Add Air Purifier to HomeKit Bridge

Air purifiers are a separate device type in the Apple Home.app, yet Home Assistant does not allow exposing these devices as “air purifiers” using the HomeKit Bridge integration. Instead, they are exposed as fans, which have a different icon and don’t display air quality.

It looks like we need to add a type_air_purifiers.py here for this to work:
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/homekit

It looks like one person on Github added this exact file to a fork here .

Can this be added to the Homekit Bridge integration?

+1 Yes! Just because of this I had to install homebridge, where the type for humidifier or purifier is set correctly… Everything else via HA bridge… :smiling_face_with_tear: