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!

  • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    30 days ago

    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.

    • rouxdoo@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      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.

      • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        28 days ago

        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).

        • rouxdoo@lemmy.world
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          28 days ago

          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.

          • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            28 days ago

            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.