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NorthernMan54 / homebridge-alexa

Expose your homebridge controlled devices to Amazon Alexa.
https://www.homebridge.ca
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Self-hosting option? #533

Closed pkmnct closed 1 year ago

pkmnct commented 2 years ago

Hello! I wanted to start out by thanking you for your contributions to the smart home community! This plugin has been an invaluable piece of my smart home for quite a while now.

I had not realized things were changing until my connection broke upon expiration yesterday. While the new fee sounds very reasonable, it does prompt me to consider alternative options, including either self-hosting or just finally making the jump to trying out HomePods for device control.

I wanted to see if you would consider an option for users to self-host or run their own copy of the server-side of the plugin currently at www.homebridge.ca. As far as I can tell, the server is closed-source, as I could not find any references to its code anywhere.

NorthernMan54 commented 2 years ago

The server side code is not a good candidate for self hosting as it is architected to run as a global service for a large group of users, with numerous components for various functions and is tied to the published Alexa skill.

If you look at some of the published guides for creating a skill you can see the complexity in the solution.