{"id":28949,"date":"2015-12-13T23:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/?p=28949"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:03:37","slug":"smartthings-raspberry-pi-homebridge-siri-homekit-controlled-smart-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/apple\/smartthings-raspberry-pi-homebridge-siri-homekit-controlled-smart-home.html","title":{"rendered":"SmartThings + Raspberry Pi & Homebridge = Siri HomeKit Controlled Smart Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s everything you need to get\u00a0Siri controlling your Samsung SmartThings, Philips Hue lighting and Sonos using a Raspberry Pi running\u00a0Homebridge.\u00a0Automated Home reader (and\u00a0media producer)\u00a0Paul Gale<\/a>\u00a0takes us through his step-by-step guide finishing up with a rather impressive seasonal smart home video.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey Siri, make it Christmas!<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0Or how to get Siri to control HomeKit and non-HomeKit devices by using Samsung SmartThings and a Raspberry Pi to set a Christmas lighting scene\u00a0on a range of bulbs\u00a0and decorations and kick off the right playlist (UK specific instructions).<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been automating my home for more than 15 years now with systems such as CBus<\/a>\u00a0lighting, wall mounted control panels, a Comfort<\/a> alarm system, HomeVision hardware HA controller, whole-house audio, electric curtains and roof lights etc. The list was long. Oh, and around 8km of Cat5e cabling!<\/p>\n

We recently decided to move and down-size a little but the result of that was that I had to say goodbye to most of my lovely automation kit. A result of so many years of research, installation and programming and chatting to the great guys on the Automated Home\u00a0forums<\/a> and mailing list<\/a>. We\u2019re now in a rented house, waiting for our new house to be built.<\/p>\n

I just couldn\u2019t resist the lure of Home Automation yet again as the default house lights were just sooo 1990\u2019s and boring. Obviously I\u2019m pretty restricted to what I can install in a rented property, so I invested in some wireless Philips Hue lamps, both the colour plug in type, some newer Iris wall washing colour lamps and a rather nice Hue beyond desk lamp. I\u2019ve had the original Philips Hue Iris lamps for some years now but the newer versions link up together and with other lamps in the Hue system via a hub, all controllable via the Hue iOS app. Pretty cool eh?<\/p>\n

\"Philips<\/p>\n

Well, just recently, Philips updated the Hue hub to v2 <\/a>and with this came Apple HomeKit support and the ability to control the lamps via spoken commands to Siri. Wow, that was fun and actually surprisingly useful, finding that we\u2019d now control most of the Hue lights this way as it was just so much quicker than unlocking the iPhone, opening the app and stabbing at various buttons.<\/p>\n

Then came the Samsung SmartThings<\/a> system with its promise of easy integration and control of a number of very clever wireless sensors and devices. Naturally the SmartThings hub could also link to the Hue system and some other bits \u2018n\u2019 bobs I already had like a Logitech Harmony remote and a Sonos Play:1 speaker. I soon was wishing for Siri control of these new devices as unfortunately the SmartThings system isn\u2019t natively HomeKit compatible. It turns out though that it is indeed possible via some very clever community projects and code.<\/p>\n

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The following guide was assembled to help others achieve HomeKit nirvana with a modest amount of kit and a few apps. I must stress that it\u2019s mostly based on other people\u2019s work and guides spread across many sites and pages but brought together into one hopefully useful guide. Huge credit to all those people in the various projects and forums for the amazing amount of work put in to enable others (for free) to achieve something special. Please do consider donating where there\u2019s an option. I\u2019ve also detailed the modifications needed to run this within the UK (and possibly Europe).<\/p>\n

This does require a reasonable amount of effort and some knowledge of Windows, Linux and iOS but should be achievable for most average to advanced users.<\/p>\n

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