Anyone who wants to use the HomePod to open security-relevant actuators and devices such as doors or gates will find that Siri requires verification on the iPhone before performing the action. Closing these devices, on the other hand, always works flawlessly.

In my case, I wanted to have the garage door opened via voice command to the HomePod. Siri then replied to me from the HomePod “To do this, you need to log in on your iPhone.” On the iPhone screen, I got a pop-up saying “Someone wants to control secured devices”.

I first searched the Home app for a setting option that would allow me to turn off this security prompt for my garage door. Unfortunately, to no avail.

The reason for this is a security precaution of Apple. Apple wants to avoid that burglars, who are in the house, can open other parts of the building with their voice and a HomePod. And that is also logical. At the same time, this explains why an uncritical close command is possible at any time.

With the Apple Watch, for example, there is no such feature. I can open the garage door directly with a voice command. However, the watch also ensures that I am currently wearing it via the heart rate monitor. If the watch were taken from me, it would lock itself – until I entered the PIN.

The HomePod does not support voice recognition and therefore requires verification on the iPhone via FaceID or TouchID.

If you command Siri to open a gate via CarPlay, for example, you will also succeed. In the end, that’s all that matters to me, because I want to open the garage door on the drive home.

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

It took me a little time to finally find the right settings for the Homematic module HMIP-MOD-HO (Amazon Affiliate Link) in Yahka. Finally, the garage door control now works via Apple’s Home app and Siri.

Once the device is set up in the Yahka adapter, we focus on the CurrentDoorState -> DOOR_STATE and TargetDoorState -> DOOR_COMMAND data points.

Settings for CurrentDoorState

InOut: ioBroker.State
State: hm-rpc.X.XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.1.DOOR_STATE
Conversion: map
0 -> is simple value 1
1 -> is simple value 0
2 -> is simple value 2
3 -> is simple value 3

Settings for TargetDoorState

InOut: ioBroker.State
State: hm-rpc.X.XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.1.DOOR_COMMAND
Conversion: map
1 -> 0 (don’t check “is simple value”)
3 -> 1 (don’t check “is simple value”)

Der Beitrag Configure Homematic module HmIP-MOD-HO in Yahka for Apple Homekit erschien zuerst auf Pixelfriedhof.