I boot up my Raspberry Pi and Homebridge from a micro SD card. But I also have a hard drive attached to the RP. Would like to learn how to.migrate the Homebridge to boot up from the HD instead. Thanks.

Hello everyone (first post ever on Reddit hehe),

I found out the existence of homebridge, Raspberry and all those amazing stuffs very recently, love it. But I’m pretty new and so I need some help.

I’m currently running Homebridge on a MacBook, but after figuring out everything disconnect when I close it … I bought a Rasberry Pi 4b. And a Mesh WiFi at the same time. I’m using an Apple TV4 as hub, and a bunch of connected accessories (lights, switches, speakers, etc). So in short, my question is to know the best setting between those equipments. More in details:

1. should I plug (Ethernet) the Raspberry Pi to my modem, or to the mesh router (already connected to modem by Ethernet)?
2. Should I configure the mesh WiFi as WiFi router or Access Point?
3. Do I need to turn off the WiFi from my modem?
4. My Apple TV is connected by Ethernet to modem. Can it remain like this? I would prefer as my mesh router has only 2 Ethernet ports.
5. Can the other connected devices be on the mesh router, connected by WiFi?

To summarize, I would like the following configuration but not sure it’s possible: Modem - Ethernet to Mesh Router Modem - Ethernet to Apple TV hub Mesh Router - Ethernet to Raspberry Pi Mesh Router - WiFi to all accessories

Thank you all in advance.

As the title states, my Apple Home app is unable to find my bridge. I have tried the following:

1. Uninstall and clean install
2. Reset bridges/accessories/pairing
3. Changed the paring code
4. Changed the port
5. Changed the MAC address
6. Tried adding the bridge from multiple iOS devices

This all came about when I noticed that a number of automations I had which utilised my Ring alarm contact sensors had stopped working. I was only using the Ring plugin at the time so after some tinkering to no avail I decided it was better to just uninstall and start again. This didn’t work, and have tried all of the above.

Any guidance much appreciated.

Hi

Does anyone knows about a plugin regarding the control of air condition units from Tesla.info (nothing to do with the car manufacturer). I have found this one: https://github.com/peros550/esp-homekit-ac-tesla but it's outdated. Thank you in advance

I have a bunch of Shelly’s connected to HomeKit, via Homebridge running on my Raspberry Pi. I have until now used the Shelly 1 Pro Dimmers as well as a bunch of Shelly Plus 2PM’s, and up until now they have been running well using the Shelly DS9 plugin.

I recently acquired a 2PM gen3 for one of my blinds, but this one seems incompatible with the DS9 plugin. Anyone knows if there is a Homebridge plugin that would be compatible with Gen 3 shellys?

I have my Zero W connected via Ethernet. How can I find the IP address so that I can start setting up Homebridge?

Is it possible to add info/switches etc to the settings section of an accessory in the home app? I want to add toggles/slider for my LG AC to this section instead of the huge toggles that will show up on the accessory it self.

Hi All,

I’m brand new to homebridge so apologies if there is a simple answer here.

So I have installed homebridge via a PI, no issues. And have installed the Govee plug in for my lights.

The issue is, the Govee lights aren’t showing up in my HomeKit.

I then hit the + sign - add accessory - more options (as there’s no QR to scan) - then it’s showing the Govee plug in as a bridge and not individual

Any help would be much appreciated please

Hello all. I'm at my wits end.

I've had bond and somfy for a year and use the shades to open to wake me up. 4 days ago the shades stopped working with the app. I can use the remote and the app looks fine, shows it's connected, but just isn't working.

Did the unplug and reset. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so how did you solve it?

Hey everyone, I have a Pi02w that I'm using for some incredibly basic plugins, my nest thermostat and to control my kasa smart plug. For the Kasa plugin, it requires a node version that I do not have in order to function. I've spent the last several hours trying to get it to work, including uninstalling and reinstalling homebridge to the pi several times. This is because when I try to run the command "hb-service update-node" it gets all the way to installing then the animation will freeze and shortly after show "terminal disconnected. is the server running?" (even tried giving it specific versions to install as well)

Following this message, I have to physically restart my pi and can only use ssh to talk to it until i completely reinstall homebridge, citing segmentation issues if I try to do any homebridge-related prompts. I have some general computer knowledge, although I'm no IT professional and I feel at my wit's end here trying to get my node updated just so I can have access to my smart plug! Can anyone please advise?

