Homebridge GPIO WiringPi - Platform Plugin

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Please report issues at https://github.com/rsg98/homebridge-gpio-wpi2/issues

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Supports triggering General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins on the Raspberry Pi.

Uses wiringPi as a back end to give non-root access to GPIO.

Requirements

• Homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient
• node-wiring-pi - Node.js bindings to wiringPi

This version of the plugin expects WiringPi itself to already be installed - see the documentation for node-wiring-pi for more details, or just follow the instructions below for Raspbian.

Installation

1. Install the wiringpi package using sudo apt-get install wiringpi
2. Install Homebridge using sudo npm install -g homebridge
3. Install this plugin sudo npm install homebridge-gpio-wpi2
4. Update your configuration file - see config-platform-sample.json in this repo
5. Make sure your homebridge user is in the gpio group.

 $ sudo usermod -G gpio homebridge

Configuration

The pin numbers used in this config file are the BCM pin numbers, not the physical pins or WiringPi pin numbers.

You can run gpio readall to generate a table showing how the BCM pin numbers map to the physical pins, which varies between models of Raspberry Pi.

{
    "bridge": {
        "name": "Homebridge",
        "username": "CC:22:3D:E3:CE:30",
        "port": 51826,
        "pin": "031-45-155"
    },
    "description": "This is an example configuration file with one fake accessory and one fake platform.",
 
    "platforms": [{
          "platform" : "WiringPiPlatform",
          "name" : "Pi GPIO (WiringPi)",
          "overrideCache" : "true",
          "autoExport" : "true",
          "gpiopins" : [{
      	"type":"Switch",
        "name" : "GPIO2",
                "pin"  : 27,
                "enabled" : "true",
                "mode" : "out",
                "pull" : "down",
                "inverted" : "false",
                "duration" : 0,
                "polling" : "true"
            },{
        "type":"MotionSensor",
                "name" : "GPIO3",
                "pin"  : 22,
                "enabled" : "true",
                "mode" : "in",
                "pull" : "down",
                "inverted" : "false",
                "duration" : 0
          }]
    }]
}
 

Platform Config Items

Config Item	Valid Values	Description
platform	WiringPiPlatform	Must be set to this value to initialise this plugin
name	string	What you want this platform to be called (appears in the logs and such like)
overrideCache	true / false	Homebridge will cache all your accessories - setting this to true will ignore the cached value (direction, mode, etc.) and read them direcly from your config file
autoExport	true / false	As long as your homebridge user has permission (i.e. is a member of the gpio group), setting this to true will automatically export the pins via sysfs, meaning you don't need a set-gpio.sh script

Pin Config Items

Config Item	Valid Values	Description
"type"	"string"	Type of device connected to GPIO. Set to "Switch" for "out" pin mode, or one of "ContactSensor", "LeakSensor", "MotionSensor", "OccupancySensor", or "SmokeSensor" for "in" pin mode
name	string	Initial display name for the PIN accessory - can be renamed in HomeKit app (e.g. Home)
pin	number	The BCM pin number - see Pin Configuration below
enabled	true / false	Whether you want the module to publish this pin as an accessory
mode	out / in	Mode the pin should operate in
pull	up / down / off	Configuration for the built in Pi pull up resistor
inverted	true / false	Reverse the behaviour of the GPIO pin (0 is on, 1 is off)
duration	number	Pin will turn off after this number of miliseconds
polling	true / false	Whether Homebridge should periodically check the status of the pin (perhaps it's being set by something external to homebridge)

Pin Configuration

If you don't use the autoExport option above, you'll need to manually configure the relevant GPIO pins using the gpio utility included with wiringPi.

This is not necessary if you use autoExport and your homebridge user is a member of the gpio group.

$ gpio readall
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 2---+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 | BCM | wPi |   Name  | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name    | wPi | BCM |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 |     |     |    3.3v |      |   |  1 || 2  |   |      | 5v      |     |     |
 |   2 |   8 |   SDA.1 |  OUT | 0 |  3 || 4  |   |      | 5V      |     |     |
 |   3 |   9 |   SCL.1 |   IN | 1 |  5 || 6  |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   4 |   7 | GPIO. 7 |   IN | 1 |  7 || 8  | 1 | ALT0 | TxD     | 15  | 14  |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   |  9 || 10 | 1 | ALT0 | RxD     | 16  | 15  |
 |  17 |   0 | GPIO. 0 |   IN | 0 | 11 || 12 | 1 | IN   | GPIO. 1 | 1   | 18  |
 |  27 |   2 | GPIO. 2 |  OUT | 0 | 13 || 14 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |  22 |   3 | GPIO. 3 |   IN | 0 | 15 || 16 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 4 | 4   | 23  |
 |     |     |    3.3v |      |   | 17 || 18 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 5 | 5   | 24  |
 |  10 |  12 |    MOSI |   IN | 0 | 19 || 20 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   9 |  13 |    MISO |   IN | 0 | 21 || 22 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 6 | 6   | 25  |
 |  11 |  14 |    SCLK |   IN | 0 | 23 || 24 | 1 | IN   | CE0     | 10  | 8   |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   | 25 || 26 | 1 | IN   | CE1     | 11  | 7   |
 |   0 |  30 |   SDA.0 |   IN | 1 | 27 || 28 | 1 | IN   | SCL.0   | 31  | 1   |
 |   5 |  21 | GPIO.21 |   IN | 1 | 29 || 30 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   6 |  22 | GPIO.22 |   IN | 1 | 31 || 32 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.26 | 26  | 12  |
 |  13 |  23 | GPIO.23 |   IN | 0 | 33 || 34 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |  19 |  24 | GPIO.24 |   IN | 0 | 35 || 36 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.27 | 27  | 16  |
 |  26 |  25 | GPIO.25 |   IN | 0 | 37 || 38 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.28 | 28  | 20  |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   | 39 || 40 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.29 | 29  | 21  |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 | BCM | wPi |   Name  | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name    | wPi | BCM |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 2---+---+------+---------+-----+-----+

The pin number specified in the config.json file is the BCM pin number in this table.

To set up the pins correctly, this module includes a make-gpio-script script, which will generate a set-gpio.sh. You should run set-gpio.sh before starting Homebridge so that all the pins are configured. If you start Homebridge using systemd, you can add set-gpio.sh as a ExecStartPre command in the homebridge.service file

$ node make-gpio-script config.json set-gpio.sh

The gpio tool is setuid root, so this script should be run as the user that runs Homebridge.

Troubleshooting

Homebridge reports no errors, but nothing is switched on or off

Check the permissions in /sys/class/gpio/gpioXX - autoExport option should have created all these properly, if your Homebridge user account has the right permissions (i.e. is a member of the gpio group)

 $ sudo usermod -G gpio homebridge

If you are not using autoExport, you should run the set-gpio.sh script as the homebridge user (see section above to generate this script):

$ node make-gpio-script config.json set-gpio.sh

Licence

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2016 Richard Grime [e-mail]

Original Project Copyright (c) 2016 James Blanksby [e-mail]

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