supported_hardware:homekit
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supported_hardware:homekit [2019/02/21 16:35] – [Setup:] James Sentman | supported_hardware:homekit [2020/12/20 15:20] – [History] added more 3.7 info James Sentman | ||
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====Requirements: | ====Requirements: | ||
- | The Home Kit plugin | + | The Home Kit plugin requires |
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- | If you use the above installer then the binary positions will be correct and you can ignore this paragraph. If you already have Python3 installed or decide to instead build from source please make sure that the python3 binary file, or a symbolic link to it, is available at / | + | |
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- | The plugin itself and all necessary dependencies are included in the current XTension distribution so no further installs are required once you have completed the Python3 install. | + | |
+ | Xtension versions prior to 9.4.35 required python 3.7 be the “active” version of python meaning that typing “python3” from the command line would bring up the python 3.7 version even if others were installed. Versions 9.4.35 and later only require that the install be present in the default location but do not need it to be the default version on the system anymore. | ||
====Setup: | ====Setup: | ||
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As of this moment Home Kit doesn’t seem to support running more than one bridge plugin instance on the same machine. Additional instances fail to pair properly. | As of this moment Home Kit doesn’t seem to support running more than one bridge plugin instance on the same machine. Additional instances fail to pair properly. | ||
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+ | Any battery operated device currently reports a low battery status all the time to Home Kit and not just when the battery is low. This will be sorted out in the next release for now ignore the low battery flags. | ||
====History==== | ====History==== | ||
* The first beta of the Home Kit plugin was included in XTension version 9.4.16 in Feb of 2019 | * The first beta of the Home Kit plugin was included in XTension version 9.4.16 in Feb of 2019 | ||
+ | * As of XTension 9.4.35 it was no longer necessary that Python 3.7 was the “active” version on the system but it still requires that 3.7 be installed in the default / |
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