Hi everyone,
As was announced in another topic, I am investigating the development of a Homekit plugin for Apple idevices.
Through homekit, users of idevices can use several apps to control appliances in their homes. These appliances can also be controled through siri, which offers a a lot of possibilities.
Within homekit a the concept of a bridge exists. A bridge supports transferring homekit commands to other systems, for example homeseer. By building a bridge for homeseer, all devices listed in homeseer could be made available through homekit.
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Progress until 29-11-2014:
At this moment I am developing a proof of concept. This will be a just a bridge with a dummy device, not yet linked to homeseer. Since HS is built in .net, I need to build this software in .net as well. That is no problem, but since Apple uses several proprietary techniques and protocols, some specific techniques are not yet available as .net library. This makes development very hard.
Right now I am working on the pairing of the bridge and the idevice. This is done through several steps and is probably the hardest part to develop. I just started working on the last step, I hope everything will speed up when pairing is finished.
As soon as the proof of concept is operational, I will post back here.
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Due to a non disclosure agreement I cannot post any details of techniques used.
If you want to assist in development, please send a PM, but keep in mind that I need some proof that you are member of the Apple MFi program before I can share any details.
As was announced in another topic, I am investigating the development of a Homekit plugin for Apple idevices.
Through homekit, users of idevices can use several apps to control appliances in their homes. These appliances can also be controled through siri, which offers a a lot of possibilities.
Within homekit a the concept of a bridge exists. A bridge supports transferring homekit commands to other systems, for example homeseer. By building a bridge for homeseer, all devices listed in homeseer could be made available through homekit.
=============================================
Progress until 29-11-2014:
At this moment I am developing a proof of concept. This will be a just a bridge with a dummy device, not yet linked to homeseer. Since HS is built in .net, I need to build this software in .net as well. That is no problem, but since Apple uses several proprietary techniques and protocols, some specific techniques are not yet available as .net library. This makes development very hard.
Right now I am working on the pairing of the bridge and the idevice. This is done through several steps and is probably the hardest part to develop. I just started working on the last step, I hope everything will speed up when pairing is finished.
As soon as the proof of concept is operational, I will post back here.
==============================================
Due to a non disclosure agreement I cannot post any details of techniques used.
If you want to assist in development, please send a PM, but keep in mind that I need some proof that you are member of the Apple MFi program before I can share any details.
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