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#HomeKit

Carlos Sahuquillo
6 hours ago

Menuda pasada el Ring Intercom que me mandó @vidalpascual, nos permite abrir el portal (que ya lo podíamos hacer con Shelly) y también hablar con la persona que esté esperando o crear una notificación avanzada cuando timbren! https://youtu.be/u1npbzVOyaE #domotica #homekit #homeassistant

@ukuku @9to5Mac

I haven’t added #HomeKit to any door locks yet, but I want to! I added HomeKit to a bunch of lights and outlets years ago, as well as the HVAC controls more recently.

Rhett Rogers
23 hours ago

Anyone familiar with getting #PhilipsHue bridge and bulbs to sync without using the app? I hooked up the bridge to #HomeKit and I would really like to avoid using the Hue app to set up my lights, relying solely on HomeKit to do it instead. Boost for reach please, I can't find any solution online besides using the app and I think I can do it if I can tell the bulbs to pair with the bridge.

Shane Qi
1 day ago

Does anyone else’s #HomeKit #iOS 17 widget also not work for fan devices? The widget shows the states of my fans just fine, but tapping on the fan tiles doesn’t toggle them. (my fans are ported to HomeKit by Lutron Caseta’s fan switches)

Emory L.
1 day ago

the first one is named "lamp", and i know i am better than this, it just sounded really funny at the time:

#homeKit #homeLit #automation #householdIT (it would have been funnier to name it "hitachi" but there are children here)

home.app screenshot on ios naming an outlet on a smart plug "the other outlet" because nothing plugs into it yet.
Daniel
1 day ago

Wie schön, morgens mit „O Tannenbaum“ geweckt zu werden, wenn man Siri sagt, sie solle X Lichter anmachen… #apple #ios #homepod #siri #homekit #dankefürnichts

René
2 days ago

Juhu, meine Aussenkameras gehen wieder. Da hat #Apple schneller reagiert als von mir gehofft. Hatten bestimmt nur vergessen in #HomeKit einen Schalter umzulegen.

Serena  :apple:
2 days ago

Ik zie ineens dat er een update voor iOS naar 17.0.2 is. Hoe kan ik die nu gemist hebben?
Hopen dat het de bugs in #HomeKit oplost. Afwezig automatisering deed raar en remote access voor mijn camera’s werkte niet.
Snel even updaten!

Jay Reding 🇺🇦
3 days ago

Getting my new house set up with Home Assistant after being on the Wyze ecosystem for a while. So far the Honeywell T9 thermostat is playing very nicely with Home Assistant. Next up will be the garage door opener and a new video doorbell.

I'd been very impressed with Wyze over the last few years, but the security breach they just had and their failure to adequately communicate about it soured me on their stuff.

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeKit #Wyze

Ronald Rood
3 days ago

Come on Eileen is a nice song. Now I am trying to figure out why it started playing on our bedroom homepods, at 03:00 last night. It must be part of some #homekit automation that I forgot about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_On_Eileen

Marco Hoffmann
4 days ago

Mein Gott ist #Apple #HomeKit ein halbgarer Mist. Einladungen von Zuhause Nr. 2 kommen nicht beim Nutzer Nr. 2 an …

Volker Weber 老人
5 days ago

Neue Eve Cam mit USB-C und verbesserter Nachtsicht

Eve Cam ist eine smarte Innenkamera mit 1080p-Auflösung, die per WLAN mit dem eigenen Netz verbunden ist. USB dient nur der Stromversorgung. Eve Cam nutzt HomeKit Secure Video, d.h. die gesamte Verarbeitung des Videos passiert in eurem eigenen Netz auf Apple TV oder HomePod. Die Kamera hat Mikrofon und Lautsprecher, so dass man auch

https://vowe.net/2023/09/25/neue-eve-cam-mit-usb-c-und-verbesserter-nachtsicht/

#apple #eve #homekit

Serena  :apple:
5 days ago

Nieuwe bug ontdekt in #iOS17 en Reddit staat er ook al vol van.
In #HomeKit zijn de camera’s niet te bekijken als je niet thuis bent. En dat is me toch een partij irritant!
Lijkt erop alsof Apple met iedere update wel IETS sloopt in HomeKit.

Leschmaltz
6 days ago

#Apple asked me for feedback on my #HomePod mini experience, and I let them have it. The WiFi on that thing is ****ing awful. #Homekit

Jimmy Little
6 days ago

Nine years into #HomeKit and you still need a third party app to “turn this light off after 20 minutes”

Serena  :apple:
6 days ago

Na alle automations gedeactiveerd en weer geactiveerd te hebben, lijkt alles weer te werken.
Nu nog kijken of ook alles werkt als mijn vriendin weer meedoet in de automatisering.
Maar het begin is er!!!
#HomeKit #iOS17

eurozerozero
1 week ago

The Home app doesn’t update the thumbnails of cameras any more unless you tap into each camera? Yet another bug in the Home app or a problem with the Home Hub?

