Sync your Magic Home device to your display and control it all via Homebridge

This Homebridge plugin provides a simple switch that enables and disables a Python script on a host display. The script finds the most dominant colour on the display ands sends it to a Magic Home light.

The result is a much more immersive viewing experience.

Installation

Homebridge

Given that you already have Homebridge installed and set up, you can install this plugin with the following command:

$ sudo npm install -g homebridge-magichome-sync

Host Display

A Python version >= 3 must be used to run the host application.

First you must clone the repository on the host machine using the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/mjsamuel/Homebridge-MagicHome-Sync.git

After that, to create a virtual environment for all the projects dependencies to be installed into, use the following commands:

# Navigate to the host folder
$ cd Homebridge-MagicHome-Sync/host

# Create a Python virtual environment
$ python -m venv venv

# Activate the virtual environment
$ source ./venv/bin/activate

# Download the requirements
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Once all the dependencies have been installed, to run the Python script use the following command:

$ python run.py

The Python application can also be configured to run on startup using tools such as forever or launchctl.

Configuration

Settings

• name is the name for the accessory, default is "Magic Home Sync"
• host_ip is the IP address of the host device that is running the sync program
• host_port is the host display port, default is "6006"
• light_ip is the IP address of the light to be synced with the host
• light_type is the Magic Home device type, being either "RGB", "RGBW" or" RGBWW", default is "RGBW"
• polling interval is the interval in seconds that the lights are updated in, default is 1

Example Configuration

"accessories": [
    {
        "accessory": "MagicHomeSync",
        "name": "MH Sync",
        "host_ip": "192.168.2.128",
        "host_port": 6006,
        "light_ip": "192.168.2.129",
        "light_type": "RGBWW",
        "polling_interval": 0.5
    }
]

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to:

• Danielhiversen for his flux_led project which was stripped down and used to interface with Magic Home devices