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20Feb

Opening doors and gates via HomePod: “You have to log in on your iPhone ” – “Someone wants to control security devices”.

I was quite surprised when I couldn't open our garage door with a voice command on the HomePod. What at first sounded like a configuration error has a security background.

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16Feb

Configure Homematic module HmIP-MOD-HO in Yahka for Apple Homekit

With these Yahka adapter settings, you will be able to query and control your garage door opener using HMIP-MOD-HO even in Homekit and the Apple Home app.

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16Feb

The module HmIP-MOD-HO supports the functions open, close, stop and also the approach of a ventilation position

Controlling Hörmann garage door drives with integrable Homematic module

A new module from Homematic can be inserted directly into the operator of Hörmann garage doors to then control them conveniently in the smarthome.

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23Jan

Faulty connection between Hue Bridge and Homematic CCU

Homematic CCU HUE Log: „Please configure a valid user or remove user from configuration to generate a new one“

The Hue bridge user formerly used for Hue pairing is no longer valid. Now these log entries appear every 10 seconds. Unfortunately, there is no function in the CCU to cancel the pairing. With a SFTP client we fix the problem.

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21Jan

Yahka devices can‘t be accessed from within the home app.

Yahka Adapter sporadically without connection – No devices found

After moving my ioBroker from the Raspberry to a new Synology NAS, I noticed that my Homekit devices refused to work in the evening. The devices were no longer accessible in the Home App. Every evening I had to restart the Yahka adapter.

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07Jan

“Something went wrong” when operating io.Broker devices via Alexa

Devices that are connected to Alexa via io.Broker suddenly cannot be controlled anymore. Alexa says "Something went wrong". The solution is quite simple.

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