Does it recognise robot vacuums? HomeKit still hasn't seen any
Vacuums aren't in the first release of the Matter specification. Vacuums, air purifiers and other home appliances are in the upcoming update, slated for the Spring.
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Samsung's SmartThings iOS App Now Lets You Control Matter Devices
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Vacuums aren't in the first release of the Matter specification. Vacuums, air purifiers and other home appliances are in the upcoming update, slated for the Spring.
Too confusing to use but I also didn’t feel like investing my time to learn it. Was expecting it to just work but somehow it keeps asking me to rename some lights cuz they supposedly don’t match the names of Philips Hue or it would show some as on when they are not or simply with an „updating“ status. It also doesn’t have any of my scenes from Hue. Looks like I can literally just pick colors?
Uhm to maybe turn on / off the lights when u enter or leave your house?
I've been using Z-Wave for nine years. I started with Vera, which is better than Smartthings in some ways, but in most ways it's not. Went to Smartthings a few years before they switched apps, when it went from good to horrendous. They are slowly working their way back to decent again.
Home automation is a massively under valued market. It's ripe for someone to dominate.
Home automation is a massively under valued market. It's ripe for someone to dominate.
You can geofence with smart things. It’s an option for those who want to use it.
Samsung, they produce great electronic parts, but software development...? Nope.
There are way better home automation apps around, the best ones don't scoop our data too.
There are way better home automation apps around, the best ones don't scoop our data too.
I have two Samsung devices and that’s enough for me.
- My Samsung TV will occasionally activate its standby LED even when it’s up and running. How annoying is that. Power cycling at the mains is still a necessary thing in 2023.
- It badgered me to enter an email address on setup, and smelled a rat when I put in samsung@mycustomdomain.com (so I could keep an eye on any spammy behaviour). This was before the days of Hide My Email. In the end it accepted sumsang@mycustomdomain.com, as it is too dumb to be a proper member of the Thought Police.
- It insists on showing a thumbnail advert on its menu bar. I do not want to be advertised at by a TV.
- It is connected to a Samsung sounbar. Sounds good enough, but sometimes the TV will not find it (it’s wired via ARC) and defaults to using its tinny speakers.
I have the opposite experience, I use Home Assistant as the backbone for my home but everything in controlled via the Home App because the interface is the easiest to use of all the options. It's straight forward, works across all devices, can be built into shortcuts and even works reliably with Siri.
I hate Apple Home as well. It's missing dozens of features. Here are just a few things I miss.
I can't set up an EQ for my HomePod mini. There is no balance setting for pairs of HomePods as well. There is no way to switch the lights to the home cinema settings automatically when I turn on the TV. Hell there is no way to import scenes from Hue, you have to set the colors all separately. You can't import the Hue automation which are way more powerful than the Apple Home automations. Like wake up lights, dim lights gradually in the evening and so on. Can't sync the lights with music. Can't tell the HomePod to turn off the heating in 10 minutes or to crank up the heating for 10 minutes. The HomePod has activated the humidity sensor but won't warm me loud when it reaches a specific level, just send a quiet notification. FFS there is Siri built in, let her tell me the humidity! The HomePod also won't start the radio when I come home or stop the Roomba. There is no rule possible to reduce the base of the HomePod after 10pm or make the Apple TV quieter at night. Home can't make the Apple TV shut down when the HomePod starts playing music. Home won't let me access the calendar so when the football game is on turn on a specific light scene and stop the radio. Home won't let me access the weather app so when the temperature drops the heating starts up. Or when the sun is out let the window blinds down. Or when rain is expected let one of the lights turn blue in the morning.
Apple Home is just a mess. Apple treats it like a hobby. Some useful things are there, some things that are really annoying to set up, and a lot of things are missing. And the worst thing is that its unreliable as hell.
Biggest complaint about Samsung devices is a boneheaded aspect of my Samsung TV - the Wifi name has "[TV]" appended to the beginning of whatever you name it. Square brackets are not allowed characters in the Wifi naming spec, and that janks my router, causing it to be unable to apply MAC-based network filtering to the TV.