HomeKit Bridge Fan Control for HmIP-WUA

[Jedden19]

Integration name

HomeKit Bridge

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit

Describe the enhancement

Currently the Integration HomeKit Bridge takes the HmIP-WUA - which is presented from the Homatic Integation - only as a switch, but not the Level at Ch2.

Use cases

I connected the HmIP-WUA at a Fan to Level the power. Now it can be only switched on and off.

Anything else?

No response

[github-actions[bot]]

🏷️ I've automatically added the integration: homekit label to help categorize this feature request.

[Daneish]

The HomeKit Bridge integration does expose fan speed (percentage) to HomeKit.

If the “Level at Ch2” is exposed and controllable through Home Assistant you can create a Template Fan and expose that through HomeKit Bridge.

I have setup a template fan for an infrared controlled fan, which is then exposed to HomeKit, and the level works fine.

[Jedden19]

Thanks for that. 😁 Now I have to finde out how.

[Daneish]

Check out the template doco I linked above. Also my template fan is fairly bespoke to my requirements, but if it’s any help, here is my config:

template:
  - fan:
      - name: "Bedroom Fan"
        unique_id: bedroom_broadlink_fan1
        state: "{{ states('input_boolean.bedroom_fan_status_power') }}"
        availability: "{{ is_state('remote.bedroom_broadlink_hub', 'on') }}"
        percentage: "{{ (states('input_number.bedroom_fan_status_speed') | int / 24) * 100 }}"
        oscillating : "{{ states('input_select.bedroom_fan_status_oscillating') }}" # Needs to be in format True/False, using an input boolean generates error.
        turn_on:
          action: script.bedroom_fan_turn_on
        turn_off:
          action: script.bedroom_fan_turn_off
        set_percentage:
          # Converts from percentage to speed [24 * (Percentage / 100) = Speed] & rounds to nearest integer.
          # Sends to_speed variable to script for processing. Further documentation in the script.
          action: script.bedroom_fan_set_speed
          data:
            to_speed: "{{ (24 * (percentage / 100)) | round }}"
        set_oscillating:
          action: script.bedroom_fan_set_oscillating
        speed_count: 24

[Jedden19]

Great. Thats a huge help.