I love Halloween almost as much as I love smart home tech! This year I’ve incorporated my smart home tech into my Halloween setup and I’m giving you a tour. Almost everything that I set up works through HomeKit, as usual. Products seen in this video: iDevices Outdoor Smart Plug: Read more…
Apple’s home app and HomeKit do not give you access to create cool lighting effects, such as strobes, changing colors, candle flickers, etc. out of the box. BUT, there is a way achieve these cool lighting effects and access them right from the Home app. Today I’m going to show Read more…
With iOS 13, we now have the ability to use NFC (near field communication) tags to control our smart home and perform other tasks through our iPhones! Today we are going to set up 3 NFC tags to place in different areas that will control some of my HomeKit devices, Read more…
I am using the Aqara Hub as my HomeKit Security System and today we are going to customize it and set up some automations so that it does even more! We will set up three new automations: 2:22 Automation #1: INTRUDER ALERT! * Turn on ALL the house lights to Read more…
In this short tutorial we will set up the iRobot Roomba smart vacuum to work with Siri using IFTTT and the shortcuts app. It can then be triggered by Siri voice commands and even tied to our HomeKit scenes through Shortcuts. My iRobot Roomba 960 Robot Vacuum: https://amzn.to/2TLaeWG Articles referenced Read more…
So you’ve got a temperature sensor that works with HomeKit. Now what? Well, there is not many options in the Home App, but we can use other apps to get the most out of HomeKit and our temperature sensors! In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to set up Read more…
Scenes in HomeKit are groups of actions that affect multiple accessories in your home all at once. And automations are ways that your smart home can control itself. Automations can use your location, a certain time of day, and other accessories to trigger scenes and make adjustments to your smart Read more…
In this tutorial I will show you how to use rooms, zones, and favorites in Apple’s Home app to organize your HomeKit smart home.
