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Plugins
A list of currently active plugins for XTension.
Alphabetical Listing:
- Ademco/Honeywell Alarm Panels AD2USB device support for Ademco/Honeywell Security systems
- AirPort Monitoring watch the state of your airports, track connected devices and perform reboots of AirPort Basestations.
- Alexa Control your XTension units from Amazon Alexa. Local connection, no cloud required.
- Amcrest Camera API Amcrest camera control and event Support
- APCUPSD Support for monitoring remote UPS devices through a raspberry pi and the APCUPSD software
- Aprilaire or other STATNET Thermostat AprilAires communicating thermostat line.
- Arduino a simple text protocol for talking to arduino or other similar DIY style devices with example code.
- Barix Barionet Digital IO, Relays, Dallas 1-wire temp sensors, and remote serial connections via Barix networked devices
- CM11a The CM11a is X10’s original powerline transceiver
- CM15 Legacy Support for this X10 powerline and wireless transceiver
- CM19 Legacy support for this X10 wireless transceiver
- Control By Web Support for Control By Web digital ethernet/Wifi data capture and control devices
- Database Sharing Lets you share units and scripts from one XTension install to another.
- DIY Simple method of rolling your own interface for non-supported devices.
- ESPresence Is specifically supported by the MQTT plugin, no extra work needed to use these
- Foscam Camera API Foscam camera control and event support
- Foscam Legacy Camera API Support for control and events from older MJPEG Foscam Cameras
- Genmon Generator Monitor Connect to the Genmon Generator Monitor and control software on a Raspberry Pi
- Global Cache iTach Devices Global Cache IR and other sensor and control devices
- Haiku/SenseMe WiFi Enabled Fans
- Homekit Control XTension units via Siri and Apple’s Home App on MacOS, iOS and tvOS devices.
- HTTP/JSON Server for accepting incoming http requests and json data posts
- Hue Phillips Hue Bridge for Zigbee devices from Phillips and others
- Kasa Kasa / TP-link Wifi devices
- Lifx Lifx Wifi connected bulbs and devices
- Lutron Caseta Control and monitoring of Lutron’s RadioRA or Caseta Pro Hubs
- Lynx Legacy support for the venerable Lynx X10 powerline transceiver
- MaxSonar Sonar Distance Measurement. Many models for measurement under any conditions
- MQTT Client Connect to an MQTT broker server and monitor, control or share information from a huge number of IOT and other devices
- MR26 Legacy support for this X10 wireless receiver
- My Sensors Controller for the mySensors arduino based sensor system.
- Network Presence watches devices coming and going on your local network via the arp table
- Omnistat Thermostat Serial communicating thermostats from HAI
- Pimoroni Rainbow Hat for the Raspberry Pi Button events and control the display and LED’s on a Pimoroni Rainbow Hat
- Ping Send a ping to local or remote addresses to monitor their availability
- Raspberry Pi GPIO Control or follow the state of GPIO pins on a remote raspberry pi
- Raspberry Pi Monitor monitor raspberry pi devices for status, under volt, or over temp conditions, Wifi Link Quality, Disk Space and more.
- RCS-485 Serial Communicating Thermostat RCS serial version of their thermostats
- RFX Support for many versions of these transceivers. Talk to X10 and Oregon Sensors and many other devices
- Rosim Wireless car sensor for traffic sensing or parking space monitoring.
- RTL_433 SDR Reception of any wireless devices supported by the excellent RTL_433 project and a Software Defined Radio
- rtlamr Many smart meter updates can be received with an SDR radio and the rtlamer plugin.
- Server-Sent Events Connects to Server-Sent events streams and converts event receptions into XTension unit actions.
- Sonos Control Sonos Speakers
- Switchbot Battery operated physical button pushing and switch toggling robot.
- System Info Monitor Disk space, Disk Usage and Network Usage statistics and errors.
- TP-Link/Kasa Wifi connected devices from TP-Link or Kasa
- UPB UPB (Universal Powerline Bus) is a higher power alternative to X10’s powerline protocol for device control
- UPS UPS power and battery monitoring for directly Connected UPS units
- Vera Legacy support for the now discontinued Vera line of ZWave/Zigbee devices
- Video JPEG Refresh Stream Makes requests for a jpeg resource and turns it into a Video stream in XTension
- Video MJPEG Stream Connects to any device serving an MJPEG stream and turns it into a Video stream in XTension
- Video RTSP Stream Connects to any camera offering an RTSP stream, most modern cameras and any ONVIF device can use this
- Weatherflow Brings all info from the Weatherflow wireless weather stations into XTension
- Weeder Technology Digital IO Support for many WeedTech digital and analog data capture and control modules
- W800 X10 wireless and security receiver from WGL Designs
- Websocket Sharing Provides a websocket interface for you to use to create custom interfaces to XTension.
