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Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Alliance to Develop Open Standard for Smart Home Devices [Updated]
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Probably not the case here, since Apple, Google, Amazon essentially have a monopoly on the market.
One can hope
I think they like the idea that it makes an acronym, but “chip” has nothing to do with anything. And Project chip? Yikes.As you say, I think it’s just a working title. They’ll come up with some actual branding prior to release I’m sure.
Where does it say they are scrambling to fix this? In the article you posted it says they believe it was a case or stolen usernames/passwords. A good way to mitigate this? Turn on 2FA.
Nowhere in the article does it say that Ring/Amazon is "scrambling to fix it. " That was just made up to imply that there was a breech in the Ring servers.
This is no different than the Celebrity Nude hack of a few years ago. Apple was put on the defensive since a large portion of the pictures were stolen from iCloud accounts that were insecurely protected (reused username/passwords and/or social engineering.) From what Ring has publicly announced, this is a similar situation. No one has refuted the claim by Ring that their accounts were insecurely protected.
I have NUMEROUS certified Apple HomeKit devices that simply stop responding. Leviton, Koogeek, LIFX and iHome will simply quit working if, say, a Linksys Velop node drops for a second or we lose power. It's incredible these things got certified.
Yea it has been hard to pinpoint. Is it Apple? Is it the manufacturer? Is it something behind the scenes? A lot of spots for something to go wrong in a connection. I have multiple hubs and found one Apple TV seemed to have been the cause, and now all is good. It just took a lot to get there.
I've been waiting for something like this for years now. I started my smart home journey on Belkin WeMo, which could (and I think still can) be controlled by sending HTTP requests at a tiny web server running on the device. But as more smart home stuff has come out (that WeMo doesn't have devices for) I've learned just how much of a clusterfudge a multi-brand smart home setup can be. Six or seven different apps, some of them in "Chinglish", and having to set up user accounts with passwords on all sorts of services.
I've been looking for years for a self-hosted, DIY setup where I can host the server backend myself on a cloud server or in a VM in my house, and link it to Amazon/Google/etc myself or via some generic skill that you can just give a URL to which it can use to control your stuff. I'm hoping that's where this standard will lead.
I've been looking for years for a self-hosted, DIY setup where I can host the server backend myself on a cloud server or in a VM in my house, and link it to Amazon/Google/etc myself or via some generic skill that you can just give a URL to which it can use to control your stuff. I'm hoping that's where this standard will lead.
This is absolutely required. No reasonable builder will install smart lights and switches into a new building unless said lights and switches are (1) standardized and (2) available at every Home Depot for just a few dollars.
Once this is standard and the code is put online at GitHub, we might see $5 smart outlets and work with any phone or voice assistant. At that price point, I'd buy "contractor packs" of 20 and install them even in rental properties.
But with today's current mess of non-standard, I'm am purposely staying away. I figure I'm the most common case. Most people I know don't want anything to do with the current situation and will wait for a few years for a standard to emerge.
Once this is standard and the code is put online at GitHub, we might see $5 smart outlets and work with any phone or voice assistant. At that price point, I'd buy "contractor packs" of 20 and install them even in rental properties.
But with today's current mess of non-standard, I'm am purposely staying away. I figure I'm the most common case. Most people I know don't want anything to do with the current situation and will wait for a few years for a standard to emerge.
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This was mentioned in the WWDC keynote. It's also been revealed that Apple is open sourcing HomeKit. To me, it sounded like Amazon and Google would be adopting Apple's implementation because of its security features. Have we heard any more details about this since the keynote?
What I asked for might happen. I will keep watching the shelves at the electrical supply places to see if any of this ever "goes mainstream". But this adoption of a standard is a good development.
As I used to hear years ago while designing electronics at GM... "Standards are so important that everyone should create some."