A simple bridge between iMessage and Home Assistant's conversation component

app.js

const HomeAssistant = require( 'homeassistant' );
const Pino          = require( 'pino' );

const config   = require( 'config' );
const hass     = new HomeAssistant( config.get( 'home_assistant' ) );
const imessage = require( 'osa-imessage' );
const logger   = Pino();

// TODO package this better
const bridge = {
  handleMessage: function( sender, text ) {
    logger.info( `from ${sender}: ${text}` );

    hass.services._post( '/conversation/process', null, {
      text: text
    } )
    .then( res => {
      imessage.send( sender, res.speech.plain.speech );
    } )
    .catch( err => {
      logger.error( err );
      imessage.send( sender, "Sorry, something broke" );
    } );
  }
}

imessage.listen().on( 'message', ( msg ) => {
  if ( msg.fromMe ) {
    logger.warn( `ignoring message from myself: ${msg.text}` );
    return;
  }

  if ( ! config.get( 'allowed_senders' ).includes( msg.handle ) ) {
    logger.warn( `ignoring message from unknown sender: ${msg.handle}: ${msg.text}` );
    return;
  }

  bridge.handleMessage( msg.handle, msg.text );
} );

config-slash-default.yaml

---
allowed_senders:
  - "[email protected]"

home_assistant:
  host:  "http://<your home assistant host or ip>"
  port:  8123
  token: "<your home assistant token>"

package.json

{
  "name": "imessage-home-assistant",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node app.js",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "MIT",
  "dependencies": {
    "config": "3.0.1",
    "homeassistant": "0.2.0",
    "js-yaml": "3.12.1",
    "osa-imessage": "2.4.2",
    "pino": "5.11.1"
  }
}

                  

This represents an hour of two of tinkering, so use at your own risk, but here's a simple proof of concept bridge between Home Assistant and iMessage.

Requirements

1. Home Assistant
2. Node and NPM
3. An always-on Mac (or Hackintosh?)
4. A second device that can use iMessage (an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac).

Setup

1. Configure Home Assistant's conversation component to do something useful for some plain english input.
2. Create a new Apple ID and sign into it with iMessage on the Mac.
3. npm install; node app.js on that Mac.
4. Text that new Apple ID using iMessage, and now you’re having a two-way conversation with your house, with tight Siri integration, from anywhere that has cell service, and without having to poke a hole in your firewall.

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PS: The config file goes in config/default.yaml, but GitHub wouldn't let me include a slash in the name.

Thank you for posting this! I've extended this to include a REST notify service that I recently integrated in my setup. Let me know if you want me to post it.

Edit: Forked here