The Homebridge SwitchBot Bluetooth Platform is a Homebridge plugin
that allows you to directly control your SwitchBot bot device from HomeKit
via BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy).
This plugin aims to provide the best performance and stability when controlling your SwitchBot bot via BLE.
The existing SwitchBot plugins did not provide the level of stability and feature-set that I was looking for.
This plugin aims to provide the best performance (around 30% faster BLE calls than other switchbot plugins), and best stabilty (support for retry mechanism, error handling and device details caching), assuring you that the plugin will stay stable upon usage, and the switchbot will respond as fast as possible.
This plugin also aims to provide several new features, such as support for bot battery status, and password-protected BLE communication.
Supported Devices:
To Be Supported Soon:
- Search for "switchbot bluetooth"
- Find
homebridge-switchbot-bluetooth-platform
- NOTE: Check noble prerequisites for your operating system. this is used for the bluetooth communcation.
- Install the plugin
- Open Terminal
- run command
npm install -g homebridge-switchbot-bluetooth-platform
- NOTE: Check noble prerequisites for your operating system. this is used for the bluetooth communcation.
Add a new platform to your homebridge config.json
file
"platforms": [
{
"platform": "SwitchBotBluetoothPlatform",
"name": "SwitchBotBluetoothPlatform"
}
]
under the new platform, add devices
field
"platforms": [
{
"platform": "SwitchBotBluetoothPlatform",
"name": "SwitchBotBluetoothPlatform",
"devices": [
{
"type": "bot",
"name": "Bedroom Bot",
"address": "a4:ee:45:10:fa:5d"
},
{
"type": "bot",
"name": "Living Room Bot",
"address": "c1:fe:61:33:sd:4f",
"scanDuration": 2000,
"scanRetries": 7,
"scanRetryCooldown:": 1000,
}
]
}
]
Upon defining a device in the devices
list, the following properties are available:
Mandatory Properties
name
- Device name. Must be unique (no duplications).type
- Type of device. (currently onlybot
is supported).address
- MAC Address of the SwitchBot device. Learn how to find MAC Address.
Optional Properties
-
scanDuration
- Time for scanning bluetooth devices (in miliseconds).
A longer time will increase chance of successfuly detecting new devices, but reduce response time.
Default is5000
(5000 miliseconds) -
scanRetries
- The Number of times that the plugin should attempt scanning for SwitchBot device, before failing.
Default is5
(5 attempts) -
scanRetryCooldown
- Time for waiting between attempts of scanning / connecting to SwitchBot device.
Default is1000
(1000 miliseconds) -
autoTurnOffInPressMode
- Automatically Sets button back to OFF state when bot is configured to be in 'Press' mode (Enabled by default for bots that are set to 'Press' mode)
Default istrue
(enabled)
- Download SwitchBot App - iOS App Store / Google Play Store
- Register / or Login into your SwitchBot account
- Open the device that you want to add to this platform
- Click
Device Info
- Copy the
BLE MAC
address - Add the address to the
address
property of the device in theconfig.json
file (Your configuration)
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