Siri / HomeKit support for Domoticz

simonrg · Post by **simonrg** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:10

Mediacj wrote:Thanks all for making/sharing and documenting this!

With Insteon I couldn't get it authenticated because my login credentials where not accepted, so I looked for an other app and found the Homekit app Eve which has no subscription and worked flawless also with Siri in dutch.

Echoing, thanks for making/enhancing/sharing and documenting all this, looks really neat.

I seem to have two problems - the Eve app tells me that to use Homekit I need to enable iCloud Keychain on my iPhone, so go to Settings / iCloud - not Keychain or Passbook items listed - anybody know how to get this item back?

Running homebridge I get a nice set of errors - it looks like I might have too many devices and the port number goes into an illegal range? Or have I forgotten a set-up step?

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[Domoticz] TCP server accepting connection on port: 64708
HAP Server is listening
[Domoticz] Initializing device with name Study Printer...
[Domoticz] Loaded services for Study Printer
Cannot find secret key, creating One...
TCP server accepting connection on port: 64936
HAP Server is listening
[Domoticz] Initializing device with name Study Screens...
[Domoticz] Loaded services for Study Screens
Cannot find secret key, creating One...
TCP server accepting connection on port: 65166
HAP Server is listening
[Domoticz] Initializing device with name Study WiFi...
[Domoticz] Loaded services for Study WiFi
Cannot find secret key, creating One...
TCP server accepting connection on port: 65398
HAP Server is listening
[Domoticz] Initializing device with name Testbutton...
[Domoticz] Loaded services for Testbutton
Cannot find secret key, creating One...
/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:56
  dns_sd.DNSServiceRegister(self.serviceRef, flags, ifaceIdx, name,
         ^
Error: argument 8: port number is out of bounds.
    at Error (native)
    at new Advertisement (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:56:10)
    at Object.create [as createAdvertisement] (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:64:10)
    at Object.startAdvertising (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/Advertiser.js:7:28)
    at Object.publishAccessory (/home/pi/homebridge/lib/HAP-NodeJS/Accessory.js:10:29)
    at createHAPServer (/home/pi/homebridge/app.js:167:15)
    at /home/pi/homebridge/app.js:92:17
    at Request._callback (/home/pi/homebridge/platforms/Domoticz.js:62:5)
    at Request.self.callback (/home/pi/homebridge/node_modules/request/request.js:373:22)
    at Request.emit (events.js:110:17)

npm ERR! Linux 3.18.14-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "start"
npm ERR! node v0.12.1
npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `node app.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'node app.js'.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the homebridge package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node app.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls homebridge
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/homebridge/npm-debug.log

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:12

just a comment, 'eve' can be found at

https://www.elgato.com/es/eve

in the icloud settings (settings app on iphone) enable key chain, the same goes for insteon+

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:13

can anyone tell me how the 'secret' key is generated? I hope it is not based on the 'idx' value alone ?

simonrg · Post by **simonrg** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:25

simonrg wrote:I seem to have two problems - the Eve app tells me that to use Homekit I need to enable iCloud Keychain on my iPhone, so go to Settings / iCloud - not Keychain or Passbook items listed - anybody know how to get this item back?

Where your Keychain setting should be:

: iCloud Settings Screen; MissingIcloudKeychain.png (14.52 KiB) Viewed 4350 times

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:26

between backup and find my phone, are you on ios 8.3 ?

simonrg · Post by **simonrg** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:31

gizmocuz wrote:between backup and find my phone, are you on ios 8.3 ?

Yes on ios 8.3, also missing my iPad. I assume it is not a country feature of the UK?

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Friday 12 June 2015 18:35

well i dont think so

i think you have to google why you do not see the keychain application

simonrg · Post by **simonrg** » Friday 12 June 2015 19:14

gizmocuz wrote:well i dont think so
i think you have to google why you do not see the keychain application

I have tried Googling extensively, I now know that this the keychain was removed from the IOS 7.0.0 gold master at the last moment, only to be introduced properly in 7.0.1 etc., but I can't find a fix, everything tells you how to enable / disable the feature using the switch / button I haven't got.

