I have 2 doorbells through the Ring/homebrige setup however I no longer can find the option in the Ring code to trigger a doorbell push event so that it will show the person's image on Apple TV. Evidently this feature has either been removed or relocated. When I tried HKSV with scrypted it ate through my wired cam to the point of 0.00 battery. Any suggestions? TIA

After moving Cameras to Chime pro network, Hombridge is failing with:

[4/17/2024, 10:24:24 PM] [Ring] Session hardware_id not found. Creating a new session and trying again.

[4/17/2024, 10:24:24 PM] [Ring] 404 from endpoint https://api.ring.com/clients_api/doorbots/475745350/motions_subscribe

is there a way to use Tailscale or other to allow remote access of Home app without the need for Apple homepod mini or Apple TV acting as a bridge?

thanks brains!

I’ve tried smart bulbs made by Tuya, TP-Link and Wiz. Of course, all of these brands work fine with Homebridge, but I have had the best experience with the bulbs from Wiz.

I wondered if there was any consensus on everyone’s favorite inexpensive lightbulbs to use with Homebridge?

I set up a bunch of stuff recently and seemingly dont remember my Homebridge password. There's plenty of info on deleting a file ~/.homebridge/auth.json

However, I have no idea where to find that. I installed Homebridge on a VM using Hyper V. Im not sure where that file would be located / how to get to it to delete it! Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hey guys, I am struggling to get my Reolink RLN-410 to work properly with Homebridge. It shows the snap shot but I can never actually view the stream from Homekit. I have been able to add it through Scrypted but I have to force encoding and it looks pretty awful at best.

Curious if any of you have had some success with it? :)

Wondering if there is any known way to get HomeKit control of Rently devices - mainly the smart locks.

I have both L920 and L930 light strips from Tapo to The L930 aldready supports HomeKit but for the other one does not how do I?

Has anyone had success getting this into HomeBridge to view in Home app? Are you able to use HKSV as well? Currently using the Eve Outdoor Cam and its a POS that doesn't work. https://us.eufy.com/products/t84a1111?currency=USD&variant=42230282846394&stkn=5d5a475ac03b&utm_source=google&utm_medium=Pmax&utm_content=alwayson&utm_campaign=us_security_edge_conversion_search_pmax_purchase_ost_M3_highroas&utm_term=19873407993__&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwoPOwBhAeEiwAJuXRh4TIhXaW8wkhS3YSuE4AUSURpkmmo-K6S9YViWED3-KDkIsbGOr_FhoCowAQAvD_BwE

I'm getting Invalid Username or Password when trying to login to home bridge any help is appreciated ?

Is there any FW Matter for ESP32 that can config a virtual device that can both add it to HomeKit and to Tuya? Tasmota cannot be added to Tuya.

Thanks.

i was looking to buy a sonoff DIY smart switch but don’t know which one to get since im a noob with this stuff so here’s my electric box for my two switches

also not sure if i have a neutral wire or not but i think not. i would like to be able to control them from both switches and app.

As the title says, I am so frustrated trying to simply turn on/off my Frame TV. Each time I setup the plugin from scratch, I can reliably control the power but after just a day or two, it loses sync and never can regain control.

Is there any other option for turning a Frame TV on/off?

Hi there! I am basically looking for an outdoor button to use as a doorbell. Apparently this is not easy as there aren’t many products out there. It must be wired and water proof. So I thought it might be easier to get a normal button from the store and the two wires from it will be connected to a sensor which measures if the two contacts are closed. This then sends out a Zigbee message for example or finds some other way to get I to my homebridge. What’s out there? What could I use?

Hello. I'm trying to set up this plugin, but the documentation is a little light for me. It wants me to add this...

"clientKey": "<Sonos API client key>",

"clientSecret": "<Sonos API client secret>",

"refreshToken": "<Sonos API refresh token>"

...to my config file. I've deduced that this requires me to sign up at integration.sonos.com. There I can generate credentials with three fields: Name, Key and Secret. These don't map to what the plugin wants above, though.

Can anyone walk me through it? And do I need to use the same email login on the site linked above as I use to control my Sonos system (to log into the app)? This site and the main Sonos site seem distinct, so I had to create a new account to get into the above site.