(the quality gap between the Home app and an app such as Safari or Messages is so huge…)

#HomeKit #HomeApp #iOS17

René
1 week ago

Mal gucken ob heute HompodOS 17.01 kommt… wäre ja coolio wenn es einen schnellen #HomeKit Bugfix gäbe.

One of my Netatmo #HomeKit smoke alarms had it's battery die about 50% quicker than it should have done. What did they do? Give me free replacements of both of my smoke alarms. 👍 I don't get why you don't hear many people talking about their products. They're rock solid, no subscriptions and the support has always been excellent.

:rss: AAPL Ch.
1 week ago

Anker Japan、最大3ヶ月の使用が可能なバッテリーを搭載した2K解像度のワイヤレスセキュリティカメラ「Eufy Security SoloCam C210」を発売。
https://applech2.com/archives/20230922-anker-eufy-security-solocam-c210.html
#applech2 #amazon #anker #eufy #homekit #カメラ

Johan Bleuzen
1 week ago

J’ai trouvé la plus grosse nouveauté d’iOS 17 à mes yeux !
On peut enfin avoir un portail dans Home… Enfin ! 😅
#homekit

Sven A. Schmidt
1 week ago

Well, setting up #HomeAssistant to control Daikin units went exactly as smoothly as I expected it to 🤬

I wish they supported #HomeKit so I don't have to deal with this…

ask me about toast
1 week ago

Apple #Homekit und Philips #Hue: Matter-Support ist da!
https://hueblog.de/2023/09/19/philips-hue-matter-aktivieren/

Die Hue Bridge hatte sich bereits aktualisiert und in der Hue App gibt es dann einen neuen Punkt "Smart Home". Dort mein HomeKit-Zuhause ausgewählt und das wars. Lampe an, Siri!

eurozerozero
1 week ago

I just checked the iOS 16 documentation and that statement doesn’t appear in it, so it is new.

It explains a lot about why my cameras have always failed to only record Specific Motion as they’re set to do and instead just constantly record any motion (and would also send notifications for any motion, which I had to turn off because I was getting notifications every few minutes).

It would’ve been nice to know that from the start, and also how many Home Hubs are really needed.

#HomeKit #HomeApp

eurozerozero
1 week ago

I don't recall seeing this note in Apple’s documentation before about the motion analysis of HomeKit Secure Video cameras.

How many cameras can a single Home Hub analyse the video of simultaneously? One? Two?

Can an Apple TV analyse more simultaneously than a HomePod can? Is it documented anywhere?

It seems like a pretty important detail if you want motion notifications to work properly (which mine do not…).

#HomeKit #HomeApp #AppleTV #HomePod #HomePodMini #HKSV #HomeKitSecureVideo #iOS17

A screenshot of Apple’s iPhone User Guide for iOS 17 for the topic “Set up security cameras in Home on iPhone”, with a note that reads:

Note: If there are more cameras in your home than Home Hubs that can analyze the cameras’ video, video captured from some of the cameras may not be analyzed. Clips are still recorded, but they’ll show the Unanalyzed Video badge, which indicates that the video wasn’t analyzed for specific motion.

The page this screenshot is taken from is: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph7bc5df9d9/ios
Carlos Sahuquillo
1 week ago

Ya no debe faltar mucho, la actualización de firmware lleva solicitada desde Julio @meeteve #homekit #domótica

eurozerozero
1 week ago

It’d be nice to be able to restart the HomePod to see if that fixes it, but the Home app doesn’t allow you to do that remotely.

And I can’t just go over and physically turn it off because I’m in another country, which is the entire reason I bought these cameras in the first place.

#HomeKit #HomeApp #HomePod #iOS17

eurozerozero
1 week ago

This does not bode well. All cameras now fail to connect after updating the HomePod.

And within a minute of this, the Home app on iOS 17 also completely froze.

Sigh. Looks like reliability isn’t getting any better with this release.

#HomeKit #HomeApp #iOS17

A screenshot of the Home app on iOS 17 showing a HomeKit Secure Video camera, with it failing to connect to the live stream.  It shows the error:

No Response
This camera is not responding.
Paul Squires
2 weeks ago

I’ve got a #HomeKit automation that uses a motion detector to switch on some lights, but only when the light level is low. It’s been working except in the evenings which of course is when I actually want the thing to work.

Magically, this evening it worked actually perfectly.

TvOS update is my best guess, but it’s just weird.

HomeMadeAutomation
2 weeks ago

iOS 17 is here, and Signals for HomeKit has some excellent new features to match!

