Chewie is a home assistant. It allows you to control your home without any limit. The system is entirely based on plugins that extend its base and functionalities. The main goal of Chewie is to be completely open and act as a very simple base for plugins from community while being evolutive to last in time. The project is free of use and open source. Please your are welcome to contribute :)

Well, at first it was a personal project started before all these home assistant where released and popular. At that time I wanted to learn node.js and play with my raspberry. Then I rapidly took alot of fun developing it and decided to make a complete plateform based on plugins. My philosophy is to develop a solid base system which may be extended thanks to plugins and live for a long time. Chewie is very open minded.

• Git
• node.js
• npm or yarn
• mplayer2 (this is the default adapter for sounds output)

Installation of assistant itself is globally the same on Windows/Linux.

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1. git clone https://github.com/mbret/chewie.git.
2. Move to newly created chewie folder and run npm install. You now have the assistant installed and ready.
3. To run chewie move inside chewie folder and run npm run start

1. git clone https://github.com/mbret/chewie.git.
2. Move to newly created chewie folder and run npm install. You now have the assistant installed and ready.
3. To run chewie move inside chewie folder and run npm run start or npm run start:debug if you want more debug information.

*yarn may works way better on low CPU devices as they are many dependencies. Unlike npm yarn proceed some parallel tasks

• https://github.com/mbret/chewie is the application you need to install.
• https://github.com/mbret/chewie-system is the system library than run the project. chewie install chewie-system as a dependencie and handle its installation for you.

To start chewie move to the assistant folder. By default it's chewie and run:

npm run start

You should have access to https://localhost:3000 to get the web app.

If you may want to have more information and debug you can use:

npm run start:debug

You may want to check out these common and popular packages:

• (hook) https://github.com/mbret/chewie-hook-thirdparty-auth-provider Handle easily your social authentications.
• (plugin) https://github.com/mbret/chewie-plugin-date-time Execute task on certain time/date/interval/etc.

1. Use npm to install your package. Ex: npm install git+https://github.com/mbret/chewie-hook-thirdparty-auth-provider.
2. Now you need to tell chewie to use it. Locate your config file (by default settings.json) and add the config:

{
    ...,
    "hooks": {
        "chewie-hook-thirdparty-auth-provider": true
    },
    ...
}

Simply go to https://localhost:3000/#!/dashboard/repository/list. Take note that the remote repository is not available yet.

You can set up a local repository (a folder) and place inside it the plugins you want to use. Chewie will browse the folder and let you manage it through web interface.

• Add this config to specify a local repository:

{
    ...,
    "pluginsLocalRepositoryDir": "/path/to/my/folder",
    ...
}

• Use the web interface.

The purpose of a hook is to extend chewie in term of functionality while a plugin provide new actions for scenarios. A hook is a node package that is installed locally as module and is loaded on system startup. It has access to the entire system and can add/remove/change the behavior of Chewie. The plugin is managed through the app and is "mounted" / "unmounted" during runtime when a scenario that use it need to start.

Try to run npm rebuild to see if it helps.

You probably have invalid or badly installed sqlite3 dependency. Try to do npm install sqlite3 --build-from-source again to see if it helps.

Read the contributing guide

Read the contributing guide

Read the contributing guide

• complete cli to manage chewie