HomePod 2 review, Aqara Matter update, & more
This week on the Homekit Insider Podcast, your hosts dive into our review of the updated HomePod, talk about Aqara's Matter update, and cover more smart home news.
This week on the Homekit Insider Podcast, your hosts dive into our review of the updated HomePod, talk about Aqara's Matter update, and cover more smart home news.
Not everything has to be Matter-compatible. One version of the Meross Smart Plug Mini isn't, and still allows you to control nearly any appliance in your HomeKit setup within a small and light design.
What's old is new again as Apple's original HomePod has returned with revamped internals and big sound — but an unchanged high price.
The new HomeKit architecture saga rolls on, as code discovered in public smart home standards suggests that the new Homekit architecture will return in iOS 16.4 at some point.
A future version of HomeKit may keep track of where the people in the house are, and learn user habits to figure out when to automatically take actions, without you having to ask Siri.
Your hosts of the Homekit Insider Podcast dive into this week's home automation news, including the launch of the Hue table lamp plus Samsung's app — and again dive into the world of smart plugs.
LG offers an all-in-one solution for smart TV manufacturers to add its webOS platform to their products, and it was just updated with Apple TV, Apple Music, AirPlay, and HomeKit.
Aqara has officially begun its rollout of new firmware for its M2 hub to enable Matter compatibility with more than 40 Zigbee accessories, though it won't be available to everyone initially.
New unearthed code suggests that Apple will soon re-release its Homekit architecture after it initially withdrew the option in December.
Smart lightbulbs are a great way to liven up an old lamp with color. The Meross Smart LED Lightbulb uses HomeKit to allow you to customize an existing lamp and automatically switch to new colors or brightness levels.
On the latest Homekit Insider podcast episode, we cover the release of the updated HomePod and discuss new features coming to the HomePod mini.
Soon Apple will release a new update for HomePod mini users that brings a slew of new features, such as previously-unused environmental sensors. We tried it out before release.
The new Yale Smart Safe has good HomeKit compatibility, and a ton of great features — but software bugs are an issue right now.
Now that CES has wrapped, the Homekit Insider podcast covers a bit more news before reviewing the Yale Smart Safe, and rounding up our favorite HomeKit buttons.
We went hands-on with all of the new smart home products that work with Apple HomeKit so far this year, trying out everything from smart lights to wall-mounted controllers.
After halting its rollout of HomeKit's new architecture in iOS 16.2, Apple has resumed testing of the platform, with it resurfacing in the iOS 16.3 beta.
After CES 2023 wrapped, Assa Abloy-owned Yale released its long-overdue HomeKit-enabled pair of smart safes.
On this week's episode of the Homekit Insider podcast, Andrew joined us live from CES 2023 in Las Vegas to talk about all of the new home automation tech, Matter, and more!
Govee's higher-end M1 light strip is now both Matter and "Works with Google Home" certified.
Eve Systems has an array of new smart home announcements at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show including expanded Matter support and new motorized blind options.
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