My node-red + HomeKit + OpenHAB setup

[crxporter (Garrett Porter)]

Here are some of the other threads and comments that helped me get everything put together.

For anyone wanting colored homekit lights - start here. My brightness function was based on this post.

Homekit in nodeRED to control a color bulb attached to openHAB

Hi, I tried to achieve this and made a function node before and after the homekit-node The function node before the homekit-node has this: var results = msg.payload.split(','); if (results[2] < 1) { OnOff = false; } else { OnOff = true; } msg.payload = { "Brightness": results[2], "Hue": results[0], "Saturation": results[1], "On": OnOff }; return msg; What is actually should do is taking the HSB-Value we get from the color-item and split it to it’s different valu…

For a thermostat, see this post (copy and paste the line of code into your node-red)

Other homekit types through node-red

Hi @n30ngruu3n, it took me a while to find the flow since I’ve moved my nodered stuff from one machine to the other weeks ago. [{"id":"6fec27bb.58b038","type":"homekit-service","z":"7e9c5c41.22019c","accessory":"1e16dd99.a42552","name":"Thermostat Kinderzimmer","serviceName":"Thermostat","x":1050,"y":1040,"wires":[["803aaaa3.19749"]]},{"id":"67cf024a.82a66c","type":"switch","z":"7e9c5c41.22019c","name":"","property":"hap.context","propertyType":"msg","rules":[{"t":"nnull"}],"checkall":"true","…

For those with oscillating / multi-speed fans see this post for an example of sending speed and oscillation commands to HomeKit:

Other homekit types through node-red

Nice to see that I’m not alone in doing this. Here is my Fan control flow. I use the LIRC binding to control a Bionaire Fan, and I’ve added oscillation and speed, as well as the default On/Off. [10%20PM] Code if anyone is intrested https://pastebin.com/raw/gXsgF0xK

If anyone has interesting in building out a relay-based sprinkler flow, let me know. I think it would be fun to help put that code together!

Thanks everyone who’s posted things that I’ve copied and modified. There’s so much potential here. For my house we use HomeKit for everything - to the point my 4 year old controls our window, music, lights, and more with our HomePod. I need to not teach her about the sprinkler option - she’d be all over that one to go jump on the trampoline with sprinklers on!

NOTE
Many of these examples use an older version of the node-red homekit plugin which does NOT add as a bridge. Each item adds individually. I just thought it would be cool to put together a nice starting point for people wanting to do homekit+node-red.