homebridge-homewizard-energy-socket

Homebridge plugin for HomeWizard Energy Socket

This Homebridge plugin exposes your HomeWizard Energy Sockets to Apple HomeKit. So you can use the Home App to manually switch - or automate - your Energy Sockets.

Important: This plugin is new and still in development. Please report any issues you encounter.

Getting started

For Homebridge to communicate with your Energy Sockets, it is preferred they all have a fixed IP address in your network. You also need to enable the "Local API" setting from within the HomeWizard "Energy" app for each Energy Socket you want to expose to Apple HomeKit.

More on this on the HomeWizard support page: Integrating Energy with other systems (API)

Set fixed IP addresses

First, verify if all Energy Sockets have a fixed IP address in your network. If not, adjust your router settings to give each Energy Socket a fixed IP address. If you don't know how to do this, or you can't set fixed IP addresses, then there might be issues when an Energy Socket is assigned a different IP address by your router after setting up this plugin.

1. Open your local router or network settings
2. Find the IP addresses of each Energy Socket you want to use
3. Make sure they use a fixed IP address

Enabling the Local API setting (required)

1. Open your HomeWizard "Energy" app
2. Go to settings and choose "Meters"
3. Tap on each Energy Socket you want to use and enable the "Local API" setting

After installing this plugin, the plugin will automatically discover the Energy Sockets in your network.

Installation in Homebridge

This package is published on NPM, so available on the Homebridge plugin page

1. Go to your Homebridge UI and click on "Plugins"
2. Find HomeWizard Energy and select the plugin Homebridge HomeWizard Energy from @jvandenaardweg and click "Install"
3. No additional configuration is required. But make sure to follow the instructions provided by Homebridge after you enabled the plugin.

After enabling the plugin, the plugin will automatically discover the Energy Sockets in your network. Is your Energy Socket not discovered? Make sure you enabled the "Local API" setting in the HomeWizard "Energy" app and then restart the Homebridge plugin and/or server.

Changelog

1.0.7

4 December 2022

• chore: release v1.0.7 77ab600
• chore: move around some settings c9492aa