Pimatic plugin as Apple Homekit bridge

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Hi everybody,

I’m currently working on a new plugin (https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-hap) for all iDevice users out there.
The plugin advertises all configured devices automatically as Homekit accessories at pimatic startup.

Configuration is as follows:

{ 
   "plugin": "hap"
}

This will download the latest release from npm-registry. It’s that easy

Currently it supports most devices that pimatic comes with OOB. Some device types cannot be supported because the HomeKit protocol doesn’t have similar types.

Have a try and tell me what you think!

Please note that currently the default daemon start mode of pimatic leads to problems with this plugin, so for now you should use a small shell script, that does almost the same:

#!/bin/sh
nohup sudo DEBUG=HAPServer,EventedHTTPServer,Accessory node node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js > pimatic-daemon.log & 

Changelog will be updated on github

@michbeck100
Yay, works like a charm for all my dimmable and on/off switches.
Now only I have to get Siri to recognize what I’m saying

Looks like it was too early to tell. Devices are not being detected anymore. Not sure whats wrong

@lxz Did you update your pimatic installation to the latest commit? Otherwise the plugin will get killed by an exception in the express framework. Thats why it has to be updated to the most recent version as stated in my pull request https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/commit/889bf206db3167fb4caf403ecbf7984a0927a120

Ah didn’t read it that way, will try now.

Can I do that by ‘git clone https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic.git’ and npm install afterwards?

You should try to create the same layout as the original installation. Then do an npm install.
I’m going to release the first version of the plugin soon. Then it will be installed automatically by pimatic.

@michbeck100 That sounds good. Does it work with an iPhone? Which app do you need?

@Thrusty they say you can use the app eve

@Thrusty any app that supports home kit should be fine.

@gekkonl
@michbeck100

Oh thank you. I want to test it once.

i tried elegato eve and insteon+ but both apps told me at start up that currently the icloud syncronising is running. i have to try it later again.

is there any property i have to switch off or so? i dont understand what the icloud syncing have to do with the homekit feature.

I don’t have any iDevices but sounds like a really nice plugin!

@dk00000 same here…
i did NOT followed instructions here https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS/wiki/Setting-up-iOS-Connection because i don’t understand those instructions

I’m was developing this plugin using node v0.12.7. With this version the devices showed up always. Using v0.10 on my raspberry the devices are not showing up every time. I’m investigating this issue.

@Yves911 said:

@dk00000 same here…
i did NOT followed instructions here https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS/wiki/Setting-up-iOS-Connection because i don’t understand those instructions

The link was just to explain that you are supposed to use the same pincode as with HAP-NodeJS. I changed the README.md on github, now.

Thanks a lot! Feels so good to open my curtains with my voice

I did encounter an error though. I use the app MyTouchHome (from the app store) to add the items but
when I select the device within the app whole Pimatic crashes:

15:36:41.950 [pimatic] A uncaught exception occured: Error: Can't set headers after they are sent.
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at ServerResponse.OutgoingMessage.setHeader (http.js:691:11)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at ServerResponse.res.setHeader (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/patch.js:63:22)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at ServerResponse.<anonymous> (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/patch.js:80:14)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at Array.forEach (native)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at ServerResponse.res.writeHead (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/patch.js:79:28)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at HAPServer.<anonymous> (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap/node_modules/hap-nodejs/lib/HAPServer.js:672:16) 
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at Bridge.Accessory._handleGetCharacteristics (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap/node_modules/hap-nodejs/lib/Accessory.js:471:5)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at HAPServer.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:106:17)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at HAPServer._handleCharacteristics (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap/node_modules/hap-nodejs/lib/HAPServer.js:659:10)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at HAPServer.<anonymous> (/home/tim/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap/node_modules/hap-nodejs/lib/HAPServer.js:172:39)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:92:17)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at _stream_readable.js:920:16
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]>    at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)
15:36:41.950 [pimatic]> This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
15:36:41.953 [pimatic] shutting pimatic down...

Not that high priority but I thought I’d put it here anyways

@Tim Oh cool, does the shutter Accessory already work? I couldn’t test myself, since i have no automated shutters, yet. So thats good to know .

About the error: this will be fixed once the next pimatic version gets released. I have send a pull request containing an version update of the express framework, which is already merged.

Oh, i just saw that a pimatic update was released. This should fix the errors.

@dk00000 said:

i tried elegato eve and insteon+ but both apps told me at start up that currently the icloud syncronising is running. i have to try it later again.

is there any property i have to switch off or so? i dont understand what the icloud syncing have to do with the homekit feature.

Same issue here, do you know what happen and how to solve…

No idea. Never seen this message before.