Homebridge Garage Door Hack

NOTE: This package can only be used with a Raspberry Pi.

Homebridge plugin the supports opening and closing a garage door thought the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi.

This package works by using pin 26 as a digital trigger. The image below shows the pin numbers of the Raspberry Pi.

Installation

1. Install homebridge using: npm install -g homebridge
2. Install this plugin using: npm install -g @toniotgz/homebridge-garage-door-gpio
3. Update your configuration file. See the sample below.

Configuration

Configuration sample:

"accessories": [
  {
    "accessory": "GarageDoorHack",
    "name"     : "Garage Door"
  }
]

Setup Development Environment

To develop Homebridge plugins you must have Node.js 12 or later installed, and a modern code editor such as VS Code. This plugin template uses TypeScript to make development easier and comes with pre-configured settings for VS Code and ESLint. If you are using VS Code install these extensions:

• ESLint

Install Development Dependencies

Using a terminal, navigate to the project folder and run this command to install the development dependencies:

npm install

Build Plugin

TypeScript needs to be compiled into JavaScript before it can run. The following command will compile the contents of your src directory and put the resulting code into the dist folder.

npm run build

Link To Homebridge

Run this command so your global install of Homebridge can discover the plugin in your development environment:

npm link

You can now start Homebridge, use the -D flag so you can see debug log messages in your plugin:

homebridge -D

Watch For Changes and Build Automatically

If you want to have your code compile automatically as you make changes, and restart Homebridge automatically between changes you can run:

npm run watch

This will launch an instance of Homebridge in debug mode which will restart every time you make a change to the source code. It will load the config stored in the default location under ~/.homebridge. You may need to stop other running instances of Homebridge while using this command to prevent conflicts. You can adjust the Homebridge startup command in the nodemon.json file.