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.
Siri knows WAY more colors than you might think and in this post we explore some of the more interesting ones.
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.
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!
A beautiful thing about HomeKit is its ability to bring competitors together to work for us. This video will walk you through how to use a Phillips Hue Dimmer Switch to control a LIFX bulb. Though I’m using two specific accessories, the principals outlined here transfer to any number of other HomeKit accessories.
Convert Phillips Hue lighting scenes to HomeKit scenes easily to build robust home automations.