Homebridge / Homekit

Gis · September 22, 2016 at 11:38 AM

Hi Guys,

While the trend is actually on home automation, I'm wondering if anyone has tried to push Homebridge into an addon ?

GitHub - nfarina/homebridge: HomeKit support for the impatient

If not, I might try to make this.

Thx,
Gis.

**chewitt** · September 22, 2016 at 6:08 PM Official Post

Add-ons are quite a bit of work to create and sustain but most home automation kits/suites have a Docker image available, so this is the easiest way to run things (as long as you use x86/pi/imx6 kit where we support Docker). The container configuration file normally needs a little tweaking to map things to /storage but that's nothing too serious.

efftron · April 4, 2017 at 8:05 PM

I'm trying to get this instance running, since it's already set up for Pi's (albeit under Raspbian and not LibreElec):

GitHub - ViViDboarder/docker-rpi-homebridge: Work in progress Docker image for running homebridge on a Raspberry Pi

No success yet, but if I do get it working I'll make a fork specifically for LE.

i3laze · April 1, 2018 at 12:19 PM

Any guesses if HomeBridge will work inside this Docker?

Anyone for implementing Tor add-on?

An add-on (dependant on the Docker add-on), which will roll out the container, would be easy to use.

Anyway, I'll post a HomeBridge+LE step-by-step as soon as my Sonoff Touch arrives.

i3laze · April 4, 2018 at 6:50 AM

Here goes Homebridge in Docker on LE! Wetek Play2 (aarch64).

Running smoothly

Uses just 40Mb RAM and 350Mb space.

Install LinuxServer.io repo from official LE repository.
Install Portainer and Docker add-ons (or Install just Docker and use SSH way).
Open Portainer WebUI: http://ip:9000/ and setup an admin account.
Our Homebridge container will use own avahi-daemon (Bonjour/Zeroconf) which will conflict with LibreElec’s one used for AirPlay. We should create a Docker ‘macvlan’ network to emulate a container as a separate device on the LAN:

(change values according to your own LAN settings)

Networks - Add Network
Name: macvlan
Subnet: 192.168.1.0/24 (should be your actual LAN subnet)
Gateway: 192.168.1.254 (should be your actual gateway)
Driver: macvlan
Add driver option, name: parent value: eth0
Create network.

or SSH way

docker network create -d macvlan --subnet=192.168.1.0/24 --gateway=192.168.1.254 -o parent=eth0 macvlan

5. Build the container (I specified raspberry-pi branch for aarch64, Wetek Play 2) :

Containers - Add container
name: homebridge
image name: oznu/homebridge:raspberry-pi
Advanced Network - Network: macvlan then manually set some IPv4 address: 192.168.1.128
Advanced Env - add env variable, name: HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI value: 1
Advanced Restart policy: Always
Deploy the container (first time it will take 2-3 minutes).

or SSH way

docker run --net=macvlan --ip 192.168.1.128 --env HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI='1' --name=homebridge oznu/homebridge:raspberry-pi

6. Your Homebridge should be running by now and accessible using admin:admin via 192.168.1.128:8080

For console debugging you can run ‘docker start homebridge -a’ via SSH.

i3laze · May 10, 2018 at 12:51 PM

By the way, I've just binded a Light switch onto a WP2 remote's key. Very useful at evening)

Native HomeBridge approach:

Control homebridge with the command line (without an iPhone) · Issue #506 · nfarina/homebridge · GitHub

Control Tasmota switch:

Bash

#!/bin/sh
IP=192.168.1.129

curl -s http://$IP/cm?cmnd=Power1%20Toggle -o /dev/null

i3laze · November 16, 2019 at 6:40 AM

Check this fresh lightweight HomeBridge plugin for controlling Kodi playback:

GitHub - DeutscheMark/homebridge-kodi: Homebridge plugin that provides details and controls for Kodi

Got my Kodi-Pause event hooked to lights and a front door already.