[adocomplete]

Step in the right direction, but I wonder what's taking so long on getting support for cameras. That's my biggest use case at the moment. Having a bunch of Nest cameras that don't natively incorporate with HomeKit and having to do all sorts of work arounds to get a still generally crappy experience is killing my excitement for the smart home. And I won't buy new ones until they support Matter and there is true interoperability.

[fidotron]

Probably philosophical differences over the use of CODECs which require patent licensing. The hardware universe looks on these things very differently from the web one.

[wil421]

Does Homebridge not have a plug in for Nest? The one for Unifi cameras is just ok and takes forever to load an image. The doorbell notification is better than the camera experience.

[rcdemski]

For Unifi cameras I switched from Homebridge to Scrypted. The streams load near instant when on the same network. All around a much more polished experience.

[ancorevard]

I recently just made the opposite switch, from Scrypted to Homebridge. Just less maintenance with Homebridge.

As long as you have enough memory (Raspberry Pi 4+) it's a great experince.

[adocomplete]

It does, but it is pretty bad. Loads very slowly. Randomly disconnects. Just overall a janky experience.

[judge2020]

Unfortunately the options for HKSV doorbells is fairly limited. The Logitech circle view Doorbell looks like the best candidate but it has a spotty review history, with the biggest complaint being it breaking in direct sunlight.

I’m about to buy some cameras and I’m thinking of just buying Nest and using https://scrypted.app to bridge to HKSV.

[dylan604]

>with the biggest complaint being it breaking in direct sunlight.

I feel its pain. I break down in direct sunlight too. Doorbells would definitely be tricky, as I doubt most people know the path of the sun over course of a full year. I'd assume that most people look at the sun at the time of installation (if at all) and think they are safe. They don't take into account that exact time of the year when you hold a staff in the correct location in the map room to locate the Well of Souls where the light will stream in at exactly the right angle to the lens on the camera to melt the internal senor.

Maybe feng shui is proven correct by orienting your front door to the north so your doorbell doesn't face the sun?

[klinquist]

Aqara makes a HKSV doorbell. The camera is sub-par but it's cheap and works!

[malfist]

Probably the same reason video is always hard, there's 7 million codecs.

Might also be privacy

[throw0101a]

> Probably the same reason video is always hard, there's 7 million codecs.

ONVIF has specifications/profiles for management, functionality, and codecs (S and T):

* https://www.onvif.org/profiles-add-ons-specifications/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF

[tw04]

Sure but none of it seems to work for battery powered cameras which is a giant missing piece.

[maven29]

https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmware

You can get onvif-compliant firmware for some of those, but battery-powered operation cannot be expected to remain practical, given what onvif focuses on.

[brigade]

I seriously doubt there’s a single camera supporting Apple/Google/Amazon integration that doesn’t support H.264 plus AAC

[supergeek133]

Even between Google and Amazon you have different streaming support (Amazon is RTSPS, Google is WebRTC)

[dheera]

Also I have no idea why I couldn't pair Matter devices using just my computer. Home Assistant wanted me to use a mobile app to do the pairing. No thanks. I shouldn't need to use a phone at home, phone is for outside, at home I use BIG computers and BIG screens to do everything.

[boromi]

Came here to make the same comment. It seems like we are going to be waiting a while for video.