pyatv VS blinkpy

It's definitely not impossible at least.

Someone is doing it in python here:

https://pyatv.dev/

GPT-4 actually sent me here:

"Here is an example of a C# library that implements the HAP: CSharp.HomeKit (https://github.com/brutella/hkhomekit). You can use this library as a reference or directly use it in your project."

Which, to no surprise based on my experiences with LLMs for programming does not exist and doesn't seem to have ever existed.

I get that they aren't magic, but I guess I am just bad at trying to use LLMs to help in my programming. Apparently all I do are obscure things or something. Or I am just not good enough at prompting. But I feel like that's also a reflection of the weakness of an LLM in that it needs such perfect and specific prompting to get good answers.

-> https://github.com/postlund/pyatv/issues/1931

I love Python, but I really wish I didn't have to use it here. The reason I do is that tvOS changed the way network remote control works, and the only library that could do that was / is a fantastic Python library called pyatv: https://pyatv.dev/.

1) Install pyatv via command line. The command pip install pyatv is one way to achieve this. The important thing is that path needs to be accessible to homebridge. For me, that was /usr/local/bin Before proceeding, I recommend reading more about the API as this will be helpful if you want to build additional switches that track power status or other attributes. https://pyatv.dev

You can use pyatv to do this and if MQTT is your thing you can use this plugin.

The video above is just a silly experiment, but the library that's driving it (pyatv) is super useful. For example, on my Mac I can press Cmd+Shift+R to toggle an Apple TV remote control. Really useful for pausing a video or jumping back a few seconds. The cool thing is that it also works on Windows, Linux, etc. People are investigating adding regular text input to the library as well.

I was able to setup a script based on blinkpy that worked. It's not an out-of-the-box type thing though, I had to modify an example script to loop through and download what I was interested in, but if you're willing to dig into the options, you can get some interesting information like temperature and an actual value for the battery instead of "good, good, good, change immediately". I ran it on an old machine I had, it would download x days worth of videos, sort them, rename them, then transfer them to a shared drive. PITA, but for what I needed at the time it was fine.

Btw, has anyone tried Blinkpy from https://github.com/fronzbot/blinkpy/tree/1a75592c1b0b535d7e5346df3cbfcd077d39bbff?

Got one for Christmas as gift, it was only half-price. Still not gonna pay for subscription or by synch module. I was gonna try blinkpy, but that's a lot of hassles just to use a webcam.