- New Interactive Widgets!
- Standby Mode - put a MagSafe dock in the kitchen, and tell the family that dinner is ready with a tap
- New Extra Large Widget is a perfect fit for a wall mounted iPad HomeKit controller
- Improved support for Shortcut automations - get a visual alert when receiving Emails, iMessages, and with Sound Recognition

Download today! https://app.appdivvy.io/redirect/signals-mastodon

#ios17 #HomeKit #IndieDev

valkraider :verified:
2 weeks ago

@antranigv @gruber “Does Apple use Apple products?”

Certainly not #HomeKit

Gastrohedonist™️
2 weeks ago

@mhaseneyer 1: Mit #Homekit im #Smarthome den Komfort erhöhen und dabei Geld sparen - 2: Ausblick auf #Matter 2.0 - wie geht es weiter?

Guilherme Dea
2 weeks ago

Publiquei no GitHub um guia rápido em PT-BR de como usar o Homebridge para adicionar as lâmpadas inteligentes da Positivo no Home app do iOS através do Homebridge. #homekit #smarthome #ios #apple #homebridge https://github.com/guilhermedea/lampada-positivo-homebridge

Guilherme Dea
2 weeks ago

Maybe I should write a quick guide on GitHub showing how to connect the local brand smart bulbs to HomeBkit with Homebridge 🤔 #homekit #ios #homebridge

James
2 weeks ago

HomeKit bros, I’ve got a question:

Situation: there is a motion sensor in the bath that plays bird songs on a HomePod Mini when a motion is detected during the day. It stops when nobody is in the bath anymore and the lights turn off (different automation).

I want an automation that does prevent the HomePod from playing when it is already playing the moment a moment is detected.

Background: (next post) #HomeKit #SmartHome

Guilherme Dea
2 weeks ago

Finally, after some laborous hours, I finally managed to setup my local brand smart lightbulb on the Home app trough Homebridge. #ios #homekit #homebridge #smarthome #smartbulb

bricks
2 weeks ago

@bjoern #Alexa. Die ist über ein #HomeBridge-Plugin an #HomeKit angebunden. In der #HomeAutomation wird durch HomeKit ein kontextbezogner virtueller Bewegungsmelder ausgelöst (z. B. TriggerRain1hOpenWindowDetected), auf den wiederum eine Alexa-Routine hört und beim Auslösen eine Pushnachricht mit in der Routine vordefiniertem Inhalt auf mein Smartphone schickt und parallel auf einem Echo vorliest (z. B. »Es wird Regen erwartet, bitte Fenster schließen.«).

geg2048
2 weeks ago
Greg
2 weeks ago

Grid forecast in iOS 17 #homekit

HomeMadeAutomation
3 weeks ago

iOS 17 is coming, and Signals for HomeKit is ready!

Coming Soon:
- All new Interactive Widgets
- Standby Mode - put a MagSafe dock in the kitchen, and tell the family that dinner is ready with a tap
- New Extra Large Widget is a perfect fit for a wall mounted iPad HomeKit controller
- Improved support for Shortcut automations - get a visual alert when receiving Emails, iMessages, and with Sound Recognition

Coming with iOS 17 - get the Test Flight now: https://testflight.apple.com/join/y8jXhHMT

#ios17 #HomeKit

Jack Brewster
3 weeks ago

Anyone know if the #home / #homekit app in #Sonoma gotten any love? I try to use on Ventura, but it's very glitchy, so I end up falling back to my iOS devices when I need to make configuration changes.

. @threadgroup #EveEnergy

why do so many of my Eve devices not show up in their designated room, or with their name, but some do? The #EveEnergy outlets all identify as the same model 20EBU4101 and firmware 3.2.1, but some have a #Thread Transport layer setting?

#Thread #EveEnergy #HomeKit #Matter #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant

#Help #TechMystery #Bug

Emory L.
3 weeks ago

i retract any previous statements about household lighting with the numerous #HomeKit-capable bulbs on the market.

#hue is totally worth it. their software can coordinate lighting better than anything you could possibly come up with in homebridge and whackamole. if you have any aspirations of elevating your ambiance and you are not currently a veteran of broadway stage lighting or programming lighting systems for lutron, you are in over your head already.

i'm not happy about it.

Thomas =:-)
3 weeks ago

The future is badly documented #homekit #threads #matter

HomeKit News
3 weeks ago

Our latest written review is now available for the Tuo Smart Button w/ #Matter over #Thread and of course #HomeKit - https://bit.ly/3PuXAJJ

Today I did the first (in 7 years) factory reset of my Xiaomi Robot Vacuum Cleaner (1st gen). I was afraid of losing the statistics, but surprisingly everything survived. I just had to update the token in #Homebridge to have it back in #HomeKit.

#smarthome

K
3 weeks ago

Last night in the bathtub, our two-year-old was playing with his cars and pretending they were a train when they were all lined up. He started doing something else but eventually came back to the train thing and said, “Hey Siri, resume train.”

