Hi, I recently made the switch to Lemmy from Reddit. But r/homekit is one of the communities I miss the most.
What can I do to help build this community up? I’m happy to make posts, comment, and upvote. Is trying to poach people from r/homekit a bad idea?
I would love to get to know everyone better. Here’s some info about my smart home.
- I’m using Apple Home, and my primary hub is a 4K Apple TV 4K Ethernet, which I chose for the Thread radio.
- I’m almost exclusively using Thread devices, and most of those are Matter over Thread.
- Most of my lights are Nanoleaf Essentials (Matter over Thread), and despite people hating Nanoleaf, they have been much better lately.
- For more advanced lighting, I’m using WLED, which is a DIY project for controlling addressable light strips.
- My WLED lights are bridged into HomeKit via Homebridge, though I’ve considered switching to Home Assistant.
- I’m using a Deco mesh router with two nodes, and it’s been amazing for the relatively low cost.
- Outside of Apple Home, I use Ring, which I’ve bridged into Apple via Homebridge. I hate the Ring subscription, but their hardware is solid.
Excited to get to know everyone!
Subbed to the community. I only briefly scanned your cross post in which folks were talking about HomeKit as a front end for home assistant essentially, and I’m largely in that camp also. The one thing that I do really like about HomeKit though is the secure video stuff, and I do like HomeKit certified things (less important now that matter and thread are around — you can also pair those locally without an app using the QR code). Will watch this space and hopefully contribute some to it if I can.
If you haven’t yet done it look into scrypted. I have all kinds of cameras feeding into my HKSV from home assistant and it is flawless across all devices. If I want to review video footage events I will normally go into Apple Home versus manufacturer specific apps because it is just better.
Ah I love scrypted! Unfortunately I don’t have a powerful enough server right now (running home assistant off a spare rpi3). Once I can get my self host server up, I think I may be in good shape to return there (I can sort of get the doorbell I have integrated, but it would be way better if I could use scrypted).
I have 6 cameras running on a rpi5 and it doesn’t seem challenged. I wouldn’t try Frigate here but this does what I want archiving security cams to cloud.
Yeah I have an old Ryzen 1700 system that I’m going to repurpose as a home server. NAS and some self hosting, including scrypted and home assistant.
Haven’t tried secure video yet, but I’ve heard it’s cool! Initially I was hoping that going all in on Matter and Thread would mean I could swap my hubs later if I want. I really wanted battery-powered light switches since I rent. I’m using Wemo Stage and the new Nanoleaf Sense+. Wemo is actually not terrible (battery could be better), but it’s HomeKit over Thread not Matter, I think. And Nanoleaf Sense+ so far is fantastic since it uses Nanoleaf’s proprietary lightwave protocol to directly control bulbs, but it also sucks because it uses Nanoleaf’s proprietary lightwave protocol and can’t control anything outside of Nanoleaf. Eve Thread smart plugs have also been solid!