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Official Release On The Indigo Plugin Store
Install according to the Indigo documentation.
Development/Interim Release Directly From Git
Introduction
Please note that a few users have reported high utilization issues when using this plugin, I have not yet determined what may be the cause but I believe it has to do with another plugin. The solution is to simply disable HBB if this problem occurs, I am still investigating the cause.
Homebridge Buddy is a companion plugin built for the Homebridge-Indigo plugin. I began development of this during Indigo 6 and rewrote it entirely for Indigo 7 while doing the beta testing so that this is a 100% Indigo 7 only plugin.
What this program does is bring together almost all of the elements of the Homebridge-Indigo configuration and management into a single plugin, but also adds considerable functionality to what Webdeck has already put together. On the surface the plugin allows you to easily manage what is include, excluded and how things are treated as in Homebridge right from the UI as well as giving you the ability to tweak your HB configuration, restart the HB service and more. This is simply a UI to Homebridge.
Deeper down Homebridge Buddy gives you bonus features such as being able to have a device named one thing in Indigo but referred to as something else when talking to Siri. This comes in handy for people, like me, that have complex naming in Indigo to keep things in order but want a simpler interface for Siri like "Outside Front Porch Sconce" in Indigo and simply "Front Porch" for Siri. HomeKit allows for this but the HomeKit configuration is easily lost so this keeps your name constant regardless of other factors. This functionality is an Alias device.
Also available is the Wrapper device - which does everything that the Alias device does times 100. With a Wrapper you can wrap ANY Indigo device into a HomeKit friendly device that you can control. This can be complicated such as having your Wrapper execute a different Action Group for the On/Off and Dim commands or as simple as just treating your garage door as a dimmer device so you can give it special commands when you ask Siri to "dim" it.
This plugin also allows you install HB on a 2nd (or 3rd, 4th, etc) computer and extend the current limitation of Homebridge's 99 devices to become infinite. The plugin will manage local AND remote HB servers from one location.
Configuration and Use
All documentation for this plugin is regularly updated and posted on GitHub.
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