Jason SnellJust posted on Six Colors: Putting my solar system in my menu bar
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/10/putting-my-solar-system-in-my-menu-bar/
Mieszko Ślusarczyk@jsnell Try looking into Home Assistant, it gives you so many more possibilities than HomeBridge :)
@spitfire I try not to kick at random products I dislike but I have tried home assistant a few times and I hate it. Your assumption that I just hadn't tried it is nice but mistaken :)
@jsnell I didn’t assume you didn’t know about it/haven’t tried it, that was just a suggestion. I know HA is complicated (it’s hard to make something so powerful very easy to use), but it has been improved a lot recently - so if you’ve tried it a while back it may still be worth revisiting. (1/3)
I like it a lot, because I’m able to put pretty much anything that has some connectivity option (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread, and the list goes on) from many different vendors and integrate it in one system (so they can be used as if they were from the same ecosystem). (2/3)
It gives you the same capability of exposing stuff back to Apple Home (even if it wasn’t supported to begin with - as long as the type of device is), and much more - automations (especially useful to me - I’m doing a lot of them related to power/solar), dashboards, custom built devices (that may fill needs otherwise not provided by ready made devices in the market). (3/3)