[dwb]

You can't see the appeal of integrating all your devices into one interface? Not sure many will be able to help you, then. Mine is on a little Raspberry Pi 2 and, like the devices that it manages, is down on the rare occasions when the power is out, and then comes back up again afterwards. It's not on the internet, or any guest networks, so I don't worry about patching it.

[apparent]

Yeah, not really. I get notifications when a camera spots anyone, but I don't have any triggers based on that. I have a couple different brands of cameras, but when an alert comes through I just tap on that to open the relevant app, if I care to see more.

I don't have any scenes except lights, which are all HomeKit compatible. Is the benefit that you can buy non-HomeKit accessories (for less money) and talk to them through Siri like they were HomeKit compatible?

I do have some older Wemo switches/plugs that are no longer supported by Wemo, so if I could get control of those, that would be helpful. For now, they're just fixed to the timer schedule I set before Belkin sunsetted Wemo.

[cweagans]

> I just tap on that to open the relevant app, if I care to see more.

The key difference between what you're doing and what Homebridge enables is to make the relevant app the "Home" app. If all of my IoT devices are controllable (and can be automated to some degree) through a single pane of glass that I can share with my wife, that's a big improvement over "Ok, to get access to our cameras, you need to go install these three apps and log in to all of them and accept my sharing invite, etc, etc".

Yeah, you can talk to Siri to control the devices sometimes, but that is at the very very bottom of my list of benefits. I want the app UI specifically, and Homebridge enables that. (one concrete example: Ring doorbells don't play nicely with Homekit on their own, but you can install a Homebridge extension and then your doorbell camera shows up as a Homekit-compatible camera in the Home app).

[apparent]

Gotcha, sounds like it makes sense for some uses cases, but perhaps not mine at this point. Seems like the killer app is automations, and I just care about notifications. I'm glad it exists, and presumably at some point I'll give it a try (especially if it resuscitates my Wemos, which it sounds like it can).

[dwb]

Yes, I have a generic dimmer plug for a table lamp, integrated so works with scenes, and my generic 433 MHz radio doorbell gets picked up by an SDR USB stick, then rtl-443 and a small custom extension, so I get doorbell push notifications wherever I am.