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Title: How to connect incompatible accessories to HomeKit using Homebridge Post by: HCK on April 09, 2017, 04:05:21 pm How to connect incompatible accessories to HomeKit using Homebridge
Wish you could have a house full of HomeKit-enabled products? Homebridge might be able to help with that! If you're tired of waiting for your favorite home automation products to get HomeKit support, you might try Homebridge! Homebridge is a NodeJS server that acts as a HomeKit-enabled bridge, linking up non-HomeKit-enabled products to your HomeKit setup. Once you've set up a Homebridge server, you can download plugins for non-HomeKit-enabled devices in order to access them with the iOS Home app and control them using your voice with Siri. We're going to proceed through the tutorial assuming you want to install Homebridge on your Mac. You can also install Homebridge on Windows, Raspberry Pi, and other devices, but I've found the macOS installation process to be fairly straightforward and user-friendly. Caveats and warnings Before we dig in to Homebridge, there's some stuff we need to talk about. Firstly, HomeKit-enabled products are such a small subset of the home automation mark... Source: How to connect incompatible accessories to HomeKit using Homebridge (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/NXzioqoVvY8/how-connect-non-homekit-devices-homekit-using-homebridge) |