Needless to say, I almost lost my voice laughing.

#parenting #homekit #siri

What #AirQuality #Sensors are people using for their #SmartHomes running #Thread, #Matter, and #homekit ?

I have #OctoPrint and a #3dPrinter and among other maker projects running and I would like to make sure I am properly tracking Air Quality throughout the house. #VOC #CO2 #PPM , etc... I even saw a Formaldehyde sensor. But it's so very hard to find sensors that work with homekit / thread / matter.

@jann @marcoarment @caseyliss @siracusa @atpfm I just got #Aqara #HomeKit doorbell and so far I am quite impressed. HomeKit cameras are such a major improvement over #Blink.

@marcoarment @caseyliss @siracusa Hey guys. A friend just texted me this...

I screamed "NOOOOooo! Marco Arment has them and hates them!"

So, he doesn't want to run a server. And he wants #wifi AND #HomeKit. Does #Ubiquiti offer all of that?

ps: Ubiquiti should really really be a sponsor! @atpfm

Frederik Vos
1 month ago

@secupriv Dat niet naar omkijken is vrij letterlijk, eenmaal alles geautomatiseerd kom je eigenlijk niet meer terug in de interface van Hubitat. Dashboards aangemaakt, maar doe ik niks mee. Incident management doe ik via #homekit waar ik Hubitat mee heb verbonden. Enige wat ik mis is de prachtige energy dashboards. Daar ga ik voor p1/solaredge nog wel wat voor bedenken. Wellicht #homewizard? Alles wat ik doe, kan zeker met HA, maar door hoe Hubitat werkt, kom je eerder tot echte automatisering.

Cameron Mulder
1 month ago

@Verso Aqara U100 is fantastic https://www.aqara.com/us/product/smart-lock-u100/ #homekit support with home key (open with my watch most of he time). Super easy to send guest codes to people. Battery life has been good. Partner likes using the fingerprint sensor.

Kelly Guimont
1 month ago

Ok #SmartHome types: Level lock is on a super deal today and I'm considering one. I have another place I want to replace a lock for one with a little bit of smarts. What do you like that isn't an August lock? (I have one that's fine and one that's terrible so I'm looking at options)

#HomeKit preferred, bonus points for HomeKey but I'll consider other options if they're reliable (I have an alternate hub for my stuff that isn't/won't ever be compatible with HK).

@khad Well it arrived and is now installed :) Never can resist getting it done straight away. Impressed with it so far, very cool when it pops up on Apple TV and phones. Will have a play around with settings over the next day or so and report back #aqara #homekit

Does this matter?
(much more to learn, but this is a start)
#ESP32 #Matter #HomeKit

Siri controlling a "matter accessory" that I compiled.
Frank Stohl
1 month ago

Sitze auf dem Sofa und erfreue mich am neuen Anwesenheits-Sensor FP2 von Aquara für Homekit. Grandios genau. #Homekit #SmartHome

Macoun
1 month ago

🧑‍🏫Im Talk von @below und Kai Steuernagel werden die neuen SmartHome Standards Matter und Thread vorgestellt und wie ihr über HomeKit direkt mit Matter Geräten kommunizieren könnt.

Hol Dir die Best practices: https://macoun.de/anmelden

#AppleHomeKit #homekit #Thread #Matter #SmartHome #macounFFM

eurozerozero
2 months ago

I have questions about what's going on in this scene… 😶

#HomeApp #HomeKit #Apple

A screen recording of the Discover area of Apple’s Home app on macOS.  At the top is the title “At home with Apple” with a description of “Explore features and accessories that add more comfort, convenience and security to your home.”

Below it is a section with the title “Getting started” and a description of “See how simple it is to create a smart home.  And keep things running smoothly.”

There’s an animated illustration of a couple on a sofa facing a TV screen, with another person standing to the side facing them and tapping on an iPad.  The couple leans in to each other closely, while the person continues to tap on the iPad and lean toward them slightly.
Bill Vinson
2 months ago

@kevinctofel It doesn't have to be one or the other with #HomeKit & #HomeAssistant. Home Assistant IS my back end smart home system and all automation runs there, but I also connect HomeKit capable things into HomeKit as well and use Home Assistant to export things like my Zigbee sensors to HomeKit for use as my main UI and via Siri. I find they work well together.

Hope Home Assistant works well for you…

Kevin C. Tofel
2 months ago

🆕 blog post -- Why I’m switching to Home Assistant

After two-and-a-half years of primarily using #HomeKit, now called Apple Home, I think it’s time for a change in my smart home. Prior to settling on #Google Home for a while. And before that, I was a #Samsung SmartThings user. Moving forward, I think it’s time to transition to #HomeAssistant for several reasons.

https://staceyoniot.com/why-im-switching-to-home-assistant/

Kelly Guimont
2 months ago

Not everything works with #HomeKit and some things never will. That doesn't mean you don't have them. And since you have them, maybe you want to boss them around with your phone and whatnot.

