Example Window

Properties

Available Properties

This service describes a motorized window to be appear in the Home.app showing a status and whether the windows is moving its position based on an injected payload. The following characteristic properties are available:

Characteristic	Optional/Required	Characteristic Properties (to enable property)
CurrentPosition	Required	{"CurrentPosition": 0}
TargetPosition	Required	{"TargetPosition": 100}
PositionState	Required	{"PositionState": 2}
Name	Optional	{"Name": "Terrace Window"}
HoldPosition	Optional	{"HoldPosition": true}
ObstructionDetected	Optional	{"StatusActive": false}

Details

Characteristic	Format	Accepted Values	Notes
CurrentPosition	uint8	0 - 100	For windows a value of 0 indicates that a window is fully closed while a value of 100 indicates a fully open position.
TargetPosition	uint8	0 - 100	For windows a value of 0 indicates that a window is intended to move to fully closed while a value of 100 indicates windows is intended to move to open position.
PositionState	uint8	0, 1, 2	Describes the state of the position of accessory coverings for presentation purposes in the Home.app. {"PositionState" : 0} Going to the minimum value specified in metadata, {"PositionState" : 1} Going to the maximum value specified in metadata, {"PositionState" : 2} Stopped, (3-255 reserved)
Name	string	"My name of the Livingroom Window"	This characteristic describes a name.
HoldPosition	bool	true, false	Causes the service to stop at its current position. A write to TargetPosition characteristic will release the hold
ObstructionDetected	bool	true, false	If the state is `true then there is an obstruction detected

Example

Simple Window Contact Sensor

The following simple setup is to demonstrate core characteristics and its representation in the Home.app:

These examples are meant to be copied into your Node-RED system and adapted to your setup.

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It simulates the full open or close state as well as presention while moving to close/open.

Windows Contact Sensor with interaction

The following example is intended just to display the state of the window. Since the terrace door/windows is not motorized but equipped with a 3rd party contact sensor, the objective is to have the open/closed state in the Home.app as the initiator for an automated roller shutter operation (e. g. prevent closing while outside or lift roller shutter when its closed and window is opened):

Copyable Node-RED flow:

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After an interaction in the Home.app, the service characteristics has always to revert to the real state of the window provided by the 3rd party sensor. For presentation purposes to see the "virtual" moving state, the message driven bei the Home.app is delayed before the reale state gets requested. In addition to that Siri can now be asked about the state of the Terrace window.