I was privately playing a little bit with HomeKit at home and had some little success integrating ClickBeetle in my home automation environment controlled by Siri (German voice) See more about the ClickBeetle platform at http://www.feeu.com/clickbeetle See the results in this video:
Siri Homeautomation with Raspberry Pi (for advanced users) For Homeautomation with Siri / Apple HomeKit 2 components are required: FHEM Node.js Homekit FHEM (TM) is a GPL’d perl server for house automation. It is used to automate some common tasks in the household like switching lamps / shutters / heating / etc. and to log … [Read more…]
RaspberryPI Zero W contains WLAN and Bluetooth with LE capability. This makes it perfect controlling BLE peripherals via the BLE-stack Bluez like FEEUs ClickBeetle (www.feeu.com/clickbeelte) Bluez versions in the aptitude repository are pretty old. For this reason it is better to use Bluez from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/ and compile it. First get sure bluez is uninstalled: sudo apt-get … [Read more…]