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With HomeAssistant, what is really use for Homebridge? Seems like it’s a stepping towards HA, and everyone upgrades eventually.
It’s also handy in that you get remote access with no extra port forwarding.
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Yeah, not really. I get notifications when a camera spots anyone, but I don't have any triggers based on that. I have a couple different brands of cameras, but when an alert comes through I just tap on that to open the relevant app, if I care to see more. I don't have any scenes except lights, which are all HomeKit compatible. Is the benefit that you can buy non-HomeKit accessories (for less money) and talk to them t…
> I just tap on that to open the relevant app, if I care to see more. The key difference between what you're doing and what Homebridge enables is to make the relevant app the "Home" app. If all of my IoT devices are controllable (and can be automated to some degree) through a single pane of glass that I can share with my wife, that's a big improvement over "Ok, to get access to our cameras, you need to go install the…
With HomeAssistant, what is really use for Homebridge? Seems like it’s a stepping towards HA, and everyone upgrades eventually.
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You can't see the appeal of integrating all your devices into one interface? Not sure many will be able to help you, then. Mine is on a little Raspberry Pi 2 and, like the devices that it manages, is down on the rare occasions when the power is out, and then comes back up again afterwards. It's not on the internet, or any guest networks, so I don't worry about patching it.
Yeah, not really. I get notifications when a camera spots anyone, but I don't have any triggers based on that. I have a couple different brands of cameras, but when an alert comes through I just tap on that to open the relevant app, if I care to see more. I don't have any scenes except lights, which are all HomeKit compatible. Is the benefit that you can buy non-HomeKit accessories (for less money) and talk to them t…
With HomeAssistant, what is really use for Homebridge? Seems like it’s a stepping towards HA, and everyone upgrades eventually.
For me both services are primarily for things that don't natively support HomeKit (my vacuum, logitech harmony, the receiver for my sound system, and a couple other things).
I also use home assistant to expose a couple of fake accessories for state tracking for some automation, and I do a little bit of more advanced automation in home assistant.
I use both though since some plugins in the home assistant side are way to complex (and causes issues due to that complexity) for what I need to just expose controls to homekit, or don't work as well as the homebridge version.