How hard is it to migrate from HomeBridge to Home Assistant?

I’m currently using Homebridge with Cbus and, to be fair, it has been very stable for me. I really can’t complain about reliability. For basic HomeKit control, it has done the job well.

The reason I’m thinking about Home Assistant it’s more that I’m starting to want more advanced automation, and Homebridge seems a bit limited once you go beyond the basics.

For example, I’d like to do things like having the lights flash a few times when someone presses the doorbell, but only for lights that are already on and are dimmable. From what I can see, that sort of thing seems fairly easy in Home Assistant, but not really practical with Homebridge and Apple Home.

So I’m curious how hard it really is to move from Homebridge to Home Assistant when C-Bus is involved, and how long people found it took in the real world. Is it something that can be done without too much pain over a few hours, or does it usually turn into a fairly involved migration with a lot of tinkering and troubleshooting?

Thanks in advance.

 

I would allow a few session of 2 or 3 hours to get it working.
If you can keep homebridge going until complete then at least you can walk away and have a rest
When I did it on a RPI 5 I used a separate SD card so I could easily revert to Homebridge.
It's worth the effort, have a look at this post https://www.cbusforums.com/threads/c-bus-via-mqtt-and-matter-bridge.11516/