I recently got a certified smart lock, and it's been superb. Any communications outside my network are handled through Apple/HomeKit and I trust them a lot more

I recently got a certified smart lock, and it's been superb. Any communications outside my network are handled through Apple/HomeKit and I trust them a lot more than some random Chinese IoT supplier. > That said, for engineers in the crowd I know that I and others get around it by making a HomeKit RPi adapter for things that don't support it... Yep, they're using HomeBridge. [0] I'm planning on doing this for my garage door (with a little WiFi dev board) and for a video doorbell (with a RPi with camera). Others have used HomeBridge with a cheap $20 Chinese IP camera to do the same thing, although you have to install an alternate firmware if you don't want the camera to phone home to China... :O [0]: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge