Credits

Updated November 14, 2022 by luwol03 and Shaquu

First of all, we would like to express our deepest thanks to the creators of this project. Next, we would like to especially thank @Shaquu for his time and work in developing and maintaining this project.
Finally, we would like to sincerely express our thanks with deep gratitude to everyone who contributed near or far to its realization, because a project cannot be the work of one person.

History

7 November 2016

Marius Schmeding (@mschm) made the first version of the Node-RED plugin using HAP-NodeJS called node-red-contrib-homekit

13 April 2018

Oliver Rahner (@oliverrahner) steps in and makes a fork called node-red-contrib-homekit-bridged

As Marius Schmeding seems to have abandoned his great work, I decided to fork his repo and to introduce some major rework.

The biggest change is the use of HAP-NodeJS in bridged mode: only add one bridge in the iOS Home.app to access all your devices!
Also, I (believe I) fixed some issues: - devices don't show as unreachable after redeploying - having more than one device per accessory (in the "old" world) or bridge doesn't lead to iOS losing the parameters for this device anymore

21 February 2019 - present

Tadeusz Wyrzykowski (@Shaquu) joins the effort.

In the beginning I knew nothing about the HomeKit.

Few days later I decided to fork the repository.

Shortly after I got full control over original one and started major refactoring.

That time with a help of random user @crxporter (who is my good friend today!) we started adding more and more features and improvements, and story continues!