Trying to use the Valve service but it's values in the services.yml config file don't exist in the latest release, but they are there in master. Any plan to push a version update with the latest? Thanks!

While doing some initial testing I realized that I don't have a code to add the accessory to the Home app on iOS. I used your sample code to create a fan then broadcast, but when trying to add the accessory there was no code.

Am I missing something?

When trying to run the fan example, I get the following error on 0.1.16 and 0.1.15:

ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home.rb:32:in `block in start'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:19:in `run'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:19:in `loop'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:20:in `block in run'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:20:in `select'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:20:in `block (2 levels) in run'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:31:in `block in accept'
ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/ruby_home-0.1.16/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:63:in `read'
ruby/2.5.0/webrick/httpresponse.rb:205:in `send_response'
ruby/2.5.0/webrick/httpresponse.rb:214:in `rescue in send_response': undefined method `error' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

This error message appears immediately when I tap "Add Anyway" (or something similar) on my phone after selecting the RubyHome bridge, before I can enter the code. If I revert to 0.1.14, the fan example works, as well as my custom scripts.

I'm on:
mac OS 10.13.6
ruby 2.5.0p0
libsodium 1.0.16

When going from 0.1.16 -> 0.1.14, I noticed the following bundler output:
Using oj 3.7.1 (was 3.7.4)
Using ruby_home 0.1.14 (was 0.1.16)

If, after adding a device on my phone, I upgrade to 0.1.16, I get the same error, this time immediately upon running the script. Back down to 0.1.14 and it works again. If there's anything further I can do to help diagnose, let me know.

when creating a service the default room is selected. The services need to be manually moved to the correct room in the Home app.
It should be possible to define a room while creating a service.

Accessory Sends Events to Controller

The accessory should support delivering notifications by sending an event message, which is an unsolicited HTTP response, over the TCP connection established by the controller. An event message has the same format as an HTTP response, but uses a protocol version of EVENT/1.0. Event messages must never interrupt a response that is already being sent. A response message must also never interrupt an event message. Either of these violations would result in the controller receiving a corrupt message. Event messages do not receive an HTTP response from the controller.

For example when the value of the "current temperature" value changes, the accessory sends the following unsolicited message to the controller:

EVENT/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: application/hap+json
Content-Length: <length>
{
  "characteristics" : [
    {
      "aid" : 1,
      "iid" : 4,
      "value" : 23.0
    }
  ]
}

It'd be neat to be able to change the name of the device (bridge) that appears when you first try to pair, which is I think defined here. Perhaps it could be given as an argument to RubyHome.run?

@karlentwistle Thanks for releasing the new version of the gem with the Television functionality. I got it installed and I am able to create an accessory, a television service, a speaker service, a few input services and link them all together.

They show up in the Home app and I can control volume and send button presses from the Remote app as well.

The only thing I can't get to work is to show the accessory as a TV in the Home app.

I've tried doing

RubyHome.configure do |c|
   c.discovery_name = 'Television'
   c.category_identifier = :television
 end

per the example, but this seems to operate on the Bridge, not the accessory. When I have this configuration, I see a TV icon when adding the bridge to the Home app, but after the accessory is added it displays a house icon instead of a TV.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Hi,

I got the basic fan example working properly and then tried changing the fan to a garage door opener with:

door = RubyHome::AccessoryFactory.create(:garage_door_opener)

door.characteristic(:target_door_state).on(:updated) do |new_value|
  puts new_value.inspect
end

I deleted the bridge from my phone, and the YAML file from my working directory, before running the script again. The bridge shows in the Home app, but after entering the code, I get the error message:

Couldn't add RubyHome
Home couldn't connect to this accessory.

If, instead of replacing the fan with a garage door opener, I add a second fan to the example, both fans show up and work properly in the Home app.

I'm using ruby 2.5.0p0 on OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and iOS 11.4.1 if that helps. Thanks.

I mean this line:

accessory_information = RubyHome::ServiceFactory.create(:accessory_information)

What's it supposed to do? It's not really used anywhere else in any of the examples, and if I comment it in my own sensor implementation it doesn't really change anything.

Also, is there any other way to get to which service has which characteristics available other than doing sensor = RubyHome::ServiceFactory.create(:temperature_sensor) and then calling sensor.characteristics and going through it?

It is possible to run ruby_home on Debian within Docker, but if you're running Docker on macOS you're likely to have problems.

ruby_home depends on dnssd which in turn depends on dbus. From what I can tell dbus is not enabled by default in Docker containers. The only workaround I could find was to connect the container to the host machine's dbus by mounting two volumes to the Docker container and running the container on a Linux host machine.

