Mark Coleman

Mark Coleman is a full stack developer focusing on the latest in web technologies. Mark enjoys learning about new programming trends. Mark also likes to share his knowledge by attending local development groups and blogging (kramnameloc.com) about programming topics. When Mark is not absorbing everything development he enjoys photography, anything pertaining to The Simpsons, and a part time craft beer/bacon aficionado.

Homebridge -> LED

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Tonight was a big night. I had the goal of using home kit to turn on and off the LED attached to the raspberry pi. This was accomplished by the open source project homebridge which I setup previously on my iMac. The documentation on creating a plugin is is sparse but I was able to piece together a working accessory that worked with . . .

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December 15, 2015

Setting up HomeBridge

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This week I read about homebridge. This immediately peaked my interest in my adventures with the Raspberry Pi. I wonder if I could ask siri to flash the led? I suppose the easiest way is to see if we can get homebridge setup based on the readme.md.

sudo npm install -g homebridge

After a few seconds I ran the command homebridge . . .

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December 12, 2015