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Please come hang out with me in the HomeKit community 🥺 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by moseschrute to c/technology
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I love Apple Home. It has its flaws, but— just like Lemmy— I love trying out bleeding-edge tech like Thread, Matter, mesh based routers and sick lighting. I also mess around with Homebridge, and I’ve considered trying Home Assistant. I’ve learned a lot, and I want to collaborate with other home automation enthusiasts. I’m going to try to post more to that community, but I wanted to put this out there if anyone is interested in collaborating with me to build up that community.

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[–] zelifcam 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I think what you’ll find is HomeKit’s best feature is being a front end for home assistant. Which is where most people end up on their journey.

[–] fulg 5 points 1 month ago

It is exactly my case, as HomeKit by itself is way too limited for automations.

All of my HomeKit devices are actually exposed through HomeBridge, so I can still use HomeKit stuff if needed, and devices that do not support HomeKit can still be added to HomeKit.

My current challenge is on the Smart Dashboard side, I don’t really want to buy a Google Pixel Tablet for this, and the Nest Hubs I have don’t really integrate with HomeAssistant except through Google cloud services.

HomeKit dashboard is fine but too basic.

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