I was not able to get this to run in a Docker container running on a macOS host.

I also dropped a note upstream on the dnssd gem about this: tenderlove/dnssd#26

When first pairing why does the bridge / accessory information always display with unavailable.

Specifically, what is the amber exclamation mark about.

Seems like a bug but could just be part of Home Kit. Would be good to investigate the behaviour with an official accessory and compare.

Do you think you will be implementing the new HomeKit accessory types in IOS 18. Specifically the vacuum and the energy consumption ?

Thanks
Eric Smith

This projects is awesome.
Until now i've used it on an old mac mini.
Now i would like to move everything on my OpenBSD home server.

It misses dns-sd, I'm getting the following error during install:

checking for dns_sd.h... no

I've already searched for an OpenBSD port of FreeBSD's net/avahi-libdns without luck.
Also, on OpenBSD there's not a port of Debian's libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev

Do you know a workaround for this?

BTW many many thx for putting your efforts in building this thing, i saw your talk from Sheffield Ruby 18 and felt astonished by your hard work!

Hi,

Is it possible that you can push a new version of you gem? I would like to use some of the changes you made.

Best regards,
Andreas

I'm trying to get up and running with ruby_home, but struggling to get off the ground. My iOS device is an iPhone X running iOS 12.0.1. I've run the bin/rubyhome script, and see this output:

$ bin/rubyhome                              
Please enter this code with your HomeKit app on your iOS device to pair with RubyHome
                       
    ┌────────────┐     
    │ 150-11-185 │    
    └────────────┘     
                       
Listening on 0.0.0.0:4567

At this point, I tap to add a new HomeKit accessory on my iPhone, and see "RubyHome", so I add that and give the code above. This is the terminal output after that:

*** 192.168.0.49:60726 connected
[2018-11-06 15:21:55] INFO  WEBrick 1.4.2
[2018-11-06 15:21:55] INFO  ruby 2.5.1 (2018-03-29) [x86_64-darwin17]
192.168.0.49 - - [06/Nov/2018:15:21:55 +0000] "POST /pair-setup HTTP/1.1" 200 409 0.0915
192.168.0.49 - - [06/Nov/2018:15:22:01 +0000] "POST /pair-setup HTTP/1.1" 200 69 0.0442
192.168.0.49 - - [06/Nov/2018:15:22:01 +0000] "POST /pair-setup HTTP/1.1" 200 140 0.0036
*** 192.168.0.49:60726 disconnected
*** 192.168.0.49:60727 connected
192.168.0.49 - - [06/Nov/2018:15:22:02 +0000] "POST /pair-verify HTTP/1.1" 200 140 0.0047
192.168.0.49 - - [06/Nov/2018:15:22:02 +0000] "POST /pair-verify HTTP/1.1" 200 3 0.0012
- - - [06/Nov/2018:15:22:02 +0000] "GET /accessories HTTP/1.1" 200 2138 0.0040
E, [2018-11-06T15:22:02.454241 #56017] ERROR -- : undefined method `write' for "":String (NoMethodError)
/Users/james/.rubies/ruby-2.5.1/lib/ruby/2.5.0/webrick/httpresponse.rb:298:in `send_header'
/Users/james/.rubies/ruby-2.5.1/lib/ruby/2.5.0/webrick/httpresponse.rb:210:in `send_response'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/hap_response.rb:14:in `send_response'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:62:in `read'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:33:in `block in accept'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:21:in `block (2 levels) in run'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:21:in `select'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:21:in `block in run'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:20:in `loop'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home/hap/server.rb:20:in `run'
/Users/james/Code/experiments/ruby_home/lib/ruby_home.rb:32:in `block in start'
*** 192.168.0.49:60727 disconnected

On the phone it shows an error message: "Couldn't add RubyHome - Home couldn't connect to this accessory".

I've tried the other examples from the README, and get the same results. I'd really love to get this working -- anything I can do to help debug it, please let me know.

Hi there!
I am trying to read color temperature from a light bulb in Ruby Home. I tried doing it the same way as accessing hue and brightness in the example - am I doing something wrong?

accessory_information = RubyHome::ServiceFactory.create(:accessory_information)
lightbulb = RubyHome::ServiceFactory.create(:lightbulb,
  on: true,
  name: "lightbulb",
  brightness: 100,
  color_temperature: 100,
)

lightbulb.color_temperature.after_update do |c|
  puts "lightbulb color temp is at #{c}"
end

RubyHome.run

But lightbulb.color_temperature does not exist (undefined method). Any ideas? Or does this only support reading it as color (hue, saturation and brightness)?

