I love homebridge. Out of the 100 devices or so that I have in the HomeApp, only 2 or so are „native“ HomeKit devices. Will upgrade to HomeBridge 2 soon (but keep my old installation just to be safe =))
Please be cognizant of fake plugins. They replicate entire plugins including the readme files and link to the original repos, but the code itself is different.
It depends on what your use case is, I have both homebridge and homeassistant setup for different devices. But I also use HomeKit as the main hub of my home automation not home assistant.
For me both services are primarily for things that don't natively support HomeKit (my vacuum, logitech harmony, the receiver for my sound system, and a couple other things).
I also use home assistant to expose a couple of fake accessories for state tracking for some automation, and I do a little bit of more advanced automation in home assistant.
I use both though since some plugins in the home assistant side are way to complex (and causes issues due to that complexity) for what I need to just expose controls to homekit, or don't work as well as the homebridge version.
I've heard of Homebridge before and looked into it briefly. But I never quite understood the appeal. Is the main benefit that you have all your cameras in one place, or you can trigger scenes based on non-HomeKit devices? I find it to be moderately annoying that my different brands of cameras aren't all in one place, but I'm not annoyed enough to spend hours setting up an intermediary system (that might need rebooting/special care when the power/internet goes out).
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 22.8 ms ] threadFor me both services are primarily for things that don't natively support HomeKit (my vacuum, logitech harmony, the receiver for my sound system, and a couple other things).
I also use home assistant to expose a couple of fake accessories for state tracking for some automation, and I do a little bit of more advanced automation in home assistant.
I use both though since some plugins in the home assistant side are way to complex (and causes issues due to that complexity) for what I need to just expose controls to homekit, or don't work as well as the homebridge version.
What are the biggest benefits of Homebridge?