Homegear is a free and open source program to interface your home automation devices or services with your home automation software or scripts. Currently supported are the following device families/systems:
- KNX
- EnOcean
- Beckhoff BK90x0
- HomeMatic BidCoS
- HomeMatic Wired
- Insteon
- Philips Hue
- Sonos
- MAX!
- Intertechno
- Kodi
- IP cams
- more to come...
- New devices can be created with ease using XML and PHP.
Homegear features the following interfaces to control your devices - all with SSL support:
- XML-RPC
- Binary-RPC
- JSON-RPC
- MQTT
- WebSockets with PHP session authentication
- HTTP (GET and POST)
If needed new interfaces can easily be added to the source code. Homegear also features:
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A built-in rich featured web server with PHP 7 and IP cam proxy support. Together with WebSockets and the script engine you can easily create web pages to bidirectionally interact with all devices known to Homegear.
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A built-in script engine using PHP 7:
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All devices and device functions are directly accessible.
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All PHP modules can be used:
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Thread support using the PHP module "pthreads".
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Low level peripheral support:
- Directly access serial devices, I²C devices and GPIOs.
- You immediately get notified on new data and GPIO state changes. No polling is necessary.
- Using threads you can implement bidirectional and event driven communication.
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A base library to easily implement your own device families.
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XML device description files with PHP script support to easily implement individual devices.
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Support for customized licensing modules supporting module online activation, license verification and script encryption.
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Homegear is written to make it as easy as possible to integrate new devices making them accessible through all the above interfaces.
For more information, please visit https://homegear.eu, https://doc.homegear.eu and https://ref.homegear.eu. Please post your questions in our forum on https://forum.homegear.eu.