The Best Apple HomeKit Devices 2024

3 Reasons I'm moving everything away from Alexa

This video is sponsored by Switchbot, all opinions are my own.

My Smart Home gadgets pretty much all now work with Apple Homekit these days, and almost every smart home idea I've ever implemented could have been done much easier in the Apple Homekit ecosystem, so why should I continue to use Alexa routines and Home Assistant?

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0:00 - Intro
1:41 - Alexa VS Homekit
5:18 - Switchbot Matter Devices
8:06 - What's wrong with it?
9:40 - Summary

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[paulhibbert]

Happy Saturday Everyone, watch til the end before you judge me 😉
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[brothercannon]

Your phone is lost or stolen, the finder/thief walks right into your freshly unlocked front door.

[peterfrisch]

Thank you for pointing out the lock in of any proprietary ecosystem. That fact alone has pushed me into an open source ecosystem. Yes, Home Assistant, no machinations needed.
Now what I and at least a few others would like is a tutorial on how to remove all and any apps so that "everything" works with Home Assistant alone.
Thank you.

[blissweb]

Totally with you on the Alexa app and home screen, a total waste of space. But to be fair the Apple one isn't a great deal better. I have them both setup. Support for multiple homes and multiple spoken languages is also a nightmare in both systems. I use home assistant to make a bridge between Tuya and HomeKit, and is holding up nicely. Wouldn't it be great if one day it all just "werked". I notice Google Home is not even a contender 🤣... also agree 🙂 Good video as always, although not truly sure who the sponsor was 😅

[StebbingScouts]

Following watching this video i started the switch to HomeKit, as a household of Apple products it works really well. I have don't have a complicated set up at home so it was a no brainer for me. I have actually managed to automate more items than before and now considering camera and doorbell options. The Aqara doorbell, i am not sure as its massive but cameras thinking Eufy 2 series which looks good and seem very reasonable

[NkySpike]

Merry Christmas Paul, to you and your family!
And have a great New Year!

[Nick_]

I use the geo-fence feature with Alexa, I live in New Zealand. Think maybe you're missing a step...everything you mentioned can be done in Home Assistant aswell.

[cassiuscartland]

HomeKit does already have support for TVs, I think that TVs just arent included in Matter yet

[garethjones]

Completely agree about the Alexa app, there’s such a lack of thought about it as a smart home control interface, that lack of thought continues through to how they utilise the space on their smart displays too

[MuchowMedia]

The main problem with HomeKit is, that you can not make any backups of your configuration. For me it broke once and I had to reset and manually add all devices and rebuilt all automations.

[twosawyers]

Alexa to me has just gotten a lot better lately. She literally does scheduled commands now.

[emilsecker]

You can set what a device is displayed as inside the devices settings in HomeKit

[TenTwennyDollaBills]

Is it not possible to run them in parallel?

[estusflask]

With Matter, you can use any voice assistant and smart home platform you want. Or all of them, at the same time.

[timsbird]

oh - have you seen Amazons upcoming dashboard thingy? The wall mounted one?

[ronm]

Thanks Paul. Happy Saturday and Merry Christmas. 🎄🎄

[Bilboftheshire]

I can’t get the hub to connect to HomeKit. Just says no response for the hub

[georgeboydratcliff]

Are you going to be looking at Homey / Homey Pro? I’m seriously considering one

[TheShalimMiah]

I have all my devices set up for both the Siri and Alexa platforms. I use Alexa for hands-free voice commands and I use the home app on my iPhone for manual control of devices.

[TecTimmy]

You scared me man. The title of this video- I thought my 15 Alexa devices were going the way of Zuckerberg Portal.