HomeKit

Overview

HomeKit enables your app to coordinate and control home automation accessories from multiple vendors to present a coherent, user-focused interface.

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Using HomeKit, your app can:

• Discover HomeKit-compatible automation accessories and add them to a persistent, cross-device home configuration database.

• Display, edit, and act upon the data in the home configuration database.

• Communicate with configured accessories and services in order to perform actions like turning on the lights in the living room.

Topics

Essentials

• Enabling HomeKit in your app
• HomeKit Entitlement
• NSHomeKitUsageDescription

Home Manager

• Configuring a home automation device
• Testing your app with the HomeKit Accessory Simulator
• HMHomeManager

Accessories

• HMAccessorySetupManager
• HMAccessorySetupResult
• HMAccessorySetupRequest
• Interacting with a home automation network
• HMAccessory
• HMService
• HMCharacteristic
• HMMediaSourceDisplayOrderProfile

Action Sets

• HMActionSet
• HMTimerTrigger
• HMEventTrigger

Errors

• HMError
• HMErrorDomain
• HMError.Code
• HMErrorBlock

Classes

• HMAccessorySetupPayload