Nice to hear 
- I’m struggling with the custom component as for my case it needs an internet connection every restart… that’s what I’m missing in my new home at the moment.
Does anyone here has an idea how to get this custom component working offline?
sub’d to get info. debating on klf200
I went the KIG 300 way, and found it easy to install and integrate it into HA via a dedicated HomeKit bridge created for the purpose.
It works well using the io-homecontrol remotes, the iPhone app, and also HA. I can open both the windows and the roller shades to any setting I want, and the units read back their position in percentage points fine.
Ask more if you need.
Bye, Luca
@lucaberta any chance your could post some screenshots of your controls in HA?
Also to anyone using the KLF200, did you use something like a shelly relay or are you shorting the wires out during remote pairing and then disconnecting the harness? I still haven’t found a good reference for how to setup/configure the KLF200, which is why I am considering the KIG300
We just had our roof replaced and with it, upgraded 4 skylights (2 electric w/solar blinds) and (2 fixed w/solar blinds)
I also brought the KIG 300.
As @lucaberta said, it integrated via Homekit Bridge very easily.
Paired it with my existing Velux wireless remote so it could transfer the skylight configuration and then did the Homekit setup - all worked fine.
Here is something that shows the controls for both the roof window and the roller blind.
It’s still very crude, as I am very much a beginner on the dashboard side, but it works!
Cannot help on the KLF 200 front, in my research I noticed that it was quite an outdated product and thus I never really considered it, and went the KIG 300 way, like I said.
Bye, Luca
I don’t have apple or homekit, do you need it? Or is that homekit bridge just some virtual device?
Can you link that kig 300 device to homekit if you dont have an apple device?
Ciao Fabio,
in my case I went the Homekit way, since I am an Apple user, and don’t mind the fact that Home Assistant also uses Homekit to interact with the KIG 300.
I am not sure if Homekit is needed, I wonder if Android is supported in a different way, for example.
In fact, I have further re-exposed the VELUX entities via a new Homekit bridge so I can also control the device also from the Home app, and not only from the VELUX app.
Ciao, Luca
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@lucaberta thanks for the screenshot, that looks nice.
my velux skylights each had a voucher to upgrade the remotes for $35 to get the KIG 300, so ordered that yesterday! …can’t beat that deal.
as for apple home kit, from what have seen, during the KIG 300 install/setup it will prompt for connecting via home kit. At this step you do not continue with the velux app and just reboot home assistant. HA is supposed to discover the home kit and intercept it for setup on HA as a home kit controller. Then you continue the setup in the app. I still need to read up more on this… I’ve come across several threads about this, so still cobbling together my notes.
I can update here once I get the gateway.
The small manual that came with the product says that there is an Android app called Velux Active that you use to connect to the KIG 300.
But how is the kig connected to HA? I don’t know homebridge
It’s a Wi-Fi device - so you use the Velux app to get on your Wi-Fi network, and it uses the Velux radio signal to talk to the skylights/blinds etc.
Once its on the Wi-Fi, the Homebridge Integration in HA can discover it.
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if you press on the button at the bottom of the control, you also have access to a view which mimicks what the typical control buttons on the wall are:
Ok, makes sense, but for the homebridge integration in HA, that’s a virtual bridge , right? Also no apple is needed?
Interesting.
Do the controls not have a stop button? The remotes have a stop button next to up and down. Could be useful.
No stop button indeed. I guess the reason is that the UI concept is different between standard 3-button remotes, and App/KIG300: the remote gives an order to move in one direction, continuing until it hits the end position, or you stop it with the stop button. In the App or via KIG300, you select a target position, and the cover will move there and stop when it reaches the target position. You changed your mind? Give it a new target position.
But indeed I’m disappointed at how limited the KIG300 is. So basic! Like so many, i had hoped for the rain sensor to be exposed, but nada. Also doesn’t seem to send back any state/error messages, even though the App does show some, like who performed the last action (“A shutter has been manually closed”, “HomeKit has controlled a window”).
I’m currently trying to decide between the KLF and the KIG and it seems like I’m leaning more towards the KIG from what I read in this and other threads. I think I read somewhere that it reports the position every 5 minutes, but you’re saying it’s updated frequently. Are you controlling only the solar covers or the windows as well?
So via KIG and the HomeKit integration, HA sees changes immediately. I just tested opening from a Velux remote; HA immediately reports the state as “opening”, for as long as the window moves. Once done moving, the state changes to “open” and the “current_position” attribute is updated. This does not look like a polled update.Definitely not only every 5 minutes.
I’m controlling windows and external shades, both solar and 230V-connected. For the remotes there’s no difference, and all controlled items come with their own KLI310-series basic remote.
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