node-red-contrib-homekit-bridged VS awesome-selfhosted

Hello, I’ve been running homebridge for well over a year without issues and recently I’ve been getting “no response” from any device loaded through homebridge. Restarting homebridge does nothing to improve it nor does restarting the docket container, but restarting the raspberry pi 4 it is running on can occasionally help, but this lasts for maybe a day before the no response returns. The only error I see occasionally in the log is due to one plugin for the jablotron security system. Disabling that plugin does not fix the issue. Everything is up to date. The accessories work fine via the homebridge web interface. I have other HomeKit devices that are created via node red and https://nrchkb.github.io running on the same Pi that work fine. Scrypted cameras work fine too. I had not added or changed anything to the system for months. The no response just started out of the blue.

Not to hijack this thread, but would you mind if I picked your brain, @automayted? I have a Smart Oil Gauge to measure my heating oil that I'd like to monitor the readings of in HomeKit. I found a Node-RED import code that I used to scrape the readings from the webapp of the oil gauge. I'd like to pass that info to Homebridge, but I'm having trouble. I have Node-RED running inside HA, and I'm using NRCHKB to emulate HomeKit devices. HA displays the scraped values in US Gal perfectly well, but I'm not sure the best way to pass that info into a virtual HomeKit sensor. I can get the virtual HK sensor to show up in Homebridge, but it doesn't contain the gauge readings. Do you have any experience doing something like this/have any thoughts on how I might go about it?

I used it not myself and maybe you already have it but have you seen this? https://nrchkb.github.io/

I’m not sure if homebridge is the right platform for this. I might suggest node-red and https://nrchkb.github.io/

I'm running Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi and use node-red-contrib-homekit-bridged as HomeKit bridge. The dashboard is done using node-red-dashboard and some CSS hacks. The buttons I press to trigger HomeKit scenes are exposed as stateless programmable switch. So i can assign scenes and accessories to them using Home app.

None of these lists ever seem to be as fleshed out, up to date, or well organized as https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted , though imo any more attention on the self hosted scene is awesome. We're now self hosting everything at my co-op, and it's a dream. Saves us money, provides learning opportunities, potentially is getting us work (managed hosting providers asking if we can be a devshop for their clients, for example), and lets us give back to the FOSS community as we uncover bugs.

We use:

* Matrix / Synapse for comms (slack alternative) (managed hosting through etke.cc)

There are a ton of resources about HW aspects of home labs for beginners but not so much for what to run on them and why. There are lists like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted but they are confusing for absolute beginners like me. Are there any good SE project guides you know?

This[1] seems like a well maintained repo.

And thank you for the pointers, we'll try to get ourselves added here :)

[1]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

I've always felt like FOSS as a philosophy has been tangled up in trying to participate effectively in capitalism, when that was never really the point, nor really very possible unless you're lucky, nor really worth it. The origin of FOSS as I understand it from reading books like "Hackers" is from people that were mad that access was being restricted to systems and code from people that really wanted to use these systems and code, and hack them, and learn from them. I recall that one of the things Stallman likes to brag about from that time is not related to FOSS at all, but instead successfully decrypting a bunch of passwords, emailing the decrypted passwords to people, and recommending they instead set the password to an empty string instead. It was about keeping access to the system Free as in Beer.

I suppose some have argued that FOSS represents a Public Commons in the way that fields and wells and physical markets used to, but none of those things survived capitalism, so I don't see why a technological commons should be expected to either.

For me I've been thinking lately that perhaps those interested in FOSS should instead consider how we can use FOSS to detach ourselves from needing to participate in global capitalism at all. Is there FOSS technology we can use to liberate people from things they need to spend money on right now? An example could be the Global Village Construction Set: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ a set of open source designs for things like hydraulic motors or microcombines or steam engines that you can build on your own, usually not for cheap, but for far, far cheaper than you could buy from John Deere. Here's another cool project, some guy has just been building things like solar panels and basic circuit boards on his property from very base components for years: https://simplifier.neocities.org/

Some other FOSS liberation examples:

Combining a tool like Jellyfin with Sonarr, Radarr, and etc, can liberate people from their 5 different media subscriptions. Or at least they can still buy DVDs and put them on Jellyfin to have the convenience of streaming with the media library of their own choosing.

Deploying Matrix or another FOSS communication tool can let organizations have enterprise-level communication software without paying HUGE seat-based license fees to corporations like Slack.

In fact there's many ways to liberate yourself from paid SaaS in this list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted at my co-op we self-host and deploy all our services for this reason, it saves us a TON of money.

I don't have many other examples to mind because this is something I'm actively still researching. Friends in Venezuela though especially tell me how FOSS technology can liberate in ways I wouldn't expect here with my 64gb RAM machine with the latest processor, that I can easily replace components on on a whim. Such as how they can keep all their broken down machines pieced together from junkyards running pretty ok on various linux distros, and how they can sell creative work using free tools like gimp (no, really) or darktable. Like as not they'll just pirate software, though, but apparently FOSS often runs better on shitty hardware.

Anyway my long term plan is to find or build more and more things that let people just not spend money on things anymore. That could be by making it easier to not have to throw things away anymore, or building tools to replace proprietary ones, or, idk, other ways I haven't thought of.

Dashboard in what sense? Is this what you had in mind or no?

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#per...

I often skim through various "awesome lists" (e.g. [1]) and communities interested in open source apps like r/selfhosted [2]

[1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

1. https://nextcloud.com/ https://proton.me/drive https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#fil...

2. Download all data locally then upload elsewhere.

3. https://help.dropbox.com/security/privacy-policy-faq#7.-How-...