Devices

Devices

After we have integrated all for the moment needed instances with rooms through bridges to the HomeKit-app, we need to enable, that devices within a instance will be published to Homekit.

Publishing settings

Note: This can be also done later, clause-by-clause. It should not be done before the bridge is linked to HomeKit, otherwise each device needs to be mapped within HomeKit manually.

Mapping devices to instances

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

• choose Devices in the left menubar and click on the New-button on the right bottom,
• change the device name to be appeared in HomeKit in the field HomeKit Device name,

Try to choose a self-speaking name. There is no need to indicate the room in the device name, as it will combine within iOS by HomeKit itself.

• assign a Service from the context-sensitive drop-down field (please find the description of a Service below the selection),
• select a Subytype of device from the context-sensitive drop-down field (if applicable, only appears, when more than 1 possibility is existing),
• and last but not least, map to the room (HAP-instance) whereas it should appear in iOS and press Finish.

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

A few seconds later, the device should appear in the respective room within you iOS app. Congratulations 👍

• Repeat this steps for each device in a room you want to use within your HomeKit app.

Note: You can change the settings per device at any time, when you press the Edit-button beside each device in the list.

---