I am looking for an easy method to accomplish the following task:

When dummy switch 'X' is enabled => power Socket A is turned on for 2 hours then off => then power Socket B is turned on for 2 hours then off => then power socket C is turned on for 2 hours then off => then power Socket A starts the cycle again

This cycle continues until dummy switch 'X' is disabled, or until a specified number of cycles is completed

Oke rasberry pi & homebridge noob here,

I’m just starting with Python & Homebridge , and I have a quick question. Can I use my Raspberry Pi to run both Homebridge & my own Python scripts simultaneously?

My goal is to set up my Pi to run Python scripts in the background for tasks like web scraping, expense tracking & work automation.

I’m considering following this tutorial to get my Pi set up: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L_94IUH_N20&si=yAglIjzkcwYjo35E

Any advice or tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sorry this might be a long post. But thought I’d update everyone on my HomeBridge/Unifi Plug in woes.

Backstory: I’ve got HB installed on a QNAP T-253E NAS using container station. In short, although I’ve been able to work things out I had to A) change the setting to force low quality streams B) as a result ran into issues with audio being delayed by as much as 5 seconds.

This was driving me bonkers so I posted asking if the m4 MacMini was overkill. Yall spoke and some suggested using scrypted for my UniFi cameras/doorbell. I kinda knew yall would say it was overkill tbh. Scrypted looked confusing at first but it’s not that bad afterwards.

So needless to say, I’ve got scrypted running with only the UniFi plug-in and the HomeKit plugin. I tested the HKSV and it is working pretty well and best of all the audio isn’t delayed.

So thanks to everyone that chimed in.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but I haven't been able to find the answer: the raspberry pi 5 I'm running Homebridge on is unstable; I'm confident that the problem is not with Homebridge, it's with the Pi, or with the raspbian OS underlying the Homebridge image.

It just stops responding entirely -- not just Homebridge, the whole computer. I can't ping, ssh, nothing. Sometimes it comes back a few minutes later, sometimes I have to power cycle it. There is nothing in the Homebridge logs related to the problem -- it just suddenly stops with nothing logged, and the next thing in the logs is a clean startup when I power cycle it, and nothing at all when it comes back by itself, just a few minutes gap in anything being logged. I also don't see anything informative in the system logs, but I'm not certain what to look for.

My guess is it's the power supply, since Raspberry Pi 5 has non-standard requirements and that seems to always be the answer when people have problems with it, but my supply specifically says it supports the 5x5 requirements of the Pi 5, and I'm not running any extra hardware except the cooling fan. But how do I check that? The Homebridge UI is not showing the "lower power event" symbol.

Hi all, newbie to this site and newbie to Homekit and Homebridge, moving across from Alexa if i can get working how i think it should be able to.

I have latest version of Homebridge installed on a Raspberry pi 4b, 1 x Homepod mini all runing through a TP link Archer Ax10, this is a wifi 6 router with gigabit ethernet and has coped with all the wifi devices i had running with Alexa.

I have 2 sonoff 4ch pro units controlling my lights (12v DC as live on a boat) and for the first few days the response times was instant!! i was sold when comparing to Alexa but after a few days the responses are now anything from 6 to 20 seconds and most times a timeout error showing in homebridge logs. Non Ewelink devices seem to respond fine so it seems local to just these devices.

How do i go about zeroing in on the route cause?

Let me know if you need more info on setup etc.

Thanks in advance.

Hi

Anyone else having issues recently using Avahi as the mDNS advertiser? I am running Homebridge in docker v1.8.5 and Node.js v20.18.0 and have had to switch back to Bonjour. It's been working perfectly for a long time.

I'm not sure how to troubleshoot Avahi so if anyone has suggestions for this I'd be very grateful!

Thanks

I recently bought a matter enabled smart switch to convert my normal light switch into a smart switch. It works all fine but the thing is whenever I want to switch on the light manually I have to flip the switch ON and then OFF again for the light bulb to light up and same scenario when turning it off. I know that there is a function in giya switches where you can change the setting into “Flip state of the switch” but I cannot find a way to do that to this matter enabled switch.

Im using HomeKit app to control these switches. Is there any way I can fix this?

I have many devices connect under zemismart zmhk-01 hub in order to control all of them in homekit. Now, I want to start using homebridge. My question is that…

1. Do i have to get rid of zemismart hub and reconnect all of my devices to homebridge directly?
2. If i can still use zemismart hub with homebridge, will all of them work locally?

(From my understanding, when I use Homebridge, everything will work locally) Thanks.

Like the title says. Would installing HomeBridge onto a base model M4 Mac Mini with only 3 plug-ins be overkill? I currently have it installed on a NAS using a docker container and am having minor issues with the UniFi plug-in like having to force low quality resolution and audio being out of sync with the video. It’s been suggested on here that maybe the NAS isn’t really up to the task. Especially since it is running inside a container

anyone know if there is a way to get the audio from my HKSV to be in sync. I am noticing up to a 5 second delay in the audio. Sometimes the audio that should be in the beginning of the recording doesn’t happen until the end of the recording.

I’m using the UniFi-protect plug-in and I have low quality forced.

Hi I just got a raspberry pi 5, installed homebridge. I run it all on the Apple home app, have the following plugins

Ring, wyze, tplinksmarthome, Roku, Sonos

I’d like to have a display in my home that always shows my ring doorbell video/ring camera feed. What option would be best for this? Having the ability to control other plugins would be cool too but the always on cameras I need to quickly glance at it if someone is at my door

It would most likely be away from the raspberry pi in the other room as well. Let me know thanks

Hi, what about arlo integration in homebridge at the date? Is there a solution to manage activation/deactivation of base station? All posts are very old.

