CCU Jack Setup

Introduction

CCU Jack is a great AddOn written in Go that can be installed on the CCU. It connects locally to the CCU XMLRPC API and provides the data via Rest and MQTT. The MQTT server is already integrated into the process itself. This replaces the Mosquitto AddOn and also the need to install Node Red for the connection from the Homey App.

The CCU Jack is also the only way to use authentication for accessing the CCU from the Homey Homematic App.

Setup

If you already have the Mosquitto AddOn or any other MQTT AddOn installed then you either have to uninstall that or change the MQTT Port and PortTLS of CCU Jack in /usr/local/addons/ccu-jack/ccu-jack.cfg. Otherwise CCU Jack will not start as the ports are already allocated by Mosquitto. Then you also have to set the MQTT port in the settings of the Homey Homematic App.

The installation process of CCU Jack on the CCU is described here.

If CUxD support is required then add CUxD to the list of interfaces in the config file at /usr/local/addons/ccu-jack/ccu-jack.cfg and restart the CCU Jack AddOn.