“When Apple first announced HomeKit in 2014 I hoped it would be the unifying platform that let me truly control all my smart home devices as if they all came from the same company,” Jeff Gamet writes for The Mac Observer. “That turned out to be true, but in the end it doesn’t really matter because HomeKit has become a raging s*#t storm, and I finally have to accept that.”
“I love that HomeKit lets me control my smart home devices regardless if I’m home, or practically anywhere else in the world,” Gamet writes. “I also love that it reliably manages my ecobee smart thermostat schedule when ecobee‘s own app failed.”
“My big problem with HomeKit isn’t overall reliability. Apple has most of those issues under control, although I sometimes have problems where only part of a scene executes,” Gamet writes. “My problem is that the HomeKit platform is so fragile that when something goes wrong there isn’t a graceful way to recover. In fact, there isn’t any way to recover.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: HomeKit works great on paper.
The smart home for average consumers remains a faraway dream.
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