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Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:11 am
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P15-D24
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- Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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I'm going to post this in case someone else runs into a similar problem as it is pretty subtle. I've been using HKB with the Davis Weatherlink plugin to relay data from my Davis weather station to Indigo, then on to the Apple Home app so the data could be accessed via Siri. So I would say "outside temperature" Siri would respond with the temperature the weather station was reporting. This week Siri started reporting the data from the default Siri weather service with the "outside temperature" command. This data comes from the local airport and is often very different than my local weather conditions. After much testing it appears now after a recent update either of HomePod or iOS "outside temperature" is like a reserved command. If I change the name of the weather station temperature device in Indigo (i.e. "station temperature") and use it in the import to Home app via HKB, the device is correctly identified as a temperature sensor (correct icon appears in Home app) and reports the correct weather station temperature via the Siri command ("Hey Siri, station temperature"). I would not be surprised if there are other similar reserved commands that may cause conflicts with the HKB import.
YMMV
Running OS X 12.2.1 on 2018 Mac Mini, Indigo 2022.2
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