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by bpye 1610 days ago
Recently my Hue bulbs have decided to sometimes all show as unavailable in HomeKit, which is annoying. They normally revive themselves in a few minutes but I can’t figure it out.

Unfortunately no other home automation platform (Google, Amazon) lets you keep everything on your local network, and using Home Assistant would make using Siri for it harder, so I’m stuck with an annoyingly buggy platform.
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p2t2p 1610 days ago
> Unfortunately no other home automation platform (Google, Amazon) lets you keep everything on your local network

Exactly the reason I keep dealing with HomeKit annoyances.

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lukevp 1609 days ago
You can use home assistant and HomeKit together pretty seamlessly. We have all our lighting automation as a zwave network though hass, and the lights are also included in HomeKit. We can use Siri or hass app or the native home app/widgets in iOS without any issues. And everything runs locally too.
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