To start, I began taking inventory of all the things in my house I could add to homebridge to use with HomeKit. After getting everything installed and setup a few times (wiping the SD card between installs and retrying), I came to realize how surprisingly easy it is to setup! In this post I’m going to show you how to get your own rPi running homebridge, and even recommend some plugins to use to make it useful.

While doing research for home automation, I stumbled on homebridge and it dawned on me that to use my rPi just for it. I got to wondering, “I should be able to control all the connected devices in my home using just the Home app running iOS 11 on my iPhone 7 Plus and not these other inferior apps!”. Over the coming months however I have been increasingly interested in home automation exclusively with HomeKit. Immediately after I wrote that post, not much happened with my rPi and it sat unplugged for a few months while I mulled over a project to put it to use for. This post is a continuation of my original post guiding you through setting up a headless Raspberry Pi Zero W on macOS. Now you can install Homebridge plugins from the UI, or drop into your terminal and install extras like PiHole (strongly recommend!) Original post below # Voilà! You have a fully functioning Homebridge machine on a RaspberryPi, preconfigured with the latest version of Node.js and a beautiful UI!.Go to in your browser (on macOS, slightly different on Windows).

Wait a few minutes, then follow the steps for the WiFi setup.Pop the micro SD card into your Raspberry Pi and power it on.Write the aforementioned image to your micro SD card (the easiest possible method is using Etcher).Download the latest Homebridge Raspbian image from the Releases page on GitHub.I recently went through the process of rebuilding my Homebridge setup on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and it went so smooth I couldn’t believe it! I can vouch that that is now the easiest possible way to get Homebridge onto a RaspBerry Pi. With the recent release of the official Homebridge Raspbian image and associated wiki pages, it is now easier than ever to get started with Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi completed with a configurable UI that lets you install Homebridge plugins right from a web browser. It has come to my attention that there is now a pre-built version of Raspbian including Homebridge and Node.js baked specifically for Raspberry Pi models, available since March 2020! I recommend going this route over following the tutorial below, however if you choose to take this in yourself then continue reading.

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