homebridge-fireswitch

Homebridge plugin to set/get values in Firebase.

Installation

npm install -g homebridge-fireswitch

Configuration

Add this to your '~/.homebridge/config.json' as an accessory:

{
    "accessory": "FireSwitch",
    "name": "My Switch",
    "server": "https://myserver.firebaseio.com",
    "path": "/path/to/my/on_off/value",
    "on_value": "turn_it_on",
    "off_value": "turn_it_off",
    "auth_method": "password",
    "auth_credentials": {
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "password": "very_secret_password"
    }
}

• server: This is the database server hostname assigned to your Firebase instance.
• path: This is the path in the database reference. This can use variable expansion.
• on_value: This is the value to set when the switch is turned on. If this is blank "on" events are ignored.
• off_value: This is the value to set when the switch is turned off. If this is blank "off" events are ignored.
• auth_method: This is the authentication method used to authenticate against the Firebase instance. Options are:
  • "password" to use authWithPassword()
  • "customtoken" to use authWithCustomToken()
  • "anonymously" to use authAnonymously()
• auth_credentials: This is the authentication credentials to use with auth_method. For:
  • "password" this should be a JSON object containing the email and password values.
  • "customtoken" this should be a string containing a token generated in the Firebase console.
  • "anonymously" this is ignored.

Variables

Variables in the path are set in curly braces like:

{$var_name}

Variables are expanded after authorization is complete.

Supported Variables

• {$uid} - The result of firebase_database.getAuth().uid

Tutorial

The project wiki has a simple tutorial that demonstrates how to create and control a widget with this project.

Notes

Currently this works only with Firebase libraries < 3.0.0

See this conversation in the Firebase Google Groups. For Firebase >= 3.0.0 in NodeJS only custom token authentication is supported. However, the 2.4.1 libraries for NodeJS work well with Firebase 3.x.