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Better to go with a Raspberry Pi and home assistant, and add home kit as an option. Which I do have, but Home Assistant often relies on APIs that HomeKit doesn
by mikestew 8y ago
Better to go with a Raspberry Pi and home assistant, and add home kit as an option.
Which I do have, but Home Assistant often relies on APIs that HomeKit doesn't. For instance, EcoBee thermostat: HA needs your creds to go through the EcoBee API that could be turned off in the future. HomeKit doesn't care, it talks directly to the thermostat. Now, get Home Assistant to speak HomeKitese and we have the best of both.
In summary, I'm much less concerned about Apple turning off HomeKit than I am about EcoBee getting bought, or otherwise deciding they don't want to support an API anymore.