homekit
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Google’s Third-Gen Nest Hub Could Be a Smart Home Tablet
Google is working on a new version of its Nest Hub with a different form factor than its predecessors: a dockable tablet, according to 9to5Google.
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Schlage’s New Smart Lock Lets You Tap Your iPhone to Unlock Your Door
Now you don’t have to rely on Siri to open your HomeKit-compatible smart lock. Schlage’s Encode Plus just launched with support for Apple’s Home Key feature in iOS 15, which means you can tap your iPhone or Apple Watch to your lock to open it.
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An iOS Developer Just Created the Effortless Smart Home We All Really Want
One day we’ll have the effortless smart home experience we’ve all been promised, but it’s going to need to be fixed by some talented people who truly understand why the smart home as we know it is broken. Developer Bastian Andelefski just created a simple iOS app that relies on augmented reality and the iPhone’s…
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How to Make an Apple HomePod Almost As Useful As an Echo
The HomePod (and its little sibling the HomePod mini) aren’t nearly as ubiquitous or out-of-the-box useful as Amazon’s Echos, but they are perfectly good smart speakers for those who are married to the Apple ecosystem. However, you don’t have to submit yourself to perpetual Alexa FOMO — with a few tweaks to your HomePod or…