Devices allow only service selection of Lightbulb and Switch

[nona00]

I have the issue that ShellSensor and RFLinkData devices allow only the selection of Lightbulb and Switch in the hap configuration:

And theses devices are not recognized by IOS (e.g. Eve)

[michbeck100]

pimatic-hap supports for type of sensors only specific attributes: https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-hap/blob/master/accessories/genericsensor.coffee#L14 As far as I can tell for RFLinkData the attributes have the wrong names. I would suggest you ask the pimatic-rflink developers to change the attribute names, because these names are not aligned with the commonly used attributes from pimatic. For ShellSensor the same applies, but I believe that you can specify the attribute names using the config. So if you define an attribute e.g. temperature it should work.

[michbeck100]

And please ignore the service selection in the config. this applies only to lights and switches. Unfortunately its not possible to hide it programmatically.

[nona00]

Thank you very much for your answers. I will report to pimatic-rflink. For ShellSensor I got it working by changing the attributeName from "temp" to "temperature". But after I made the change, it was not reported to Homekit. I had to restart pimatic, then the device were shown. Is this a normal behavior?

[michbeck100]

Is this a normal behavior?

At least it implemented that way. So yes this is normal behaviour.

[nona00]

I did additional tests:

• using DummyTemperatureSensor. It seems that it also uses "temp" instead of "temperature" internally. The sensor is shown in Homekit (Eve), but without values. Is this also an issue with the plugin itself?
• VariablesDevice (assign value of other sensor):

it works in pimatic:

But when pimatic-hap tries to get the value the following error is fired: error [pimatic-hap]: Could not call promise: Could not parse expression

[michbeck100]

For me it looks like DummyTemperatureSensor uses temperature: https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/blob/master/lib/devices.coffee#L1112 This is one of the reasons that pimatic-hap uses temperature, too. Regarding the VariablesDevice: please post the parts of your config to reproduce this error.

[nona00]

I did another test with DummyTemperatureSensor and a Variable "temp_aussen" which I added, but the issue is the same. Here are the parts of the config:

` Variables: "variables": [ { "name": "temp_aussen", "value": 0 } ]

Devices: { "variables": [ { "name": "temperature", "expression": "$temp_aussen", "type": "number" } ], "xAttributeOptions": [], "hap": { "service": "Lightbulb" }, "id": "temp-aussen-variable", "name": "temp-Aussen-Variable", "class": "VariablesDevice" }

rule (sets variable value from real sensor):

{
  "id": "temp-dummy",
  "name": "Temp Temp Dummy",
  "rule": "when $temp-aussen-F007_TH.temp gets updated then $temp_aussen to $temp-aussen-F007_TH.temp",
  "active": true,
  "logging": true
}

`

error [pimatic-hap]: Could not call promise: Could not parse expression

I'm using hap 0.11.1. I know that it is not the current version but I do not see in the Changelog anything related to the issue. I'm still on 0.11.1 because of other dependencies to node 4.6.2

[nona00]

Strange, but after a restart of pimatic my test above runs fine