[karlshea]

I'm also a Home Assistant convert: I originally installed it to record history from my Nest when the building was having some boiler issues and Homebridge was too hard to monitor.

Then on install it auto-discovered a ton and I've slowly kept adding more and more smart devices. I went the same way as the OP did where all of the automations are very unobtrusive or simple, or do things like monitor some plants.

Very happy with it, and I'd encourage paying for their cloud service for remote access just to throw the project some cash!

[artdigital]

> Homebridge was too hard to monitor

Curious about this. I tried HA a couple of times but kept going back to Homebridge. I find it far simpler than HA, and easy to write my own plugins for devices that don't have functionality yet

For me HB was the lighter brother of HA, and HA the full-fledged thing

[karlshea]

I needed some graphs and was using a pretty janky project to generate them from Homebridge, so tried HA since data collection was built in.

[import]

HB never be a lighter brother of HA. Hb is simpler because it only covers functionality of one HA plugin (HomeKit bridge)