README.md

+ Centronic

Nice shades, bro! Homebridge Plugin

Plugin for controlling Becker window shutters via the Centronic USB stick. On a Pi. With extra cheese. Or whatever.

Installation

If this plugin is published to npm, this convenient approach should work. If for any reason that is not an option, choose the manual installation.

Via npm release distribution

1. Install this plugin using: npm install -g --unsafe-perm nice-shades-bro (on the device where the homebridge server is running)
2. Perform configuration in config.json
3. Run/restart Homebridge

Manual installation [wip]

This assumes you have already managed to open a shell on your device where homebridge is running, switched to the /homebridge directory and can become root.

1. Clone this repo and cd into the repo git clone ...
2. ...
3. Profit.

Set up config.json manually

For the plugin to work, you may first need to add the plugin as a platform in ~/.homebridge/config.json:

{
...
    "platforms": [
        ...,
        {
            "name": "nice-shades-bro",
            "platform": "NiceShadesBro",
            "options": {
                "devicesPerChannel": "1"
                }
        }
    ]
}

Config options

Extra options can be set depending on how many controllers or receivers you would like to see in the app. Here is a list of available options:

Name	Description	Type
devicesPerChannel	Number of receivers per channel	number (n-m)

Credits

This plugin is based on the work of centronic-py and homebridge-plugin-template.