Apple approves software home kit bridges
Hi,
With the news last year that apple will now allow software based bridges, is there anything in the pipeline in terms of home kit integration for security spy? It would be awesome to see SS cameras show up in the home app, and support notifications etc.
I currently use homebridge with the mpeg based generic IP camera plugin, which is great but it would be much nicer to be able to see notifications, maybe trigger recording etc?
With the news last year that apple will now allow software based bridges, is there anything in the pipeline in terms of home kit integration for security spy? It would be awesome to see SS cameras show up in the home app, and support notifications etc.
I currently use homebridge with the mpeg based generic IP camera plugin, which is great but it would be much nicer to be able to see notifications, maybe trigger recording etc?
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Thanks for the reply. I hadn't clocked that apple haven't released HomeKit for macOS yet.
Yes I use HomeBridge, which is unofficial as you say, but works pretty well and has an extensive set of plugins to do just about everything you want.
So far the best way I've found is to use a homebridge plugin which allows you to run AppleScript, this allows me to set cameras to record (for example when a motion sensor is activated, or the alarm etc) but what would be really useful is integration with home kit to allow notifications, and cameras to appear as "sensors" triggered when they detect motion and record.
It would be interesting to know if there's anyone who could develop an unofficial homebridge plugin using the existing web interface / AppleScript interface security spy currently allows...
Is there any movement on this with Mojave in beta? I appreciate that things change a lot in beta, but its at least promising isn't it?
I've used Homebridge and Hap-NodeJS to bridge various devices at home, but its a lot of work, and doesn't have any decent functionality other than being able to view direct camera feeds in Homekit and on my Apple Watch.
I'd love to see more of the functionality of SS within HomeKit, such as alerts and automation for other devices from camera motion detection.
That said, IFTTT SS access would also be very useful to integrate backups and alerts to offsite platforms.
just wanted to ask if there is an update on this? HomeKit is now working on a Mac.
I am in the middle of setting up a system and would like to know if I can implement SecuritySpy in my Apple HomeKit environment.
What we really need is for Apple to officially allow developers like ourselves access to HomeKit from our macOS apps. Ideally this would be via an official macOS HomeKit API, but there is also another possibility, which is that Apple is apparently planning to give developers access to a new framework that allows iOS apps to be ported to macOS. When this happens, we should be able to use the iOS API in our macOS app. We'll keep an eye on this.
This is made more complicated because not only would we want to be a supplier of events to HomeKit (e.g. motion in a camera in SS -> HomeKit -> Turn on light) but a consumer (e.g. door opens -> HomeKit -> start recording in SS). Each arm of this is a completely different implementation task, and neither have been officially allowed or facilitated by Apple for macOS apps.
There are much better home automation solutions emerging, if you are even slightly techincal you should be able to get nodered up and running, intergations are way better and automation flows are much easier to build and debug. There are various options for a front end, and it's possible to use the security spy URL's/API's to control what you need. Webhooks would make much more sense at this stage, but even that can be done with custom commands on triggers.