motion Device

motion Device

A motion device exposes a motion sensor connected to a GPIO pin. homebridge-rpi configures the GPIO pin for input. Currently, homebridge-rpi is hard-coded to configure a pull-up resister for the GPIO pin. homebridge-rpi configures pigpiod to send real-time notifications when the GPIO state changes. homebridge-rpi debounces the input signal; currently this is hard-coded to 20 msec.

The device is exposed as a separate HomeKit accessory, with a Motion Sensor service. Through this service, you can monitor the motion sensor state in HomeKit, or even configure HomeKit push notifications. The accessory mimics an Eve Motion, exposing a History service, so Eve shows the history of the motion sensor state.

The motion device uses the following config.json keys:

key	type	Description
name	string	The name for the device in HomeKit.
gpio	integer	The GPIO pin.
reversed	boolean	The device state is reversed, i.e. report motion when the GPIO pin is high instead of on low.