homebridge-mertik-fireplace

Homebridge plugin for heating your place using the Mertik Fireplace WiFi controller.

Features

With this plugin you can turn your fireplace on using Siri and schedule cosiness with your 'Cosy Time' Scene! The plugin exposes a Heater inside Homekit with the following features:

| Feature | Description | |----------|----------| |Lock Controls| Lock access to fireplace (for example when leaving home lock controls, turn off is always possible!) Switch Child Lock Unlocked/Locked | |Temperature| Set the mode in HomeKit to AUTO. | |Manual| Set the mode in HomeKit to HEAT. | |Eco| Set the mode in HomeKit to COOL. | |Aux| Switch On/Off using the Oscillate switch. |

Install homebridge and this plugin

[sudo] npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge
[sudo] npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-mertik-fireplace

Homebridge configuration

Update your Homebridge config.json file.

"platforms": [
        {
            "fireplaces": [
                {
                    "name": "Blast",
                    "ip": "192.168.1.111"
                }
            ],
            "platform": "MertikFireplace"
        }
    ],

| Key | Default | Description | |-------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | platform|"MertikFireplace"| Mandatory. The name provided to Homebridge. | | fireplaces|[]|Array of configured fireplaces, is needed if you want to connect to one one. (Multiple are supported)| | name|"Blaster"| Mandatory. The name of the fireplace. Note: also used as serial, when changing the name a new instance will be created. | ip|"192.168.1.111"| Mandatory. The plugin uses a fixed ip, make sure the device has a fixed one!

Legal

Mertik is an registered trademarks of Maxitrol GmbH & Co. KG.

This project is in no way affiliated with, authorized, maintained, sponsored or endorsed by Maxitrol or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries.

Credits

These users/repositories helped making the Homekit integration possible:

@erdebee - https://github.com/erdebee/homey-mertik-wifi

And me and yes, I like coffe @ a warm fireplace :)