Use native vacuum cleaner controls in iOS 18

[azmke]

Robot vacuum cleaners will be natively supported by the Home app in iOS 18, so they can participate in automations and scenes, and can be activated by a user’s voice using Siri.

Source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/06/updates-to-the-home-experience-elevate-entertainment-and-bring-more-convenience/

I think it would be cool to update the plugin to be able to use the new controls 😊

[merdok]

Thanks for the info! That sounds really good, will certainly have a look at this as soon as homebridge will support those devices. Or maybe it already does?

[frtzmsr]

Really appreciate your work!
Would love if you could add the iOS 18 support for vacuums!

[merdok]

Does already homebridge support the vacuums?

[itsJumaah]

Yes it does

[merdok]

Nice, would you have a link which I can check out?

[azmke]

Hi @itsJumaah,

thank you for taking the time to reply. Can you tell me where you got the information from?

I couldn't find any indication of support for vacuum robots in neither the code of the Homebridge nor the HAP-NodeJS repository.

Even on the official Apple page for iOS 18 it still says that "robot vacuum cleaner support" is "coming later this year".

I would be very happy if you could help me. Preferably with a concrete code snippet. Can't wait to integrate my robot vacuum cleaner “properly” into the Home app.

[Semir333]

+1

[merdok]

As far as I am aware the native support for vacuum cleaners is still missing in HomeKit