Hi, i have been using Homebridge-broadlink-rm-tv by AlexanderBabel for couple of years and when i started using i modified it a lot to make it work for me. Then kiwi-cam rm-pr version came along and i started using that too but the issue was some of the accessories i was using were only supported by the modifications i made to rm-tv version, been using it for many years now. The issue is that Homebridge just keeps running in the background and i never cared to look at it or make any upgrades to it and now im seeing these undefined errors in the log for many months and thinking to get rid of them. Can anyone help me with it? I tried to access the link in it but couldn't really understand. Thanks in advance

i got many of this in log

4/14/2024, 7:04:22 AM] [TaHoma] Polling error - Error 401 Not authenticated (RESOURCE_ACCESS_DENIED)

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maybe someone can help me with that ?

So I wanted to see what homebridge was all about, and i installed it on my MacBook pro. Every device worked great running through my laptop, so I decided to buy a Raspberry Pi to have a dedicated device for Homebridge. I got it up and running today, and all devices show up in my Home app, but when using voice commands on my homepod mini, i get the response “ok mhatrick, sorry, something went wrong”.

The devices all work fine in the homebridge dashboard, and they all work fine if I use the home app, just voice commands through HomePod don’t work. Interestingly, voice commands from my phone work, and (1) smart plug works as expected through the HomePod. Another interesting point is if i tell my ”*insert room name* on/off”, everything works as expected, but when i try to specify a device, it does not work. I’ve been playing around with naming on devices, and it seems like it’s something going on there. If i rename the device to something new, it seems to work

Any ideas on how to get this stuff working with original names? I can rename things, but i feel like everything is already named appropriately, and the new names would be unintuitive. Not sure why just my smart plug works with its original name, and nothing else? The inconsistencies are strange. Any help is appreciated

Does anyone have any suggestions of a hardware keypad that could wireless connect to Homebridge or (even Home Assistant) that I could use as a trigger for an automation when "unlocked"?

I'm very new to Homebridge so this is likely user error, but I've set up my Nest Learning Thermostat with homebridge and it works correctly on the server however in HomeKit the thermostat shows as 'No Response' and I cannot adjust the temperature.

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I have my reolink camera connected to Homebridge via the Camera.ui plugin and the feed loads pretty quickly in the Apple Home app. However, it takes quite a while for recordings to show up in Apple Home app. Would Scryted be a more reliable choice? I have Homebridge running on a Windows 10 Pro headless PC. I believe I installed Homebridge using HyperV, but it's been a while and I can't remember how I set it up, so I'm not quite sure how to go about installing Scrypted. Thanks.

Hey everyone, just bought my first ever Pi, a Pi 5 4GB and tossed in a 32GB microSD with Pi OS Lite on it (not the Homebridge image for Pi). No monitor or VNC, just using ssh. So far all I’ve done is update the OS and packages, disable audio and Bluetooth and WLAN via config.txt, and install Docker and run the hello-world package. Kind of intimidating because I know nothing about Docker and it’s been ages since I last used Linux, but I’m managing.

Before I install Homebridge’s Docker package, I was wondering if anyone had any tips for other stuff I should do, as well as recommendations for some web UIs for the Pi itself, Docker, and then Homebridge (if it doesn’t include a web UI or a replacement is recommended).

Looking forward to getting this thing running and diving into Pihole via Docker too!

So I'm using the HikConnect plugin with exposes to homekit 2 of my locks.

I want to remove one of them from homekit but can't do it in the plugin settings.

Any other way?

I have a bathroom light on a smart switch and both a motion sensor and a humidity sensor in the bathroom. I'd like to do the following, but can't seem to figure out a way to do both. Any ideas?

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• If motion is sensed, turn the light on, start a timer for 5 minutes. When the timer is up, turn the light off. If it senses motion within the 5 mins, reset the timer. I can already do this successfully with a resettable dummy switch.

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• However, if someone is taking a shower, I'd like to have that timer go to 20 minutes, since some showers take longer than 5 min. The motion sensor can't see behind the shower glass, so we have had the lights go off while someone is in the shower. I figured I could use the humidity sensor to determine when a shower is being taken, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the dummy switch to go to 20 min instead of 5 on motion.

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Anyone have any thoughts on how I might solve this?

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Thanks!

Though there is a way using an iPhone and speaker but is it possible using Rpi ?

