Magic Home

Homebridge Magichome plugin works well with these controllers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V2CB6GG/ They do need a strong 2.4 GHz WiFi signal. My Ubiquiti network controller can set a static IP for them and that is essential for the plugin to work properly. Not sure how well they handle power surges, once I came back from vacation to find two of them in "party mode" and the fix was replacement. But I've never had an issue with them and Homebrige.

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I JUST got my Magic Home light strip working so I can’t speak on long term reliability, but so far so good! For 5 or 10 meters of LEDs, you’re gonna end up paying about 5x less than Phillips Hue or LIFX (starter kit + several extensions). This is the guide I followed: https://stephenradford.me/cheap-homekit-led-strips-lighting/ Let me know if you have questions if you’d decide on it!

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I just use whatever strips I can find on Amazon that come with a magichome controller. They work fine with the homebridge plugin or if you feel adventurous you can flash them with HAA and skip homebridge all together but I haven’t done that yet.

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… budget config to run my full setup. ​ I have some items already, but my final setup would be: \- 5 cameras (Intelbras - RTSP supported by *homebridge-camera-ui*) \- 10 plugs (Tuya - Supported by *0x5e/homebridge-tuya-platform*) \- 8 Led strips (from Magic Home \[or Tuya\] - Supported by *homebridge-magichome-dynamic-platform*) \- 5 lights (Tuya - Supported by *0x5e/homebridge-tuya-platform*) \- 10 light switchers (probably Tuya - Supported by *0x5e/homebridge-tuya-platform*) ​ Today I'm running the server on my Macbook Pro, but I want to have a mini-PC (or anything like …

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I have an RGB/WW/CW LED strip controller that works with the Magic Home app. The platform discovers it and can turn it on and off but cannot set the brightness level and cannot change its color. The Homebridge logs are [code] I'm attaching an image of the controller's box

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I ended up binning that and buying a magic home wifi controllers - the IR receivers were a little shaky and you need them on display to receive a signal. If you get the magic home boxes then there is a good hombridge plug in.

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… scenes, though the config on the plug-in is a little finicky. Make sure to give it a static IP through your router and make sure you set the right type of LEDs you have (likely RGBW for yours). Other than that, it works fine.

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I currently have 7 magichome controllers around the house running both RGB strips and single-colour. They work flawlessly, couldn’t recommend more. If you’re concerned about security on a device like that then they can also be easily flashed with tasmota firmware.

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I have a magic home LED strip and I have added it to homebridge successfully. I’m not exactly sure if you can use the plugin I used since yours is a bulb not LED strip, but a quick search on npm pulled up a few plugins. I would personally give homebridge-magichome-dynamic-platform a try.

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Hey there! That fixed the error! Thank you! (Under a different handle because I got a new phone and apparently didn’t save my old password)

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I would say any WS2812b lightship and one of the “magic home” controllers you can find on Amazon. I’ve been doing this myself for years and have better success than using actual cheap HomeKit light strips.

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The ad is a bit misleading, they show multicolored addressable strips, but in reality they are single colour 5050 strips. You can use a magic home adaptor controller along with https://github.com/sahilchaddha/homebridge-magichome-platform#readme plugin. Have you tried them? They are 5M strips, I don’t see how you can run 4x of those strips on a single adaptor.

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First I would like to thank you for your time, but i am still getting issues with 1.51 [10/30/2020, 8:20:34 AM] [homebridge-magichome-dynamic-platform] Registering existing accessory 'Simple GRB' Model: 'AK001-ZJ2131' Unique ID: 'C82E475FF973' IP-Address: '192.168.0.136' Light Version 8 Version Modifier: 51 Protocol Version: 1 [10/30/2020, 8:20:34 AM] [homebridge-magichome-dynamic-platform] Registering existing accessory 'RGBW Non-Simultanious' Model: 'AK001-ZJ2101' Unique ID: '2CF432F4D667' IP-Address: '192.168.0.123' Light Version 8 Version Modifier: 51 Protocol Version: 8 [10/30/2020, …

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If you have a hue bridge you can add zigbee based led strips like Gledopto controllers that can be discovered by the Hue Bridge then with HomeBridge they’ll be seen in HomeKit

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If it uses the Magic Home app then there's a plugin for it.

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hmmm.. to be honest I dont understand this language so that's where I have trouble. This is my code now: \> {"bridge": {"name": "Homebridge 4A69","username": "0E:A5:84:DB:4A:69","port": 51007,"pin": "584-15-022"},"accessories": \[{"accessory": "MagicHome","name": "LED Lights","ip": "192.168.0.3","setup": "RGBWW","purewhite": true}\],"platforms": \[{"name": "Config","port": 8581,"platform": "config"}{"platform": "MagicHome-Platform","debug": true,"lights": \[{"name": "Bed LED","ip": "192.168.0.3","setup": "RGBWW","purewhite": false,"timeout": 10000}\]} ​ I plugged it into jsonlint.com …

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i have the same problem. unfortunately i spent hours diagnosing it and had no luck except for a workaround to run homebridge as root. try that to see if it works for you. when i get time i’ll probably try again to diag but don’t have much spare time at the moment

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bulbs with hardware version 0x0e are RGBCW bulbs which are currently unsupported. add support for these types of bulbs and enable setting the color temperature directly, transforming between mired (micro-reciprocal degrees) as used by HomeKit and white values, rather than transforming HSL values.

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All you should need to do is: git clone https://github.com/dronenb/homebridge-platform-wiz-simple.git cd homebridge-platform-wiz-simple npm install -g .

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