- Wifi Thermostat Legacy support for the USNAP wifi radio thermostat
- Wiz Connected WiFi connected bulbs from Phillips.
- xBee Radios xBee radios for digital IO and serial communication
- XTB-II A more recent X10 powerline controller and CM11 replacement
- Zadarma A service for sending SMS messages
Listing By Use or Protocol:
Apple’s Home Kit
- Home Kit Control XTension units via Siri and Apple’s Home App on MacOS, iOS and tvOS devices.
Z-Wave Interfaces
- Vera UI7 Protocol The new Vera UI7 interface protocol. This will support the new features of ZWave plus like Central Scene support. If you’re starting a new setup then just select the UI7 version in XTension and continue. If you’re converting an existing setup then please read the article carefully before converting as there is a specific work flow to do that. It is simple, but will save you a lot of manual unit editing later if you do it properly.
- Vera (legacy plugin) from Vera Control Ltd, previously Micasa Vera. This is our choice for best ZWave interface.
Lutron Caseta and RadioRA Hubs
- Lutron Hubs Control and monitoring of Lutron’s RadioRA or Caseta Pro Hubs
X10 Powerline Protocol Devices
- XTB-232 (replacement for the CM11a and our pick for best X10 interface currently available)
- CM11a (X10)
- Lynx (X10)
- Legacy X10 Interfaces:
- CM15 (X10 and X10 wireless receive and transmit)
- Powerlinc 1132U and PowerlincCU (1132CU) (Smarthome X10 Powerline Interface)
- Powerlink 1132b (Smarthome serial X10 Powerline Interface)
WiFi Plugs, Switches and Bulbs
- Wiz Connected WiFi connected bulbs from Phillips.
- Lifx very nice wifi connected color and color temperature capable bulbs and displays.
- TP-Link / Kasa TP-Link / Kasa Outlets, Power Strips as well as their color and color temperature capable bulbs
UPB Universal Powerline Protocol Interfaces
- UPB Interfaces UPB is a popular alternative to X10 and Insteon as a high powered powerline protocol.
X10 Wireless Receivers/Transmitters
- W800 (X10 wireless and X10 Security)
- MR26 (X10 Wireless)
- CM19 (X10 Wireless receive and transmit)
- CM15 (X10 Wireless and Security. Receive and Transmit)
- RFX, RFXe and RFXt (X10 Wireless and Security, Oregon Scientific devices)
Amazon Alexa Bridge
- Amazon Alexa Bridge Control your XTension devices with your Amazon Alexa and Echo devices.
Insteon
- Vera UI7Some insteon devices are supported by the Vera device. The support is somewhat limited however so please verify that what you want to do is supported before investing in equipment. If the device is supported by the Vera then it should be supported by XTension connecting to the Vera. If you find a device that XTension does not support we can gather the data necessary to make it work.
IR Tranmission and Remote Control
- Global Cache iTach Devices Global Cache IR and other sensor and control devices
- Vera UI7 The Vera plugin also supports their IR Remote unit by allowing you to specify the IR code in the Unit settings if you have an IR compatible sending device connected to your Vera.
mySensors
Alarm Systems
- Ad2usb the AD2USB interface for Ademco/Honeywell Security systems
xBee Radio Connected Devices
- xBee Radios xBee radios for remote monitoring, control and serial data!
Zigbee
- Hubitat Hubitat device plugin also supports ZigBee devices.
- Phillips Hue Phillips Hue Bridge
- Vera UI7 New Vera plugin also supports ZigBee devices.
- Vera (legacy plugin) The legacy Vera Plus plugin supports ZigBee devices.
Analog/Digital I/O and data capture
- Raspberry Pi GPIO (pigpio) Raspberry Pi GPIO
- Barix Barionet (barix devices)
- Weeder Technology Modules Weeder data capture cards.
- Max Sonar Sonar rangefinder.
- Global Cache iTach Devices Global Cache Devices
- Control By Web Control By Web Devices
- Control By Web: Outgoing Alternate connection method for Control By web Devices
RFID Receivers
- Parallax Short range passive RFID Receiver.
- Legacy Devices:
- Active RFID Long range active RFID Receiver.
