[pimatic-hap] Beta test of Philips Hue devices from pimatic-hue-zll in pimatic homekit bridge

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Since some of you guys asked for it, I’ve started to integrate the devices that are supported by the pimatic-hue-zll plugin into the pimatic-hap plugin. So far, switching and dimming lights should already work.

But before i release this stuff to the wild, it would be great if someone could test this for me, since i don’t own any hue devices. Alternatively you could buy me some devices .

The interesting parts are in the branch pimatic-hue-zll of https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-hap.git

So everyone who owns some Philips Hue lights and a HomeKit enabled device, please test!

I can test it maybe on Sunday, on the move the whole weekend.

I just installed it but it doesn’t pick up any of the hue lights.
There is no additional log output but this.

10:16:32.557 [pimatic-hap] info: Starting homekit bridge

How should I supply more logs?

pi@pidoor ~/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-hap $ git status
# On branch pimatic-hue-zll

Can I define a loglevel just for one plugin in the config?

ok looks like there is no support for the extended color lights yet?

I know they might be complicated but on/off functionality should be easy for them as well.

10:38:00.767 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: "pimatic-hap" (0.6.1)
10:38:36.559 [pimatic-hap] info: Starting homekit bridge
10:38:40.541 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Marantz
10:38:41.336 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Indirekt Wohnzimmer 3
10:38:41.484 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Türöffner
10:38:41.873 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Alarmanlage scharf 
10:38:42.051 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Stehlampe Flur
10:38:42.293 [pimatic-hap] debug: unsupported device type: HueZLLExtendedColorLight
10:38:42.430 [pimatic-hap] debug: unsupported device type: HueZLLExtendedColorLight
10:38:42.558 [pimatic-hap] debug: unsupported device type: HueZLLExtendedColorLight
10:38:42.895 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Schreibtisch Schlafzimmer
10:38:43.067 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Schrank Wohnzimmer links
10:38:43.237 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Schrank Wohnzimmer rechts
10:38:43.406 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Stehlampe Wohnzimmer
10:38:43.612 [pimatic-hap] debug: successfully added device Wetter Funksender
10:39:11.948 [pimatic-hap] debug: publishing homekit bridge on port 51826
10:39:11.959 [pimatic-hap] debug: pincode is: XXXXXXX
10:39:33.742 [pimatic-hap] debug: switching device to true
10:39:34.558 [pimatic-hap] debug: [31:a6:38:bd:69:cb] HAP Request: POST /pair-verify
10:39:34.594 [pimatic-hap] debug: [31:a6:38:bd:69:cb] Pair verify step 1/2
10:39:53.466 [pimatic-hap] debug: switching device to true
10:39:53.518 [pimatic-hap] debug: changing dimlevel to 0
10:39:57.521 [pimatic-hap] debug: switching device to false
10:40:01.785 [pimatic-hap] debug: [31:a6:38:bd:69:cb] HAP Request: POST /pair-verify
10:40:01.825 [pimatic-hap] debug: [31:a6:38:bd:69:cb] Pair verify step 1/2
10:40:12.928 [pimatic-hap] debug: switching device to false

Ok so I added a printout for the device template which is used and then added it to the known devices as a hue dimmer, seems to work from EVE homekit app, currently not with Siri but thats buggy anyway which doesn’t have to do anything with the plugin

    createAccessoryFromTemplate: (device) =>
      if @isKnownDevice(device)
        return new @knownDevices[device.template](device)
      else
        env.logger.debug("unsupported device type: " + device.constructor.name)
        env.logger.debug("unsupported device template: " + device.template)
        return null

10:50:52.334 [pimatic-hap] debug: unsupported device template: huezllextendedcolor

updated devices

    knownDevices: {
      'dimmer': DimmerAccessory
      'huezllonoff': HueOnOffLightAccessory
      'huezlldimmable': HueDimmerAccessory
      'huezllcolortemp': HueDimmerAccessory
      'huezllcolor': HueDimmerAccessory
      'huezllextendedcolor': HueDimmerAccessory
      'switch': PowerSwitchAccessory
      'shutter': ShutterAccessory
      'temperature': TemperatureAccessory
      'contact': ContactAccessory
      'thermostat': ThermostatAccessory
      'led-light': LedLightAccessory
      'presence': MotionAccessory
    }

Thanks already!

@thex currently just switching on and off and dimming is supported. Are these both features working for you then? If yes, then I know at least it’s working.
I will work on the colored features later.

Nice work, unfortunately i can’t test it because i’m using pimatic 0.9. Modified it for node 4/pimatic 0.9 but homekit won’t accept the code.

Yes, on/off and dimming works which is already almost sufficient for me.

Now I only have to get siri working again… people always suggest signing in and out of iCloud on all devices but I find this quite annoying, looking for another solution.

@sweebee ok, I’ll try the 0.9 branch and see what’s wrong. Probably I’ll create a 0.9 branch, too.

@sweebee I’ve tested the v0.9.x branch now. I had to delete the node_modules directory and npm install again, but after that it started at least. I didn’t have the time to test any further.
What problems did you have?

@michbeck100 its working now, but after some restarts because it couldn’t find the pimatic device.

Edit: I can’t control devices, they keep spinning and nothing happens. So i removed the bridge connected and tried to reconnect but again i can’t find the pimatic bridge.

lol 😂https://youtu.be/yj4TD3xcXjY

@thex Do you experience the same problems like @sweebee? If not, than i guess its because of some rules in the config.
If you look at the code, i basically just enabled the hue devices to be regognized by the plugin. I didn’t have to to anything else for the implementation.

no, works fine from the EVE app but I needed to delete the hap-database and freshly connect it but I didn’t use the hap-plugin for quite some time before trying out the latest version.

I’ve been testing this version for some days now (on my pimatic v0.8 pi) and I don’t experience any problems with this version. I am able to control all my hue whites by voice, pretty awesome.

For my color bulb, I had to add 'huezllextendedcolor': HueDimmerAccessory to the knownDevices list in the hap.coffee file to turn it on/off/dim. That’s all I need.

thanks for the amazing work!

@lxz Thanks for the feedback. I didn’t add these types, yet, because they can do more than just dimming and switching, but i think i will add them, too. Changing colors will come later.

when do you plan the next release?

Also +1 for the dimming functionality for the extended color lights, I also added this in the code by hand to make it work.

Better dimming than no functionality, I find my self using the color functionality very rarely.

@thex said in [pimatic-hap] Beta test of Philips Hue devices from pimatic-hue-zll in pimatic homekit bridge:

when do you plan the next release?

Just now
Version 0.7.0 contains all the changes. So now we have official Philips Hue Light support in pimatic-hap!

Hey, just a Short question sorry if i “over-read” this… Will pimatic-hap-plugin supports pimatic v0.9? Big thx -Harry

@HarrySteff working fine for me with 0.9 beta

thank you very much!