What about support for Apple Homekit / Google Weave (Brillo)

[Angel J.]

Hello everyone.

Congratulations on your excellent work in the ESP32.

We are working on the development of Apple Homekit / Google Weave (Brillo) compatible products.

And if we could develop with your new chip, for us it would be great news.

We sincerely believe that this is the future of IoT.

Thank you.

[johnlee]

Yes, support for homeKit and Brillo are on the way. for ESP32 and ESP8266 as well.

[Angel J.]

Yes sir, very good news.

But I'm a little confused.

If I understand, the Apple Homekit HAP protocol requires hardware encryption elliptic curve (crypto engine), and further support for Apple chip id. The chip ESP32 will include this hardware?

On the other hand, seems it Google Thread/Weave/Brillo initially will use a 802.15.4 radio. ESP32 seems that chip will support Bluetooth radio, but also alternatively include 802.15.4 radio? or implement Weave protocol in a WiFi mesh network?

Thank you.

[johnlee]

i have to clarify that support for Brillo is not possible with ESP32. Yes, we do have hardware support for encryption.

[AdySan]

This is great news. I already have HomeKit somewhat working on ESP8266, but it's using a RaspBerry Pi bridge for emulating the HomeKit API and doing the heavy lifting of encryption. I would love to beta test if something better is already in the works.

[borntsch]

Hi @johnlee

First you post that

Yes, support for homeKit and Brillo are on the way. for ESP32 and ESP8266 as well.

and now

i have to clarify that support for Brillo is not possible with ESP32.

Could you elaborate this a little bit further? Is support coming or not?

Kind regards
Marc

[Angel J.]

Cheers,

Support for Google Brightness can never be possible with ESP32,
Hardware requirements for Google Brillo are:
- 32 Mb RAM
- 128 Mb ROM
- Powerful processor such as MIPS, ARM Cortex A

You have to think that Google Brillo is more like OpenWRT.

https://youtu.be/2rPkbyyviGI

But the protocol underlying Google Brillo, Google Weave,

https://youtu.be/uIIZD4KuIJM

I think Espressif can implement Google Weave in ESP32,
but that question has not been answered.


On the other hand, support for Apple Homekit is more urgent because there are now selling products, and other manufacturers already have that support.

In any case, one or the other, or both, are the future, I have no doubt.

[borntsch]

Thanks for clarifying things! That's quite a pity, that brillio will not be able to run on the ESP32...
But I'm still interested in that Weave support

Also are there any plans to make a espressif chip, that will support brillo?

cheerio!

[robinp]

Perhaps you might like to look at AllJoyn https://allseenalliance.org. It's an open source Linux Foundation project that seems to also have a fair bit of momentum (even Microsoft are using it for their IOT effort).

I am definitely keen to see if the AllJoyn Thin Core library can be easily ported to the esp32.

[fekman]

@johnlee Any news or updates in regard to HomeKit suport? If you can, PM me because our company have a few questions.