homebridge-remote-ledstrip-plugin

Raspberry Pi GPIO based LED Strip plugin for Homebridge

Originally inspired by GiniaE/homebridge-gpio-ledstrip and manfredipist/homebridge-gpio-rgb-ledstrip and base plugin taken from suhajda3/homebridge-rgb-ledstrip

Installation

1. Install Homebridge on your host
2. Install this plugin npm install -g homebridge-remote-ledstrip-plugin (on the host)
3. Run sudo pigpiod after installing the pigpio library and Python (on slave)
4. Optionally install Homebridge Config UI X

Hardware

Follow David Ordnung's tutorial on how to connect your LED Strip to the Rapsberry Pi's GPIO pins.

Configuration

Configuration sample:

   "accessories": [
     {
       "accessory": "RgbLedStrip",
       "name": "Bedroom LED Strip",
       "rPin": 17,
       "gPin": 22,
       "bPin": 24,
       "led-slave": "192.168.178.38"
     }
   ]

Fields:

• "accessory": Must always be "RgbLedStrip" (required)
• "name": Can be anything (required)
• "rPin": GPIO pin that is used to set red value (required)
• "gPin": GPIO pin that is used to set green value (required)
• "bPin": GPIO pin that is used to set blue value (required)
• "led-slave": IP of the client directly controlling the strip (required)

Contributing

Feel free to open an issue (or even better, send a Pull Request) to contribute. Contributions are always welcomed! 😄