HomeKit - smart house
Home Configuration
HMHome: Say you have a customer with a primary residence and a vacation home. Allowing them to group accessories under a given home will help them organize each area.
HMRoom: A home can have several rooms. While this is an optional part of your home, you can provide the customer with a way to better organize the area of their home. If you don’t create any rooms a default room will be provided. All of the new accessories simply attach to it.
HMAccessory: These are installed into homes and assigned to rooms. Think of these as your physical automation device, such as a light bulb. Again, if you don’t create any rooms new accessories will be assigned to a a default room.
HMService: Accessories provide user-controllable services, like a light. Accessories can have many services. So a fancy light bulb could have a service that turns it on or off and a different service that turns it blue.
Zones: These are optional groupings of rooms in a home. For example, grouping all of the lights in your basement under a zone allows you to control the entire zone with a single service.
It’s important to note that meaningful names enable commands like, “Siri, turn on the kitchen lights.” Or if you have a zone downstairs, “Siri, turn off all of the lights downstairs.”
Simulator_Home_Kit
Better work with simulator on your mac
Follow by Link and find Additional_Tools_for_Xcode_9.3.dmg for downloading.
Open dmg next find HomeKit Accessory Simulator and run.
- Made new accessoriy
- To new accessory add new service (for ex.
Switch) - Open
Homeapp on your iPhone/iPad and add new accessory by scan code from display.
Devices for HomeKit
- August Smart Lock Pro ($220)
- Yale Assure Lock with iM1 Network Module ($200)
- Philips Hue Lights and Hue Tap ($134 for a Hue White Starter Kit, $49 for Hue Tap)
- LIFX (Starting at $25 for LIFX Mini White)
- Nanoleaf Light Panels ($230)
- Sensi Touch Thermostat ($150)
- Ecobee4 Thermostat ($250)
- iDevices Switch ($30)
- Logitech Pop Smart Button ($60)
- Elgato Eve Button ($50)
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