Advanced notifications in HomeKit

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For the last few weeks I’ve been going around whether or not to migrate the devices I have at home to the new technology threat and the standard Matter. More and more manufacturers are emerging to announce new versions of Threat-compatible devices, and others to announce new versions of firmware because the device had been ready for time and only the compatibility with an update was missing, as is the case with the Philips Hue bridge that in the beta version of the software is already compatible with Matter.

Still, It still takes a while for the standard to reach a reasonable degree of maturity and for all regular manufacturers to launch 100% compatible devices on the market. I I don’t want the Philips Hue bridge to be compatible with Matter, I want the Philips Hue bulbs to be compatible with Matter and don’t need the bridge.. Aqara has done the same, announcing that the bridge will be compatible, although rumors of Matter-compatible devices that do not need bridge are already beginning.

HomeKit apps

The point is that while I was thinking about all this, I thought about doing a review of the most common applications, t

anth Home + V6 (yes, already going on 6) that you know that I have defended to death, Controller for HomeKit that some colleagues of the Telegram group have also defended death and other applications such as the native of EveYou know, it shows all the devices even if they’re not their brand.

I’m not going in now to do in-depth review of each of them, especially because I already did it a few months ago and, although Home + has changed something from version 5 to 6, the improvements they have added are not much. I liked that now when you enter an intelligent plug you can see consumption in real time, but you don’t even see if it’s connected by Bluetooth, Zigbee or Thread, as is the case with this particular plug. I don’t know, I think Home + is just a little behind. Although a few years ago it was my favorite…

T08: 57: 45 + 00: 00 «> the same is because the developer is an idiot and answers fatal when you ask him something or make some suggestions.

Yeah, I know We should not care about the technology he’s connected with.. In fact that’s the main idea of Matter, that you don’t like the manufacturer and the technology but that everything can interact with everything, without dedicated apps or shit… but I don’t know, I like to see it, both Eve’s app and Control for HomeKit do tell you the devices you have on your Thread network and what function each does:

But what I found most interesting is the new functionality of Controller for HomeKit that allows to have ‘Advanced Notifications for HomeKit’ Which is what I wanted to tell you today. Thanks to JASF of our Compatible Telegram group which informed me of this update because it is one of the ultra-human rights defenders of Controller for HomeKit… although it has made me ‘study’ for a few days to understand exactly how this move works.

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The new functionality actually is a kind of combination between HomeKit notifications, Apple shortcuts application and Controller people’s notification server. I look at this since We need to be connected to the Internet if we use this server., it will no longer stay all in local that is one of HomeKit’s differentiating features, but the basic use of this notification server is for scheduled notifications of the type ‘Day 1 of each month remind me to do the backup’, which we can also do from Reminders, the Calendar or any app we use

This guy. Of course then we can get much more complicated and use counters or the CALL URL service to take that URL from the notification server and integrate it with other apps like Zapier… but for the moment for this trip there is no need for handbags.

Service It reminds me a lot of notifications in Home Assistant where you can do for example that only get to one of your devices And it takes them all into account separately, no longer users as HomeKit does but a specific device of that user… if my child has an iPhone, an Apple Watch and an iPad, I can tell you that the location I’m interested in is that of the Apple Watch, although the iPhone (which is usually the location mark) is at home. Of course you can also create a counter that notifies you only every certain repetition as in the case of the Controller Notifications Server. But the most cool thing about this service is q

You can make the notification ‘inflatable’ and execute actions on it.

With Controller for HomeKit we can now do the same thing, which opens up a lot of possibilities we didn’t have before. It’s a way of ‘automating notifications’, that is, I don’t just want to know but do something about it without having to open the House or Controller app or the camera or whatever.

Notifications that are meaningless

But The worst thing that has this new functionality… is that… you’re not going to believe it… but you have to do it!! Which arouse stupid needs!!! Jajajaja. Some of the examples may be useful to us, you can put as I said before a reminder to remind us to make a backup of the automations, backup you can do both from Controller and from Home + but not from the Home App. With this, if you ever load up an automation or have some big problem and lose them, you can restore them. Okay, may

r useful, but in Home Assistant I have the backup scheduled and only receive notification if it fails. I don’t know if you’ve seen a chapter of the Simpsons where a super-strong alarm is ringing and Homer shouts’ THIS WATCH SURE 3 SECOND TO NOT BE THAT I DON’T GO AS GOD MANDA!!!! ‘. The same.

I think the one to make the bed is a piece of shit! How will he do it? We put a vibration sensor in the bed and a counter that puts it to zero? Just with the nights you spend at home without going out? I would do it with the bed vibration sensor that seems more fun to me, but what if you take a nap? What if you get a little juicy in the middle of the afternoon? Look, this is one of the ones I’m gonna try xD.

Then they are the typical notifications we have all made manually that remind you that you have left a door open for more than X time or that you have at home lights on but there is no one at home or that you have the boiler on but it already does more than chorropotohundreds degrees in the living room, which is also unnecessary because it can be automated to turn off when it reaches a certain temperature.

If we join this in the new notifications when a sound we have spoken of these last few days sounds in the Telegram group , you can basically get your device to recognize some concrete beeps (e.g. from the washing machine) and send you a notification when you ‘listen’ them (in Applgilla they explain it beautifully), being able to make such notification allow us, for example, to cut the current of the plug from

the same notification.

Just like I’m one of those who think that you don’t have to go calling around the house or taking out your cell phone to light a light, but that the house has to be able to run actions depending on the environment, with the notifications it happens to me more or less the same: I want only useful notifications to come to me. However, this type of notification opens up a new world of possibilities as it is possible to interact with them and to implement actions. I intend to create an entry later with all the real needs that I can solve with this type of action. Will this be the first step of my final return to HomeKit?

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