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home accessories

  1. Sailing_Cyclops

    HomeKit My stable and reliable HomeKit Setup

    I have a HomeKit setup consisting of 24 eve Energy units controlling Stand-Alone gear such as lamps, fans, Bug Zappers and Air Diffusers. Except for Ceiling lights, all lighting is standard LED Bulbs run by the Eve Energy Units. Environmental gear consists of 2 Airversa PM2.5 Air filters, one...
  2. J

    Home accessories(Background Activity) using more than 50% battery

    I have an iPad & iPhone on same apple ID. Issue details: March 2023: iPhone 13 pro max: I updated to new architecture, which was then rolled back. I had and apple tv, one homepod 2 and a pair of homepod minis. Few days later I started noticing severe battery drain which cause my battery life...
  3. A

    iOS 17 beta 3 Talk via Home App

    I have seen this in the Home app but have never seen it before? There seems to be the ability to talk through HomeKit cameras. I can’t get it to work unfortunately. I use eufy cameras and the ability to speak through the camera was only previously available through the eufy app.
  4. F

    HomeKit Light strip with gradual on/off ??

    Hi! I'm looking for a light strip, compatible with Homekit or Matter. All the ones I've tried turn on right away, I want one that turns on gradually. Looking at reviews of Philips Hue, Nanoleaf, Goove,... nothing seems to be gradual; they do during the color change, but not to light up little...
  5. MonkeySpank158

    HomeKit Why HomePod so dumb?

    Has anybody else running an Apple Smart Home noticed this: When I make requests to Siri to control devices from my phone or Apple TV, they work very reliably. Almost never have issues. However, when im walking through my house and utilize the HomePod minis I have set up (3 in a way where I can...
  6. hyperbolic

    Background Processing: Messages, Calendar, Home Accessories, Flashlight

    There is one other potentially related post on this, but it only covers the Messages app. I do think this post is important I hope the mods leave it up… I find that for every hour I have messages app in the foreground it’s accompanied by 20-30 minutes of background processing. Not crazy about...