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Being fully documented means anything can work in any way.

• icebraining 7y ago
  > Being fully documented means anything can work in any way. A protocol being fully documented does not mean you can get a device you cannot control (like an Homekit lightbulb) to connect to your server instead of the manufacturer's. If requests are signed and/or encrypted, knowing the protocol won't help if you don't have the keys. See also Tivoization. > For example, search the web for ‘homebridge alexa’ I had found it. I don't think you realize that there's no Homekit there at all. The point of Homebridge is to translate from a Homekit-speaking control app/assistant to a non-Homekit-enabled device: https://blog.theodo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/workflow.png https://blog.theodo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/workflow.... But when you use homebridge-alexa, you're replacing that first link with another protocol (specifically, MQTT+JSON, which is what it uses to connect to https://www.homebridge.ca/ https://www.homebridge.ca/). So you've actually removed all Homekit parts from your smart home system!