Garage door recognize as a window blind

[blutch32]

Hi and thank you for your great app. My garage doors are recognized as window blinds or store instead of garage door. Is there any way to make the HomeKit app recognize these as garage door ?

[robertklep]

Can you find the device here: https://tools.developer.homey.app/tools/devices

And then post:

• its Class
• its list of capabilities (ID of capabilities is enough)

[blutch32]

Hi, yes sure !

• Class | blinds
• ID of capabilities :
  • my-position type Boolean :
    • true
    • false
  • windowcoverings-state type enum :
    • up
    • idle
    • down

[robertklep]

The app is saying the device is a window covering of type "blinds", there's not much HomeKitty can do about that 🤷🏼‍♂️

[blutch32]

Does this naming comes from Apple ? On the developer tool, the name is as following :

• controllableName "io:DiscreteGarageOpenerWithPartialPositionIOComponent"

so basically the issue comes from Apple I guess ?

[robertklep]

No, the Homey app for your device sets the device class, which is "blinds". I don't know where "DiscreteGarageOpenerWithPartialPositionIOComponent" is coming from, but if the Homey app sets this value, it should use the "garagedoor" device class.

HomeKitty has no idea of knowing that you're using it as a garagedoor opener, it has to rely on the Homey device class and its capabilities to "convert" the device to HomeKit.

[blutch32]

Oh, get it now. I juste changed this parameter from blind to garage door I didn’t even know it was existing… but then it is in the unsupported list of the homekitty app.

[robertklep]

HomeKitty only supports the garagedoor_closed capability for the garagedoor device class.

Both Homey and HomeKit don't have a "partial position" capability for garage doors, though.

[blutch32]

Ok I see. Then the only way for me to have this working is to change it as blind or as window covering. Then it work in HomeKit.

[blutch32]

Thanks a lot for your support btw. Is there any chance that this is implemented in homey in the future ? What should I ask to homey dev team ? To add a open/close/idle compatibility to homey for garage door ?

[robertklep]

The main issue is that HomeKit itself doesn't support such a state, so even if Homey would support it, HomeKitty cannot convert it to something similar on HomeKit.