I have four color bulbs connected to Smartthings connected to Homebridge via plugin, finally exposed to Homekit Home app.

Whenever i press any of such bulb in Apple Home to ON it switches to ON (physical world) but the button goes back to showing OFF. Only if i press it again, it shows ON without giving another ON command to the bulb (physical world).

Same for OFF: the first press turn the Bulb OFF for real, but only a second press will then show in Home app that the bulb is OFF.

Basically, i have to press button in home twice to properly show real status.

Using iklein99 smartthings plugin.

The plugin hasn’t worked in a while. Is the project dead?

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a Homebridge plugin to integrate my Aqara Air Conditioner Companion called P3 (the IR control device) with HomeKit. The device doesn’t have native HomeKit support, but I’d love to control it via HomeKit using Homebridge.

Does anyone know of a plugin that supports the Aqara Air Conditioner Companion for IR control? Any recommendations on how to get this set up would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

I have found many instances of stuff in HomeBridge UI not showing up in Homekit, but I have the opposite issue. Stuff that I have plugins for that initially made the accessories available in Homekit aren’t showing the devices in the HomeBridge UI. I spent a lot of time organizing stuff on there, but I am more concerned that it will eventually drop off from my Home app. It looks like they’re all still in the list in the HB settings where you can unlink individual items so maybe it’s fine and I just have to deal with the UI glitch?

Running 3.1.3 on Synology NAS latest node.js available to me is 20.9

I unknowingly added a Shelly 2PM Gen3 to my home. I have 7 Shelly modules of various generations currently controlled by (homebridge-shelly and homebridge-shelly-ds9 (my geek heart loves the developer called this the evolution of homebridge-shelly-NG!)

Shelly 2PM gen3 is not currently supported by any Homebridge plugin at this time - please correct me if I'm wrong.

Hi, i have Homebridge installed in Virtualbox on Win11 pro. I’d like to use AppleTG enhanced but it requires python3.9, while the version onboard the HB VM is 3.8. Is there any way i can update python? I also succesfully updated python via Homebridge terminal but, when i check python version, it’s still 3.8.x. Thanks for support!

Original phone with 2FA credentials is broken.

Tried plugging the pi to a monitor, the password I’ve used for mobile login through IP does not work.

Tried ssh pi@XXX.XXX.X.XX with the same password, does not work.

Are there any options before I completely wipe the pi and re-install homebridge?

TL;DR: I’m struggling to figure out how to get push notifications from the Home app when my security alarm is adjusted via a dummy switch triggered by geofence-based automations for “last person left” or “first person arrived.” Is there a way I could set things up to receive alarm state notifications via the Apple Home app triggered by a dummy switch?

I'm using an Eyezon Duo to control my ancient Honeywell Alarm and have connected the alarm to Homebridge using the homebridge-envisalink-ademco plugin.

I’m also using the Dummy Switch plugin in Homebridge. I’ve set up two dummy switches: one to arm the alarm when the last person leaves and another to disarm the alarm when the first person arrives. I’ve incorporated these dummy switches into the respective automations for “last person left” and “first person arrived.”

- I DO get notifications via the Apple Home app when I manually adjust the alarm in the Home app or enter a code at the panel
- I DO NOT get notifications from the Apple Home app when the alarm is adjusted by a dummy switch.

I'm trying to figure out how I could get notifications when the alarm is automatically adjusted using geofence.

While the Eyezon app sends notifications they are slow and awkwardly worded. I'd love to only get notifications from Apple (so that I also have faster confirmation that the geofence worked.)

Can anyone suggest how I can receive push notifications when an alarm is adjusted through a geofence or dummy switch? I’m open to exploring alternative approaches.

