Pimatic plugin as Apple Homekit bridge

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Is there any way to get this working with android too?

@p4co86 No there is absolutely no way. Sorry. HomeKit is Apple only.

Hello,
hap didn’t working until i have update pimatic today.
Now i have two Pimatic Homebridge Devices in the HomeKit-App.
One of them is grey and passive. But delete doesn’t work.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Chris

@chris Should be just one, actually. Try to delete the “persist” folder in the pimatic root directory. This should reset all homekit data.

@michbeck100 - Solved
delete the persist folder in the root directory was the solution

Anybody get Siri working? Eve is working fine, but Siri tells me theres no Devices.

@Barny so you can control your devices using eve but Siri doesn’t know them? Currently all pimatic switch devices (like homeduino rf switches) are published as Switch but not as Lightbulb (that’s how it’s called in the used HomeKit framework).
If you are using mainly these switches then my guess is that Siri just works better with Lights. I’m planning to make the HomeKit type of the devices configurable. But that’s not ready yet. Until then I will test using the Lightbulb type.
I cannot use this as default because a switch is not always used to turn the lights on and off.
Apart from that I’m still not sure which commands to use for Siri. The documentation isn’t really complete. Sometimes switching off works but the same command for switching on returns a web search result 😕

Hello
when i’m creating rooms in an HomeKit-App, and assign device to the room,
Pimatic gives me every time an error like this:

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

@michbeck100, first thank you for this awesome development.

Installing the plugin and configuring with Eve worked for me and I could control my devices for a few minutes, but now this message pops up in my pimatic log and all my devices are marked as n.v. and Siri can’t reach them:

error [pimatic]: A uncaught exception occured: Error: dns service error: unknown at Advertisement.on_service_registered (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap/node_modules/hap-nodejs/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:42:24) at SocketWatcher.MDNSService.self.watcher.callback (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap/node_modules/hap-nodejs/node_modules/mdns/lib/mdns_service.js:18:40) This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!

Maybe this error log helps you developing.

Cheers

@dk00000 “the icloud syncronising is running” message was due i think that i never did any icloud backup, after a first icloud backup + a reboot no “cloud syncronising is running” message.

Hè Siri zet lamp televisie aan … Oké lamp televisie is ingeschakeld😀 After installing the homebridge server on my nas it worked but not optimal. This is the easy approach and don’t forget to install the extra libraries as indicated on your GitHub page! After that and a little wait it runs very nice. Thanks for that! Next one he Siri bring me a nice cold beer…

Hi,
ich schließe mich @newschooler an.
Ich kann die Devices einen Moment kontrollieren, dann steht in EVE bei den Devices n.v. also nicht erreichbar.
ich bekommen nicht die Fehlermeldung von @newschooler. Meine sieht folgender Maßen aus:

• warn [pimatic]: Keeping pimatic alive, but could be in an undefined state, please restart pimatic so soon as possible!

Hi,
I agree with newschooler .
I can check the devices for a moment , then stands in EVE at the Devices nv So unreachable .
I do not get the error message from newschooler . My looks the following dimensions :

• warn [pimatic]: Keeping pimatic alive, but could be in an undefined state, please restart pimatic so soon as possible!

@chris said:

error [pimatic]: A uncaught exception occured: Error: Can’t set headers after they are sent.

This is because you are not using the latest pimatic version. Please update your installation.

@newschooler said:

error [pimatic]: A uncaught exception occured: Error: dns service error: unknown at Advertisement.on_service_registered

Are your running pimatic on OS X? There are several issues reporting this error in HAP-NodeJS:
https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS/issues/84
https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS/issues/47

On of them also has kind of a fix included. Maybe that fixes your errors, too?

Or you could try https://github.com/agnat/node_mdns/issues/70

And other posts are saying updating raspbian helps. So try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Another fix could be https://github.com/agnat/node_mdns/issues/104#issuecomment-62977485

Please report back if anything of this helps.

I have updated pimatic yesterday to the latest version.
how can i see what version is currently installed?
i have also updated raspbian, but its not solved yet.
But now i have the same error like @newschooler

• error [pimatic]: A uncaught exception occured: Error: dns service error: …

@chris Haven’t seen this error yet while testing. It’s definitely something related to HAP-NodeJS or their dependency mdns.

@Yves911 thank you very much for figuring out.
i will try it even if i dont understand what the icloud backup has to do with homekit.

hi all, now when i try to start the eve app, i get the following:

access to this home denied:
before i was asked whats the housename is.

could someone explan how to get this working?
the hap plugin is installed successfull!

thanks

@p4co86 Try to reset your homekit configuration using the settings app on your iOS device. Just search for homekit.

ok, i found pimatic homekit bridge, but it cant connect.

and in pimatic i get this:

warn [pimatic]: Keeping pimatic alive, but could be in an undefined state, please restart pimatic so soon as possible!

pimatic is up to date