|
The market needs competition. Apple has this reasonable offer: - Buy an Homepod/Apple TB as a home station
- Everything works locally, even the internet is down.
- no Accounts.
- only one privacy policy: Apple's
- but ofc, you can control everything remote, and Apple makes sure its easy and secure.
Since its Apple, they have to make sure there are downsides, too (beside price): - If Apple does not deem it worthy, it will not get implemented. [1]
- Things that should be simple are not. Try to set the lights to turn on 10 minutes before your alarm goes off. I'll wait here.
I see a market for a company which builds on home-assistant.
You can tell the nerds: If "corporate" does sth you dont like, you can always go back to home-assistant.
And for everybody else, you can offer a support, a list of compatible/certified devices, an extendable, open API, a vetted applications/script market place, a secure remote connection, ...[1] It has been a few years, but last time I checked, CO2 Levels still can only be reported as labeled Levels ("high/low/.."), with the actually ppm Value hidden in some auxiliary value. No way around it, Apple needed to put CO2{ type: integer, range: 0-10000} in some json some where, and they did not come around to do it for like half a decade, at which point I stopped caring. |
I had a very similar use case: turn on my espresso machine (via smart plug) 20 minutes before I wake up. It should have been simple, as I already have a sleep schedule with a wake up alarm in the system. It turned out to be such a complicated hassle, that it put me off from using HomeKit for anything more complicated than “press a button to turn on a lamp”.