Hi, I recently made the switch to Lemmy from Reddit. But r/homekit is one of the communities I miss the most.

What can I do to help build this community up? I’m happy to make posts, comment, and upvote. Is trying to poach people from r/homekit a bad idea?

I would love to get to know everyone better. Here’s some info about my smart home.

  • I’m using Apple Home, and my primary hub is a 4K Apple TV 4K Ethernet, which I chose for the Thread radio.
  • I’m almost exclusively using Thread devices, and most of those are Matter over Thread.
  • Most of my lights are Nanoleaf Essentials (Matter over Thread), and despite people hating Nanoleaf, they have been much better lately.
  • For more advanced lighting, I’m using WLED, which is a DIY project for controlling addressable light strips.
  • My WLED lights are bridged into HomeKit via Homebridge, though I’ve considered switching to Home Assistant.
  • I’m using a Deco mesh router with two nodes, and it’s been amazing for the relatively low cost.
  • Outside of Apple Home, I use Ring, which I’ve bridged into Apple via Homebridge. I hate the Ring subscription, but their hardware is solid.

Excited to get to know everyone!

  • moseschrute@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    That’s super cool! Interesting that the HomePod mini has been more stable. One thing that I found was that one unstable hub can throw off the entire network. I had a HomePod mini that was stuck in a quiet reboot loop due to a non-Apple USB-C power brick. Despite having a pinned Apple TV Ethernet connected to my router, that one HomePod sent everything into unresponsive.

    You have more device categories than I do. Initially, it was lighting that got me into HomeKit. I love that I can make colorful scenes for my entire house. Then I go to concerts, and it blows my mind what these lighting crews can do. Chasing that concert vibe, but with HomeKit instead of DMX.

    I have the Ring security system too, not just the doorbell. I think you can get other Z-Wave hubs and connect Ring sensors to them. It just doesn’t seem like a lot of home ecosystems like Apple are designed to be an alarm system.