I have successfully integrated Homekit Assistant with HomeKit, by creating a VirtualBox VM on my MacBook Pro. Works perfectly. However my Homekit Hub is a wall mounted iPad (not the laptop). When my laptop goes to sleep, all linked accessories go “unresponsive” - is this expected? Any way around it? Ideally the iPad would always see the Homekit Assistance accessories, even when the VM is shut down.
What is Homekit Assistant ?
This is a Home Assistant forum.
If you actually meant Home Assistant instead of Homekit Assistant then yes this is very much expected behaviour.
Home Assistant needs to be running 24/7.
Yes
Whatever your trying to do you will need server/computer running when trying to see devices in homekit
Thanks all. We should start a business where these instances can be running in the cloud. Ha ha.
That would defeat one of HomeKit’s biggest features - specifically, local device connectivity/automation processing.