iOS 18, which was just released Sep 16, 2024 - adds support for robot vacuums in HomeKit. It would be awesome if HA HomeKit bridge could expose vacuum entities through this device type - it gets power control, cleaning mode, vacuum, mop, and charge status. They can also be referenced indirectly with Siri in requests like “clean the floors”, etc.
Yes please! I am honestly a little surprised that this hasn’t already been added while iOS18 was in beta.
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Yes please this would be great if you can! Thanks
I’ve looked into this today but I believe this isn’t currently possible. Homekit doesn’t actually expose a vacuum accessory type. So either Apple hasn’t added it yet or it’s fully done through Matter support.
Doing a quick search it seems that Matter hasn’t been updated yet in the recent iOS update, so I think either 18.2 or 18.3 will contain it later this year.
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apparently the function is already in ios 18.2
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It currently does not. The dev beta does not include any mention of robot vacuum in homekit. There is also still no mention of the Matter version upgrade. So it will either come in a later dev beta or it will be included in 18.3 (or later).
I’ll keep an eye on it.
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