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Aaron Pearce

@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social
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Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

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Joined August 14, 2018
Apps:
https://pearcemedia.app
Blog:
https://aaronpearce.com
iOS Developers Slack:
https://ios-developers.io

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 24, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

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Starting to use Codex to generate development tools more and more. The latest is a way to generate dashboard layouts easily for HomeCam 3. Still a work in progress and some behaviours and features in this tool may not ship ever.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 21, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

Trying to define how camera dashboards should work over multiple platforms is not simple. You can’t have a dashboard look the same on an iPhone as an iPad, let alone a TV. What layouts should be supported, what features within it, and whether to do progressive enhancement?

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

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Wish this style of pan and tilt control would work, but given a lot of cameras don’t support running both directions at once with their motors, it’s not really suitable.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

Playing with a trackpad design for pan and tilt control, getting stymied by my test cameras moving on the X axis, then Y, not both at once. Why accept both on a continousMove command if they won’t do it at the same time?

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

Using Codex to build debugging views that otherwise would never be built is nice.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 16, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

It might be time in this development cycle of HomeCam for the Camera Wall™️ to return.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 15, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

Spent a few hours on the pairing screens today. Getting closer to something I am liking.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 13, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

And based on asking other indies, it’s not worth your time or money to do. 😂

@9to5Mac@mastodon.online

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 13, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

Playing with a fourth option for cameras. Still unsure what I’ll release in the end but it’s a fun technical challenge to learn how to connect and get each camera stream type on screen.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 12, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

What great timing for Indigo to launch. My Ivory subscription was coming up to renewal 😂. Switched over now.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

Fell into the WebRTC rabbit hole over the last week. Got a plan for a future feature now.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @stephenrobles@mastodon.social
@stephenrobles those are interesting devices in how they can work from the looks of it. Can’t wait to get my hands on one when they finally arrive in New Zealand.
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @dandh@mastodon.social
@dandh@mastodon.social You would think having a developer account since around 2011 would get you out of that check.
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @pixelscience@mastodon.social
@pixelscience@mastodon.social shouldn’t need to come to that, I’ve added a demo video. Just feels pedantic to have to send one after years of it being out.
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social
Would be even better if App Store Connect actually allowed me to upload the video they demanded.
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @helge@mastodon.social
@helge@mastodon.social It's unreasonable in two aspects. One I physically cannot pair a HomeKit device on a Mac. And two, the app has been out for years, had hundreds of reviews without this. It isn't needed. More the principle of it than the actual reality of doing it that is annoying.
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social

After waiting a week for review of a simple bug fix for HomeCam on Mac. I get this bullshit rejection. Can't show a demo video for pairing as the Mac cannot do that.

And this app has been out on the Mac for years... why the sudden demo request.

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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @khaost@mastodon.tz.is
@khaost Fair. Can't justify it for the limited Watch development I'm doing right now. And so much for them developing using the same tools as us 😉
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Mar 19, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @khaost@mastodon.tz.is
@khaost Pricey little dock 🥲
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Aaron Pearce @aaron_pearce@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026
Aaron Pearce
@aaron_pearce@mastodon.social

Indie Developer of #HomeKit apps, such as HomeCam, HomePass, HomeRun, HomeLog and more. Admin of the iOS Developers Slack.

mastodon.social
Replying to @bens@mastodon.xyz
@bens@mastodon.xyz @mattiem@mastodon.social @ryanashcraft@mastodon.social I’d love to make my apps into native Mac apps if Apple would stop holding HomeKit as a Catalyst hostage.
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