Today I want to talk to you about something that happened to me a few days ago at the Apple Store of La Vaguada in Madrid. Basically, I went there with my iPhone 16 Pro Max because it was too hot… and I came out with a lesson of humility from those you’ll never sleep without knowing one more thing, which has made me rethink some things on my Domotics network.
My iPhone gets hot
Well… saidwritten, a few days ago I asked for an appointment at the Apple Store of La Vaguada in Madrid because My iPhone was really hot.. Those who listen to me also in the podcast of You can skip this part as I told you yesterday’s podcast, with less technical details but well…
The thing is, I didn’t realize that my iPhone was hotter than normal, I knew it was hotter every now and then, but I didn’t give a damn, until a few days ago I was drinking a beer and I left it to my daughter and she told me she didn’t want my phone because it was hot and I couldn’t get it.
Let’s see, it’s true I’m wearing it without a case, so you’re directly touching the titanium that’s supposed to ‘get’ the heat out of the phone. If I had it in my case, I might not have noticed this, but good. Since I have Apple Care +, I called Apple and asked for an appointment to go to the Genius Bar to diagnose him, they told me that if there was a problem they changed it to me at that time as always, it has already happened to me sometimes with other models.
Well… When I got there, the Genius who attends to me tells me that it is actually very hot, that they will make a diagnosis and that if I have restored it. I say no, that I’ve been going from operating system to operating system to keeping everything and iPhone on iPhone for years… that It gives me a horrible laziness to have to restore from scratch.. But the guy tells me we’re gonna do it now and it’s something that happens. Sometimes, both by moving from one phone to another and by going from versions of the operating system without restoring… that there are processes that get caught and that there is no way to clean them but with a restau
ration from zero… it sounds to me like the typical ‘have you tried to restart?’ but, well, since I was there with my daughter, I told her that by testing we didn’t lose anything, we erased it and as she settled down we went down to the Starbucks.
Anyway, I don’t want to bore you by telling you the restoration process, I already have the phone as before but with a lot less apps because you use it to install only the apps you need right now, not the apps you’ve ever used or the ones in case I climb the entire as we have commented on some times… and Magically the phone is no longer heated and the battery lasts a lot longer.. I promise you, huh? It doesn’t heat up with my day-to-day apps that I have the same ones and the battery holds me much more than before, as that heat makes the processor give less and has to pull more of CPU and consume more battery.
Total, that since the process had worked so well, I did the same with the Apple Watch and I completely restored it.. It is true that the Apple Watch is configured and reinstated much faster as you have less apps… and in one afternoon I had it working again and the thing is that Now I feel it more fluid and it lasts longer.. I don’t know if it’s placebo effect given the good iPhone results, but I’m happy. I’m not going to put it on Todoist, either, to remind me to repeat this process every three months, huh? Which is a brace reinstall all the apps and reconfigure them. Some keep the config in iCloud, the Apple cloud, but in others ca
you have to reconfigure them
Is it worth eliminating automations and starting clean in Domotics?
And this made me think… what if it’s worth doing the same thing in our home environment? You know that I use both Home Assistant and HomeKit and I have duplicated automations. Right now they’re all off at Home Assistant but if HomeKit ever fails, because it disables them at HomeKit and I embrace Home Assistant to death. So until the next shit of the guys at Home Assistant where I think they’re a bunch of chungos and it’s a fear not to have the home environment in high availability and I go back to the Home App and HomeKit.
At the beginning of the year we had a couple of serious problems with Home Assistant, one due to an update of zigbee2mqtt that did not by default mark the legacy option and we got up that day with all the zigbee devices disconnected… and one due to a shit of mine where I unintentionally banished my zigbee network to all the devices that were not a bulb… and there was no way to unbanish them ever again. I migrated to ZHA and everyone was happy, but I had a few hours of panic.
However, HomeKit hasn’t failed in a long time.. It’s true that there are things that can’t be done easily from HomeKit, at least from the Home App, so sometimes you have to pull out complex shortcuts or tools like Control for HomeKit that we’ve talked about a thousand times… but it doesn’t fail. It has reached a super robust maturity point.
I plan to talk to you next week from Matter so that those of you who are not very up to date will see a little where the standard is going and whether or not it is worth buying Matter compatible devices right now, but with the arrival of Matter devices on the market, HomeKit has seen how suddenly you can handle a vacuum cleaner from the Home App. I’ll also talk about it in a few days that I have a half-story. The point is that this Mater push has made us have a lot more devices than we had before, supported by HomeKit, and that we don’t have to install chorropotohundreds of brides. It is true that the automation part has not changed…
ro also tell you that for 95% of HomeKit users, the automations that can be created from the Home app are more than enough for the house to act alone.
These days I was in Stuttgart at a congress on cyber security on OT devices and in one of the talks they talked about inside the vehicle, what is called the cocktail, and it was funny how the guy said that, a few years ago, if you were hot inside the car you had to put the air conditioning. Many years later, you chose a temperature and, if it was warmer, the car put the air conditioning… if it was colder, it put the heating, but it always kept the same temperature. And they said that in the future, with the incorporation of the IA into the cars, the car will see how the temperature is rising inside because it is giving the sun in the
left side and will be able to make the decision to put the air conditioning…
Is that the future? We’ve been doing it for 10 years with a few conditions without artificial intelligence. It’s true that the integration of chatgpt through the API in Home Assistant makes a lot of fun and you can say things like ‘Hey Jarvis, if my kids are at home and it’s cold, it goes up the heat’… that yes, it’s very good and it’s comfortable, but in the end it’s like when my wife sends me to do something, there’s no intelligence on my part, all I do is interpret her natural language and run it, right? What we’re looking for is for the house to know the kids are at home and get the heat up. Is that intelligence? Not really, but well, who am I to say aho
a that we are using the term artificial intelligence badly and very joyfully.
But what I wanted to tell you is, After so many years of rioting with HomeKit and Home Assitant facilities. After the thousand times I have created automations, installed devices that I have then removed, the changes that have taken place in both systems, the new standards that tell you how you have to name the devices so that you can call them comfortable and optimal without having to do as Emilcar said a few years ago ‘Hey Siri, turn on’ which was what I called a bulb because I didn’t have a better way to do it without repeating the name with another bulb like… after the plugins we tried on Home Assista
nt, what we know now of using MQTT tails instead of the device already integrated into the system, the possibility of installing a MariaSQL in Home Assistant to not use the local database engine that is slower… would not be a good idea to restore from the start with a clean installation and do everything right from the start? I’m sure that It would work even better than it works now.. As a good computer, you don’t know the anger that gives me to see a log with errors, even if it’s not severe or critical errors, but having warnings in a log makes me hives… and I’m sure if I start a clean installation from the start and
I give you some love and time, I can get to have the PER FEC TA installation in both HomeKit and Home Assistant without mistakes or warnings or milks… but it’s just that it’s working smoothly right now, okay? What do you think?
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