home-automation-mcp

Home Automation MCP

General Idea

Open Home Automation Access to GPTs using MCP

General Structure

More Info About IFTTT and iOS Shortcut Integration

1. IFTTT

   • This essentially Throws a notification with a payload of a link shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=PlaySongViaQueryParam&input=text&text={{Value1}}, where Value1 is a payload of form {title: string, artist: string}

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2. iOS Shortcut

   • This shortcut gets executed when user interacts with the IFTTT Notification
     • This can be automated using PushCut, but its locked behind a paywall
     • HomeBridge implementation might not require this as well
   • https://github.com/Abhiroop25902/home-automation-mcp/raw/refs/heads/main/readme_src/iOS_Shortcut.mp4

Demo

LM Studio

https://github.com/Abhiroop25902/home-automation-mcp/raw/refs/heads/main/readme_src/LM_Studio_demo.mp4

Phone

https://github.com/Abhiroop25902/home-automation-mcp/raw/refs/heads/main/readme_src/iPhone_demo.mp4

Notes

• The IFTTT deployment key is linked to my Phone, hence I have obfuscated it using GCP Secret

Future Plans

• Integrate HomeBridge to create a local server for home automation
  • This should solve "tapping the IFTTT Notification" for music playback, I would rather ask Siri Directly to play music at this point
• Tools for handling more smart home devices

Disclaimer

This is a weekend project made for exploring MCPs, hence this is not production ready

Some Additions to possibly make it production ready

• Axios Handler File to keep all axios related functions together
  • Retry mechanism and timeout handling for axios requests
• Caching iTunes API result
• Storing MCP Session Data in a proper Database Layer rather than in-memory JS Object
• Security and Authorization in MCP Server
• Rate Limiting for the MCP Server to avoid DDOS (This might be provided by google run)
• Add Request Queue for the MCP Server to avoid overloading of Cloud Run Instance
• Logging and Observability along with Health Checks