Hi, I am currently working on a smart home prototype for our company using Apple Home Kit and later in this project we will use Matter. I am facing a problem with the automations.
The product we are developing is a new version of a thermostat. The termostat itself is the "brain" and contains all control elements, like the time contol. This time control knows, when to start heating in order to achive the desired temperature at the selected time and continuously learns if it has to adapt the starting point.
Is there a way to interact with the automations you can set in the home app? For example if the customer sets a time to power off the heater in the home app, the thermostat will know that there is a time set and imports this time and the other way around (the customer sets a time at the display of the thermostat and apple home will display this time in the automations tab)?
I know it would be much easier to control time automation only in the home app, but I need to develop this for people who dont know much about the home app as well. They will be able to control everything at the thermostat itself.
Thank you in advance for your help
Franz