A good way to do this is with a nifty device from Hubitat. It has HomeKit integration so it can be a hub/bridge for the things you can't add to HK directly. My experience is very much "set it and forget it" with the stuff I wasn't trying to be clever about. https://hubitat.com/

Kelly Guimont
2 months ago

I got some great replies to my #HomeAutomation post earlier! My favorite suggestion for a "temporary " device is to leave it in #HomeKit but move it to a different room. I have other devices that will always give me the ! in the corner so I don't have troubleshooting to worry about there.

Since I got good #SmartHome info in reply to my question, I'll offer a tidbit of my own in the reply to this post (:

K
2 months ago

@Verso I don’t personally have anything seasonal like that in my setup, but I’ve seen people do both.

If it’s not involved in a lot of (or especially complicated) automations, removing and adding again isn’t too onerous.

If it is, maybe create a room in #HomeKit like “Attic” or “Storage” and move it there when not in use.

Kelly Guimont
2 months ago

Here's a fun #HomeKit question for my #SmartHome peeps: I have a smart power strip for my Christmas tree. Like it lives in the box with the other decorations so it's only in rotation for a small part of the year.

Do you leave that device as "no response" for the rest of the year or do you remove and re-add it every time you set up the tree?

ETA: i'm not trying to solve some thing here, I'm curious how other people handle this.

Ben Miller
2 months ago

@magisternavis #HomeBridge ist eine #OpenSource Software, mit der sich Smart-Home-Geräte, die offiziell nicht mit Apple #HomeKit kompatibel sind, in HomeKit integrieren lassen. #HomeAssistant bedingt ebenso.

Wenn man bereits nur Apple- und HomeKit-Geräte benutzt, benötigt man idR auch keine HomeBridge oder Home Assistant. Man ist halt beschränkt auf die Auswahl an offiziellen HomeKit-Geräten.

Ben Miller
2 months ago

I've replaced my #HomeBridge with #HomeAssistant for my #HomeKit smart home. I have set up a dedicated #Promox server for this and in the process have temporarily retired/freed up two #RaspberryPi.

Quite some research and trial-and-error was necessary, but so far the basics work again and it's a bit faster – and I have more opportunities and control.

My conclusion from this transition: In its current state – even with #Thread and #Matter – an open #SmartHome is still not ready for mainstream.

Alex LaFroscia
2 months ago

After ANOTHER false alarm (the third in 10 days) I think we’re just giving up on these terrible OneLink some detectors. The Nest ones seem much better, and we can decide to do #HomeKit integrations if we want to.

Alex LaFroscia
3 months ago

Are there any decent #HomeKit smoke detectors on the market?

We had false alarms with the ones that came pre-installed in our house and replaced them with "smart" smoke detectors, in the hopes that they would be better and we would know about an issue while we're not home.

It turns out that not only do these ALSO constantly have false alarms, but they aren't recorded in their system nor do they trigger any of the alerting functionality, meaning they're totally useless for the problems we have

Volker Weber 老人
3 months ago

Eufy statt

Arlo hat es verspielt. Die neueren Kameras funktionieren nur noch mit mit einem ziemlich teuren Abo und Arlo unterstützt Apple HomeKit Secure Video nicht.

Aber es gibt eine gute Alternative: Eufy. Die haben gerade ein attraktives Starterkit aus Basis und zwei Kameras zum Prime Day im Angebot.

Eufy speichert die aufgenommenen Videos auf der Basis, lädt sie aber optional auch über einen HomePod verschlüsselt in

https://vowe.net/2023/07/12/eufy-statt/

#eufy #homekit

René
3 months ago

Die #HomeKit-fähigen Eufy Kameras sind bei Amazon gerade gut reduziert! Nur mal so als Tipp, ich hab auch wieder zugeschlagen.

Aaron Pearce
3 months ago

My #HomeKit and #Matter app sales as part of the #IndieAppSales are up.

HomeCam: $2.99 (down from $4.99).
HomePass: $1.99 (down from $2.99).
HomeLog: $2.99 (down from $4.99).
HomeRun Lifetime: $4.99 (down from $14.99!)

Check out the other participating apps here including several other great HomeKit apps by other creators: https://github.com/mattcorey/indie-dev-sales

René
3 months ago

Hat von euch jemand Kameras im #Homekit und auch Probleme? Die kleinen Vorschaubilder sind immer aktuell aber wenn ich den Stream ansehen will kann die Kamera nicht verbunden werden. Mich kotzen diese #Apple Probleme echt an.

archer
3 months ago

A little while back I made some stupid little comics making fun of #homekit and #siri for reddit

Hope you like them :)

John Ryan
3 months ago

I’ve been here a little while, but never posted a proper #introduction.

