Hacker News Reader

I’ve had a very good experience using one of these to provide HomeKit compatibility to Nest devices: https://www.starlinghome.io

View on HN

Thanks for posting this! This looks like a fine product, and it led me to learn that Starling Home Hub is effectively "homebridge-nest[1] in a box", which is great news for Homebridge[2] users.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-nest [2] https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge

I ran Homebridge for a while but got tired of dealing with maintenance. The Starling box is set-it-and-forget-it. I don’t think I’ve had to access the control panel since installing it so it was well worth the $100 imo.

For sure, the reduced cognitive overhead is absolutely worth the price of admission.

I need to run Homebridge anyway for a bunch of devices that I want to be available via Alexa and HomeKit, so for me there was no incremental complexity. I'm running Homebridge via a Docker image[1] on my NAS (using QNAP Container Station), with Homebridge UI to manage.

[1] https://github.com/oznu/docker-homebridge

This is cool. It's crazy to me that this sort of thing needs to exist

Reply on news.ycombinator.com