Meross and Govee in Home Assistent + Homekit

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Hey, I started a little project to reduce the amount of hubs and services I need to use on my little Appartement.
That means I want to switch from Homebrigde
Aqara Hub (sensors and wall switches)
Hue Hub (lights + plugs)
Meross (wifi)
Meross (HomeKit)
Govee (Ambient led lights)
Ubiquito protect and network (cameras, and to know who is at home)

I successfully paired my device with:
Ubiquiti
Hue (waiting for a Zigbee usb module)
And integrated it to HomeKit with my HomePods and Apple TV

But I struggle to connect my meross plugs both the HomeKit plugs and the cheaper non HomeKit plugs how do I add them I can’t find an integration.

Also I can’t find a integration for govee

Both works right now via homebridge, it’s also not possible to expose the homebridge directly to home assist right, but I would prefer a direct connection to ha

In the end I want to use my HomeKit just to able to tell Siri to turn off or on some lights in the house.
But want to make all Automations in homeassist
So best case would be everything is directly exposed to ha which will than just expose the devices I want to HomeKit.

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On the Govee side there is the official Govee BLE integration, which you’re probably aware of. There is also a HACS integration (Repo) which takes advantage of LAN control and works really well.

I imagine LAN control is being worked on in some form on the official integration as Govee continues to roll this feature out to more models.

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How do I install the custom HACS integration :)? I‘m pretty new to the HA and couldn’t find it till now.
I assume it’s a dumb question pretty easy.

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No worries.

Here’s the link: https://hacs.xyz

And I think I probably followed @MarkWattTech 's tutorial: Install HACS 2023 (Home Assistant How To) - YouTube

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Thank you!

In the end it was very easy!
Both govee and meross is working fine now,

Now I need to wait for the usb Zigbee adapter to get rid of the Aqara hub and the Philips hue
Thank you very much!

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That’s right. There’s a Meross Integration in HACS too. Glad it worked out!

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Hey, can I ask what you ended up using to control the Meross devices with home assistant as well as HomeKit/siri? I’m in a similar situation and want to still be able to open the garage door with Siri, but want to otherwise set up automations and do everything else with Home Assistant.