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• Post #2432850

  @ff00aa wait did you try Matter over Thread in Apple Home directly or via HomeAssistant? Because it’s definitely a nightmare to setup in Apple Home since pairing has been getting more and more broken for years, but once everything is setup (I managed to pair 80+ of the new Ikea devices on my old iPad running iOS 17, none of the new devices with 26 were able to pair more than a few without needing restarting) it’s not any worse than the old HAP stuff in any way 😅

• Post #2432849

  @ff00aa ah yeah that way you’re still depending on Apple’s crapware, the way to go seems to be running Thread firmware on one of Zigbee usb dongles compatible with HA and pairing directly to that. Btw it’s really not obvious at all but all of the new Ikea stuff is dual-protocol for backwards compatibility, so you could’ve paired them via Zigbee. You need to power cycle them 12 times to switch to Zigbee pairing mode, it should pulse cold white instead of warm white if done correctly.

• Post #2432848

  @ff00aa yeah HA is a lot tbh. It took me a long time to give it a proper chance and I still don’t really love it (user experience is just not a thing there at all and just recently they replaced my home dashboard with something completely different that I am not even gonna try touching), but it’s by far the most reliable and fastest hub ever so I have all my zigbee stuff running on that and then brought into other systems from there.

• Post #2432847

  Flying under a flying car. #fpv #rccars

• Post #2432846

  Sure, Verge, first-party hardware and AI is gonna fix Apple Home’s problems. Lack of basic software features or any kind of access control beyond the most basic security ones isn’t magically gonna be solved by AI or a piece of hardware. It’s still the same basic tech demo they introduced *checks notes* 12 years ago, all it needs is some (a lot of) software development. There’s plenty of accessory makers and plenty of us willing to build better apps if we had APIs #homekit https://www.theverge.co...