Eero Mesh WiFi Routers Gain HomeKit Support

[jettredmont]

My statement is not incorrect at all. When you block a device, it will be blocked from the cloud services necessary for Google and Amazon assistants. Are you doubting that?

Unless you are saying that is wrong, then HomeKit routers have the tools to easily block Google and Amazon-compatible devices from functioning while Apple HomeKit devices continue to work. Therefore, Google and Amazon ecosystem is blocked.

I did not say anything about defaults, per device or other IoT. You are reading something that I didn't say.

So you are saying that, big reveal here: IF you turn on "Restrict to Home" on your ecobee (say), you will be blocked from using Alexa on that device until ... you go and turn that setting off for that one device?

How is that any more sinister than any other router setting? I mean, I have a plain jane Orbi network here, and can go do the exact same thing to my ecobee today and lose Alexa access (and, as the warning clearly says, I would also lose access to the weather downloads etc). On my router, I don't even get a warning, just a big "off" switch.

So, yeah, turning on the "don't let traffic from this device out of the network" makes it not able to contact stuff outside your network. That's kinda doing exactly what that setting says it does. If you don't want that setting, then don't enable it!

 

[tennisproha]

Surely AirPort will support HomeKit for routers right? Right??

 

[beanbaguk]

I'm confused. What does HomeKit exactly provide on a router?

 

[ersan191]

I'm confused. What does HomeKit exactly provide on a router?

It firewalls off all of your HomeKit devices so they can't access the internet but can be accessed via HomeKit - meaning they can't be hacked (unless Apple gets hacked, I guess, but that's pretty unlikely with how they do it).
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My statement is not incorrect at all. When you block a device, it will be blocked from the cloud services necessary for Google and Amazon assistants. Are you doubting that?

Unless you are saying that is wrong, then HomeKit routers have the tools to easily block Google and Amazon-compatible devices from functioning while Apple HomeKit devices continue to work. Therefore, Google and Amazon ecosystem is blocked.

I did not say anything about defaults, per device or other IoT. You are reading something that I didn't say.

This is literally what "automatic" is for, and why it is default. Devices will be able to communicate with approved cloud providers (aka the device manufacturer's server). Alexa and Google do not communicate locally in most instances, they talk to the device manufacturer's servers and control things remotely (which is stupid for many reasons, but I won't get into that).

I assume you knew this, so I have no idea what point you're trying to make here.

 

[gcmexico]

holy cow! this crap broken my whole homekit! over 100 devices, could not connect to app store, itunes movies would constantly drop connection, Arlo bridges completely knocked off, hue bridge knocked off...after 2hrs of craziness, I removed routers from homekit, 5 mins later everything running smooth! cmon Apple I couldn’t even connect to App store...seems like a weekend project, because apple recommends removing all devices from homekit and reconnecting...that’s CRAZY

 

[dontwalkhand]

holy cow! this crap broken my whole homekit! over 100 devices, could not connect to app store, itunes movies would constantly drop connection, Arlo bridges completely knocked off, hue bridge knocked off...after 2hrs of craziness, I removed routers from homekit, 5 mins later everything running smooth! cmon Apple I couldn’t even connect to App store...seems like a weekend project, because apple recommends removing all devices from homekit and reconnecting...that’s CRAZY

Looks like I’ll be keeping my SonicWALL

 

[krfr]

I’ll wait until Wi-Fi 6 comes out later this year and see what’s new then.