpOupKg.html, and that shows you all you need. Good luck and let me know if you need anything else.

@elainetohlove

Ай бұрын

@@smart_home_australia thank you!!!

@smart_home_australia

Ай бұрын

You are most welcome. Enjoy your smart home journey.

I keep getting the "Accessory not found" message after scanning the QR code from HomeAssistant generated by the Apple HomeKit integration. I'm running HA in docker and iPhone with iOS 17.5. No ATV or HomePod as a hub. Any support?

@smart_home_australia

28 күн бұрын

There are afew reasons that I can think of: 1) Network issues - Make sure that the HomeKit server is listening on the IP address that your iOS clients are on. 2) mDNS issues - HomeKit protocol relies on mDNS (Multicast DNS) for discovery. If mDNS isn’t working correctly on your network, your iOS device won’t be able to find the HomeKit accessory. You can check the mDNS announcements using an mDNS browser. 3) HomeKit Accessory already paired - HomeKit accessories can only be paired with one controller at a time. If the accessory is already paired with another device (like your iPhone), you’ll need to remove it from that device before you can pair it with Home Assistant. 4) Network Optimization Settings - If you are using a UniFi network and have the network optimization settings on, then this can cause issues.

I have a few devices in home assistant that aren't appearing in homekit but the rest are. Is there something I can check to help re sync those up? Specifically I am not seeing my nest cameras in homekit despite them working in home assistant.

@smart_home_australia

Ай бұрын

I found this article that talks through how to do it, but I have not tried it. Pls note this article is 2 years old. cln.io/blog/homeassistant-relink-homekit-bridge-to-homekit-again/

I wonder if you could offer some advice. I have a Fingerbot switch, I use this to allow me to open my entry door. I originally set this up to work with home kit (YAML). However to invoke it I have say via Siri "Turn on Entrance" is it possible to change this to "Open Entrance" instead. Thank you for any help you may give & Best wishes.

@TyPaff

2 ай бұрын

Search for "Change Device Type of a Switch", depending on how the entity is set up you may be able to change the entity directly to the type you want so it has "Open" instead of "On", or you can use the Helper Integration to manually configure this.

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Yep. Siri short cuts are your best friend and can solve this for you. Check out support.apple.com/en-au/HT209055

@Foggy3657

2 ай бұрын

@@smart_home_australia Thank you.

@Foggy3657

2 ай бұрын

@@TyPaff Thank you.

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

Thanks TyPaff, that's a good way of changing the behaviour of an entity within Home Assistant. @Foggy3657, Go to SETTINGS > DEVICE and SERVICES > ENTITIES. Search for and select your entity. Press the COG in the top right, change the SHOW AS field as you would like the entity to be represented, ie. Switch, Outlet, Cover, Fan, Light, Lock, SIren or valve (which they spell with a lowercase "v" for some reason :)).

Hi Paul, can you show that how can we integrate homebridge devices to Home Assistant. Thank you

@smart_home_australia

2 ай бұрын

It does seem to be a hot topic... I'll add it to the recording schedule and see if I can get out shortly. Thanks for your feedback.