I have been running HomeBridge on an old Lenovo laptop for about a year. It had a SSD and 16gb RAM, ran like clockwork. That is until the ssd died sometime yesterday. So now I’m at a crossroads. Do I replace the drive, install a fresh copy of Windows and setup from there? Or dive into Linux? Or scrap the laptop for a Rasberry pi? I’m not a power user, I only have five plugins for less than 20 devices, and I don’t intend to add to that, rather I’m replacing things with either HomeKit native or Matter devices instead. The laptop just sits on a shelf with the rest of my networking stuff, it isn’t used for anything else.

For the record tonight I installed a new drive, Windows 10 Pro and HomeBridge via virtual machine just like my old setup. Everything was fine until I updated node, then I was unable to access HomeBridge again. I deleted the VM with the intention of trying again tomorrow but now I’m wondering if I should just go a different direction.

What do the experts here think?

Hello Fellow HB Users!

I'm dealing with some challenges with HomeKit and Homebridge and I'm wondering if anyone has created a solution for making the Homebridge Log easier to analyze.

Specifically, I have devices that frequently miss-fire automations through their polling behaviors. An LG WebOS TV and Samsung Tizen TV that will fall out of sync with the Home App often, or repeatedly fire automation unexpectedly.

I've been reviewing debugging logs for the past several weak and it's blinding. With HAP and Ciao extended logging options and each plugin on, it's a lot.

I'm wondering if anyone has created a solution for addressing timestamp formates and perhaps even delimiting the log data to allow for sort, filter, and group actions within a spreadsheet.

I recently installed Controller HomeKit, and its CSV export is helpful, though lacking in some aspects.

I need to get a a complete picture of what HomeKit is doing.

Many thanks for considering my situation. Let me know if I can provide any additional context.

Hello. I recently did a fresh install of Homebridge and have added two accessories. One of them shows up in the home app without any issues (Pi hole), but the other one (Adax) doesn't. I have tried clearing the cache in Homebridge (it did say that this accessory was loading from cache) and I have tried removing Homebridge from HomeKit and re-adding it again, with the same result. I have noticed that the accessory I have an issue with is running as a child bridge (happened automatically), whereas the other one does not. In Homebridge I can see the accessory, that it is pulling the correct information from the physical device and so on, but in the Home app there is nothing. When I look at Homebridge in the Home app it also reports that it has one accessory instead of two. Any suggestions on what to do?

EDIT: Did not realise I have to add the child bridges in addition to the main Homebridge instance. Did it and now it works!

Hi. The configuration tool has allowed us to install a few extra packages, like PiHole and VNC, for a while now.

Any chance more could be added to it? Scyrpted and Tailscale would be excellent.

Currently I run them with docker/portainer, but it would be nice to simply things.

Thanks.

Can a Homebridge and Pi hole be run on a Dell Power Edge server?

Everyone, I thought I would share an update on the status of the plugin.

Earlier today we had successfully transferred operations from Oznu to ourselves, so this service will no longer go end of life next month.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

Tks

The plugin is quite complex and I'm thoroughly confused. I would just like to make a simple setup to turn the lights on in my bathroom when I enter the room, and turn them off a minute or so after I leave. I have a hue motion sensor in there and lutron smart switch.

Would anyone be able to write a step by step guide on how to do this with Magic Occupancy? Which switches do I need and which ones do I not need?

Anyone know if it is possible to select which chime plays on the HomePod when someone pushed the button on my UniFi G4 doorbell? I have a custom chime defined in the UniFi software and it plays as expected on the UniFi wireless chime but my HomePod minis play the standard dingdong sound. I’d like for the HomePod mini to play the same sound as my UniFi chime.

I have a set of motorized shades exposed to HomeKit via the Bond Bridge. The Bond shows that many commands are exported:
[10/24/2024, 3:19:03 PM] [Bond] [Shades] actions: Aux,Close,CloseNext,Hold,Open,OpenNext,Pair,Stop,ToggleOpen,Unpair

And yet, HomeKit doesn't accept any commands other than open and close. I cannot "stop" or "hold" or anything other than open/close, so I have no way to open the shades halfway. If the stop command was recognized then at least I could setup an automation that did an "open" command and then "stop" after X seconds. Ironically Homekit does seem to accept "open the shades to 50%", but it just opens them all the way.

Just got a homebridge server, Govee end works decent until I try adding a Kasa plugin. Ive tried child bridges. I have like 36 over bulbs and 15 Kasa ones. Should: •I hang tight for updates to the Kasa plugin •get a second server too share the load •give up on Kasa

Hey I got a Hikvision DVR with hik connect app But I’m wondering if there’s any way possible to add it to HomeKit, any idea ?

I have a bash script running on a headless Mac Mini. I’m wondering if there is a Plug-in that could be used to notify me via HomeKit that the script has finished running successfully. Any help would be appreciated.

I have all of my devices hooked up with HomeKit. My thermostat failed & was replaced with one that is not HomeKit compatible. The new thermostat works with Alexa & Google. How can I get the thermostat into HomeKit?

Hi I've been trying to instal pihole on/off switch so that I can disable pihole on my phone if needed. I've set homebridge up with a synology nas (container) and I can't get this plugin to work. The switch either turns straight off after turning on or does nothing. -I'm unsure on 'ssl' should be enabled? -I'm unsure on 'reject unauthorised' should be enabled? -host I've set as my ip address of synology nas (and pihole) -port set to 80 -'base directory' I'm unsure? I'm pretty clueless with this so any help be much appreciated.

Hey i have an aqara E1 camera and iits great, only a shame that i can control moving the camera only in awara app, is it possiible to add these controls to homekit?

I’m moving away from smartthings and going to homekit, and I can’t seem to connect smartthings to homebridge so can I connect my devices directly to homebridge or do I need to use another bridge like Thinka Z-Wave?