I’m John. Based in #Cork, #Ireland.

#Dad to two lovely energiser bunnies. Involuntary expert in Paw Patrol, Thomas the Tank Engine etc.

Work in the #Tech space on #Cloud infrastructure as #Presales management.

Big #Munster #Rugby fan #SUAF. #HomeAutomation with #HomeAssistant and #Homekit. #Mobile & #Gadgets. #Apple. #appleshortcuts #3DPrinting. #RenewableEnergy and #Sustainability in IT. #Running. Pretty sound IMHO 😁

Scott Wright
3 months ago

Some updates:
1. I opened a case with Apple. Got escalated to a sr. advisor. I patiently performed the steps according to their script. NO RESOLUTION.
2. I ended up creating a new Home in #HomeKit. This eventually worked. I first factory reset each #HomePod, removed them from the old home, & removed them from my iCloud devices. THEN I added them 1 by 1 to the new home allow each to fully configure before proceeding. Finally added other devices. Then deleted the old home.

TechnoTim
3 months ago

I Automated Watering my Lawn & Garden! have I gone too far with automation???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjUxJH3NWRs

#homeautomation #lawncare #smarthome #water #garden #homeassistant #homekit #smartwatering

Pearce Media
3 months ago

HomeCam is available on Mac, iOS, Apple Watch and Apple TV. View your #HomeKit cameras anywhere! On any device! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/homecam-for-homekit/id1292995895

Ben Miller
3 months ago

@alrescha I have a Hue hub because of #Hue lights. I even have Hue buttons, but even tho Hue boats being "HomeKit", their buttons and switches only control Hue products, not #HomeKit products. Hue won’t activate my native HomeKit #Eve Light Strips (which are far superior). Eve Home shows that not requiring a proprietary hub in addition to #HomePod/ #AppleTV is possible. I even can control Hue via Eve. Hue Hub offers 0 actual benefits. Its only purpose is to make you dependent on it.

Ben Miller
3 months ago

The biggest flaw of #HomeKit (besides lackluster control via #Siri) is the confusing range of physical switches and buttons. #Changemymind

I‘m disappointed that Eve Home canned its Button. It was one-of-kind: no hub, wireless, works directly in #Apple Home app and can trigger everything.

Maybe I‘m the only one, but I want and need a plain and simple wireless, hub-less button to trigger HomeKit scenes.

I even thought about buying an old iPad to keep the Home app open 24/7.

Aday
3 months ago

#Introduction

💻 I'm a Senior Interaction Designer working remotely from the Canary Islands (Spain).

📱 Love taking and editing photos with my iPhone.

🎮 Frequently posting about whatever I’m playing on my #NintendoSwitch (usually #Zelda).

🧘🏽‍♂️ Trying to live a more intentional life through #minimalism, #GTD, #stoicism & #meditation.

💜 Obsessed with purple.

🗽 Other interests include #traveling, #NewYork, #hiphop culture, #privacy, #tattoos, skateboarding with my fingers, #homekit, & more!

Scott Wright
3 months ago

Trying to setup  #HomePod mini. Been stuck “configuring”for a day. I can play to it, but it won’t control any #HomeKit devices.

Alarms and timers can’t be managed because they are “not on the same network” but they are on the same network.

It can play music via voice / phone / airplay.
I’ve searched for a fix, read several Apple support articles / forum posts. Seems like a common problem but no definitive cause or solid steps to fix.

Any ideas or pointers to a solution?

Boosts appreciated.

Screenshot of HomePod mini setup say still configuring.
Alarms and timers show disabled because “not on same network as my iPhone” but the HomePod IS on the same network.
thaddeus:~$
3 months ago

Grumbling aside.. #Hubitat + #Homebridge has been absolutely rock solid for years. I use HomeKit as our primary frontend and automation layer, and it's been great. The Hubitat hub delivers realtime notifications back to the homebridge plugin and changes show up instantly in Home.app.

I opted for #zwave originally because of it's meshing abilities, and overall resilience compared to WiFi. No regrets. #homeautomation #smarthome #homekit

bazcurtis
3 months ago

Home Assistant question. I am going to buy some new Ikea bulbs over the weekend. I have SkyConnect. What is the pairing process? I assume I have to get them connected to the Ikea hub, then what should I do?

I want them to show up in HomeKit. I already have that connect to Home Assistant. I then need them to show up in Alexa.

