Investigation into the use of ANAVI Infrared pHAT to bridge a “dumb” air conditioner into HomeKit.
This code has been ported into the much more extensible Homebridge as the plugin homebridge-anavi-infrared-aircon. Prefer its use instead.
This server was designed and tested on Raspberry Pi Zero W.
- Install packages. For Raspbian Stretch:
# apt install nodejs-legacy npm lirc i2c-tools libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev- Enable I2C
- Enable LIRC module overlay. Update
/etc/lirc/lirc_options.confand/etc/lirc/hardware.conf. - Reboot
- Create LIRC configuration
homepi-ac temperature$ ./index.js temperature
80.96000000000001°Fhomepi-ac ac -d <lirc-device-name> <power|down|up|fan|timer|mode>./index.js ac -d LG_AKB73016012 power
(beep beep!)homepi-ac server -d <lirc-device-name> -c <pin> -n [network-device-name] -s <serial-number> -p [port]./index.js server -d LG_AKB73016012 -c 000-00-001 -s 000000000000
(beep beep!)$ git clone https://github.com/zwaldowski/homepi-ac.git
$ cd homepi-ac
# mkdir /var/lib/homekit
# npm install -g --prefix /var/lib/homekit
# useradd —-system homekit
# usermod -a -G i2c homekit
# chown -R homekit /var/lib/homekit
# cp data/etc-default-homepi-ac.defaults-sample /etc/default/homepi-ac
# nano /etc/default/homepi-ac
# cp data/etc-systemd-system-homepi-ac.service-sample /etc/systemd/system/homepi-ac.service
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl enable homepi-ac
# systemctl start homepi-ac
$ systemctl status homepi-ac