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I'm not familiar with Homebridge, but it looks like there may be a Homebridge <=> MQTT bridge already.
MQTT is a message broker that's used commonly in IoT (internet of things). This is from all of one week's experience, so take it with a grain of salt, but it's a publisher/subscriber model where each device defines some channels (like openevse/wh openevse/amp etc) and then publishes its stats to an MQTT broker like Mosquitto. Then other services (I've tried it with HomeAssistant and openHAB) pull in the values to store them, drive automations, etc. OpenEVSE also subscribes to input channels that can control it, so I've seen people set up things like 'only allow the charger to run when my pool heater is not running'.
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