Special Devices

Special devices

To add and map a special device to a room (HAP instance, bridge),

• choose Special devices in the left menubar and click on the New-button on the right bottom.

In the following, you will find a non-exhausting list of different examples of next steps to configure special devices:

CCU Duty Cycle

In the upcoming pop-up

• change the HomeKit Device name to be appeared in HomeKit, e.g. Duty Cycle CCU,
• Select a Service HomeMaticSPCCUDutyCycleAccessory from the drop-down field and
• map to the correct room in HomeKit by choosing the corresponding Instance.

Note: It is possible to assign a device to more than 1 room/ instance by using the Add to another instance-button.

CCU Temperature

In the upcoming pop-up

• change the HomeKit Device name to be appeared in HomeKit, e.g. CCU Core,
• Select a Service HomeMaticSPCCUTempAccessory from the drop-down field and
• map to the correct room in HomeKit by choosing the corresponding Instance.

FakeGato History

All generated Homekit devices will support FakeGato history (if there is a history option in Eve). But a history is only available if u are using the Eve app as a HomeKit controller. While using Eve, the configured [CCU Temperature)[#ccu-temperature) enables the following few as ab example:

Multi channel push button

As in HomeKit no button to trigger events is existing, HAP-HomeMatic provides as a workaround a switch, which automatically turns off. The Push button functionality provides the possibility to trigger an event in CCU coming from HomeKit.

In the upcoming pop-up

• change the HomeKit Device name to be appeared in HomeKit,
• select a Service HomeMaticSPMultiChannelPushButtonAccessory from the drop-down field,
• select to the correct CCU device by choosing the Adress of the Key Channel from the drop-down menu and
• map to the correct room in HomeKit by choosing the corresponding Instance.

Note: It is possible to assign a device to more than 1 room/ instance by using the Add to another instance-button

Multi Channel Virtual Key

The Key functionality provides the possibility to trigger an event in HomeKit coming from a Button connected to your CCU.

In the upcoming pop-up

• change the HomeKit Device name to be appeared in HomeKit,
• select a Service HomeMaticSPMultiChannelKeyAccessory from the drop-down field,
• select to the correct CCU device by choosing the Adress of the Key Channel from the drop-down menu and
• map to the correct room in HomeKit by choosing the corresponding Instance.

Note: It is possible to assign a device to more than 1 room/ instance by using the Add to another instance-button.

HTTP Call

In the upcoming pop-up

• change the HomeKit Device name to be appeared in HomeKit,
• select the Service HomeMaticSPKeyAccessory from the drop-down field,
• enter the correct URL for the HTTP request, where you want to pull data from,

Note: The HTTP-request methods is GET, POST, PUT and DELETE are supported.

• map to the correct room in HomeKit by choosing the corresponding Instance.

Note: It is possible to assign a device to more than 1 room/ instance by using the Add to another instance-button.

Garage door

This service pulls from multiple CCU devices.

Note: Before you move forward, please backup your HAP-HomeMatic configuration. A wrong confi can cause loosing the total configuration, please find also in Issue #121

Preliminary installation guide, please find here in german language.

Garage door opener with HMIP-SAM und HMIP-WGC

The following example shows a working garage door opener solution for the acceleration sensor HMIP-SAM in combination with the garage door controller HmIP-WGC:

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