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by theshrike79
1638 days ago
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I frequent a bunch of home automation related subreddits and FB groups. In 99% of the cases shitty HomeKit functionality is because of crappy WiFi. People are using whatever cheapo crap their ISP gave them for free. 1) Get a better WiFi access point, disable the integrated crap your ISP gave you
2) Use either a HomePod or an AppleTV as the home's central hub, don't connect it via wifi.
This will most likely fix any issues. I've got a wired AppleTV and Unifi for network stuff. I've had zero major issues with HomeKit. A few lights refuse to respond at points, but it's a Zigbee issue, nothing to do with HomeKit. |
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FWIW: I consider this to also be an Apple problem. Look, I have no idea how the Airport Express stacked up to the competition really, maybe it was junk, but it generally met my needs and was better than any of the other options I'd used in the past in terms of not having to fiddle with it much. Now imagine you are a consumer with no technical knowledge - do you buy a device or do you go along with whatever your ISP offers you? If Apple made a wifi device of some kind again, of course I'd buy it because I'm already in their ecosystem.