HAP-NodeJS VS photons

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:

One of the more mature Python implementations is Photons to which I am a contributor. Another is aiolifx to which I am also a contributor.

A couple of these got close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs5FKsPlnw0 but not really (https://github.com/delfick/photons/blob/main/modules/photons_canvas/animations/registered/color_cycle.py)

Not with the LIFX app, but you could use the empty relays to trigger things with Home Assistant relatively easily by leveraging Photons Interactor.

Also, if people have questions about photons, please ask them over on https://github.com/delfick/photons rather than reddit chat or messages. thanks :)

For example, download this somewhere and run:

yeah, I made photons.delfick.com :)

Yeah, probably something like this example https://github.com/delfick/photons/blob/main/examples/cycle_rainbow.py (though I prefer writing scripts using the task system, but this is one of my examples showing how to skip that)

Photons is really useful for this. If you run lifx lan:attr _ GetService --debug it will output the packets it sends and receives in hex.