Controlling your accessory using HomeKit

This is a slight diversion from Arduino programming.

Here I repost a piece I wrote about how to present your accessory as a HomeKit accessory (only for use in non commercial/hobbyist projects).

I spent ages making a really good dimmer switch using Swift for Arduino to program a "breadboard arduino" but then needed a way to control it easily from our phones at home.

And here it is!  We have iPhones so HomeKit was a natural choice. It required a raspberry pi 2 and network connection to act as the server for HapJS.

HAP-NodeJS

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