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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
!! Note !! Before Monterey !! As a part of one of my projects, the ultimate Weather site ?? Weather34(W34), I needed a WEB-host with PHP and started to use a Raspberry Pi. In this post You will get some short install tips on Apache with PHP on a Mac with Mojave, macOS 10.14.x, and at the end of the post the W34 installation is done.
Updated 2019-09-02 ! If you think it's ok that the broadband speed appears as temperature in Home apps this plugin is very nice.
The plugin, used with Homebridge(HB), measures Your broadband speed at chosen intervals. If You use the free app "Eve for Homekit", besides that it shows the last measured broad band speed, it also shows the speed history in a nice graph.
Prerequisites is listed in the beginning of the post for installation on Raspberry Pi(RPi) You will find migration information, from WeatherLink 1.0 to WeatherLink 2.0, in this post
Extending Your WiFi via cable have the advantage, compared to extending via WFi, that You keep the bandwidth at max. Extending Your WiFi with products that use the same frequencies, as Your WiFi, will just put through 50% of the data flow.
One way to extend the WiFi is with a cheap router, or maybe an old router You don't use any more.
Updated 2019-02-05 ! Using Homebridge for a while, getting nice hardware to emulate Apples HomeKit devices, I finally decided to test IKEA:s Trådfri concept. The actual device that I was interested in is the wireless control outlet. But they have bulbs and other stuff that is really nice priced.
This post will cover an installation of the Trådfri gateway with a HomeKit approach.