This is a simple Plejd component for Home Assistant, interfacing with the bluetooth le protocol.
This component has been tested on the following platforms:
- Raspberry pi 3b+ running ubuntu (18.04) and home-assistant in venv
- Intel NUC NUC7i7BNH (Bluetooth 4.2 Intel 8265) running ESXi 6.7 and linux guest
There's been reports that bluez version 5.37 is problematic while 5.48 works fine.
- A bluetooth adapter that supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
- Obtaining the Plejd crypto key and the device ids.
Obtaining the crypto key and the device ids is a crucial step to get this running, for this it is required to get the .site json file from the plejd app on android or iOS.
- Turn on USB debugging and connect the phone to a computer.
- Extract a backup from the phone:
$ adb backup com.plejd.plejdapp
- Unpack the backup:
$ dd if=backup.ab bs=1 skip=24 | zlib-flate -uncompress | tar -xv
- Recover the .site file:
$ cp apps/com.plejd.plejdapp/f/*/*.site site.json
- Open a backup in iBackup viewer.
- Select raw files, look for AppDomainGroup-group.com.plejd.consumer.light.
- In AppDomainGroup-group.com.plejd.consumer.light/Documents there should be two folders.
- The folder that isn't named ".config" contains the .site file.
When the site.json file has been recovered the cryptokey and the output addresses can be extracted:
- Extract the cryptoKey:
$ cat site.json | jq '.PlejdMesh.CryptoKey' | sed 's/-//g'
- Extract the outputAddresses:
$ cat site.json | jq '.PlejdMesh._outputAddresses' | grep -v '\$type' | jq '.[][]'
These steps can obviously be done manually instead of extracting the fields using jq and shell tricks.
Make sure the homeassistant user has permissions to use bluetooth, this might require putting it in the bluetooth group.
Run this as a custom component, put the files light.py, manifest.json and __init__.py in custom_components/plejd in your configuration.yaml add something like:
light:
- platform: plejd
crypto_key: !secret plejd
devices:
11:
name: bedroom
13:
name: kitchen_1
14:
name: kitchen_2
16:
name: bathroom
Hass.io default installation script will map /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant to the /config directory inside the docker container. create a custom_components directory if it doesn't exist (it doesn't by default).
mkdir -p /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/custom_components
Checkout the git repo and rename folder
cd /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant/custom_components
git checkout https://github.com/klali/ha-plejd.git
mv ha-plejd plejd
Update your configuration.yaml file
light:
- platform: plejd
crypto_key: !secret plejd
devices:
11:
name: bedroom
13:
name: kitchen_1
14:
name: kitchen_2
16:
name: bathroom
Last step is to restart homeassistant service, in the homeassistant web ui, go to Configuration -> General -> Server management and hit restart.
Generally it is helpful to turn on debug logging for the component for any type of troubleshooting, this will show what the component receives and interprets from the plejd network. To do this add something like the following to your configuration:
logger:
logs:
custom_components.plejd: debug
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