Remote access of Zwave stick from Z-wave server

[parkerc]

Being an iPad/iPhone user, I use Homebridge for a number of things. Although it runs completely independently from my main Vera home set up.

Is anyone else using Homebridge and if there is enough interest would a subcategory be of use ?

[Crille]

@parkerc Yes, search for Homebridge in title and posts and you will find some of us

[parkerc]

Thanks @Crille

I was hoping to get some insight if people were using anything that allows you to make http request calls to Homebridge to get the status of specifc devices registered there ?

[Crille]

@parkerc I'm using @ronluna's Homebridge2openLuup plugin to bring status and control for other devices, not supported by any other plugin, from Homebridge into openLuup.

[parkerc]

Thanks @Crille , although are you aware of anything that is more of an open api, where I can just do a straightforward http calls, e.g a http GET request to get information ?

[Crille]

@parkerc Well if you are running Config UI X there's an API for Accessories at http://[homebridge-ip]:8581/swagger but I haven't tried it myself, so I don't know if that would do it for your use case.

[tunnus]

Would also like to setup homebridge to be able to control Vera devices (UI7, Vera Plus) from Apple devices. Found oznu/homebridge image for Docker, but none of the Vera plugins I found for it would function properly. And with Vera plugins really meaning homebridge plugins, and not plugins running on Vera. I'm not using openluup.

Any help / pointers would be highly appreciated!

[Crille]

@tunnus I'm using this because it has support for the garage door (Vera) plugin. It's rather old and not updated for a long time but does the job.

I ignore scenes, rooms, house modes and some virtual devices to explicit generate actual devices.
There is a Http-SecuritySystem plugin that can map house modes better to my intention of display for house modes.

I'm moving everything connected to openLuup and Ezlo to MQTT as the old Homebridge-Vera plugin could be smarter and less aggressive, although my Vera Secure handled it fine for a couple of years.

[tunnus]

@crille thanks, I'll look into it

[akbooer]

Yes, I'm using Homebridge, running in Docker, but not the HomeBridge2openLuup plugin. Everything on Vera (and there's only a few Zwave devices there now) is bridged to openLuup and, from there, everything sent via MQTT to Homebridge's MQTTthing plugin.

Also running HomeBridgeShelly and HomeBridgeNetatmo, which just about covers the rest. More and more I'm using the Apple UI (including voice commands) rather than any other interface.

[tunnus]

@akbooer which Docker image you are using as a base? As a homebridge, are you also using this version by damianxd?

[akbooer]

@tunnus said in Any interest in a Subcategory for Homebridge?:

@akbooer which Docker image you are using as a base?

• oznu/homebridge

As a homebridge, are you also using this version by damianxd?

No, nothing at all... no need. All the monitoring/control for Vera is done via openLuup and passed on to Homebridge via MQTT.

[therealdb]

@tunnus In your case, the mqtt messages generated by MSR should be enough.

GitHub - arachnetech/homebridge-mqttthing: A plugin for Homebridge allowing the integration of many different accessory types using MQTT.

A plugin for Homebridge allowing the integration of many different accessory types using MQTT. - arachnetech/homebridge-mqttthing

It’s not trivial to configure.

[cryptonian]

Thank you for the post. I have been searching for the answer for the same question.
Thank you so much