Apple Homekit(Siri) integration with Homeseer

[jayman13]

Anyone have any luck using two separate ios devices. I've been trying to get it to work on my wife's phone and it can't find the accessory. Maybe this is a known limitation?

[stipus]

I think you have to setup HomeKit on one "main" IOS device, and then invite other users (using their Apple ID)

See IOS settings / HomeKit / your house / invite
That's the way Apple designed HomeKit. Then everything works through iCloud.

*EDIT* I just tested, and it works fine. I have HomeKit setup on my iPhone. I invited another iCloud account (another iCloud account I use on my iPad), and I can then ask Siri on the iPad to turn on/off lights ... Etc.

[TomTom]

Stipus,

Can't believe how large this thread has gotten. Thinking it may be useful if someone could create a shareable google doc( so that it is editable by author) with all these lil tit-bits and may be a general How To that is more specific to HS. Anyone,...Anyone,....Bueller....

I think you have to setup HomeKit on one "main" IOS device, and then invite other users (using their Apple ID)

See IOS settings / HomeKit / your house / invite
That's the way Apple designed HomeKit. Then everything works through iCloud.

*EDIT* I just tested, and it works fine. I have HomeKit setup on my iPhone. I invited another iCloud account (another iCloud account I use on my iPad), and I can then ask Siri on the iPad to turn on/off lights ... Etc.

[jayman13]

I think you have to setup HomeKit on one "main" IOS device, and then invite other users (using their Apple ID)

See IOS settings / HomeKit / your house / invite
That's the way Apple designed HomeKit. Then everything works through iCloud.

*EDIT* I just tested, and it works fine. I have HomeKit setup on my iPhone. I invited another iCloud account (another iCloud account I use on my iPad), and I can then ask Siri on the iPad to turn on/off lights ... Etc.

I guess I have to figure that out. I only have 1 icloud account used for all our devices including my wife's.

[jayman13]

I guess I have to figure that out. I only have 1 icloud account used for all our devices including my wife's.

It was a keychain issue I had with my ios devices. I was on the phone with apple support for 20 min. The things I do for home automation...

[maverick]

In my case, I have one temperature sensor in the attic (HomeKit room called attic) and one thermostat in the living-room (again a HomeKit room called living-room)

I can ask Siri :
- what's the living room temperature ?
- what's the attic temperature ?
.. And Siri answers the correct result each time.

(This this translated from French, ... I'm not sure of the exact Siri requests in English)

The key is to create HomeKit rooms with any HomeKit app (eve, iControl....) and configure the sensor to be in the right room. The name of the temperature sensor or thermostat doesn't seem to be important.

Thanks for sharing your experience - I still have some inconsistency (some will, some wont) but will do a complete reload later today to see if that helps.

/Mav

[stipus]

Just tried a lock and got this error. Also, does this support batterylevel?

{ 
              "ref":1576,
              "type":"Lock",
              "name":"Kitchen Door Lock",
              "lockUnsecuredValues":[0,1,16,17,32,33],
              "lockSecuredValues":[255],
              "lockJammedValues":[254],
              "unlockValue":0,
              "lockValue":255
} 

Any success with Locks on V0.9.4 ?
I need to know if I can publish this version to the github repository.
Thanks.

[Malosa]

FIrst of all Erwin , thanks for releasing this , yesterday i took the whole day fixing this problem !!! you are a life saver !!!!
The only thing it doesnt log , even if i edit the line at 11.

Stipus , i didnt thank you before , but i tested a lot of stuff and till now it works great !!!! thanks for updating and releasing the platform !!!


so if i understand i dont need to use any app on my iphone ?
it does auto discover on homekit ?

Ok, here we go! Follow these steps to get the Homebridge-homeseer package running on your Windows box:

1) Download and install Bonjour: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?v...L&locale=nl_NL
2) Download http://greedy.reflexlight.nl/homesee...e-homeseer.zip
3) extract homebridge-homeseer.zip to c:\homebridge-homeseer (do not choose another path, unless you know what you're doing!)
4) Edit the config file config.json with your devices
5) Browse to c:\homebridge-homeseer
6) Edit c:\homebridge-homeseer\homebridge-homeseer.cmd:
- Change the first "goto main_logged" (line 11) to "goto main"
7) Run homebridge-homeseer.cmd to test your installation. It should report:

Starting Homebridge server...
Loading 1 platforms...
..
..

