HAP-NodeJS VS camera.ui

Doing a bit of digging, I found the Charaacteristic definition in https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/master/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts. I'm still a bit new to Typescript... what would the best way / place for me to modify this Characteristic? Do I need to just make this change here and basically run a custom version of Homebridge?

Well, the API only provides m3 values, and the plugin you suggested is only displaying 2 decimals instead of 3 in homekit (most likely a homekit limitation; since in homebridge 3 [and even 4] decimals are listed, and the accuracy of the sensor seems to be 0.0001 - as listed on https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/master/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts )

Or more specifically https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/issues/993

Go: https://github.com/brutella/hap Python: https://hap-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Node.js: https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS Rust: https://github.com/ewilken/hap-rs

HAP-NodeJS Pull: HomeKit Secure Video #920

My goto place regarding this is the HAP-NodeJS repository

They're related in that u/koushd contributed https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/pull/904 to Homebridge, which was completed and merged with many of their commits in https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/pull/920.

Yeah this appears to be the relevant discussion on it: https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/pull/918 I guess Raspbian does not ship with avahi by default.

I looked at libraries like HAP-NodeJS or HAP-python, but those seems focused on:

CameraUI (https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui) Opensource NVR software for cameras, built on modern progressive web app (PWA) architecture. Beautiful software, unfortunately the original dev has gone AWOL but the latest release is stable and easy to use for recording and viewing cameras.

For my apartment, I run rtsp-simple-server[1] on my home server and use Raspberry Pis with generic USB webcams running ffmpeg to stream the audio/video to the RTSP server. Then I run camera.ui[2] separately for a nicer interface on top of all the cameras, HomeKit integration, etc.

The only downside hardware-wise is I don't get any indoor IR night vision with these, which some of the nicer "smart home" account-locked ones do.

It's honestly not too bad to set up if you run [1] and [2] in Docker. I've done disaster recovery scenarios of my home infra where I straight up disconnect the modem's uplink and everything works without any issues.

[1] - https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

[2] - https://github.com/seydx/camera.ui

In the past I’ve played around with using Scrypted or Camera.UI to bring non-HomeKit IP cameras into HomeKit. I think HomeAssistant and HomeBridge both have basic modules which would do this too (ffmpeg at bare minimum). A docker image running on a RaspberryPi or Synology is probably good enough.

camera.ui

You could try https://github.com/SeydX/camera.ui. Some say its CPU usage when recognising movement is not as high as scrypted. You could give it a shot.