#HomeAssistant #Ikea #DIRIGERA #HomeKit

@homeassistant@a.gup.pe @homeassistant@chirp.social @homeassistant@fosstodon.org

Jeff Forcier
4 months ago

Starting to wonder if switching to #HomeAssistant or similar tools for "driving" #HomeKit would make my set of #Nanoleaf RGB lightstrips slightly less flaky. Eg trying to set (or save as a 'Scene’) specific colors via the Home app only works like half the time 😩

(Once I have such a Scene working, it works pretty reliably, it's the configuration step that's half-baked, and which I _assume_ is much easier with an open source tool. OTOH ISTR hearing Hass is very hostile to config management 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Gernot
4 months ago

@aaron_pearce @khaost Yeah, with the current state of the #HomeKit team’s output I wouldn’t have been surprised. But #visionOS markers are nowhere to be found in the docs, even for #SwiftUI, so I’m not worried (yet).

Aday
5 months ago

Absolutely in love with the vibe of shrines in #Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom: the space, the sounds, the lights… I even made a #HomeKit scene with my Hue lights to match 😍

Video of the final scene after completing a shrine on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on my TV. Behind the TV, some ambient lights match the green and turquoise tones inside the game. On screen, there is a text that reads: “May the light of blessing grant you the strength you seek.” On the image, there are two ancient characters in stone.
FlohGro
5 months ago

SmartHome is when you vacuum decides when it’s time to leave.

It just started vacuuming ignoring that I’m still at home. Turns out that HomeKit thought that I left when I only moved between rooms 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

#SmartHome #HomeKit

Andrew Yates
5 months ago

Set up an Shortcuts automation to skip Eve Aqua watering the garden if its likely to rain in the day. Just in time for a bunch of rain earlier this morning.

They provide the shortcut within the Eve app, slightly modified and then added the automation to run each morning. #homekit

There's still no way to completely disable Home background activities on the iPad. It keeps draining the battery when the iPad is idle, even though the iPad is not a hub.
I'll remove "My Home" and all accessories. Perhaps this helps!

#iOS #iPad #iPadOS #HomeKit #iCloud

The iPad battery usage showing that the Home app had consumed 94% of the battery in the 24 hours
Screenshot of the Home app for iOS taken when tapping on the option to remove "My Home"
Cassidy James :eos: :gnome:
5 months ago

I have a ton of Wi-Fi A19 RGB smart light bulbs that work fine, mostly from two or three different brands. I’m considering upgrading to Matter light bulbs, as I am tired of the latency with so many devices on Wi-Fi and want everything to be the same.

Is there some decent secondhand market for these? I could upgrade piecemeal but I feel like it only really makes sense to do it all at once.

#SmartHome #SmartLights #GoogleHome #AppleHomeKit #HomeKit #SmartThings

Kelly Guimont
5 months ago

I know we are in the home stretch of #automationApril and I also know this was topical at the time which was last summer. But enjoy my decidedly UNofficial entry into the contest. Mostly because it just makes me smile. #StrangerThings #HomeAutomation #HomeKit

A screenshot of an automation titled "Protect me from monsters" that involves a bedside lamp and a HomePod mini.
Second piece of a home automation that plays a lullaby version of Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush and turns on a lamp at nightlight levels.
Aaron Pearce
5 months ago

Spent today working on a new Apple Watch app for HomeCam… which should work exactly like the old one. https://testflight.apple.com/join/FdFLRqJ9 #HomeKit #SmartHome

John Scott-Railton ☕
5 months ago

3/ Some details about the #zeroclick #zeroday exploits in #Pegasus #spyware that we found evidence of.

*THREE* #zeroclick #0day chains used by NSO's #Pegasus #spyware in 2022.

First: #PWNYOURHOME: worked against #homekit even if you didn't set up a home.

Apple's changes in iOS 16.3.1 address this.

We also observed #LockdownMode kneecapping it.

MessagesBlostDoorService homed MessagesBlastDoorService (suspected) Figure 2: Three exploit chains released by NSO Group in 2022. To nrotect our continued abilitv to identifv Pecasus infections
3. PWNYOURHOME: An i0S 15 and i0S 16 Zero-Click Exploit

The PWNYOURHOME exploit appears to be a novel two-phase zero-click exploit, with each of the two phases targeting a dif- ferent process on the phone. The first phase of the exploit in- volves the HomeKit functionality built into iPhones (via the homed process), and the second phase of the exploit involves iMessage (via the MessagesBlastDoorService process). PWNYOURHOME appears to succeed against a target even if the target has never configured a “Home” inside HomeKit. However, in some cases, the email address of the PWNYOURHOME attacker is logged and Pegasus fails to delete this email from the HomeKit database.

