Here’s a strange thing. IF I DO create a HomeKit Scene called “Morning” it works fine. The HomePods run the scene without confirmation, sound, anything. Just works.

If I say hey Siri “Good Morning” (with no scene or Shortcut called “Good Morning”) it will run the “Morning” scene AND give me a little da-ding confirmation that it ran successfully.

All I’m trying to do is create a SHORTCUT that turns on a bunch of lights and then speaks the words “Good morning” to me, like a nice little House AI would say to greet it’s homeowner.
#homekit #siri #shortcuts
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I have a pair of OG HomePods. I have tried unsuccessfully to create a SHORTCUT called “Good Morning”. In my EXTENSIVE testing I can’t make Siri (via HomePods) recognize that Shortcut. If I rename it to… “Wicked” or some other word it works.

I DO NOT have a HomeKit SCENE called Good Morning or anything with the word Morning in it.

“Morning” has to be some messed up reserved word deep in Siri and associated with Scenes and not allowed for use in a Shortcut.
#homekit #siri #shortcuts
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Ich habe jetzt mein #gaming setup samt lokalem llm fertig :) Ich kann jetzt per Knopfdruck alles starten und direkt auf mein #Steam Deck streamen oder nur die Gamingkiste anwerfen ohne den Bildschirm für das llm zur Unterstützung bei der Arbeit. Spart jetzt hoffentlich gut Strom, wenn man alles nur on-demand ausführt. Hatte den Rechner jetzt einen Monat lang durchlaufen und der hat 50kwh gefressen. Sollten so jetzt vllt. nur noch 20 kwh sein :) Achja: Ausschalten lässt sich das ganze natürlich auch per Knopdruck und ne #Homekit Integration ist auch bei. Ich liebe es! IT-Porn :D

There's something infinitely funny to me that I have to bounce my Nest devices over to HomeKit using HomeBridge in order to bridge them into Home Assistant because Google is just that awful that I have to use Apple's standard to get their crap working. ​

The list of Matter in the house is growing! #ios #matter #homekit

Ignore my mess… I have successfully installed the camera. It was painless which means my house will probably burn down tonight. #homelab #unifi #homenetworking #homekit #homeimprovement

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Before I go old testament on this #ecobee for dropping their API access, are there any known workarounds for integrating it with #HomeAssistant without relying on #HomeKit ?

I have a basic stat that supports #ZWave, but would lose out on the remote probes feature which sadly I'm pretty invested in.

Hmm, maybe someone has written a system to replicate the ecobee's remote probes features within HA using generic temperature sensors?

Grateful for any suggestions.

Hey! I’ve been wanting to get some colorful magic smart lights, but I have an issue: I still want to be able to turn them on and off from the switches (without making them go offline when I do so, ofc). I was able to think about two different methods for this, but each is suboptimal on its own way.

Option 1: Substitute my switches with smart switches (zigbee)
(Example (aliexpress))
This is a nice option because it’d look nice, be installed on the wall exactly where the current switches are, as well as giving me the ability to also control the ‘dumb’ lights while I don’t substitute all of them for smart lights (these switches are cheaper than good smart lights).
The main disadvantage of this method, however, is that for the smart lights I’d end up having two separate controls: the light itself and the switch. When I powered the light off through the switch it’d go offline since it seems that the main feature of these switches is smartifying dumb lights. Then in order to control them from my phone I’d have to first turn on the switch and then the light. I doubt these switches have some kind of config that’d let me use their buttons to control Home Assistant scenes without stopping energy from going through them. Are there any ways of using switches without this issue?

Option 2: Get some scene switches remote controllers (zigbee)
(Example, basically this but some cheaper aliexpress zigbee)
I’d get some of these and 3d print some supports for them going over the current switches (so no one could touch the real/dumb switches and bring the lights hardlocked offline). These wouldn’t have the smart switch issue of putting the smart lights softlocked offline, but the disadvantages would be: it’d look considerably worse, it’d need batteries and it would only work for the smart lights.

My question is: are there any other options? Something that’d have Option 1 and 2 advantages without their disadvantages?

Does Home Assistant allow you to add devices controlled by it to the iOS Apple Home/HomeKit app, perhaps in a similar way to HomeBridge? If so, is that full-featured (such as letting you set light color, intensity, etc (assuming those features are supported on Home Assistant for that device, ofc))?

CES2025 smart home roundup on the latest episode of the #HomeKit Insider podcast with more than a dozen big new products coming this year.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/13/ces-smart-home-roundup-on-the-homekit-insider-podcast?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

Finally moved the printer to the IoT segment of the home network.

Seems to have solved my long standing “Device not responding” issue within my HomeKit set up.

The last few weeks I’ve left the printer off, which also seemed to ‘fix’ the issue. Fingers crossed the IoT network lets me keep the printer on. So far so good.

I imagine what we’re going to see are the high security devices from Apple

Doorbells and cameras are clearly security liabilities so I can see why Apple has interest there

With that being said, HomeKit Secure Video kinda makes all that a moo point

Then again, you don’t always know what other cameras are doing behind the scenes, could be interesting

#Apple #Technology #HomeKit #SmartHome
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