Homebridge Lib

Library for Homebridge Plugins

While developing a number of Homebridge plugins, I find myself duplicating a lot of code. The idea behind this library is to ease developing and maintaining Homebridge plugins by separating this generic code, dealing with HomeKit and Homebridge, from the specific code, dealing with the actual devices being exposed to HomeKit.

Documentation

The documentation, how to develop a plugin using Homebridge Lib, is provided in the code and through tutorials in the doc directory. To generate the documentation, install jsdoc and run jsdoc -c jsdoc.json. To view the documentation, open index.html in the out directory.

See Homebridge WS for an example plugin based on Homebridge Lib.

Command-Line Tools

The Homebridge Lib library comes with a number of command-line tools for troubleshooting Homebridge installations.

Tool	Description
`hap`	Logger for HomeKit accessory announcements.
`json`	JSON formatter.
`sysinfo`	Print hardware and operating system information.
`upnp`	UPnP tool.

Each command-line tool takes a -h or --help argument to provide a brief overview of its functionality and command-line arguments.

Installation

This library is not a Homebridge plugin and does not need to be installed manually. Instead, Homebridge plugins using this library should list it as a dependency in their package.json. This way, npm installs Homebridge Lib automatically when installing the actual plugin.

To install the command-line tools, use:

$ sudo npm -g i hb-lib-tools

This creates symlinks to these tools in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin (depending on how you installed NodeJS).

Credits

Caveats

Homebridge Lib is a hobby project of mine, provided as-is, with no warranty whatsoever. I've been running it successfully at my home for years, but your mileage might vary.