Dummy switch arming the alarm

When the last person leaves automation (triggering the dummy switch to arm the alarm)

Hi everyone,

My setup:

• Rpi5
• Docker
• Homebridge (1.8.5)
• Zigbee2MQTTHomebridge with multiple Zigbee devices.

On my own Iphone (iOS 18.1.1) , and through iCloud also on my Company Phone (17.6.1) , every zigbee device is shown - everything works fine.

Now, some months after the initial setup on my phone, I wanted to setup the Home App on my wife's iPhone (18.1.1). After adding via QR scan homebridge is shown as Bridge but with a different Serial Number and without the devices. I've removed the bridge several times and added it again, but it doesn't work.

Does anyone has an idea what could be the problem?

Thanksalot!

€: I guess I paired the Zigbee Plugin as a Childbridge on my iPhone. Now I tried to pair the child bridge on my wife's iphone but an error appear on the iPhone that this device belongs to another Home...

Solved: I've added a new childbridge via json-config and paired it successfully!

Hello Guys,

Has anyone gotten the G4 Doorbell Pro fingerprint scanner to work with smart locks via HomeBridge?

Thanks!

Hello there! I’m on a budget and trying to setup a security camera (or 2) in my flat, any recommendations?

Looking for cheap cameras I can connect to a HomeKit/homebridge

Edit: I’d like the storage to be local, either as a camera feature (unlikely I guess given the cheap constraint) but also happy to do some coding to store it on raspberry

Hi, I have went through the official doc which says it doesn't support.

However, I still gave a try since docker desktop now supports host networing and using kernel networking for UDP.

I can remotely login homebridge UI and get response from port 51809 (default homebridge port), but still getting timeout when adding homebridge into homekit. Try to check here if anyone has ever succeeded using docker container on Mac. Thanks!

btw, following is the response from 51809:

    {
      "status": -70409
    }

Hey all, I'm trying to achieve the following and I would appreciate some direction:

I have a few scenes set up that turn on some lights together (and turn them off on another). I would like some physical buttons to trigger these.

Most of the products I see are zigbee related (see https://a.co/d/7yXMiR2). Now I found this to be a deep rabbit hole, I'm not exactly sure what hub is supported and which physical switch would work (are all zigbee devices interchangeable? I didn't find a clear answer on those)

Any direction is appreciated

I recently decided to give home bridge a try to bring some other devices into HomeKit. I started with my Govee account.

I successfully installed Homebridge and linked my Govee account. It worked and I could control the lights, including changing color. However I couldn't control the individual lights. The Govee spotlights are in pairs, I have 3 sets for a total of 6 lights.

For Christmas I have the lights always on, but alternating color between red and green (Not flickering - just set to one color for the season). So its green, red, green, red, green red essentially.

In the Govee app this works fine, but when I move it to HomeKit I can only control the set of lights, not each light individually.

Is there a custom setting under Homebridge or a Scene I could configure for this?

Hey everyone,

I got myself a Mac Mini for Homebridge because my Raspberry Pi 3b was no longer sufficient.

I made a backup and then transferred it to the mac mini. The homebridges were still running in parallel for a short time.

Now that I have switched off the Raspberry, I cannot access homebridge.local but only via ip:8581

Do you have any ideas? Nutze eine Dreammachine SE

Cheers

Anyone know why I am suddenly unable to install the latest versions? Never had this problem before.

Hi, I am wondering if anyone has a working and reliable IR Tasmota plugin? Thanks in advance

The wiki says to type “npx -p ring-client-api ring-with-cli” but when I do, I get the above error”.

I’m using Hyper-V on windows 11 Pro. The command terminal I’m typing in appears when I double click on the name of the virtual machine in Hyper-V.

What am I doing wrong?

I was able to get Nest configured so I do know that Homebridge is installed and running correctly.

I don't have the skills to develop it but it would be nice to have a plugin where you could associate a maximum or average power consuption to a device and, based on the on/off time, calculate the consumption over a period, 1 day, 7 days, 30 days, etc. Of course that it wouldn't be exact for some devices but it would be for devices like lamps without dimmer capabilities.