Indigo Domotics

Not sure what causes this. Perhaps when my phone or AppleTv tries to connect but the HomeKit service isn't running on my Mac. And my devices lose their names. I can rename them with the Home app (not the ios10 Apple one, but the one for sale in the app store) and it persists, until it doesn't.

I have devices with certain names in Indigo but I'd like them named something else for HomeKit.

Any chance this request (assuming others have a similar ask) can be added to a future rev where renames could happen in the actual config file?

if it is just me with the request then of course I understand.

Thanks

I have a similar but not as awkward issue: twice now but more than a month apart, things assigned to rooms have become unassigned and put back in Default Room. This happened yesterday with no interruptions to HomeBridge, with my ATV staying on, and no internet interruptions I'm aware of.

I always wonder if this is something that could be handled with the "Global Property Manager" plugin.
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Give all the devices a property like "HomeKitDeviceName" and then set each device name as needed. But then HomeKit would need to look for "HomeKitDeviceName" instead of "DeviceName"... perhaps it looks for "HomeKitDeviceName" first then looks for "DeviceName". I have no idea how to get homekit to do that, if at all possible. Just an idea.

+1 on defining the names (and possibly the rooms/zones that they default to if home kit supports such a thing) - then if needed resetting home kit wouldn't involve the pain of having to rename and position different devices

Just bumping this back to the top as it has happened again.

It would be nice if I could assign device names/rooms outside of the Home app on my phone (similar to how we define type/"TreatAs" for some but not all device types today).

The Global Property Manager would be a good way to do this it seems, but yes, that would require some work on the homekit-indigo side of things... Or I could do it in the config.json file; that is fine too.

Not complaining! Just trying to help make this the best plugin ever.

Thanks

Changing the device names would be doable, but there is no way to assign HomeKit rooms outside of doing it on the iOS device.

-Mike