Haiku Control your home via Siri with HaikuHelper+SiriProxy

We've made available a plugin for SiriProxy that gives you voice control over your home via Siri on iOS devices. Its not an officially supported feature by Apple, so setting up SiriProxy is a bit of work, but not too difficult for those with some networking/*nix experience.

The project is here: https://github.com/lupinglade/siriproxy-haikuhelper

Feel free to contribute code or ideas!

Note: HaikuHelper 2.90 (next version) is required. If you want to use it with the current version you would need to make some minor modifications.

Update: There is now a full guide on how to set this up on a Mac at the link above.

lupinglade said:

We've made available a plugin for SiriProxy that gives you voice control over your home via Siri on iOS devices. Its not an officially supported feature by Apple, so setting up SiriProxy is a bit of work, but not too difficult for those with some networking/*nix experience.The project is here: https://github.com/lupinglade/siriproxy-haikuhelperFeel free to contribute code or ideas!

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Very cool. Can't wait to try this!

Any idea when Haikuhelper 2.90 will show up in the App Store?

The version of HaikuHelper needed for this integration is now available on the Mac App Store.

I am getting a syntax error when I try the the bundle on the 'n' after the '-' for the name: parameter. Here is what I have in the file
 
 
- name: 'HaikuHelper'
    git: 'git://github.com/lupinglade/siriproxy-haikuhelper.git'
     url: 'http://localhost:9399'
     controller_name: 'theater'
     password: 'mypass'
 
Here are the errors:
 

siriproxy bundle
/Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:205:in `parse': (/Users/joe/.siriproxy/config.yml): did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 21 column 3 (Psych::SyntaxError)
from /Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:205:in `parse_stream'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:153:in `parse'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:129:in `load'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:299:in `block in load_file'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:299:in `open'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/lib/ruby/2.0.0/psych.rb:299:in `load_file'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/siriproxy-0.5.4/lib/siriproxy/command_line.rb:167:in `parse_options'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/siriproxy-0.5.4/lib/siriproxy/command_line.rb:35:in `initialize'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/siriproxy-0.5.4/bin/siriproxy:6:in `new'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/siriproxy-0.5.4/bin/siriproxy:6:in `<top (required)>'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/siriproxy:23:in `load'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/siriproxy:23:in `<main>'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
from /Users/joe/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'

The YML format is indentation sensitive. You must make sure you are intending it exactly as the other entries.

Thanks. That was it. Stupid me.

Sorry for the questions... I am getting an authentication error on the remote HaikuHelper API. Do I use my OSX UID/PWD or the web UID/PWD for HaikuHelper?
 
And then do I modify the 'user' on line 12 of the config.yml file?

Both the user and pass need to be set to match the HH Controller name/web password.

Ok, I have done that and I verified that I am typing in the correct UID/PWD that matches the web interface.
 
I am also getting the following error:
 
 
theater:.siriproxy joe$ rvmsudo siriproxy server
Warning: can not check `/etc/sudoers` for `secure_path`, falling back to call via `/usr/bin/env`, this breaks rules from `/etc/sudoers`. export rvmsudo_secure_path=1 to avoid the warning.WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
      rake (>= 0)
WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
Please report a bug if this causes problems.
[Info - Configuration] Loading plugins -- If any fail to load, run `siriproxy bundle` (not `bundle install`) to resolve.
[Info - HaikuHelper] Reloading HaikuHelper configuration...
[Error] Failed to load plugin: HaikuHelper reason: Could not communicate via the remote HaikuHelper API: Authentication error!
[Info - Server] Starting SiriProxy on 192.168.1.10:443...
[Info - Server] DNS server is not running yet, waiting 1 second...
[Info - Server] DNS Server started, tainting 'guzzoni.apple.com' with 192.168.1.10
[Info - Server] SiriProxy up and running.

Got it running. I am checking out the commands now. Will report back soon.
 
.......
 
Ok, it seems to start correctly although I still get the warning shown 2 messages previous. 
 
It doesn't seem as if the DNS is working properly. I am unable to ping guzzoni.apple.com from my phone. I assume I should get the HH server address in a response?
 
Siri acts normal but never returns anything.
 
I am able to ping the server address and the router address from the iPhone.
 
I get no DNS resolution from the iPhone.
 
I am getting the DNS server starting message and the tainting of guzzoni.apple.com message and the final siriproxy is up and running.

Ok, I have it working now. I will need to change my controller configuration in regards to rooms a little bit to make it functional.
 
Is there a way to start the proxy server as a service so that I don't need to keep a terminal open? Sorry, I am not really a Mac person.
 
I really like how Siri commands are passed on up to Apple when the proxy does not understand it.
 
Joe

There should be a way to get it to start at boot using launchd/LaunchDaemons.

Excellent and clear instructions, thanks so very much!
 
Just a note for documentation maintenance, the siriproxy download is now 0.5.4, so you may wish to update the instructions to refer to that version, not the 0.5.3

Version # updated on docs, thanks!