homebridge-telldus 💡

Homebridge plugin for Telldus Live!

Works as a bridge between Apple's HomeKit and the Telldus live platform.

Supports various devices that Telldus support, like wireless switches, dimmers, temperature sensors, so you can control them from your iPhone, iPad & Apple TV.

Installation

Follow the instruction in homebridge for the homebridge server installation and how to run.

This plugin is published through npm and should be installed "globally" by typing:

npm i -g homebridge-telldus

(And if you haven't already: npm i -g homebridge)

⚠️ As of v1.0.0, homebridge-telldus requires node 8.3 or greater

For older versions of node, install an old version: npm install -g homebridge-telldus@0

Configuration

For a sample homebridge config file, see config.json.

See homebridge for where config.json is stored. Typically in ~/.homebridge/config.json

Live configuration

You need to configure your telldus live integration by creating API secrets/tokens in the telldus live web admin. Log in to your Live account, go to http://api.telldus.com/ and Generate a private token for my user only.

Put these generated values in homebridge config.json:

...
"platforms": [
    {
        "platform" : "Telldus",
        "name" : "Telldus Liv!e",

        "public_key" : "telldus public key",
        "private_key" : "telldus private key",
        "token" : "telldus token",
        "token_secret" : "telldus token secret",

        ...
    }
...

Local configuration

As an alternative to Telldus Live, it is also possible to run towards your Telldus device directly via HTTP on your local network, if you have a TellStick ZNet Lite, without going through Telldus Live cloud. For more info see this link.

Local setup instructions

1. Find the LAN IP address of your TellStick device

• Install telldus-local-auth: npm i -g telldus-local-auth
• Run in a terminal telldus-local-auth <IP OF YOUR DEVICE> homebridge-telldus. This will open a browser window. See further instructions in the terminal.
• Note the returned token.
• Instead of public_key, private_key, token, and token_secret in config.json, add a local section like this:

...
"platforms": [
    {
        "platform" : "Telldus",
        "name" : "Telldus Liv!e",

        "local": {
            "ip_address": "device ip address",
            "access_token": "Token returned from telldus-local-auth tool"
        },

        ...
    }
...

When running against local, your devices get new IDs. IDs will now start with 1 instead of a large number as in Live. Use "local_id" instead of "id" in unknown_accessories for local. You will see IDs printed when starting up homebridge the first time.

Also note that devices with a temp sensor attached will be split but they will both have the same ID! Which means that you need to differentiate these by setting "type": "device" for all devices, and put no "type" definition for the sensor, see examples below. See also [#56].

Device configuration

homebridge-telldus tries to auto-detect devices from telldus. However some devices do not have the correct type or other parameters set. You can override/set these parameters from the homebridge config file. This is what the unknown_accessories property in config.json is for.

unknown_accessories parameters

All these are optional, except for id, which is required. (For local API configuration, use local_id instead.)

Example device configurations:

If Telldus cannot identify your device, override its model. You can also override the name from Telldus:

"id": 123,
"model": "temperaturehumidity",
"manufacturer": "Oregon",
"name": "My Custom Name",

If a device is causing a crash or is not working you can disable it:

"id": 124,
"disabled": true,

If you are using the local API, use local_id and type instead of id. For the device:

"local_id": 2,
"type": "device",
"model": "switch",

And for the attached sensor:

"local_id": 2,
"model": "temperaturehumidity",

Device models

model (unknown_accessories)	Description
selflearning-switch	◻️ Self learning (pairing) switch
selflearning-dimmer	🎛 Self learning (pairing) dimmers
codeswitch	◻️ Old type fixed code switch
temperature, EA4C	🌡 Temperature sensor
temperaturehumidity, 1A2D	🌡💦 Combined temperature and humidity sensor
window-covering	🚪↕️ Window covering
See also:
Telldus Compatibility (note: not all of these are yet supported.)

Auto startup

To auto startup homebridge on boot and auto-restart on crash, I recommend using PM2. It allows auto setup of init scripts for popular operating systems.

npm i -g homebridge homebridge-telldus pm2
pm2 startup
# Follow instructions...
pm2 start homebridge
pm2 save

If all went good, homebridge will now run automatically on boot

Common problems / FAQ

• Cannot add a bridged Accessory with the same UUID as another bridged Accessory - See #41
• Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::51826 - This means that homebridge is already running on the same address. See #48

Reprting issues

If you are having an issue or wondering about new features, please run homebridge in debug mode and share the log in the issue. Run homebridge from the command line as follows:

$ DEBUG=homebridge-telldus,telldus-api homebridge

Links

• https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
• https://github.com/mifi/telldus-api
• https://github.com/mifi/telldus-local-auth
• https://blog.mifi.no/2017/10/22/Use-Apple-HomeKit-to-control-cheap-Telldus-devices/
• https://developer.telldus.com/blog/2016/05/24/local-api-for-tellstick-znet-lite-beta-now-in-public-beta