We obtained logs from multiple devices compromised with PWNYOURHOME. In one case, the attacker’s email address ([REDACTED]@gmail.com) was logged. The phone logs showed that the [REDACTED]@gmail.com email address was added to HomeKit approximately eight minutes before the Pegasus spyware was recorded running on the phone, and an iMessage attachment was deleted.
Phase One: HomeKit Daemon Crashes Logs from another PWNYOURHOME-exploited device from the 2022 global target pool examined in the course of this investi- gation showed the homed process decoding what appears to be an unusual NSKeyedUnArchiver when it crashed. Logs showed that the NSKeyedUnArchiver decoding had been kicked off by the following function:

-[HMDHomeManager _handleHomeDataSync:] (in

HomeKitDaemonLegacy) The NSKeyedUnArchiver decoder invoked the decoder for NSDictionary, which in turn invoked the decoder for an implau- sible class not normally used within HomeKit. Issues with NSKeyedUnArchiver deserialization have been used in pastiOS zero-click exploits targeting iMessage, so we redact the specific class to avoid assisting attackers. We disclosed this issue to Apple, who made several changes to HomeKit in i0S 16.3.1, in- cluding adding a new method, -[HMDHomeManager _should- DecodeMessage:error:], which declines to decode certain HomeKit messages unless they arrive from a plausible source. This check guards the HomeKit code path we saw exploited.
Lockdown Mode Highlights Attack Apple’s Lockdown Mode feature makes signs of an attempted PWNYOURHOME attack visible to the phone’s user by display- ing notifications (Figure 4). We have seen no recent notifica- tions on Lockdown Mode, nor have we seen any evidence of successful PWNYOURHOME compromise on Lockdown Mode. Given that we have seen no indications that NSO has stopped deploying PWNYOURHOME, this suggests that NSO may have figured out a way to correct the notification issue, such as by fingerprinting Lockdown Mode. Friday, September 9 9:41 n Notification Center &) K to access a Home. T}y Iescsymmosconsionpis to access a Home. Figure 4: Illustration derived from victim screenshots illustrating how lockdown mode displayed notifications related to the PWNYOURHOME exploit Additionally, we have not seen any cases of exploitation of i0S versions 16.1 and greater, suggesting that PWNYOURHOME may have been fixed or mitigated around this time.
Michael Fey :underheart:
6 months ago

Does anyone have a #HomeKit camera that works reliably? The Logitech Circle View is offline 90% of the time. I've resorted to putting it on a manual outlet timer just to get a couple working hours out of it each day before it goes offline again. I'm considering getting an Eve camera, but that will come with a wiring project since it needs to be installed in a box.

The Home app on Mac showing an offline camera accessory.
Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
6 months ago
Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
6 months ago

Has anyone done the #HomeKit upgrade in macOS 13.3 and iOS 16.4? I'm wondering if I should pull the trigger or wait for 16.5. I do have quite a few different #HomeKit devices and am hoping reliability with some (looking at you CircleView Doorbell Camera 👀) will be improved with the upgrade

Jack Brewster
6 months ago

Looking for #humidifier #advice. Do any of you use one in your #homeOffice? Any concerns or hassles I should know about?

I'm looking at a #vocolink #homekit model: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z7796CT

Boosts appreciated.

René
6 months ago

@apfelnutzer @Breznsoiza Bei mir wird leider kein konkretes Gerät genannt sondern allgemein 2 „Bewohner“. Frau und Tochter haben jeweils iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch und MacBook. Alle diese Geräte sind auf dem neusten Stand, mehrfach neu gestartet worden und ich hab die sogar alle von iCloud ab- und angemeldet (nervig!). Habe alle 10 Hubs abgeklemmt und nur einen HomePod aktiv gelassen.
Die Fehlermeldung bleibt. #homekit #apple

René
6 months ago

Bei mir ist das Upgrade der #HomeKit Architektur nicht möglich. Bekomme Fehlermeldung, dass die Geräte meiner Tochter und meiner Frau nicht aktuell sind. Stimmt aber nicht, alles ist auf 16.4 bzw. 9.4. Sehr seltsam.

Sam
6 months ago

Just set up the Aqara #HomeKit Smart Doorbell. Will install it tomorrow but really pleased with the video quality. Also love that the chime comes through on my HomePods 🔔 @m4tty_j

Aqara Smart Video Doorbell G4
Gernot
6 months ago

Does iOS 16.4 RC still have the New Home Architecture? Or did they cut it again? #homekit

Serena  :apple:
7 months ago

Sereentje heeft weer geknutseld…
Had hier in huis nog een SwitchBot Hub Mini liggen waar ik niets mee deed.
Maar heb ook sinds kort nepkaarsen die ik met een IR-afstandsbediening aan en uit kan zetten. 🕯️
Voor de mensen die me nog niet zo lang volgen. Mijn huis is volledig gebaseerd op #HomeKit en stemgestuurd. 🏡
Afstandsbediening ingelezen in de SwitchBot app, SwitchBot gekoppeld aan #HomeBridge, ‘Kaarsen’ toegevoegd aan accessoires en hop… Kaarsen schakelen mee aan en uit met alle scènes.
🤓