HomeBot for HomeKit 2.4.1 - App Store

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About HomeBot for HomeKit

HomeBot for HomeKit lets you automate your home with Shortcuts and the command line. It includes two powerful actions to manage your HomeKit setup: . Run Home Action: Control scenes and devices in bulk, adjust device...

HomeBot for HomeKit lets you automate your home with Shortcuts and the command line. It includes two powerful actions to manage your HomeKit setup: . Run Home Action: Control scenes and devices in bulk, adjust device properties, or change your primary home. . Get Home Items: Find and filter scenes, devices, device groups, rooms, and homes by name, item type, service type, room, home, activation status, or supported actions and properties. Results include item details, device properties such as light brightness and thermostat target temperature, and sensor readings such as temperature, humidity, and air quality. Action Types: . Trigger Scene: Trigger one or more scenes. . Switch Scene Status: Activate, deactivate, or toggle one or more scenes. . Switch Device Status: Activate, deactivate, or toggle one or more devices or device groups. . Change Device Property: Adjust supported device or device group properties, such as light brightness, thermostat target temperature, or the position of blinds. . Change Primary Home: Set the default HomeKit home. Changing your primary home propagates the change to all your devices, and Siri automatically uses the selected home by default. Explore the included example shortcuts to get started: . Trigger Scenes: Choose scenes in your primary home and trigger them together. . Switch Lightbulbs in Room: Toggle, activate, or deactivate all lightbulbs in a room. . Get Home Status: Export the status of all items in your primary home to a JSON file. . Get Temperature Measurements: Read each temperature sensor in your HomeKit setup. . Set Thermostats Temperature: Set the target temperature of one or more thermostats. . Set Light Brightness in Room: Set the light brightness of all lightbulbs in a room. . Change Lightbulb Colors: Cycle lightbulbs through the colors of the rainbow. . Change Primary Home: Choose which HomeKit home to use as your primary home. Automation Systems: . Shortcuts: Build advanced HomeKit workflows by combining HomeBot’s powerful actions with the built-in Shortcuts actions and automation triggers. . Command-Line Automation on Mac: Automate HomeKit from Terminal, scripts, or AI agents with the included "homebot-cli" tool. Export HomeKit data as JSON for use in your scripts. HomeBot supports macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Notes: . HomeBot can detect and control the following types of devices: outlets, lightbulbs, switches, thermostats, fans, air purifiers, heaters, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, windows, window coverings, faucets, valves, irrigation systems, doors, garage door openers, and locks. . HomeBot also supports reading measurements or detections from the following types of sensors: temperature, humidity, air quality, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, contact (doors, windows, and window coverings), smoke, leak, motion, light, and occupancy sensors. . HomeBot supports changing and reading light brightness and color, thermostat and heating/cooling modes, target temperatures and thresholds, humidity targets and thresholds, fan and air purifier modes, rotation speed and direction, swing, physical controls lock, and the position of doors, windows, blinds, or shades. . HomeBot also reads detailed air-quality measurements, battery levels, and filter status when available. . HomeBot Command-Line Automation requires macOS 26 or later. Privacy by Design: HomeBot works completely on-device and does not store or send any information outside of the protected app sandbox.

Version History • Added more controls for fans, air purifiers, and humidifiers or dehumidifiers. • Added detailed air-quality measurements, battery levels, and filter information. • Improved device-group results and automation compatibility. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. 2.4.1 2h ago • Added more controls for fans, air purifiers, and humidifiers or dehumidifiers. • Added detailed air-quality measurements, battery levels, and filter information. • Improved device-group results and automation compatibility. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. 2.4 3d ago • Added command-line automation on Mac: list HomeKit items and run actions from Terminal, scripts, or AI agents. • Added support for scene deactivation. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. 2.3.1 Sep 21 • Added command-line automation on Mac: list HomeKit items and run actions from Terminal, scripts, or AI agents. • Added support for scene deactivation. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. 2.3 Sep 16 • Added command-line automation on Mac: list HomeKit items and run actions from Terminal, scripts, or AI agents. • Added support for scene deactivation. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. 2.2 Sep 13 • Added support for scene deactivation. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. 2.1.1 Feb 12 • New Glass-style icon with dark mode support. • Compatibility update. 2.1 09/13/2025 • Added support for background execution of "Run Home Action" Shortcuts action (requires last system version). • Compatibility update. 2.0.1 09/11/2024 • Added support for background execution of "Run Home Action" Shortcuts action (requires last system version). • Compatibility update. 2.0 09/10/2024 • Added support for decimal temperatures: you can now set thermostats and heater-cooler temperatures with decimal numbers (use dot decimal separator and specify the temperature in degrees Celsius) using the “Change Device Property” action type. 1.11 09/07/2023 • Improved compatibility with the new HomeKit architecture. 1.10.1 05/23/2023 • Improved compatibility with the new HomeKit architecture. 1.10 05/20/2023 • Fixed error when running the "Run Home Action" Shortcuts action by launching the app in the foreground when required by HomeKit. 1.9 01/26/2023 • Performance improvements. 1.8 10/21/2022 • Added support for Heater-Cooler devices. • More persistent item identifiers. 1.7 10/29/2021 • Support for iOS 15, iPad 15 and macOS Monterey. 1.6 10/26/2021 • Added support for changing the position of doors, windows, shades or blinds with the new property type “Position” that admits integer values from 0 (closed) to 100 (open). 1.5 07/18/2021 • Added support for changing device and device group properties like light brightness, light hue, light saturation, light color temperature, thermostat mode (auto, cool, heat or off) and thermostat target temperature. • Extended “Get Home Items” action filters. • Better sensors support. 1.4.1 03/26/2021 • Added support for changing device and device group properties like light brightness, light hue, light saturation, light color temperature, thermostat mode (auto, cool, heat or off) and thermostat target temperature. • Extended “Get Home Items” action filters. • Better sensors support. 1.4 03/24/2021 • Added support for reading measurements or detections from a lot of sensors devices: temperature, humidity, air quality, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, contact, smoke, leak, motion, light and occupancy sensors. 1.3 03/19/2021 • Added support for reading measurements from temperature, humidity and air quality sensors. 1.2 03/15/2021 • Added support for listing HomeKit rooms with the “Get Home Items” action. 1.1 03/02/2021 1.0 02/24/2021

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of HomeBot for HomeKit since it was posted on our website on 2026-09-12 07:17:50. The latest version is 2.4.1 and it was updated on 2026-10-07 04:04:19. See below the changes in each version.

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