Smart plugs can be boring, but with a little ingenuity, and a few amazing apps, we can create some pretty AWESOME smart plug automations!
It is reasonably widely known that some of the most vulnerable moments of our day is when we are arriving to or leaving a location. For this very reason in fact, many car keys have a panic button that will sound the horn or the alarm of the car. As fans of home automation, I was thinking we could use a HomeKit button to bring this functionality to the home. Whether you’re in danger or you just want to get someone’s attention, a HomeKit panic button can be very useful.
Wondering how to integrate your new or existing HomeKit accessories with the Aqara hub to trigger the alarm? Here’s how it’s done.
Let HomeKit automations make happy hour happier and easier! This video gives you some ideas for automating your home bar using HomeKit, LED lightstrips, and a contact sensor.
For those times when you just can’t be bothered to get off the couch or out of bed to let someone in… and you can’t (I’m looking at you Android users) add them to your Home, here’s a solution. Use a HomeKit button or switch to lock and unlock your door from the comfort of the couch or bed…or anywhere else in your home.
In this post, we go beyond the standard single, double, and long press actions of Apple’s Home app and open a world of possibilities using buttons, and switches, and HomeKit automations available in 3rd party apps to create a virtually endless number of actions for buttons and switches.
Motion is a great way to glide throughout your abode and have things just happen. In this post, we walk you through a couple of motion sensor automations we have in our home using Apple HomeKit.
In this post, we do magic! Well, OK, maybe not magic, but we show you how to incorporate lighting effects into your HomeKit scenes using VOCOlinc’s lighting products and the LinkWise app.
Contact sensors can have a ton of uses and in this post, we’ll look at how you can use Apple’s HomeKit to create basic automations to turn on and off your lights based on the opening and closing of a door.
Sensors are really where it’s at when it comes to home automation and Apple’s HomeKit has a few tricks up its sleeves for sensor-based automations. This post explores some of them and how to set them up using Apple’s Home app!