homebridge-esphome

Homebridge plugin to control ESP8266/ESP32 devices running ESPHome firmware (https://esphome.io)

Installation

npm i homebridge-esphome -g

Basic config.json

{
  "platform": "ESPHomePlatform",
  "name": "ESPHomePlatform",
  "devices": [
    {
      "name": "ESPHome Switch 1",
      "host": "hostname",
      "type": "switch"
      "id": "sonoff_basic_relay"
    },
    {
      "name": "ESPHome Fan 1",
      "host": "hostname",
      "type": "fan",
      "id": "ventilation"
    }
  ]
}

Each device object passed to the devices array has these properties:

• name - The name that should appear in HomeKit.
• host - The ip-adres or hostname of the device.
• type - The type of device. Can be switch or fan.
• id - The id refers to the id of the component - this ID is created by taking the name of the component, stripping out all non-alphanumeric characters, making everything lowercase and replacing all spaces by underscores.

Prerequisites

The ESPHome firmware on the device has to be compiled with support for the REST API as this plugin uses HTTP calls and EventSource Events.

Info: ESPHome Web Server API

Compile the ESPHome firmware with the following component enabled:

# Enable REST api in ESPHome firmware
web_server:
  port: 5180 # optional

port: is optional, defaults to port 80.

Notes

Type Fan in HomeKit is controlled in percentage, whereas in ESPHome fan is controlled in steps off, low, medium and high. Therefor the plugin converts speed steps in the following percentages.

• off = device is showing off in HomeKit.
• low = 25 percentage.
• medium = 50 percentage.
• high = 100 percentage.

TODO

• Implement more device types.
• More real-life testing.