Google is great, but large amounts material on one topic will bury a niche issue with a similar description, but I will keep looking.

v40jlt4 · Post by **v40jlt4** » Friday 12 June 2015 19:17

Any successful installs on a Pi model B (the 1, not the 2)?

npm install just hangs for more than an hour and than says "killed"
No way of logging on to the pi in the mean time.

I followed the wiki to the letter.

TIA

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Friday 12 June 2015 19:37

gizmocuz wrote:
Joep wrote:I don't get you? To my howto?
That is possible, but it is system specific, so I have to figure all system start-up parameters out first.
Thats true Maybe you could add a how-to to the domoticz wiki ?

i created a pull request:

https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge/pull/25

Implemented:
- Added support for RGB lights
- Added support for Scenes
- Sorting device names

Does this mean we can control scenes in domoticz using Siri?

Sorry for the dumb question, last time I tinkered with this it was with iOS 6 and that was great controlling domoticz with Siri Proxy.

Derik · Post by **Derik** » Friday 12 June 2015 21:27

Looks really great!!!
Perhaps something like this for a Android???

I ..... like Apples..

geezerrr · Post by **geezerrr** » Friday 12 June 2015 22:33

It works very well!!
Accept a couple lights I was trying to add. but for some reason something went wrong and giving an error and now they are invisible? I'm using the app eve.
Is there a way to set the server to default settings again?

emke · Post by **emke** » Friday 12 June 2015 23:12

You can try forever to run Homebridge in the background

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npm install forever -g

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forever start /home/pi/homebridge/app.js

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Saturday 13 June 2015 7:40

simon_rb wrote:Does this mean we can control scenes in domoticz using Siri?

Yes

Heisenberg · Post by **Heisenberg** » Saturday 13 June 2015 8:02

I also have installed EVE. However it seems that Siri only accepts 'On' commands. If I try to turn off devices Siri says (in Dutch) that he can't do it. I also have renamed all my devices in Dutch.

gizmocuz · Post by **gizmocuz** » Saturday 13 June 2015 8:04

i have it set on english, and can control on a room (insteon) called "Living room"
i say to siri, "Turn on Living Room" and the lights go on, and "Turn off Living Room" and the lights go off

i would expect in dutch it would be something like "Schakel Living Room uit"

Mediacj · Post by **Mediacj** » Saturday 13 June 2015 9:05

Mine is set to dutch and I made a room 'Huiskamer' in Eve.

I say to Siri: 'Zet huiskamer aan' or 'Zet huiskamer uit', both work perfect also for the other rooms.

Heisenberg · Post by **Heisenberg** » Saturday 13 June 2015 10:36

Mediacj wrote:Mine is set to dutch and I made a room 'Huiskamer' in Eve.

I say to Siri: 'Zet huiskamer aan' or 'Zet huiskamer uit', both work perfect also for the other rooms.

It works after restarting it again "npm run start". But when I say to Siri: Doe de 'mechanische Ventilatie aan' then Siri replies with 'Ok, het licht is ingeschakeld'. The switch of the Mechanische Ventilatie turns on but its not a light of course. Any suggestions?

SwordFish · Post by **SwordFish** » Saturday 13 June 2015 10:52

this works great.
But when i close the putty sessie after run npm run start its stop working?
Is there a way to keep it running? Or do i mis something.

simon_rb · Post by **simon_rb** » Saturday 13 June 2015 11:03

Great work guys, I have an Apple Watch also so hoping it works from that also. I see the wiki for installing what's required on the Pi however what's next after that? How do I add the scenes and light switches? Is it with that insteon app or eve app? Is that on the iPhone? It wasn't mentioned in the wiki.. I also read about the pin code to add devices..

Thanks for you help guys. And great work to get this working in such a short space of time. Kudos to all!!

Edit:- Found and installed the insteon+ app. Will be installing the bits on the pi soon.. Wish me luck. Cheers guys!