What You Need to Know to Start an Apple HomeKit Smart Home

Exactly.

Absolutely.

Love it.

You produce very effective, no-nonsense videos. Thank you!

My husband and I have Echo Dots, but everything else is Apple. We wanted to see if we liked the Apple HomePod Mini, and just thankful for your channel!!

You are really good, but I have to say that I’m overwhelmed!

I just got some Nanoleaf essentials smart bulbs today, but I don’t see the adaptive lighting in the home app. Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you for giving a good overview on how to get started. Well done.

I have to say as an old guy getting into my smart home the info and delivery Craig gives is spot on. At 62 im gettting into it a bit late i think the wife want me to set up a smart coffin so she can keep turning the lights on and off . Great work young man thankyou

Hi Craig, our Apple TV is set up with my husband as main account holder. I want to set up Apple Home using my appleID though (his forte is entertainment, mine is smart home set up). Is it going to be possible to use the Apple TV as the home hub? I can’t seem to figure it out 😩

I have just bought an Apple TV and got to thinking that, hey Apple do good products, wouldn’t it be good to switch from our 6 Google Home Speakers to Apple, since the Google devices have given me so much pain and frustration over the years. We had our outside light switches connected so that might prove difficult to bring over to Apple, but we could keep one Google device, no big deal. Hey thanks for the video. You sold me!

I’m thinking about changing from Amazon Alexa to Apple HomeKit

Question: I have 2 HomePod minis as speakers for Apple TV. Can I use the same two as speakers with my new MacMini? I'm thinking, I'll need tow additional mini pods. Thanks, Hugh

Such a huge headache to setup my iPhone for all my smart home devices. Siri is so dumb/stupid it’s ridiculous.

I switched to Samsung 2 years ago as money came rolling in and decided to switch back to iPhone for shallow blue bubble reasons for work recently, still using ok google as it just works even if the Samsung is sitting in my bedroom as I’m calling out from my office. My iPhone 15 pro max just doesn’t want to work or when it does, it doesn’t.

It’s ridiculous how Siri doesn’t just automatically connect lifx and other generic smart devices, or even know how to recognise my voice.

They need to fix Siri before smart devices start to make sense as I don’t want to pick up my phone every time I want to turn off my office lights, change brightness or colour, set moods, turn on the air con/dyson purifying heater, check fridge.

Can you show home kit working without the internet connected???

Yes

My automations just don't start up no matter what I do :(

Tiny blue Home Pod kicks ass in the bedroom. Bass is Amazing. I would pay $300 for the mini based on sound quality if it could detach from the tether. Cord and brick should match the color of the homepod. Common sense.

Thanks for turning my lights off... jerk. lol

I wish simplisafe was compatible.

Yeah, I’m thinking of switching over myself. I have two Google home nest maxes with a ring camera and at this point HomeKit works just so well.

Hi Craig!!! Had to do it had to go it!!! I want a smart home…so I got an HomePod mini to start !!!
my husband is a Siri and smart home hater hater! Had an echo but he never wanted me to set it up!!!
He is scared that we could be spyed in some way!!! He puts Wi-Fi off every night… so I have a big battle waiting for me!
But as soon as he sees what the HomePod mini can do especially the intercom function I’m sure he will change idea… I hope! We have a teen in the house so we yell all the time… or when we are out and he is at home he never answers his phone .. do the interphone will be a good help!!! Worth every dollar even if we used it just for that 😂😂😂😂… we’ll have iPhones…

Hi Craig.. thank you for your video.. but just to understand…do I have to connect the nano leaf bulb to my Wi-Fi to use them? Or do they just connect to my iPad ? Is a HomePod necessary to make them work or can you just use an iPhone or iPad? Thx.. I want to smart my home my husband doesn’t… so I would like to start very small … one bulb in our bedroom… 😂😂😂 with no homepod…

It is worth noting that iPads can no longer be used as HomeKit hubs.

I hi I’ve got a question about the mini. I have set it up but it is stuck on configuration. I have resented it multiple times but nothing has worked. Could I have some guidance

Craig,
After watching your video I decided to dive into HomeKit. I set up a basic Home with two lamps in the Living room, then I invited my wife to have access to the home but she never received the invite. I tried a couple of times with the same result. I feel I am missing a step in the invite process but could not determine what. From the home screen I selected "Add People" then added her email address from my contact list and selected "Send Invite" We searched her email, including junk mail, messages, etc. but could not locate the invite. Any suggestions.

Quite actually, i swapped from google entirely! I used to have an android, and a google alarm clock, and lightbulbs to control with the google hub! I had so many problems with it though! Especialy with the google nest cameras. Who knew how glitchy they could get?! Then when the iPhone 8 came out, i swapped! Ever since then, i have been an apple geek! I was bit by the apple bug! Uh oh!!

So basically, without a hub Homekit is totally useless. Before the latest update, I could invite members of the family to remote our home (just a couple of plugs), now I need a hub to do this? Please...