Converting an app from Homebridge to Homey Guide

Developers
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I was thinking it would be nice to do a guide on how to convert a app from homebridge to homey. Homebridge has a big community of integrations that homey doesn’t have and is JavaScript based so it seems like it would be easy to transition one.

I have not built an app for Homey ( yet ) so I was wondering if anyone had any tips/tricks/etc that could help me convert this project: GitHub - nickbreaton/homebridge-modern-forms: Add support for Modern Forms fans to Homekit using Homebridge.. It is worth noting there is also a Home Assistant integration for this here: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/modern_forms though its in Python not JavaScript.

Thanks!

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Start with creating an actual bare bones Homey app to see how things work (flows, handling external devices, etc), then add the specific code for your devices to it.

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Do you know any up to date repos that are a very simple homey app? I can’t seem to find a good example to start with ( the cli code is not complete enough ).

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I don’t know of any, but creating a new app using the CLI and adding parts to it based on the developer documentation shouldn’t be too difficult.