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Support thermostat devices with either `measure_temperature` or `target_temperature` but not both?
I needed to switch from the other HomeKit app (by sprut) as it does not work for 3.0. It had support the radiators I have, so there should be a workaround. Maybe check tjat code for tips :)
Yes, there is a workaround :)
From what I can see from Sprut's app, the currently measured temperature would always be 0 (or at least fixed) in HomeKit for your Danfoss devices, is that correct?
As I said I swapped to yours so I can’t check but there was only one value as far as I remember. There where a setting for “heat” “cold” “automatic” but I never understood what that was about.
Well, that's part of the issue: Homekit has a fixed set of properties for a thermostat device, one of those being "thermostat mode" (heating, cooling, etc). These properties are always shown on iOS, even if they are not defined for the Homey device.
The same happens for the measured temperature: the Danfoss devices created in Homey don't have that property (they only have the target temperature property), but iOS will still always show it.
Homeykit will, at the moment, not create a Homekit device from a Homey device if the latter misses certain properties. For thermostat-devices, it's the "measured temperature" property. And because your Danfoss devices don't have that property, they aren't shown on iOS.
So we can work around that, but we have to think of a way to not make it too confusing.
Aha, but I can remember that it showed more than 1 temperature. Maybe just set it to eg 0 then it should be rather obvious it’s nothing to care about?
Yeah that, or perhaps set the measured temperature to the target temperature (although that might even be more confusing than just using "0" as default).
Any news on this? If you don't have time i can add support with measured temp === target temp, i think it's better then 0, if we use 0 it will give strange temp summary in ios14 homekit e.g. 0 - 22 º
