Agnostic button, how to ?

Hi, I’m playing with node-red + node-red-contrib-homekit-bridged with great fun, so first of all I want to thank you for this beautiful project.

I’ve read about the differences between switch and statelessProgrammableSwitch but none of them works in my case, I suppose I’m missing something because my need is very basic.

I have some remote controlled outlets with two remotes. I would like to use one of them with Siri, telling to turn ON/OFF the lights.

I would like HomeKit to be absolutely agnostic about the light states.

As you can see remotes are two, so even if the lightbulb or switch state are ON inside HomeKit, that could be false (someone could have triggered the other switch). And beside it, the fact to be, for instance ON in HomeKit means that a switch can’t be turned ON again without turning it Off before, HomeKit won’t let you do it.

statelessProgrammableSwitch could have been the solution, but: 1. it needs a Hub 2. it changes the states of switches, which brings me back to the first problem, the switch state isn’t stateless.

Any ideas ?

[ebaauw]

A push button (stateless programmable switch) is an input-only device, just like the physical remote. It’s used to control other HomeKit devices, it cannot be controlled itself from HomeKit (nor by Siri).

If you want to provide a virtual push button to a HomeKit app, you’d need to create a write-only custom characteristic, like Identify. Unfortunately, neither Apple’s Home app nor Siri support custom characteristics. The only thing you can do is create a regular Switch service, and automatically reset the On chacteristic to false, say 500ms after it’s been pressed.

[ghost]

@Shaquu yeah I’m using it, maybe not the latest version, I’ll take a look and update the doc