HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK)

The HomeKit ADK is used by silicon vendors and accessory manufacturers to build HomeKit compatible devices.

The HomeKit ADK implements key components of the HomeKit Accessory Protocol (HAP), which embodies the core principles Apple brings to smart home technology: security, privacy, and reliability.

The HomeKit Open Source ADK is an open-source version of the HomeKit Accessory Development Kit. It can be used by any developer to prototype non-commercial smart home accessories. For commercial accessories, accessory developers must continue to use the commercial version of the HomeKit ADK available through the MFi Program.

Go to the Apple Developer Site if you like to learn more about developing HomeKit-enabled accessories and apps.

Documentation

• Please go through Developing with ADK before starting development with HomeKit ADK
• Platform Abstraction Layer

Darwin PAL

Compile

make all

Run

./Output/Darwin-x86_64-apple-darwin18.6.0/Debug/IP/Applications/Lightbulb.OpenSSL

Linux PAL

Compile

make TARGET=Linux apps

Raspberry Pi

Prerequisites

Run this to create the SD card image (Linux+patches) and a Docker container (your build environment). Make sure that Docker is running before running this setup or it will fail and you will have to start over! This will take about an hour and will stop for input many times. It will also require you to swap the card out twice.

# Run the Docker app. It is required for docker import.
./Tools/raspi_sdcard_setup.sh

Compile

make TARGET=Raspi all

If docker doesn't find "dev-test/raspiadk-base", run the sdcard setup and make sure to do the docker import at the end of the script.

Install

After building, run this to install the build products to your RaspPi. (-n is for the hostname of your RaspPi and -p is the SSH password; both of these were chosen during the initial raspi_sdcard_setup.sh install).

./Tools/install.sh \
    -d raspi \
    -a Output/Raspi-armv6k-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/Debug/IP/Applications/Lightbulb.OpenSSL \
    -n raspberrypi \
    -p pi

Make options

Commmand	Description	Default
make <target>	apps - Build all apps test - Build unit tests all - Build apps and unit tests	all
make APPS=<application>	Space delimited names of the apps to compile. Example: make APPS=“Lightbulb Lock”	All applications
make BUILD_TYPE=<build_type>	Build type: Debug Test Release	Debug
make LOG_LEVEL=<level>	0 - No logs are displayed 1 - Error and Fault-level logs are displayed 2 - Error, Fault-level and Info logs are displayed 3 - Error, Fault-level, Info and Debug logs are displayed	3 - For debug build 1 - For test build 0 - For release build
make PROTOCOLS=<protocol>	Space delimited protocols supported by the applications: BLE IP Example: make PROTOCOLS=“IP BLE”	All protocols
make TARGET=<platform>	Build for a given target platform: Darwin Linux Raspi	Build for the host Platform
make USE_HW_AUTH=<enable>	Build with hardware authentication enabled: 0 - Disable 1 - Enable	Disabled
make USE_NFC=<enable>	Build with NFC enabled: 0 - Disable 1 - Enable	Disabled