homebridge-ESP-HSV

This is a plugin for homebridge to control an LED strip connected to an ESP8266 chip. It allows adding the ESP8266 as a lightbulb to HomeKit and controlling it with Siri or the Home App on iOS.

Requirements:

• An ESP8266 setup with my URL/UDP API
• working wifi network for the ESP to receive commands
• server to run homebridge on
• iOS device with HomeKit

Setup

1. Connect your LED strip to the ESP8266 and flash the device. Have a look here for more information.

2. Check that the ESP connects to your Wifi.

3. Install homebridge on your server. A guide can be found on the project homepage

4. Download this repository and copy the files to a separate folder homebridge-ESP-LED in your node_modules directory. For me that's /usr/lib/node_modules

5. Run npm install in the node_modules directory to download the dependencies.

6. Add your configuration to the config.json. An example is included as config-sample.json. Make sure that the id and ip of the device you want to control matches your ESP8266-LED configuration.

7. Optionally: Configure homebridge to run on system startup for convenience

8. Set up the HomeKit device on your iOS device. It should be automatically discovered if you are on the same network.

9. Control your light with Siri or the Home app.