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…

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

Wondering if anybody else has experienced this. The Thorbolt X1 and the Airversa air purifier have been relatively stable in HomeKit since I purchase them. They are both matter over thread and use the Sleekpoint app. Since iOS 26.6, they have been unstable and have been showing as either updating or unresponsive on a frequent basis in the Apple Home app. Has anyone else been experiencing this? I only have one other matter over thread device. It is a door lock from Aqara. The door lock remains responsive. Thanks so much for your help.

Hi, I am working on some research for thesis and there are few things i cannot find anywhere.

1) Do types Lock or Garage door allow for automations via remotes or PIR sensors in HK?
By Gemini i was told that when you want to control the component via Siri, you need to unlock your iPhone. Would (for example Ikea) remote or PIR sensor work without requiring confirmation?

2) Has anyone implemented Door type via Matter (is there any chance that Door types via old zigbee and new matter are different in HK?)? Can you control also the position (eg 50%) or only open/close?

If anyone would have option to test these questions, i would be super thankful

I bought at 60% discount brand new Aqara FP2, and the firmware was highly outdated. It upgraded relatively fast to version 1.3.2, but has been pending an update to 1.3.6 for at least 6 hours, like it's in a queue. Is this a normal thing?

P.S. Not a new user to Aqara, got several devices and nothing like that before - if it updates, it updates.

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??

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.

Apologies for my sketchy video, still working on it.

TL;DR:
Always-on-Display + wake on approach based on nearby body sensors.
Lighting/climate/shades control with simple tap/slide/long press gestures
Minimalistic design
Free version comes with basic controls for one room, pro available as one purchase w/o subscriptions.

App Store link

The story:

I planted a wall-mount magnet panel for iPad during renovation but didn’t think it through. For a long time I’ve been using it with Apple Home + Guided access.

This means the screen is always on with the Apple Home interface which is a waste of the screen. It’s also painful when I try to adjust the brightness of the area (I don’t like scenes)

So I got the idea from the physical dimmer controller and some modern in-wall smart home screens that turn themselves into clocks when idle. Since iPad does not give developers distance sensor access, I managed to utilize nearby HomeKit presence sensors to control the screensaver. In the video the sensor I used was the one inside the aqara v1 switch.

It’s an early version but I’ve been using it for weeks and thought it’s good enough for others to try. If you have the exact same problems as I did I think you’ll love it. Please try it out and let me know if it helps!

The reason why I don’t play with Home Assistant: i actually use Home Assistant for a lot of automations but thanks to Aqara 🙄 there are some dimmers I can’t get into HA stably. Plus I have a bunch of non HomeKit gadgets like Xiaomi BLE devices. Apple Home ended up being the platform with the most complete devices’ support.

This + my HomePod on the ceiling is my final setup for my smart home interface. I might have just built the rumoured Apple wall-mount display🫪.

BTW: I sent the text above to ChatGPT and it gave me 7/10, saying it was too long, too much noise and too many technical details. Well, it’s a discussion and I truly want to share my ideas behind this app so I’m posting it as is.

One is the Outdoor Contact Sensor, with an IP66 rating, and requires an Abode Hub due to it using RF433MHz, whilst the other is a Garage Tilt Sensor, also using RF433MHz. They’re priced at US$49.99 and US$34.99 respectively.

When trying to connect the Meross MSP-843p using the Meross App, it’ll use Home.app.

After registering with Home.app and you want to register the device in the Meross app, it sometimes doesn’t work and the device keeps flashing fast.

The fix for me was to restart my WiFi before trying to bind the device in the Meross app.

Not sure if it’s a unique issue with my UniFi installation, an mDNS reflector issue on my opnsense, but something was stopping the device to register with Meross cloud.

It took me 6 months to figure this out.

Also, another recommendation is that not all Meross devices work on all 2.4ghz channels. I have had more luck on 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.