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Somecomfort Homie

Homie 4 implementation of Honeywell Total Connect Comfort for North American models

Uses the somecomfort library (https://github.com/kk7ds/somecomfort)

Install on Raspberry Pi

pip3 install Somecomfort-Homie-4

To start as a service on raspbian

Create somecomfort_homie.yml in /etc

''' sudo nano /etc/somecomfort_homie.yml '''

Use the following settings:

somecomfort:
  username: 
  password: 

mqtt:
  MQTT_BROKER: Broker
  MQTT_PORT: 1883
  MQTT_USERNAME: null
  MQTT_PASSWORD: null

Create somecomfort-homie.service in /etc/systemd/system

''' sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/somecomfort-homie.service '''

[Unit]
Description=Somecomfort Homie
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
User=pi
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/somecomfort_homie_start.py
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Copy somecomfort_homie_start.py to /usr/local/bin/

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Initial Configuration Challenges

I'm not sure the best way to do this, but after spending a fair amount of time just getting the initial installation working, I thought I would share the problems I encountered and how I resolved them, in hopes that this will be helpful to a future traveler. I will admit upfront that I am not an experienced programmer, unless you count FORTRAN.

My set up is on a Raspberry Pi 4B, to which I connect via SSH. My intended use is with OpenHAB.

The problems I encountered:

Copying somecomfort_homie_start.py to /usr/local/bin/. I first tried
. It took me a while to figure out that despite the RAW option being specified, this was download the html version. It was resolved by using:
curl -o somecomfort_homie_start.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mjcumming/Somecomfort-Homie/master/somecomfort_homie_start.py
To get the raw URL, I first logged into GitHub, clicked on the somecomfort_homie_start.py link, which displays the nicely colored html version. In the upper right hand corner, there is a RAW button. I pressed that and I got the plain text code with the URL that I used. Note that you need to be in the target folder on the Pi when you enter the curl command.
The next problem I encountered was that somecomfort_homie_start.py could not find the .yml file. This error was fairly easy to find by entering systemd status somecomfort-homie.service. I fixed it by edited the .py file (sudo nano filename) and appending the folder, in my case /etc/ to the .yml file name.

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