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Rusty Corgi

There's something infinitely funny to me that I have to bounce my Nest devices over to HomeKit using HomeBridge in order to bridge them into Home Assistant because Google is just that awful that I have to use Apple's standard to get their crap working. :corgi_wtf1:​

#Google#Nest#HomeKit
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Stephen Collins

We're still definitely at the gaffer tape, bendy mirrors, and magic smoke stage of making #smarthome tech behave in any sane way for people who aren't terminally tech-oriented

About half of everything works just fine, and the other half requires wiring a heap of potentially unreliable open-source projects together behind the scenes.

Add on to that an attempt at de- #shittification by removing various Google owned devices and services and it's extra fun.

Right now, our smart home stack consists of Home Assistant, #HomeKit (Apple) with #HomeBridge supplying some services, legacy Google/Nest things and devices from a couple of key vendors and a handful-and-a-half of others with one or two devices. .

I'm happy to faff about with this stuff in my spare time to make things work, but making something useful and usable for a person with multiple disabilities who relies on a voice assistant and a partner who doesn't have the bandwidth to play around in #HomeAssistant isn't straightforward by any means.

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Dustin

It would seem Homebridge is in node.js pergatory right now.

The Eufy Security plugin for my doorbell wants different node.js versions than those the Meross plugin wants for my garage door.

Since those are the only two plugins I use with the tool it would seem Homebridge has become unusable to me.

#Homebridge
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🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈

Does Home Assistant allow you to add devices controlled by it to the iOS Apple Home/HomeKit app, perhaps in a similar way to HomeBridge? If so, is that full-featured (such as letting you set light color, intensity, etc (assuming those features are supported on Home Assistant for that device, ofc))?

#HomeAssistant#HomeBridge#IoT
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Chris Geoghooligan

Hey #DIY #HomeSecurity folks!

We have a few #Nooie #security #camera in our home to keep an eye on our cat when we’re out of town, but they are pretty awful. I want to replace them but don’t like the idea of another company e.g. #Ring having eyes inside our home, so I’m soliciting input for #opensource #selfhosted options.

I’ve some experience w/ #raspberrypi & #HomeBridge, & I’m a novice #Python user though I expect to build on that in the coming months w/ school.

Please & thank you!

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Chris Geoghooligan

@bedast I’m not averse to some custom configs; I’ve got all sorts of smart automations for my home through #homebridge on a #RPi, and have some limited programming (VBA, R, Python) knowledge. That said I don’t do it at all for work so it’s only as an occasional hobby. I’d still classify myself as a newbie but not necessarily unfamiliar.

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Emory

@12thRITS i will say that there are all sorts of hacked together bridges and modules for unsupported non-HomeKit devices called #HomeBridge to shoehorn 'em into your HomeKit environment and some of those can do all sorts of stupid shit i'm sure. you have to be pretty discerning before you start wiring things up into your house.

some of them swing the other way though, i believe there is a reverse engineered TuyaHome API hijacking via a #HomeBridge plugin for example. HomeAssistant has one too?

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Sebastian :coffefied:

#HomeLab update!

I'm pretty comfy with what I've created for myself, but in a long run I have no idea how those YouTubers are able to milk the hell of this for so long...😅

I must say I've got pretty comfortable with #Docker and containers. It's like updating an operating system while keeping your settings and apps. Easy and mostly painless.

I just update #UptimeKuma, #HomeBridge, #Transmission, #AdGuardHome, #Plex and #HomeAssistant and it all works fine!❤️

#HomeServer#HomeIT
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Magister Navis

@macandi ich hab nur ein Eve Gerät. Bekannte haben andere. Insgesamt bin ich von deren Lösungen überhaupt nicht überzeugt. Teuer und unpraktisch, zum Beispiel Eve Thermo mit dem dauernden Batteriewechsel.

Deshalb setze ich zu Hause auf #homebridge und #zigbee wie es vermutlich viele tun.

Jetzt, wo es matter gibt fallen die Preise und ich ersetze die Z-Lampen durch Matter, wenn eine kaputt geht. Hat gut geklappt. Ist natürlich eine neue Lampe und muss in die Szenen eingebunden werden.

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Kee Hinckley

Something is really weird with #HomeKit and my #Hue thermometers.

Even weirder, I was able to do it fine with a separate Hue sensor. I haven't dared edit it to see if it still works. And sometimes the summary description is accurate and sometimes it's wrong.

I wonder if it's a #Homebridge issue, or C to F conversion. Controller shows that the list of valid values are mot whole numbers, so maybe it's only allowing values that round the same in both apps. But then why is one device working but not the other?

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Sebastian :coffefied:

My new #RaspberryPi5 home server is now fully operational with with #AdGuardHome and #HomeBridge running on docker. Ditched #HomeAssistant because it’s cumbersome and integrates poorly with #HomeKit…

In the meantime, I’ve bought some #SNES style USB pads and a case for the #RaspberryPi 4 #RetroPie. No expectations, because they were cheap AF…🤡 It just didn’t feel right playing those classics on a modern #XBox pad and I have just one…🤷🏻‍♂️ I want to share the sentiment with my wife and the kids…🥰

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