1 And, anyway, this is silly! I’ve got a server running 24/7 in my house. But I don’t really want to swap out my Nest for an Ecobee. I bought a few more Koogeek switches, in fact, so I could retire the WeMo models.

The smart move would be for me to replace my non-HomeKit equipment with HomeKit-compatible devices.

I’m also now frustrated that half of my smart-home tech talks to HomeKit (and shows up in the Home widget in Control Center) and the other half doesn’t. In recent months I’ve bought Philips Hue lights, Lutron Caseta smart light switches, and Koogeek smart outlet switches that are all HomeKit compatible, and that’s made me much more appreciative of HomeKit. The first few smart-home devices in my house, alas, date from the before time: I’ve got a Nest thermostat, a couple of first-generation LIFX light bulbs, and some Belkin WeMo smart outlet switches that offer integration with Amazon Echo but not HomeKit. Adding HomeKit to incompatible devices with HomebridgeĪpple’s HomeKit system for communicating with smart-home devices started out slow, but it’s picked up steam in the past year.

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