Thermostats
- Wifi Thermostat the USNAP wifi radio thermostat is now directly supported.
- HAI Omnistat Thermostat The HAI Omnistat line of thermostats is now directly supported.
- RCS-485 Serial Communicating Thermostat RCS serial version of their thermostat is now directly supported.
- Aprilaire or other STATNET Thermostat AprilAires communicating thermostat line.
Ceiling Fans
- Haiku/SenseMe WiFi Enabled Fans
Dallas 1-Wire
- Use the new XTension 1-Wire to Wifi Kit!
- 1-wire temperature sensors are supported through the Barix Barionet device interface.
- Additional 1-wire devices can be connected through an Arduino Interface interface if you dont mind a little code.
Do It Yourself Interface
- Do It Yourself Simple method of rolling your own interface to non-supported devices.
- Arduino a simple text protocol for connecting to arduino or other similar DIY style devices with a simple protocol and example code.
HTTP/JSON
- the JSON Interface server interface handles either simple web requests to send data to a unit or the parsing of complicated JSON data structures to take whatever action is necessary. Just about anything that makes a web request via a simple form or via a JSON packet can be used to control units via this interface. This is a good way to control things in XTension with a simple curl request from other devices or the command line.
- the Server-Sent Events plugin can connect to a standard HTML Server-Sent events stream and convert event receptions into XTension unit actions.
Wireless Tags
- Wireless Tags from https://www.mytaglist.com now supported via the json interface in build #846
Wireless Sensors
- rtl_433: Software Defined Radio Plugin Oregon and many other wireless sensors and devices can be received via the rtl_433 plugin.
Smart Meters
- rtlamr Many smart meter updates can be received with an SDR radio and the rtlamer plugin.
HDMI Matrix Switchers
Geofences
- Any geofence app that has the ability to make an HTTP request when entering or exiting can be used with the JSON interface
- An XTension user is also the developer of mGeofence which works great with XTension and the JSON server.
- Locative is dead, long live Locative! While the cloud features are no longer available the app itself continues to be available and the cloud is not necessary for use with XTension. No need to switch if you have this working. We have a Locative tutorial
- another method of setting up geofences with drop box and IFTT can be seen here
- Geohopper is supported as of build 897 with enhancements to the JSON interface
Traffic or Parking Space Management
- Rosim Wireless car sensor for traffic sensing or parking space monitoring.
Bluetooth LE Devices
- Switchbot Battery operated physical button pushing and switch toggling robot.
Video
- Video Pitcher to “pitch” video from many IP cameras into XTension for display in Views and Web Remote pages. Also offering recording and video processing.
- Security Spy Support for getting motion and recording data out of the excellent Mac NVR software Security Spy
Music
- Sonos Audio plugin for controlling Sonos devices.
UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supplies)
- UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply Plugin UPS power and battery monitoring.
- Remote APC UPS monitoring via apcupsd
Weather Stations:
- Accurite brand weather stations are supported by the rtl_433: Software Defined Radio Plugin plugin.
- OreSci (Oregon Scientific) weather stations are also supported by the rtl_433: Software Defined Radio Plugin plugin.
System Monitoring:
- System Info sysinfo plugin for monitoring disk space, disk usage, network usage and errors.
SMS Messages:
- Zadarma service for sending SMS messages
Plugins of Uncategorizable Category
- Raspberry Pi Monitor monitor your raspberry pi devices for online status, under voltage, over temperature conditions, Wifi Link Quality, Disk Space and more.
- Genmon Generator Monitor Connects to the excellent pi based genmon software and gets all it’s info into XTension.
- MQTT Broker for receiving data from IOT or other devices that use this protocol.
- Ping Plugin Units state linked to returning a ping. Many informational and statistical info available.
- Database Sharing Lets you share units and scripts from one XTension install to another.
- AirPort Monitoring watch the state of your airports, track connected devices and perform reboots of AirPort Basestations.
- Network Presence interface watches devices coming and going on your local network via the arp table and can also ping remote hosts on the internet.
- Websocket Interface Roll your own interfaces to your XTension database, or connect a device that knows how to speak this protocol. Sends standard JSON data back and forth for commands or value changes. Comes with a simple browser example with the javascript necessary to receive and parse the data from XTension as well as send commands back and forth.
- Pimoroni Rainbow Hat for the Raspberry Pi Get button events and control the display and LED’s on a Pimoroni Rainbow Hat equipped Raspberry Pi.
supported_hardware/index.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/21 13:26 by James Sentman