It's very handy to get off work, grab a mug of barley coffee, sit on the couch, say "Siri, let's watch Movies" to your watch, and have the TV turn itself on, the audio routed to the AV system, and the Apple TV set as input.

All the above is done by Siri talking to the Apple TV (which is the home hub) and homebridge nudging the TV and inputs via plugins.

And _nearly_ all the above happens solely inside your LAN, except for the speech recognition (which may or may not happen on-device if you have a recent iPhone nearby).

Ok, how many % of the time does it work, versus how often do you have to perform admin work to fix it?

100%. I only touch it to do updates, maybe once every three months. It’s completely hands-free once you set up all of your devices, and for HomeKit, ZigBee or Tasmania devices, I don’t have to do _anything_.