r/homebridge

i just set up home bridge on a raspberry pi 5 but when i complete the initial setup and scan the qr code on the home page the home app on my iphone loads for a second say adding to home then errors out with "operation timed out" I've tried adding a plugin first then adding the bridge but no change i tried change the port on my router and access control but still i only get operation timed out can anyone please help me thank you another thing to note is after i get the operation timed out error if i scan the code again it says its already in another home so i have to reset the bridge

With Smartthings starting to charge for access to their API, I’m thinking of removing my devices which are connected via Smartthings. It’s mostly nearly 10 year old ge paddle light switches. I run a ton of Lutron devices so I could go that direction but wondering if there are any cheaper options (perhaps HomeKit compatible natively). Lutron would my gets expensive and I need close to 10 switches. I also have one spot that’s a 3 way switch.

I've had homebridge working great for about a year. I decided to update the homebridge app and plugins to the latest versions. Now, every 2-3 days I get this error which causes a bunch on my devices to stop functioning. I'm able to successfully set the cookie, but it lasts for only a few days.

Failed to initialize connection to Alexa. - Please open http://192.168.1.176:8501/ with your browser and login to Amazon. The cookie will be output here after successfull login.

So here is my question. I have a lorex nvr.. What I would like to do is allow for my apple tv on my 192.168.7.0/24 vlan to see my cameras which are via my lorex nvr on 192.168.110.0/24 network.

So my apple tv is on 192.168.7.102, I setup a homebridge on my nas that can connect to my nvr on 192.168.110.110.. It show all the cameras. It is using 192.168.7.117

but when I load up home on my iphone currently connected to that network 192.168.7, and can sees my apple tv in the home and try and add the homebridge via the qr code that shows in the homebridge ui it never finds its?

so what I assume is my home hub, or whatever its called is my apple tv 192.168.7.102, homebridge running on my nas which I set to listen on 192.168.7.117, and can talk to my lorex nvr on 192.168.110.110 and shows all my cameras. But in my home app that is on my phone connected to the 192.168.7.0/24 vlan in home I show the apple tv. But but when I go to add, and use the qr code off the homebridge ui it never finds it.

What am I doing wrong - what am I missing? New to this whole homekit/homebridge thing.. The apple tv is new, and working great - but would like to be able to view my cameras on it - that I can view via just a simple rstp url.

Other option - other than maybe just using vlc on the apple tv, how can I view my cameras on the apple tv? I can view them via vlc via url

rtsp://user:password@10.1.1.65:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2

Or via a url via my nvr at

rtsp://user:password@192.168.110.110:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2"

Which I have not really tried yet just via vlc apple on apple tv - because the ultimate goal here is view 4 cameras at once.

I am running homebridge on synology ds918+ via native app, using node.js 22

I created a plugin that might be useful to other xBloom owners, homebridge-xbloom lets you brew your saved recipes from HomeKit, Siri, or any automation.

xBloom has no public API, so the Bluetooth LE protocol had to be reverse engineered by capturing the official app talking to the machine, validating it byte for byte, and reimplementing it in TypeScript.

Each recipe you define becomes a HomeKit switch you can trigger by name, in a scene, or from an automation (alarm goes off, sunrise, you get home, and so on).

What it does:

One HomeKit switch per recipe. "Hey Siri, turn on Ethiopia" and it grinds and brews.

Recipes are defined right in the Homebridge config UI (dose, grind, ratio, and the full pour profile: water, temperature, flow, pattern, and pause per pour).

Bluetooth auto discovery, so you do not even need your machine's Bluetooth address.

Connect on demand, so the machine stays free for the phone app between brews.

Live status sensor (brewing or idle) plus fault reporting for things like "no beans" or "tank empty."

Works on Dockerized Homebridge too, with a couple of one time D-Bus steps documented in the README.

A few honest caveats:

It is unofficial and not affiliated with xBloom. Everything is local over Bluetooth, no cloud.

It needs a Linux host with BlueZ (Raspberry Pi, NUC, mini PC, and similar).

It has been tested on one machine (Original class firmware), so feedback from other xBloom owners, especially on different models, would be really helpful.

Source, setup guide, and troubleshooting are on GitHub:

https://github.com/aziz66/homebridge-xbloom

Happy to answer questions, take feature requests, or help anyone get it running.

I'm switching over from a SmartThings smart home to homekit, and need a bridge for several devices. I have a Windows 11 Pro machine that runs an internal security/camera system, and I added the homebridge VM per what I read on the forums. Homebridge is set up and running, but my homekit simply cannot "find it" when I scan the QR code to add it to homekit. I've read so many forums and tried everything I saw with resetting, restarting, clearing cache, VPNs (none enabled), and it just won't add. The windows machine and my phone are both on the same 5G wifi (hardline not possible with location). I changed to Ciao, windows machine is on a static IP; I'm barely literate with these things so I'm at a point of frustration.

Any thoughts/guidance is greatly appreciated!