jalves wrote:I'm intrigued by the HomeKit location trigger thing. But I keep getting confused up in trying to set this up. Can somebody step me through it on a fairly novice level? [Background: I've got HKB set up and functioning well on my Indigo installation. There are two people I would want to know if they are home/away, myself and my wife. ]So, I'm guessing I have to set up and Indigo Virtual Device for each person?
...and a variable for each person?
...and then add the two virtual devices to HKB so I can see them in the Home app?
using the device state to trigger a change in the person's variable? right?
But in setting up a virtual device (which I have no experience with) I'm not sure what options to pick in the configuration dialog.
Note to Moderators - this might be better off in a separate thread.
Oh, by no means do you need to use a virtual device, that’s just how I did it as HomeKit can turn them on and off quite neatly.
for me (from memory)
1) make an Indigo variable denoting the on/off state
2) make 3 action groups that use “Modify Variable.” 1 sets the Indigo Variable to on (or true), 1 sets it to off, and one uses “Toggle Variable”
3) make a virtual device with on/off/toggle choices that use the above action groups. Check “supports status” and use the Indigo Variable from step one as status.
Basically, for me it’s the poor man’s plugin for devices
Once you have it made, publish it under HomeKit, and the “Automations” tab in the HomeKit app will now let you change the device state (and corresponding variable).