I wasn’t certain where the best place for this was - if this topic should be moved please let me know.
I’ve been dabbling with Home Assistant for awhile now but mostly just in a testing/dev kind of style. I’m ready to start making some things more permanent.
My goals include wanting the most flexibility to use just about any device - whether it is HomeKit native, or something else. I generally want to use the Home app on our iOS devices for basic control, but I want to leverage HA’s more robust automation, reporting, monitoring, etc. As an example - I’d use HA to monitor our energy usage/reporting - that wouldn’t need to be in the Home app.
But, I’d like to be able to turn a tv on/off from the Home app as well as my Denon receiver, etc. Right now, the Denon is controllable by HA but not by the Home app - so, I have to switch between the two apps (and the same is true for volume, source selection, etc.). Our TVs are LGs.
Based on my reading and studying this seems like a great use case to use HA as the aggregator behind the scenes and then use the Home App as the UI for most basic control situations.
What I’m unsure of at this point is what the best steps are since at the moment, I have a home and things set up in the Home app, and I have some things set up in Home Assistant. I’m also using Homebridge to control my garage door openers (older non-smart models with Security+ coding and I’m using the MyQ gateways and such to make them ‘smart.’) Given the latest issues with the MyQ integration in HA I want to get away from that type of cloud dependence and migrate to local control.
I have most of the typical devices - Ecobee, Apple TVs, Hue lights, etc.
So, I’m looking for thoughts/ideas/suggestions on how to start, or maybe restart? Do I blow away my Homekit Home setup as it is today, and dump Homebridge as well, and use the Homekit integrations in HA to consume all the devices and then expose them to the Home app and such?
I’ve done a lot of reading and video watching, but I’m just quite sure how to start.