Hi,

TLDR: I want more flexible automations than my current Philips Hue + HomeKit setup allows. I have unused Ikea lights, Reolink cameras, and potentially other sensors on the horizon.

Should I use Home Assistant or Homebridge for advanced automations and cross-brand device control?

I've been a HomeKit user for a while now with only one brand used, Philips Hue (lights and sensors). It's been working fine but I really don't like the Hue app because of the limitations with the sensor configuration (how and when scenes can be used with the sensor).
Tried HomeKit automation but it also lacks features when it comes to sensor configuration (especially scenes).

However, I am also sitting with a bunch of unused Ikea lights, I added Reolink security cameras (wired) to my house and I am also thinking of buying some other type of sensors, for example water leakage etc. I also have one Conbee 2 dongle unused at the moment.

So to my question:

I looked around the web to learn about the pros/cons between Homeassistant and Homebridge. From my understanding, Homeassistant seems to be a more advanced platform but Homebridge is also powerful and very nice if you are stuck in the apple ecosystem (which I am).

But, if I want a platform where I can add many different brands and also create both simple and advanced automations, which one would be to go to platform?

Just to give you some examples of what I want to setup (which I am unable to do 100% with Hue & Home app):

1. Turn on the lights at sunset with a "dimmed" scene and 50% light = Possible with Hue app, Home app only shows different light colors, not scenes.
2. Motion sensors trigger only after sunset and turn on "bright" scene, after X minutes go back to "dimmed" scene = Hue app allows me to set a time frame for motion sensor trigger, not sunrise/sunset. Also, once motion sensor goes back to idle mode there is no option to choose a specific scene, only "previous scene". This is not optimal since the time frame needs to be adjusted to work with sunrise/sunset during winter and summer.
3. If a specific light is turned on during the night, adjust the camera angle towards that light until no motion is detected, then go back to previous camera angle and set light back to "dimmed" = Not possible with Home & Hue or Reolink app.
4. One app to control and view everything (like a dashboard with camera preview, light toggles etc).

This is just some of the examples which frustrates me but later on with the water leakage sensors etc I will probably want to do some more automations.

Since I don't know much about Homebridge, what do you guys think is the best platform for me? Should I go with Home Assistant or would Homebridge be able to solve my examples?

Thanks!

I would like to be notified if my garage door is open for longer than two minutes.

So far I've gotten the basics set up in Homebridge, and set up a fake switch for the garage door (using https://github.com/thncode/homebridge-fakeswitch).

I have an automation to turn the switch on when the garage door is opened, and another automation to turn the switch off when the garage door is closed. The fake switch by itself automatically turns off after two minutes. I then set up an automation to use Pushcut to send me a notification if that fake switch turns off.

The problem is that the notification gets sent any time the garage door closes. How do I get that automation to fire only when the switch turns itself off due to the 2-minute delay, and NOT when it turns off due to my Homekit automation turning it off?

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Does anyone know why Homebridge 'Insecure' Mode (Enable Accessory Control) may not be working?

I have been unable to list plugins or accessories in /swagger.

I tried turning -I off, restarting, then turning it back on.

Any ideas?

SOLVED… somewhat: I wasn’t using Swagger correctly as far as I can tell. There is very little documentation around its use with Homebridge. You need to authenticate in Swagger first, then it will allow you to list plugins and accessories. I thought I had done this but… who knows? I tried authenticating again and it worked.

Anyway, what I was trying to do was find the syntax for turning a Homebridge dummy switch on and off programmatically by running a program on the Homebridge server or from another computer on the network. The reason I want to do this is to control HomeKit automations without limiting myself to the entry points Apple offers. Now I can run a task on a computer on the network and have it set dummy switches or sensors, which in turn trigger HomeKit automations. This saves me from having to write to a full plugin when all I want is a simple integration.

I found the solution here:

https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/issues/2512

I've been using Bond with Homebridge for the past year without issue. One of the controls is for a fireplace IR remote that has a unique on & off signal. It's been working flawlessly until last week when the bond was unplugged and later plugged back in. Now, the controls in homekit are reversed. In the bond app, it's still working normally. But in homebridge, it's also reversed. I've restarted homebridge, but still no luck. Any ideas on how I can get homebrdige to reflect the correct status being reported by bond?