I’ve recently purchased my first few Apple Devices (second hand) and have been looking at changing my current un-smart, smart home of using Google Devices over to Homekit, Luckily I have only done smart bulbs at the moment and is probably a good time to restart.

Is the Apple Homekit system good in the UK? or are there not many devices that can connect easily to the smart home?

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝MAEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Running Home Assistant or any other Bridge is a possibly in the future with something like a raspberry pi but I’m not very smart in that area so it’s something I’ll have to learn about and build over time.

    It’s all pretty user-friendly these days. I moved house so did a clean installation and it went very smoothly.

    I’ll have to research Home Assistant more, as well as the overall price per room to do things such as Blinds, Smart TV (w/ AppleTV), Lights (including Switches, and more but this will all not be purchased at once.

    This is the way - see what prices are like and if you want to do anything fancy. If it’s all catered for within a HomeKit environment and you don’t feel the price is too high then go for it.