Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

MarleTangible•about 3 hours ago

Please be cognizant of fake plugins. They replicate entire plugins including the readme files and link to the original repos, but the code itself is different.

apparent•41 minutes ago

I've heard of Homebridge before and looked into it briefly. But I never quite understood the appeal. Is the main benefit that you have all your cameras in one place, or you can trigger scenes based on non-HomeKit devices? I find it to be moderately annoying that my different brands of cameras aren't all in one place, but I'm not annoyed enough to spend hours setting up an intermediary system (that might need rebooting/special care when the power/internet goes out).

What are the biggest benefits of Homebridge?

dwb•30 minutes ago

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.

apparent•19 minutes ago

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 through Siri like they were HomeKit compatible?

I do have some older Wemo switches/plugs that are no longer supported by Wemo, so if I could get control of those, that would be helpful. For now, they're just fixed to the timer schedule I set before Belkin sunsetted Wemo.

dostick•43 minutes ago

With HomeAssistant, what is really use for Homebridge? Seems like it’s a stepping towards HA, and everyone upgrades eventually.

emsy•about 4 hours ago

I love homebridge. Out of the 100 devices or so that I have in the HomeApp, only 2 or so are „native“ HomeKit devices. Will upgrade to HomeBridge 2 soon (but keep my old installation just to be safe =))

Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

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