homebridge-edomoticz Plugin

[Nederveen]

Dear all,

I am new to domoticz and have been trying desperately to get my fibaro dimmer 2 to work with homekit.
Hopefully you can help me out.

I am using the following setup
Raspberry pi
Fibaro Dimmer 2
aeotec z-stick

1. I installed raspbian jessie lite
2. followed the domoticz/homekit installation steps of this tutorial: https://possible.tweakblogs.net/blog/14 ... spberry-pi
3. Included my z-stick in domoticz via this tutorial http://domotica-projecten.nl/d/2-includ ... t-domoticz
4. installed the plugin for fibaro HC2 (since it states that the dimmer should be included) with the command (sudo npm install -g homebridge-fibaro-hc2)

I can see the homebridge in the homekit app, but when I add it, it says that I still have to identify an accessory.

I'm I missing a step? Is there anything I didn't do properly?
As far as I can understand I will have to do something with the homebridge/config.json but I am not sure.
Currently it is lie this:

{
"bridge": {
"name": "Homebridge",
"username": "CC:21:3E:E4:DE:33",
"port": 51826,
"pin": "031-45-154"
},
"description": "Configuration file for (e)xtended Domoticz platform.",
"platforms": [
{
"platform": "eDomoticz",
"name": "eDomoticz",
"server": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "8080",
"ssl": 0,
"roomid": 0,
"mqtt": 0
}
],
"accessories": []
}

I am looking forward to your responses.

Best,

[Trigun]

Hi Nederveen, you did add the hardware in domoticz for the z-stick? And you've added the fibaro via the stick instead of node management?


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[Nederveen]

Hi Nederveen, you did add the hardware in domoticz for the z-stick? And you've added the fibaro via the stick instead of node management?

Thanks for your quick response. I added the domoticz hardware for the stick. After that I clicked the pairing button on the z-stick and held it next to the dimmer switch. After that the dimmer also showed up in domoticz hardware under the z-stick setup.


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[Trigun]

Remember that if you use the z-stick, you have to restart domoticz to have a correct pairing.


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[Nederveen]

Thanks. Unfortunately that didn't help. Is the config.json file correct though as posted above? i'm not sure. Or do I have to change stuff in domoticz before the dimmer will show up in homekit app?

[Trigun]

I'll check my config and compare it with yours. Will probably be later today


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[Nederveen]

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Unfortunately I still can't get it running. If I run homebrigde on my pi. This is what I see.
It states loading 0 accessories. That can't be right can it?

[Nederveen]

This is my config.json

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[Trigun]

Hi Nederveen, the config looks fine, did you check the stuff I sent you? According to the log it seems something goes wrong with the fibaro, do you have other devices as well?


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[Nederveen]

Thanks, indeed I see that you sent me a pm.
I'll try you method from scratch.

[Artic1980]

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Unfortunately I still can't get it running. If I run homebrigde on my pi. This is what I see.
It states loading 0 accessories. That can't be right can it?

I did so when it did not go
delete folder ~/.homebridge/persist
change code pair
reboot

[MacJL]

Hi,

Is there support for IP Cameras?
I understand that HAP-Nodejs has support for this but how about homebridge and eDomoticz?

If you want to have your camera in Homekit, you can use this homebridge plugin :
https://github.com/KhaosT/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg

I'm using it in parallel of homebridge-edomoticz, and it's really nice to have all my switches and cameras in home App.

[anasazi]

Hi,

Is there support for IP Cameras?
I understand that HAP-Nodejs has support for this but how about homebridge and eDomoticz?

If you want to have your camera in Homekit, you can use this homebridge plugin :
https://github.com/KhaosT/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg

I'm using it in parallel of homebridge-edomoticz, and it's really nice to have all my switches and cameras in home App.

Thanks for the tip!
Will check it out...

[poudenes]

Love the plugin guys !!!! any news about using Scenes/Groups into Homebridge?

Or still create a switch with a on and off action in it?

I have a Nanoleaf Aurora lights panels... You can create scenes in their app and those scenes are pushed into Homekit.
So it would be great if Domoticz can push her scenes into homebridge as well so you can have them in Homekit

[bxlouis]

Hi,

Maybe it has already been discussed but I can't find it on the forum - maybe I use the wrong keywords

I am wondering if it is possible to read the Homekit scenes and display/be able to trigger them from Domoticz?
That would be very useful!

[Mazzokun]

Hi all
is there a way to use "monit watchdog" to monitor the homebridge.service?

I've tried with

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check process homebridge with pidfile /var/run/homebridge.pid
start program = "/lib/systemd/system start homebridge.service"
stop program  = "/lib/systemd/system stop homebridge.service"
if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 51826 protocol http
and request "/accessories"
then restart
if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

but doesn't work, monit can't Initializing it... Any idea??
Thank you

[EdddieN]

If you want to have your camera in Homekit, you can use this homebridge plugin :
https://github.com/KhaosT/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg

Fantastic tip! Just installed the Foscam plugin and works beautifully https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-foscamcamera

[theo69]

Hi I am using the plugin together with Xiaomi Gateway (Domoticz Beta) and all items (switches, contacts etc.) are shown in HomeKit however i Can not control them and they are not being updated. You can not see when a switch was switched!

[theo69]

HI I am new to Domoticz and trying to get homebridge connected, however I am always getting:

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[6/5/2017, 10:21:42 AM] [eDomoticz] Retrying connection to MQTT broker...
[6/5/2017, 10:21:42 AM] [eDomoticz] Could not connect to MQTT broker! (localhost:1883)

I am lost where did go wrong, added MQTT

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[theo69]

The MQTT Broker was not installed properly, now i got the connection!