Framework

HomeKit

Communicate with, configure, and control home automation accessories.

Overview

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

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 to get them to perform actions, like turning on the lights in the living room.

Declare your app’s intention to use HomeKit, and get permission from the user to access home automation accessories.

A Boolean value that indicates whether users of the app may manage HomeKit-compatible accessories.

Key: com.apple.developer.homekit

A message that tells the user why the app is requesting access to the user’s HomeKit configuration data.

Name: Privacy - HomeKit Usage Description

Give users a familiar experience when they manage HomeKit accessories.

Install the HomeKit Accessory Simulator to help you debug your HomeKit-enabled app.

The manager for a collection of one or more of a user’s homes.

Find all the automation accessories in the primary home and control their state.

A home automation accessory, like a garage door opener or a thermostat.

A controllable feature of an accessory, like a light attached to a garage door opener.

A specific characteristic of a service, like the brightness of a dimmable light, or its color temperature.

A collection of actions that you trigger as a group.

A trigger to activate an action set based on a periodic timer.

A trigger to activate an action set based on a set of events and optional conditions.

An error returned from HomeKit.