HomeKit bridge with Ring

With HomeBridge installed on a Raspberry Pi, (RPi), You just install the homebridge-ring plugin and the Ring accessories will appear in Apple HomeKit

This post will cover the Ring video doorbell but is a guide for other Ring products.

Prerequisites

• Homebridge
• Ring doorbell
• Ring account

OpenPlotter, V1, quick install guide

Updated 2020-01-13 !

OpenPlotter is;

• A complete boat navigation system
• Includes OpenCPN, Chart plotter navigation
• OpenSource, so it's free !
• Running on Raspberry Pi(RPi)
• Its hardware is cheap
• Running on Unix, so its reliable

I really don't recommend this old OP 1, instead check out OP V2, stable, which works very well ! 

Razberry backup and restore

There are two ways to take a backup of Your Raspberry Pi:s, (RPi) Razberry(RZ) configuration;

• Clone the Raspberry boot disk
• Backup just the Razberry configuration

The first way is a described in this post and here we will use the built in function in the Razberry GUI

HomeKit bridge with IKEA Trådfri, Blinds

         Updated 2019-09-20 !

This Blogpost was initially made before the IKEA outlets was enabled in the Apple Home app. They could then just be reached via a Tradfri Homebridge plugin. 

Since a while blinds are supported by this plugin but not by the IKEA Gateway and app so maybe its time again to install it ?

Another post covers the installation of the Trådfri gateway with a HomeKit approach. (Without Homebridge)

Other HomeKit posts on this Blogg

HomeKit bridge with Z-Wave II

In a former post I used Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi, to make Z-wave devices appear in the Apple Home app, but there is a simpler and faster, way.

Start with the install of the Razberry card or upgrade to Z-way V3.0.0

Other HomeKit posts on this Blogg

Internet speed measure

Updated 2019-08-10 !

New to Node-Red(NR) and maybe start with a simple application You can benefit direct from ?

This application is measuring Your Internet connection at chosen intervals using Speedtest.net and showing the result in a graph. If the speed is under a set value it will send You an email.

New ! better version !

NMEA WiFi gateway II

My thoughts, about NMEA WiFi have finalized ? since my first post in the subject and the Yacht Devices YDWG-02N is now installed in my NMEA2000/ST/NMEA0183 network and works just fine. 

I'm already using Raymarine ST => ST NG converter but otherwise I had bought the YDNR-02 instead which should have done the same job.

Please find some thoughts from the installation below.

Mojave on unsupported Mac

Updated 2019-05-11 !

My old Mac Book Air, mid 2011, didn't support the latest MacOS, Mojave. So after some checking I found this brilliant fix which did the job.

This guy have really done a fantastic job with great instructions and even a Youtube video.

Weather34 & WeatherLink w/o cronjob

Running Weather 34, W34, using my setup, the program "cumulusdata.php" is fetching data from Davis Weatherlink(WL), and are writing the data to a file, type Cumulus. The old way was to fetch the data via a scheduled cronjob. 

Doing a small change to "windspeeddirection.php", "updater.php" , and using the latest version of "cumulusdata.php", will do the update with the built in W34 refresh routine instead of cron job.

Thanks to Ken who gave me the hint.

HomeKit bridge with Telldus Live

Updated 2019-03-18 !

Do You have Telldus devices up and running and want them to be visible and used in Apples Home app ?

With some software and a Raspberry Pi(RPi) they will appear in the HomeKit environment.

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IKEA Bäve dimmer hack

Dimming not dimmable LED, IKEA Bäve

Inspired by LarsWH and using a Z-Wave controller I got it working with a "standard" component.

Other HomeKit posts 
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A new version !! With an IKEA controller and HomeKit enabled is available here !!

HomeKit, Trådfri and Gledopto RGB

I bought the Gledopto RGB+CCT LED controller(GO), so I could use RGB LED strips, not just the IKEA ones.

There were some IF:s, which will be scrutinized below, but it worked.

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