Homify 🏡

Open-source home-automation / smarthome platform running on PHP (Laravel).

Table of content

• About Homify
• Key Features
• Featured Plug-ins
• Setup
  • Composer
  • Database
  • Webserver
  • Note for PI users
• Rules
  • Features
  • Structure
  • Example
• HTTP-API
• Coming Soon
• Plug-in Development
• FAQ / CONTACT / TROUBLESHOOT
• Contributing

ABOUT HOMIFY

Homify is built using a modular approach so support for other devices or actions can be implemented easily. See also the section on creating your own plug-in below in this READ.me.

KEY FEATURES

• Manage your IoT-devices simply over the GUI
  • Instantly see if your device is online or not
• Automate your home with rules
• Install Plug-ins
  • Homify is built using a modular approach so support for other devices or actions can be implemented easily.
• Central Room Management
• Tablet View for your rooms

FEATURED PLUG-INS

• Sonos Plug-in
• RFOutlet (433 Mhz) Plug-in
• Hue Plug-in

SETUP

To install and run this application, you’ll need Composer and PHP7 installed on your computer.

Composer

# Download & install Homify with its dependencies
$ composer create-project markushaug/homify
$ composer update

Database

Setup your database & mail settings in the .env file and then run:

# Creating tables and inserting their default values to them
$ php artisan migrate
$ php artisan db:seed

Webserver

• Set the webroot of your webserver to the public folder
• Grant permissions to the homify folder.
  • If the application runs into an issue, try this command inside of the homify directory: chmod -R 777 storage.

Note for Raspberry Pi users

I highly recommend to use nginx or lighttp. Apache2 is using too much CPU and RAM on the Raspberry PI.

RULES

Homify supports rules to automate your home. You can create a rule via Homifys web interface.

Features

• Define multiple rules for one thing.
  Each rule expands the entire rule base of the respective item with a logical OR.
  IF <RULE1> === TRUE || <RULE2> === TRUE || ...
  
• The ThingController calls the RuleParser every time an event is triggered and scans for defined rules in the rule base.
• Time-controlled events are constructed as a cron job that triggers the execution block. ( Not yet implemented )

Structure

Each Rule has the following structure:

{
	"rule": "rule name (unique)",
	"if": {
        /*<TRIGGER CONDITION>*/
	},
	"then": {
        /*
        <EXECUTION_BLOCK1>
        */
	}
}

Example

Below is an example of a rule with a time-controlled event wich triggers a channel of the defined thing.

{
	"rule": "goodEvening",
	"if": {
		"time": "20:00:00"
	},
	"then": {
		"thing": {
			"name": "Play1",
			"channel": "off"
		}
	}
}

HTTP-API

Homify provides a http-api to acces your things. You can use the following HTTP-GET Request to access your things:

• https://<server_ip>/thing/<thing_name>/<channel>

For example:

• https://10.10.3.1/thing/Sonos:Play1/on

COMING SOON

• WebGUI for central room management & device management
• Tablet View for single rooms
• HAP-Protocol (HomeKit) integration
• Cron-Jobs for Time-triggered rules

PLUG-IN DEVELOPMENT

Each Plug-in inherits from a Thing-Type (Light, Switch, Speaker, etc.). Each Thing-Type inherits from the abstract thing class. So each thing has the required functions.

If you are creating a plug-in for homify, you have to inherit from a Thing-Type. Or you create an additional thing-type. Each Thing needs a <Thing>.php, Create<Thing>.php and a Update<Thing>.php File. You can take on of the existing Plug-ins as template.

FAQ / CONTACT / TROUBLESHOOT

If you run into issues while using Homify or during development of a component, please use one of the following options:

• Use github’s issue reporter on the right, so that other people can search these issues too
• Send me an email mh@haugmarkus.de (might take a few days)

CONTRIBUTING

I would appreciate it if you would contribute to this project. Do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested. I can give you an introduction to the core and the main concepts of the program. (Intermediate) Laravel skills are desirable.

For further information please read our contributing guidelines

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