8) Press CTRL+C and enter Y to terminate the batch job.
9) Edit c:\homebridge-homeseer\homebridge-homeseer.cmd:
- Change the first "goto main" (line 11) to "goto main_logged"
10) Add the following line to startup.vb (from your homeseer installation directory), just after "End Sub":

    ' Start Homebridge-Homeseer
    hs.Launch("C:\homebridge-homeseer\homebridge-homeseer.cmd","","C:\homebridge-homeseer",0)

11) Restart Homeseer.
12) When Homeseer has been started successfull, it should start homebridge-homeseer after a minute in a CMD window:

Starting Homebridge-Homeseer
Do not close this screen
Output will be logged to c:\homebridge-homeseer\homebridge-homeseer.log

If it is all running fine, you can always update your installation to the latest version of HomeSeerPlatform by just replacing the homeseer.js in c:\homebridge-homeseer\platforms with the latest version provided by stipus

Many thanks to stipus! He did a really good job by creating this platform!

Good luck!
Erwin

[stipus]

FIrst of all Erwin , thanks for releasing this , yesterday i took the whole day fixing this problem !!! you are a life saver !!!!
The only thing it doesnt log , even if i edit the line at 11.

Stipus , i didnt thank you before , but i tested a lot of stuff and till now it works great !!!! thanks for updating and releasing the platform !!!


so if i understand i dont need to use any app on my iphone ?
it does auto discover on homekit ?

You MUST use a HomeKit app (such as eve or iControl, or many others).

1) This is required to register the accessory server with HomeKit
2) This is required to create HomeKit rooms, and move accessories to rooms

[Malosa]

is it possible to use it from everywhere or just from your home only ?

in my language dutch , when i ask siri : wat is de badkamer temperatuur
it says sorry i cant find any devices...

this is my config

{
"ref":241,
"type":"TemperatureSensor",
"temperatureUnit":"C",
"name":"badkamer temperatuur",
"batteryRef":125,
"batteryThreshold":15
}


in english it works perfect if i change the name to english ofcourse
so i thing the dutch siri is not working well

You MUST use a HomeKit app (such as eve or iControl, or many others).

1) This is required to register the accessory server with HomeKit
2) This is required to create HomeKit rooms, and move accessories to rooms

[stipus]

As far as I know, it can work from outside your Home, if you have an Apple-TV version 3 or more plugged on your Home Network.

In this case:

HomeKit device command from your phone outside home network
go to --> iCloud
go to --> Your Apple TV
go to --> HomeBridge
go to --> HomeSeer
go to --> Your device !

I tried but it didn't work as my Apple-TV is V2 only

[stipus]

in english it works perfect if i change the name to english ofcourse
so i thing the dutch siri is not working well

I also noticed many HomeKit bugs in the french version of Siri...

(translated from french)
(me) Switch-on the right light
(siri) I take care of this....
(siri) I did it: the right light is male.

I'm a bit disappointed: I always thought my right light was female

[Malosa]

i see the problem hehe , i figured it out ,

go to eve create rooms in your language : and add the accessory there (if its liningroom temperature , use only the name temperature , and put it in the room livingroom) so if u ask whats the livingroom temperature it works correct for all languages.

that is for all the devices , put them in rooms and use a short name .

[AllanMar]

Any success with Locks on V0.9.4 ?

I need to know if I can publish this version to the github repository.

Thanks.

I'll give the locks and the alarm a try tonight. Thanks a lot for this!

[stipus]

Security systems are not supported (yet).
I'll have a look...

Required characteristics are:

- Characteristic.SecuritySystemCurrentState (status)
STAY_ARM = 0;
AWAY_ARM = 1;
NIGHT_ARM = 2;
DISARMED = 3;
ALARM_TRIGGERED = 4;

- Characteristic.SecuritySystemTargetState (control)
STAY_ARM = 0;
AWAY_ARM = 1;
NIGHT_ARM = 2;
DISARM = 3;

Optional characteristics are:
- Characteristic.StatusFault
(value between 0 and 255 - didn't find any info about the meaning)

- Characteristic.StatusTampered
NOT_TAMPERED = 0
TAMPERED = 1

- Characteristic.SecuritySystemAlarmType
(value between 0 and 255 - didn't find any info about the meaning)