# ccu-mcp MCP Server

MCP server for controlling HomeMatic smart home devices via the CCU JSON-RPC API

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `ccu-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**68 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### List debmatic-mcp on the low-effort MCP registries

Get the server into the discovery directories. `server.json` already validates against the official registry (`mcp-publisher validate` → ✅ valid, schema `2025-12-11`), so most of these are near-zero effort.

## Registries

- [x] **Glama** — already listed (`glama.json`, badge in README).
- [ ] **Official MCP registry** (`registry.modelcontextprotocol.io`) — *highest value.* Already configured: valid `server.json` + `mcpName` in `package.json`. Publish with:
  ```
  mcp-publisher login github
  m

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/31) · 2026-06-15 · closed · 3 comments

### I-7: Verify escapeHmScript's \# escape against a real CCU

**Severity: Info (needs verification on real hardware)** — from code review round 3 (2026-06-11)

**Location:** `src/utils.ts:13`

`escapeHmScript` escapes `#` as `\#`. Inside a double-quoted ReGa string literal, `#` is not an operator and shouldn't need escaping; if the interpreter treats `\#` literally (backslash retained), values containing `#` get corrupted on write (e.g. a sysvar value or room name containing `#`).

**Action:** test once against a real CCU (`set_system_variable` with a stri

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/16) · 2026-06-11 · closed · 2 comments

### wizard: e2e tests, coverage baseline, docs

e2e `test/e2e/cli-init.test.ts` (modeled on cli-flags.test.ts): spawn built dist with piped answers against a mock CCU, assert the written .env; doctor exits 0 on it, 1 on a broken file. Add `src/cli` line to .github/coverage-baseline.txt (measured honestly). README: Command-line flags section, Quick start + HTTPS pointers, Configuration-errors note. CHANGELOG under Unreleased.

Part of #195 (interactive setup wizard); see ROADMAP.md → Configuration experience.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/202) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 1 comment

### wizard: ccu-mcp doctor

`src/cli/doctor.ts`: load the env file (util.parseEnv), run loadConfig() reporting its fatal errors as findings, then per profile check reachability, pinned-fingerprint match (offer interactive refresh on mismatch), login, privilege level. Check-list output, exit 1 on any failure.

Part of #195 (interactive setup wizard); see ROADMAP.md → Configuration experience.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/201) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 1 comment

### wizard: ccu-mcp init flow + client config snippets

`src/cli/init.ts`: per-profile loop — name, host, probe/auto-detect port+HTTPS, show cert and offer fingerprint pin, user/password (hidden), test login, report USER vs ADMIN (with the ReGa-needs-ADMIN warning), protected/readonly flags; confirm before overwriting managed keys in an existing .env; print ready-to-paste client snippets (claude mcp add, .mcp.json, Claude Desktop).

Part of #195 (interactive setup wizard); see ROADMAP.md → Configuration experience.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/200) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Dev-VM live tests, e2e, docs

Gated integration suite against the OpenCCU QEMU dev VM (ADMIN, so run_script paths are live-testable), stdio e2e for the full setup-mode flow incl. server restart into configured mode, README/CHANGELOG/ROADMAP updates.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/207) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### ccu-mcp secret <profile> subcommand

Hidden local prompt (echo off) that writes only CCU_PASSWORD / CCU_<P>_PASSWORD into the env file (0600, tmp+rename). Flat form takes no profile name; CCU_PROFILES form requires one. Also the documented password-rotation path.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/206) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### setup_* tools: status, probe, write_profile, test

Four tools registered only on the setup server, reusing src/cli/probe.ts and src/cli/env-writer.ts. setup_write_profile has no password parameter by design; setup_status reports password presence as a boolean only; setup_test is the doctor-style verification with role detection.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/205) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Setup mode startup: --env + invalid config starts a minimal setup server (stdio only)

Wrap loadConfig() in a try/catch in src/index.ts: with --stdio and --env <path> and a config error, start createSetupServer(envPath, configError) instead of dying. Extract the shared server identity const from src/server.ts. Bare start keeps failing loudly; HTTP never enters setup mode.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/204) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### LLM-guided setup: MCP setup tool + ccu-mcp secret <profile>

Second phase of the configuration-experience plan (ROADMAP.md, #194), building on the wizard core from #195 (`src/cli/probe.ts`, `src/cli/env-writer.ts`).

**Setup mode.** Today the server refuses to start without a valid config (`loadConfig()` throws, and e2e asserts the loud failure — the earlier "it already starts with an empty config" claim was wrong). New rule: started with `--stdio --env <path>` and a missing/invalid config, the server comes up in **setup mode** — a minimal MCP server expo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/196) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Interactive setup wizard: ccu-mcp init / ccu-mcp doctor

First phase of the configuration-experience plan (ROADMAP.md, #194).

Configuring profiles today means hand-writing `CCU_PROD_TLS_FINGERPRINT`-style variables and finding out at runtime whether the credentials work or the user has enough privileges.

**`ccu-mcp init`** — interactive wizard that:
- prompts per profile (host, port, HTTPS, user; password read with echo off)
- probes the CCU and auto-detects HTTPS/port where possible
- fetches the TLS certificate and offers to pin its fingerprint
- 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/195) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 0 comments

### Spec-alignment and documentation sweep before v1.10.0

A review of the documentation, the MCP-standards alignment and the release state
turned up the items below. Conformance was probed against the built server with
a real SDK client (negotiation, capabilities, tool metadata, error shapes), and
the docs were diffed mechanically against the code (env vars, tool names,
resource URIs, prompt names — those three are in sync).

**Baseline that is already correct** and needs no work: protocol negotiation
(`2025-11-25`, downgrading to `2024-11-05` for olde

[Read the thread](https://github.com/claymore666/ccu-mcp/issues/178) · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 18 reports Pod holds for ccu-mcp](/mcp/ccu-mcp/issues) — of 68 qualified upstream.

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