> My random pet peeve Mine is as follows: The complete inability to set light tint or brightness/turn on or off lights for a whole room at once, except via Si

> My random pet peeve Mine is as follows: The complete inability to set light tint or brightness/turn on or off lights for a whole room at once, except via Siri, but Siri can't set lights to "warm white", only colours (and only if you have colour bulbs, warm<->cool adjustable ones don't count as "colour"). Actually you CAN turn off per room, but doing so requires going to a select room page which is an atrocious experience, who in their right mine swipes through half a dozen pages until they stumble on the right one? Oh, and if you thought about setting backgrounds to identify them quicker, well the backgrounds don't sync across devices. Ah, but they finally added the list of rooms to the menu that is under the top left "home" icon (obviously, that's a menu, right? not to be confused with the bottom left "home" icon which is not), which is not just cramp-inducing to get to, it's also that you can't reorder the room list: creation order or GTFO. Let's not talk about automations which are ridiculously underpowered (whether going through Home or Shortcuts, which are two entirely segregate worlds): every time I have a nice, useful idea it's outright impossible to implement, e.g turn on a given light on a scene/event but turn it off after 10min. Like, a 10min timer is seemingly impossible to implement by the Apple team in any shape or form (as is the "Set wallpaper" action, as a matter of fact) (Apparently some people hacked stuff like setting a timer or an alarm or something and having a second shortcut run on that event. I didn't even try because if I wanted to indulge in such contraptions I would play The Incredible Machine.) Oh, and BTW Adaptive Lighting won't work with my otherwise perfectly adjustable bulbs along the required axis, because reasons. > But the software side, the part that the user actually interacts with, seems so under thought. Have you even tried the Home app on macOS? It's an absolute joke, you so obviously have to emulate touch events with a pointing device it's as usable to save your life as navigating a 3D file manager on Unix. Ah, and so the macOS app is basically the iOS through Catalyst right? So why is it absolutely impossible to set my Mac mini to be a Home Hub, but it is for my iPad which is a) not always home and b) on battery, so may fall out of energy? PS: yes, I tried Home Assistant, which is a nice piece of work, but it's also prone to breakage on updates, and either "develop through a UI" (which doesn't scale) or "mold into the framework and become a contributor" (which is way out of balance). So I've been hacking at CoAP on Ruby and implementing the IKEA Tradfri protocol so that I can have some stupid simple Ruby scripts running on a machine and achieve what I want: circadian lighting (which is a lookup curve plus set the values to only lights that are currently ON) and a couple of dead simple automations (each being about five lines, tops).