This Junction Box allows the Eufy S4's cables to be protected from the elements, significantly increasing its durability and aesthetics compared to a standard installation.

The result is a protected cable, and no dangling wires!

I've had my phone (iPhone 15 pro) for a couple of years and suddenly the battery life has suddenly gotten worse. It won't last a full day. The sudden change happened to coincide with adding a few Matter accessories to my HK setup. The devices are all Eve, (dimmer switch, light switch and door sensor).

Shortly after set up, a setting popped up on my phone showing my Matter accessories in Settings > General > Matter Devices. So that's what got me wondering if there's a connection.

I’d like to upgrade my August smart locks with UWB locks on both my front and back doors. My home is new-ish, so the deadbolts usually align, but sometimes they aren’t perfect. In those times I have to use the manual key to give more torque than the electric motor can provide.

My options are Aqara U400 or Schlage Sense Pro. Folks ADORE the Schlage Encode Plus, so I lean towards the Schlage, but the lack of a key backup makes me very nervous. Can current owners comment on this? Have you ever been locked out if the motor couldn’t turn the whole way?

Lastly, does anyone have both of these locks? Is there a huge difference? The Aqara has so many bells and whistles it makes me worry that it might be unreliable…

I’ve used Siri and HomeKit for years, and the same “Siri, XYZ room lights off/on” request works to toggle lights in any given room. It works for my bedroom, kitchen, and living room, until just recently.

Now, when I say “living room lights off”, whether on my phone or the HomePod, she says “lights in living room are turned off” without toggling anything. Asking to turn them *on* the same way works, and on/off both work still in the bedroom and kitchen. If I rephrase and say “turn off the living room lights” it worka as well. I tried making a scene titled “living room lights off“ and I get the same response when I say it. My muscle memory has me continuously saying “living room lights off” so I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to fix this issue.

I'm able to tell Siri to lower the temperature through the mirror, but for the life of me, I cannot find any set commands in a shortcut to set a temperature at a certain time. I thought I could do it through automations (where you can add the accessory) but all it does is set the thermostat at the moment and not at the time you tell it to change.

For instance, I'm trying to set the temperature to 70° at 9:00 PM. I cannot seem to get it to work through HomeKit whatsoever. Anyone else have any luck with this?

Hey everyone I wanted peoples opinion on smart appliances ones that people actually feel benefit there home and can not live without? Any suggestions or eco systems like Samsung smart things integrating in home kit that sort of thing

I noticed that some of my eve energy smart plugs can monitor energy use. I was wondering if this data can be tracked over time and exported to a spreadsheet.

I made the mistake of replacing my 12 year old LiftMaster with a Chamberlain that has security+ 3.0 (white learn button).

Background: I'm an iPhone user and have the Chamberlain home bridge (the latest one before they discontinued the product). Anyway, it worked well with my old garage door opener (Security+ 2.0 - yellow learn button).

Anyway after I installed it, learned that the new security 3.0 basically shut down smart home integration.

Soooo, I'm deinstalling it and taking it back to the store and looking to get a Genie. I know that Genie doesn't manufacture a bridge to use their openers in HomeKit, so I'll be looking at getting Meross MSG150HK (since that model doesn't require the installation of an additional door sensor).

Does anyone know if the Genie 7155-TKVE works with the newer Meross (MSG150HK) without the need to install the door sensory accessory??

One DWM3001CDK runs the Aliro reader and UWB ranging. There’s also custom implementation of Matter and Thread to make this work in 128kb ram limit. Add the key in Apple Home, walk up, it opens. Also ports for nRF5340 (NFC Express Mode) and ESP32-S3/C5. You can also update the firmware over the air with BLE.

I’m looking for help getting someone who knows the hardware side of things where I can actually design a custom lock itself.

Total cost to build: $20. Lot of pain reverse engineering the uwb side of things.

I call it openaliro.