[RELEASE] Homebridge SmartThings v2.0

[JDRoberts]

A bit of good news, although this would be a very complicated solution…

The amazing @taustin has created an Edge option to enable SmartThings/MQTT integration for the new architecture. (The topic title is a clickable link.)

Integration Solutions using MQTT

I’d like to share some projects I’ve been working on that provide some nice integration options between SmartThings and other external applications. These use MQTT, which if you’re not familiar with, you can find plenty of information about on the internet. Put simply, you install what’s called an MQTT Broker application onto an always-on computer on your LAN (‘Mosquitto’ is one of the more popular free ones), and it provides a structured way to publish and subscribe to messages across devices and applications. This provides a nice solution to being able to get device information into, and out of SmartThings in a consistent and reliable way with little-to-no development expertise required. MQTT solutions have existed for SmartThings on the ‘old’ Groovy-based platform. My new projects …

Why is that good news, you ask? Because there are several available MQTT plug ins for HomeKit, including some that run with HOOBS.

So…you could go SmartThings—>MQTT—>Homebridge.

Obviously clunky, inelegant, tedious, and requires yet another device…but maybe better than nothing for some people.

Clearly it would be better just to have a new ST plug in for Homebridge but I’ve not yet heard of anyone working on one.