I recently installed a U by Moen shower control system in our master bath. I was able to configure it originally through the U by Moen app, but somewhere along the way the configuration was erased (not by me). Since then I have tried to reinstall it using the U by Moen app, but it automatically defaults to using Apple Homekit and I don’t have the ability to use the Moen app and establish the proper icons on the actual controller unit for our different shower functions (main, rain, body, and handheld). I also can’t set up temperature personalization for me and my wife. Does anyone know how to work around the Homekit default so I can use the Moen app first?
Although this is a few months old, I too have a U By Moen shower, and had wondered the same thing. And then I came up with a handy work around: Google Home. Google already allows control over many of these functions, so I simply setup buttons to do Google queries/“automations” to each aspect. For my bathroom wall tablet, I basically set pre-setup showers with this, which lets Google adjust both the shower preset, while also controlling the lighting in the room/shower.
I’ve been looking every few months to see if anyone created any sort of integration for it, but it looks like no one has yet unfortunately.
I would love to know more about your workaround and how you implemented it. I, too, have a Moen Shower and hate it. It is the LAST thing I cannot get into HA.
So I had this working through Homekit, but beginning this month the integration no longer works.
When I turn on the shower via HA nothing happens but when I turn on the shower using the Moen App the status updates in HA and the shower turns on and for a brief period of time, I have control to turn on/off the shower using HA.
Any thoughts, ideas or third party work arounds. I do not have Google Home and would prefer not to setup an ENTIRE new smart home just for one switch. I do, however, have Alexa and have the U by Moen skill enabled and working (if that helps).
We got this working this week and hopefully will be in the next HA release: Add support for Faucet services in HomeKit Controller by feisley · Pull Request #129094 · home-assistant/core · GitHub
Is there any way to get this working in HA without Homekit? I think if we setup homekit, we’d lose the Alexa integration.
The HomeKit method is the best way in my opinion. Its entirely local and requires no other components other than the U by Moen controller and the Home Assistant server with the HomeKit Controller integration. (You dont need any other HomeKit components or hubs)
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Hi, I would like to set up my device using homekit device integration. I removed it from my apple home and it immediately shows up as a device to add in Home Assistant and that is good. However it asks for a pairing code. I no longer have the box and I fear that there may have been a sticker but it is likely on the back of the device and it is now nicely installed on the shower wall. I can follow the dictions hand hold the temp up button and it gives me simply a homekit QR code, but no pairing code. Is there a way to extract the pairing code from the QR code.?
Does it not show any numbers under the HomeKit QR code? When I press the buttons on the controller to show the code it has the numbers. Those numbers are the pairing code you enter into Home Assistant.
If yours only shows the QR code I think you could use a QR code reader app to get the code from it.