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Guide: Install HomeBridge on Firewalla Gold (Beta)

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Before everything, please note: This is a tech doc only for Pros

Thanks Michael Bierman for his effort on this topic to sort everything out.

 

First, login to Gold via SSH, you could find the credential on your Firewalla app, settings -> Advanced -> Configurations -> SSH Console, username is pi

Create the following file, change the port if 8080 is already occupied by other service on your Gold 

/home/pi/.firewalla/run/docker/homebridge/docker-compose.yaml

version: '2'
services:
  homebridge:
    image: oznu/homebridge:latest
    container_name: homebridge
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PGID=1000
      - PUID=1000
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI=1
      - HOMEBRIDGE_CONFIG_UI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - ./homebridge:/homebridge

Run the following commands to install and start HomeBridge

cd /home/pi/.firewalla/run/docker/homebridge
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo docker-compose up --detach

You should be able visit the configuration UI on http://fire.walla:8080/ (use ip if you have your own DNS server). Default user/password is admin/admin.

Now click config and add the follow section

"mdns": { "interface": "LAN-IP-of-Gold" },

 The config should look like

{
    "mdns": { "interface": "192.168.42.1" },
    "bridge": {
        "name": "...",
        "username": "...",
        "port": ...,
        "pin": "..."
    },
    "description": "....",
    "accessories": [
    ....
    ],
    "platforms": [
    ....
}

Click restart on the upper right corner and you should be able to pair HomeBridge with your HomeKit (Home app) now.

 

References:

https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/wiki/Install-Homebridge-on-Docker

https://github.com/oznu/docker-homebridge/wiki/Running-Homebridge-on-Firewalla-Gold

https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/issues/1957

 

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    Michael Bierman
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    Bonus! If you want to track the CPU temperatures of firewalla in Homekit do this:

    1. install
    2. add the following to the Accessory part of Homebridge config.json
    3. {
      "accessory": "LinuxTemperature",
      "name": "Core 0 Temperature",
      "sensor_path": "/sys/bus/platform/devices/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp2_input",
      "divisor": 1000
      },
      {
      "accessory": "LinuxTemperature",
      "name": "Core 1 Temperature",
      "sensor_path": "/sys/bus/platform/devices/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp3_input",
      "divisor": 1000
      },
      {
      "accessory": "LinuxTemperature",
      "name": "core 2 Temperature",
      "sensor_path": "/sys/bus/platform/devices/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp4_input",
      "divisor": 1000
      },
      {
      "accessory": "LinuxTemperature",
      "name": "Core 3 Temperature",
      "sensor_path": "/sys/bus/platform/devices/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp5_input",
      "divisor": 1000
      }
    4. install homebridge-Linux-temperature

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