Homebridge Air Conditioner with ANAVI Infrared

Homebridge plugin that uses ANAVI Infrared to drive a “dumb” air conditioner with a unidirectional remote with power, up, and down commands.

The plugin was designed and tested on Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Prerequisites

• Enable I2C.
• Enable LIRC module overlay.
• Update /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf and /etc/lirc/hardware.conf for the hardware.
• Reboot.
• Install packages. For Raspbian Stretch:

# apt install nodejs-legacy npm lirc i2c-tools libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev

• Create LIRC configuration.
• Install Homebridge.

Further reading

• “Setting Up LIRC on the RaspberryPi”
• “LIRC - Configuration guide”
• “LIRC - irrecord manual”

Installation

# npm install -g homebridge homebriage-anavi-infrared-aircon

Update your configuration to include a aircon-ir-remote accessory. See an example at sample-config.json.

Persistent Installation

See “Running Homebridge on Bootup”.

In condensed form, start with this gist and then:

# mkdir /var/lib/homebridge
# useradd --system homebridge
# usermod -a -G i2c homebridge
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl enable homebridge
# systemctl start homebridge
$ systemctl status homebridge