homegear-nodejs

homegear-nodejs is a Node.js binding to connect Node.js to a local Homegear over IPC Sockets (= Unix Domain Sockets). It supports

• invoking RPC methods in Homegear and
• it receives live variable updates from Homegear.

Installation

You can install homegear-nodejs using npm:

npm i @homegear/homegear-nodejs

Alternatively clone this repository and execute:

node-gyp rebuild

Usage

First we need load the module:

var hg = require('@homegear/homegear-nodejs');

Now we can create a new Homegear object. The constructor accepts up to 4 arguments and has the following signature:

Homegear(string socketPath, function connected, function disconnected, function event)

Argument	Type	Description
socketPath	string	The path to the Homegear socket file. The default path is /var/run/homegear/homegearIPC.sock. When an empty string is passed, this default path is used.
connected	function	Callback method that is executed when a connection to Homegear was successfully established. connected() has no arguments.
disconnected	function	Callback method that is executed when the connection to Homegear is closed. The module automatically tries to reconnect and calls connected() again once the connection is reestablished. disconnected() has no arguments.
event	function	Callback method that is executed for every Homegear variable update. Five arguments are passed to event(). Please see the next table for a description.

Arguments to event()

Argument	Type	Description
eventSource	string	A string describing the entity that updated the variable.
peerId	number	The peer ID of the updated variable.
channel	number	The peer channel of the updated variable.
variableName	string	The name of the updated variable.
value	variant	The new value of the variable.

For more information about event() please see the Homegear reference: https://ref.homegear.eu/rpc.html#eventEvent

Example

'use strict'
var homegear = require('@homegear/homegear-nodejs');

function connected() {
    console.log("connected")
}

function disconnected() {
    console.log("disconnected")
}

function event(eventSource, peerId, channel, variableName, value) {
    console.log("event", eventSource, peerId, channel, variableName, value)
}

var hg = new homegear.Homegear('', connected, disconnected, event)

setTimeout(function(){ 
    console.log("Done"); 
}, 30000);

Invoking Homegear RPC methods

In addition to these callback methods, the Homegear object has one method: invoke(). invoke() has the following signature:

variant Homegear.invoke(string methodName, array parameters)

Argument	Type	Description
methodName	string	The name of the RPC method to call.
parameters	array	An array with the parameters required by the RPC method.

On error an exception is thrown.

Please visit https://ref.homegear.eu/rpc.html for more information about the supported RPC methods.

Example

'use strict'
var homegear = require('@homegear/homegear-nodejs');

function connected() {
    try {
        hg.invoke('writeLog', ['My log entry', 4])
    } catch (e) {
        console.log(e)
    }
}

var hg = new homegear.Homegear('', connected)