Great review! Thank you so much for your clear and concise and personal information on this lock. I have one and I’m about to install it today, so we will see if I recommend it after six months also lol.

What Siri voice are you using?

I wish you could add icons for Lock Screen widgets

I’m a linguist so I’m just genuinely curious, where is your accent from? I can’t seem to pinpoint it and I’ve never heard it before. Thanks for the great video!

I'm unable to find where to edit the channel app in the iOS app. (I have homebridge installed on a Mac, so maybe that's an issue?) I can find the srcoll list of stations to choose from, but can not edit them or rename them. Otherwise a great walk through on how to set this up

Who's gonna change the batteries? It would be far better to put Shelly in the switches and unify it all with HomeAssistant.

NO

Man people are lazy

I know I'm late here, but your annoyance about having a hub is uncorrect imo. The hub means that the nothing is actually connected to wifi, since the hub connects via Ethernet. This means that even if your internet goes out, wireless switches and dimmers still work without having to use an app.

This great. I love my Apple TV 4K. But i use formuler z11 pro max more as it is snappier and faster and better performance to streaming

I don't think the level bolt can get homekey functionality with the matter update. Home Key is NFC tech, and the bolt still lacks an NFC reader. Matter/Thread shouldn't add that functionality. Confirmed with a Matter support chat.

With Home Assistant you can integrate almost any sensor to work with Apple Home.

I got an android so what hub can you recommend for the door sensors

Your Maine problem is that you are using smart bulbs…..you need to change to Lutron diva smart switch system. Super reliable

bro spent thousands of dollars to toggle his lights

How did meross smart plug work without internet from home app?

Your keyword stuffing is unbearable, I had to stop watching because you were saying Apple Homekit video every second sentence, sorry.

very informative video, i just one one question, i plan on automating a room using 'works with siri shortcuts' lights and a homepod. would it chew up through my iphone's battery if i use homepod for 'hey siri, turn on the lights' kind of commands? what if i keep an ipad with the same apple id constantly connected to the wifi, would it work the same/better? thanks!

Smart? This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen...

THAT PHONE LOOKS THE SAME AS MINE 🤯

i don't understand why the banner checkmark sometimes pops up, and sometimes it doesn't. It must be something running in the background from that shortcut or something. I tried hard resetting the phone, but it doesn't help. I had three days of no checkmark, but now i can't get rid of it 90% of the time i run a shortcut from the homescreen. i don't know why apple doesn't provide a fix for that for years.

Perfect review!! I just bought some WiZ 2500 lumen bulbs, since their CRI is good. Now knowing they have all the features I need too is really helpful

Why NOT show us , step by step, instead of just saying what you can do...?

Whats Poop pod

always confuse feel complicated come cams with home kit lan stuffs. I see around , some claim you can't view live view while you are outside from your home?

THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU ARE THE FIRST I FOUND THAT MENTIONS LENGTH AND SHOWS THE POWER CORD!!! Tapo site hideS the cord like you don't need to power the goofy thing. I watched 7 videos without seeing or hearing anything helpful about the power cord.

Thx

Is there any Dvr/Nvr that allows cameras to be watched within HomeKit? My old one broke and I have to decide if replacing just the Dvr or replace all 8 cameras 😩

You have a poopod

Finally!! Someone did this true-to-life scenario. Some other channels just want to post their sponsors 😂😂😂

Movie

That switch by smart reality can it be installed over a regular fan or light switch without changing the default switch I have in place? Does the smart switch actually pull the native switch leveler up and down?

syncing the Hue app with the Home app is a major fail.

My Philips hue bulbs don’t work when my WiFi is down, what am I doing wrong?

The energy monitoring data is used how? Seriously? Who actually does this stuff? Nobody, that's who. Smart plug = turn device on, turn it off, on schedule through a Wifi network if needed. Period.

Fingerprint is still easier and faster.

It would be nice to have a list of Homekit compatible cameras that work when internet down. Even cameras not Homekit compatible like most of TP-Link that store locally - do they send alerts, etc. when net is down?

Never knew how much relied on a smart home until hurricane helene.

My opinion is that anything related to your home security system should be totally local and preferably hard wired so a wi-fi jammer won't work. This includes door/window contact sensors and security cameras.

Nice video and informative. FYI, though, your Ecoflow would not have saved your refrigerator during the storm unless you also had hundreds of dollars worth of expansion batteries. At 286 Wh you'd likely only get an hour and a half of refrigerator power. Nevertheless, the concept is great and the product is great, but just has to be sized for your desired load.

Nice video! This is so timely. I just went through this last night with an extended internet outage.

Is local control important to you?

Do you have a link to the clips for the led lights on the back of your tv?

yup - WEMO: run the other way. Got Kasa - Love it! Get the credit card out.

I have the Nest Learning thermostat 3rd generation, an Apple TV 4K second generation and the HomeKit app. The thermostat is presently connected to the Nest app. How can I add it to HomeKit?

Can you use shortcuts to automate arming and disarming?

Assuming the home base is connected via hardwire, and the cameras are within WiFi distance to the routers to make a decent connection to the WiFi network, are there limits on the distance between the base and the cameras? Is the base providing the cameras its own WIFI? - Why the questions: I have my house wired and have 2 other buildings, each building has at least 1 mesh router connected also via hardwire. My homebase would if I could, be located on top of my network rack which is several concrete with rebard walls away from cameras so they must connect to the routers and then to the base station via the routers in order to record. Distance and walls would in my opinion prevent direct connection to the base via WiFi if routers were not in place. Have you any info on this?

Hey dude, I purchased Curtain lights 2 but they just reject connecting to HomeKit. I’ve tried resetting it and the phone and WiFi but nothing helped, can you give some advice? It’s just out of the box and I cannot connect it to Homekit

Can you plit screen

bro has a smart bathroom but not a smart phone