Thanks so much!

I have a Z-Wave service running on my network, and I'm using ruby_home to bridge that to HomeKit.

To keep things in sync, I poll that z-wave service to get the current status of the various components in my house, and then update that value in ruby_home.

The problem is that sometimes the z-wave service can take a few minutes to update the value properly. So when I poll the z-wave service to the current value, then set that value via ruby_home, a command is sent back to the z-wave service, and the device gets updated, which sometimes resets the value of that device.

For example:

Bedroom light is at 100%
Open Home app on my iPhone, set Bedroom light to 50%
Command goes Home App -> Ruby Home -> Wave, and the light goes to 50%
However, the stupid z-wave service doesn't update itself immediately.
So now, my polling tool checks ZWave, which reports back that the light is still 100%
So then the polling tool updates the value to 100% in Ruby_Home, which then sends the command to that device to update to 100%, and now the light in the bedroom just went from 50% back to 100%.

What I want to do is only update the characteristic value in ruby_home/homekit, without triggering the full on_update chain.

Currently I do this:

@bridged_devices[zway_switch.id].on.value = current_status

But doing that always calls the after_update hook.

How can I set that value without calling the after_update hook?

Do I just need to use value_object.value= instead ?

Hello,

We've tried to activate or update your repository on Depfu and found something odd:

Your repo contains both a *.gemspec file and a Gemfile.lock.

Depfu can't really handle that right now, unfortunately, and it's also not best practice:

If your repo contains a *.gemspec that usually means it is meant to be used as a Gem, or put differently, a library. Locking dependencies on a library (via Gemfile.lock) doesn't really make sense, especially since the Gemfile.lock can't and won't be honored when building and installing the gem.

Instead, you should declare your dependencies as specifically as needed (but as loose as possible) in the *.gemspec and add the Gemfile.lock to your .gitignore.

By checking in the Gemfile.lock, you will not only break Depfu (which we might fix at some point, maybe), but you will also keep your CI from testing against real life sets of dependencies.

This is an automated issue by Depfu. You're getting it because someone configured Depfu to automatically update dependencies on this project.

It would be useful to expand the README to show how to create more accessories than just the fan example.

Hi there!
I seem to be unable to add RubyHome to HomeKit (iOS 12.1.4, RubyHome running on Debian 9.8, Ruby 2.4.0), it says the code is incorrect (though I'm pretty sure i haven't mistyped it a hundred times). Pairing with HomeBridge works though, so I think the iOS-Devices are fine. I've tried resetting everything several times by deleting the yml files, but the new codes didn't work either.

I've looked at it - this check fails. The values look something like @M="af70fee65c32f5ccffd292e394a23bfccba43463fd9c481b96c6a6b7ecf3ffaa95ea6f06eb2349e5721ca7a7f0ee9042305d139f3edceab077d5ef9eb4137465"
client_M="\xF8\x00\x00\x8C\r\x7F\x00\x00\xA0H\x02\x8C\r\x7F\x00\x00a9d23346f1e4f698b01240ad830cf029d5d57fc79f1b1fc5e2c40862dfb3828fd2c58aa80f678a45a7f4d78b9c4ac33fec5546f2a10430a3"

I don't really know anything about SRP...
Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

in Homekit there are different types of contact sensors available, e.g. door or window.
Setting the typ should be possible when creating services.

unpack1 was introduced in Ruby 2.4. Please update Gemfile accordingly.

Figure out why bundling with Sinatra 2.0.3 is broken and fix it. It works with 2.0.1

I'm implementing a split AC unit with no heater, starting from the included heater/cooler example. Removing the unneeded characteristics from the ServiceFactory call works fine, and I can prevent the "Heat" option from showing up with the following code, inserted just after it:

heater_cooler.characteristics.each do |c|
  if c.name == :target_heater_cooler_state
    c.constraints["ValidValues"].delete("1")
  end
end

I also want to limit the temperature between 17 and 31C in 1C steps, but the same strategy doesn't work there:

heater_cooler.characteristics.each do |c|
  if c.name == :cooling_threshold_temperature
    c.constraints["MaximumValue"] = 31
    c.constraints["MinimumValue"] = 17
    c.constraints["StepValue"] = 1
  end
end

The slider on my phone still shows 10 to 35C in 0.5C steps. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi,

I've noticed that HomeBridge has a "TV" device defined (via a plugin). Any plans to do that for RubyHome? Can I help to add it if not?

Thank you!
Matt