Allow grouping entities as a single HomeKit device

[lboue (Ludovic)]

Hello,

I wondering why not expose multiple services of a device under a single HomeKit accessory entity? This allows for better readability in the Home or Eve app.

For example a Xiaomi Mi Smart Home Temperature / Humidity Sensor will expose 3 services Temperature, humidity and pressure.

Regards

[svyatogor (Sergey Kuleshov)]

I am very surprised this feature is not implemented yet and nobody has upvoted the request. Will try to add this functionality myself.

[esand (Eli Sand)]

Would this idea mean that services that may be exposed as individual entities would also be linked as a “feature” (attribute) of the parent entity?

For example, I have an Ecobee thermostat and it has preset modes. Homekit exposes a current_mode entity that allows me to change the mode, but this isn’t also exposed as an attribute of the thermostat entity itself, so when creating a thermostat card, the mode isn’t available as an optional feature I can display; I have to create a separate card for it.

I came here looking to see if this was suggested and found this… hoping this is exactly what I was looking for as a feature request.

[esand (Eli Sand)]

I think this is the same request: Allow grouping entities as a single HomeKit device - Feature Requests - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

[nicodeimos]

Would be amazing, you got my vote!

[rickard1 (Rickard)]

+1 from me

[Tanmado (Chris Schemel)]

Is there any new information about this feature?

[usum34 (Gene)]

+1 - need this for my fan entity to move left or right a step. This is the only thing that’s stopping me from scrapping my homebridge setup.

[bkoerbel (Ben Koerbel)]

I would really love to see this. There are a number of different threads out there that seem to be asking for the same sort of functionality:

Combine entities of a same devices in homekit

I have this mini split controller (Mysa) that is homekit compatible. To control it locally, I added it to HA via0 “homekit devices” then exposed the entities to Homekit with bridge. Problem is, entities are shown as 2 separates tiles, one for the turn on/off and temperature control and another one for fan speed. If you add the device directly to homekit instead of HA, everything is under the same device : [Screenshot 2024-07-22 at 12.04.25 PM] Is it possible to do the same thing with homeki…

HomeKit grouped different entities

It would be great if grouping different kind of entities would be possible and passed onto HomeKit. HomeBridge has this function: [IMG_5125.PNG] As you can see switches and fan control is within one tile and can be controlled independently.

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