toofar

TooFar

Another HomeKit bridge written in Go

This is glue to connect various other things together.

This is not really a general purpose bridge, it is what I need for my setup. I'm making it public because that's what I do. If you find it useful, use it.

My goals for home automation:

• Analog (physical switches) is primary UI. Apple's HomeKit (Home App) will be the primary "non-analog" UI; Siri will be second; eschew vendor-specific apps wherever possible
• I've actually come to find asking siri to do things to be useful. Siri is becoming the primary UI.... until thread based motion sensors come out...
• Don't use anything that requires a cloud connection other than the AppleTV
• All automation/configuration will take place in HomeKit, no vendor-specific automations (e.g. don't use Kasa's scenes/smart actions)
• Wherever possible, the "analog" switches must "do the right thing." If a switch is turned off, smart devices don't become unreachable. Guests should not be confused or warned "don't use that switch."

My goals for TooFar

• Be small, fast, and efficient. Things like HomeBridge.io and openHAB are great, but too much for my needs. I found myself spending so much time bending them to my will that it just became easier to build my own. I think "small" has gone out the window at this point. But it is still smaller than other HK bridges.

Constraints (the hardware that must work):

• Lots and lots of Apple stuff, homepod minis, macs, iPhones, Apple Watch....
• TP-Link Kasa switches and power strips (I like these. I have 30)
• Ikea Tradfri (I have a few bulbs, one hub) these do not need to be bridged ... but ...
• 3 Philips Hue can lights, connected to Tradfri. which cannot be shown via HK since the vendors differ, need to bridge Tradfri (or I could buy a Hue Hub...)
• Onkyo Receiver
• Konnected.io to use the stuff from the 1990's era hardwired alarm system

Features

• Support for Onkyo/Pioneer/Integra amplifier/av-receivers by pretending to be a TV. Any eiscp Onkyo, Pioneer, or Integra AVR should work (including auto-detection of inputs)
• Support for OpenWeatherMap data -- you can automate other devices based on weather conditions using the "Controller" iOS app.

To Do:

• Move a lot of stuff from the platform to the devices...

What sucks:

• First setup of Tradfri requires go-tradfri client to get the username/password configured. One-time-problem
• Configuration requires reading my mind ... getting easier now that auto-discovery mostly works
• Onkyo eISCP is a 1980's serial protocol streaming over TCP, it gets WEIRD when a network stream is constantly updating the "now playing" info...