Recently I walked through the Action and saw an assortment of smart home products here. My attention was drawn to the wifi logo on the box. I decided to take a Power Plug with me to investigate it further. Power plug The power plug is from the brand LSC which is again part of […]
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Now that I made a few examples of the HomeKit accessories, It’s time for some in depth HomeKit Code Analysis. For this analysis I took the LED example from the HomeKit Demo library witch I used in my first blog here to demonstrate how it works. First I start with cutting up the code and
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My wife has always wanted to have a water ornament in the garden. To her pleasure my father-in-law wanted to remove his and we were allowed to have it. After a thorough cleaning, the Fountain light turned out to work only partially. Half of the Fountain light LED’s no longer worked. Upon which my wife
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As I’m working on the ESP HomeKit project’s I needed a machine that was running Linux. Because my MacBook Pro did not support the needed software to compile the necessary binary files. So had come up with a solution. Oracle VM VirtualBox is a free package that provides me with the needed solution. It can
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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In my previous blog here I tested the ESP HomeKit Software Development Kit. I am so enthusiastic about this Software Development Kit, that I going to write a few blogs about this genius software. In each Blog I will address a other accessory that you can add to your HomeKit without the need of a
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Now that I have the ESP HomeKit SDK up and running its time to add a cool feature. A QR Code Just like the official HomeKit products have. Once you have your iOS device and your HomeKit hardware, you’ll need to add it to your Home app. To do that, you’ll be asked to enter
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Okay this was also next level for me! I had absolutely no experience with compiling c code to binary files. But that makes it so attractive for me to jump into the deep and see how far I get. I have to admit that it took me a lot of time. Eventually it also succeeded
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In the past I wrote about HomeBridge and Homekit2MQTT. In the past wrote several blogs about sensors, lamps, etc. for both home-bridges. The bridges where installed on a Raspberry Pi®. I made a little summary for those that are new to my site. HomeBridge HomeBridge – Relays & Lights HomeBridge – Temperature & Humidity HomeBridge
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