Home KitΒΆ

Follow the below instuctions to setup diyHue to work with Home Kit

  1. Install homebridge

  2. Install homebridge-hue

  3. Prepare config.json for homebridge with an intial homebridge-hue plugin setup (need to be modified after the first run, see next step):

    config.json initial:
{
    "bridge": {
        "name": "HB_Diy_Hue",
        "username": "mac-address homebridge",
        "port": 51838,
        "pin": "whatyouwant"
    },
    "accessories": [],
    "platforms": [
        {
            "platform": "Hue",
            "users": {
                "": ""
            },
            "hosts": "put_here_the_ip_diyhue_bridge",
            "sensors": false,
            "nativeHomeKitSensors": true,
            "nativeHomeKitLights": false,
            "excludeSensorTypes": ["Daylight", "CLIP", "Geofence"],
            "lights": true
        }
    ]
}

  4. Run home bridge for the first time (not via service). Run sudo homebridge -U /<path that contains config.json> (showed before), in my example:

    sudo homebridge -U /home/pi/.homediyhue

[2/3/2019, 9:24:33 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: HA-Bridge v1810251352, api v1.24.0
[2/3/2019, 9:24:33 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: bridge request 2: post / {"devicetype":"homebridge-hue#raspberrypi"}
[2/3/2019, 9:24:33 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: bridge error 101: link button not pressed
[2/3/2019, 9:24:33 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: press link button on the bridge to create a user

  5. Go to diyhue webpage and simulate the link button pressed (http://{IP_ADDRESS}/hue/linkbutton):

    [2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: created user - please edit config.json and restart homebridge
"platforms": [
    {
        "platform": "Hue",
        "users": {
            "B827EBFFFE959284": "470a0c52e89555f73b11904c84af6192"
        }
    }
]

  6. Stop homebridge

  7. Edit config.json with this user

  8. Start homebridge (via service or manually):

    [2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: 5 accessories
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] masked debug info dumped to /home/pi/.homediyhue/homebridge-hue.json.gz
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] Initializing platform accessory 'RpiHue'...
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] RpiHue: 2 services
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] Initializing platform accessory 'Hue bulb Plug 01'...
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] Initializing platform accessory 'Hue bulb Plug 01 2'...
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] Initializing platform accessory 'Hue bulb Plug 01 3'...
[2/3/2019, 9:24:48 AM] [Hue] Initializing platform accessory 'Hue bulb Plug 01 4'...