homebridge-garagedoor-ryobi v0.3.7

homebridge-garagedoor-ryobi

Homebridge plugin that supports opening and closing a single Ryobi garagedoor opener.

Installation

1. Install homebridge using: npm install -g homebridge
2. Install this plugin using: npm install -g homebridge-garagedoor-ryobi
3. Update your configuration file. See the sample below.

Configuration

Configuration sample:

"accessories": [
  {
    "accessory": "RyobiGarageCommand",
    "name"     : "Garage Door",
    "email"    : "RYOBI_EMAIL",
    "password" : "RYOBI_PASSWORD"
  }
]

Explanation:

poll_short_delay and poll_long_delay

After setting sending an open/close door command to the Ryobi GDO, it unfortunately returns the original state for the next 0-15 seconds. When I inspect the door state I actually can't tell if: the door is left in the original state because of a problem, if the command has not been sent yet, or if the door delays in responding (and in fact it may already be opening state.) I've seen all these cases when debugging. The code will work OK but it may fallback to long polling mode to update the state correctly. This is why I set a min 15 seconds on the short delay--if it is shorted you start to see the issues. The code that I forked from just slammed the state to the final state presumably to get around this--I thought that was wrong, I'd rather leave the state as opening/closing until I really know the final state. I don't want to false report a door as closed when it is not.

If the door state according to Ryobi is every opening or closing I will use the short polling time until the door is out of that state.

serial_number

If you run multiple instances then in each instance you must define a unique serial_number otherwise "001" is used for all doors and homekit gets confused according to users.

garagedoor_id or garagedoor_name

If you leave garagedoor_id out the config file the right thing should happen.

NEW: You can choose to use the name of the door and set garagedoor_name instead and ignore the info below. (Thanks Andy!)

If you can have multiple garage doors associated with an account (is this possible?) then pass in the id using the instructions below. I added this to the config file while I was developing and thought it might be useful. However if some of my API security concerns are resolved (see below) then this will become required.

In a browser (I recommend using FireFox because it automatically formats the json result) execute:

https://tti.tiwiconnect.com/api/devices?username=RYOBI_ACCOUNT_EMAIL&password=RYOBI_PASSORD

You will get an array of results, if you have only 1 device (like me) the deviceid will be result[0].varName except if result0.deviceTypeIds1 == gda500hub then use result[1].varName .

homebridge log entries:

In the normal course of running you will see the log stuff like this (without the ^^^^^ comments.).

    [9/8/2019, 12:33:45 PM] Homebridge is running on port 51826.

    [9/8/2019, 12:33:59 PM] [Garage Door] State of Garage Door is: OPEN
               ^^^^^  initial state set from polling

    [9/8/2019, 12:34:12 PM] [Garage Door] Set Garage Door to 1
               ^^^^^  Using the iOS home app I closed the door

    [9/8/2019, 12:34:27 PM] [Garage Door] State of Garage Door is: CLOSING
               ^^^^^  using the **poll_short_delay** detected door is closing

    [9/8/2019, 12:34:43 PM] [Garage Door] State of Garage Door is: CLOSED
               ^^^^^  using the **poll_short_delay** detected door is closed

    [9/8/2019, 12:40:49 PM] [Garage Door] State of Garage Door is: OPEN
               ^^^^^  I manually press the garage door opener in my car NOT the
               ^^^^^  home app. Using the **poll_short_delay** detected
               ^^^^^  door is OPEN

Kudos

I am standing on the shoulders of others.

This work is based on work by:

• https://yannipang.com/blog/ryobi-garage-door-api
• https://github.com/Madj42/RyobiGDO
• https://community.smartthings.com/t/ryobi-modular-smart-garage-door-opener

Additions & refinements by

• https://github.com/andyedinborough

The initial project skeleton (although significantly changed) was cloned from the homebridge-garagedoor-command plugin.

FAQ

Can I have multiple garage doors?

You add additional accessories, with accounts and passwords, in the Homebridge config.json file. However you can't have multiple openers associated with one login, you are out of luck.

Why use a password and not an apiKey of sorts?

A password is unfortunately required to get the open/close state of the garage door and to fetch the doorid. I don't like it but that's the way it is. Sorry.

Can I do other things with my garage door?

It would be fairly easy to add support for the light--it would be a second homekit switch that would show up in the home app. I have no need or interest in doing this but if someone wants to I'll take the help. Probably could also control some of the other door attachments although that would take much more investigation in figuring out the API. Again, I have no interest in that either.