!homekit@lemmy.ml
An unofficial community to discuss Apple's HomeKit systems, devices, and the service as a whole.
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@lemmy.mlLooking for support or purchasing advice with Apple’s Home app, accessories, networking troubles / solutions, anything else HomeKit supports, or which brand or accessory to buy — try asking here.
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Here is a list of HomeKit enabled devices on Apple’s website.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/29/references-to-homeos-resurface-in-tvos-174-beta
Code references in the first developer beta of tvOS 17.4 to "homeOS" could be an indication that Apple is working on a new operating system aimed for use within a person's home.
If so, how did you connect your Miele account to your developer secret and client ID?
I recently purchased a small studio flat and thought that it is the perfect place to make a smart home since I will only need to control a few things.
I have already ordered my light switches and am still contemplating my blinds.
But my biggest concern is my airconditioning as I stay in the desert and it becomes quite unbearable during summer I normally left the AC on the whole day in my rental apartment.
But since this AC works on electricity only I figured I wanted to make it smart and only want it to cool a 15 minutes before I normally arrive back home.
My thermostat though is a communicating one and so far the only one I am seeing is the Lennox iComfort S30, but I don’t know if it is compatible with what I currently have. The videos I looked at said the companies should be sister companies for compatibility but I couldn’t find out how to check that.
This is my current thermostat
Has anyone else tried to do something similar?
Edit: This is what is on top of the roof of the apartments and each has 1 or more of these
Since upgrading to iOS/tvOS/HomePodOS 17.2, my HomeKit stuff has been SO unstable where every day since 17.2 came out I have been putting out fires and rebooting devices. Even devices that are usually very solid. A couple of times I have even had to do full resets of a device and re-add it to my home when rebooting didn’t work, which is normally a very rare occurrence.
Along with rebooting or power cycling devices, I’ve rebooted and power cycled Apple TVs and HomePods with no luck. Tonight I even rebooted my WiFi hubs (eero Pro 6) and updated the firmware. Jury is still out on results of that.
Anyone else having problems?
Hiya,
I’m wondering if anybody knows of any other brands like Eve that sell local-network-only no-cloud HomeKit products.
To make that word salad a bit clearer, I’m looking for devices that:
I’d be very interested to hear your experiences and recommendations around the above. I recognise that some devices can be run in a secured VLAN in a non-vendor recommended manner and am interested to hear about them, but the main focus of this thread is to determine if there are and brands besides Eve that explicitly manufacture “local-only” HomeKit devices.
Hopefully these scenarios are common, and therefore easy to resolve...
I have a photo shelf in my lounge that I was thinking of trying to light up of an evening using some kind of HomeKit-enabled lighting - but not sure what kind of light. Being that it's high up, it'd be better if the lights were battery operated so as not to have a big wire trailing down, but it's not the end of the world if that's not possible, as I'm sure I could hide the wire behind a nearby tall plant.
The shelf I have is a simple one from IKEA (here), and I was thinking of either putting something along the front of the shelf, behind the lip, or in between the 3 photos I have on there.
The other scenario is the aforementioned tall plant. I was also looking for an option of something that can be placed in the plant pot, firing upwards, to light the plant. Wired is less of a problem here, as I have an outlet right next to it.
Again, plant is an artificial IKEA one (here).
Any thoughts/suggestions for what's out there (I'm in the UK)?
Thanks in advance!
If I add an IR device (fan, tv etc) via the G3 hub, does that device bridge over to the home app?
I will highly appreciate any recommendations you might have to spot the occasional hedgehog roaming our small garden.
I got as far that people like generic ip PoE cameras such as from reolink and set them up through syncted. I havent gotten to such a complex configuration, but i have a mac mini m1 with docker at home that i can run as a server if needed.
Are wifi cameras a no go? It would save me to drill through walls.