Apple Home Products I Regret Buying… (What I Bought Instead)

Here’s some Apple Home smart home products I regret buying over the last 5 years and what I bought instead. This videos covers various smart bulbs, smart cameras, contact sensor, and light strips.

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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Yeelight, Nanoleaf, LIFX Smart Bulb
2:19 - Logitech Circle View
4:06 - Eve Door & Window
5:45 - LIFX Lightstrip

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[AdamsTechLife]

Are there any HomeKit devices you regret buying?

[__JiG__SaW__]

A word of warning to everyone planning to buy Eufy cameras, don't. They are known to upload footage or stills from the cameras to their servers despite explicitly stating that it's local storage only. Many YouTubers including LTT and JRE have dropped them (and Anker, which is the same company) as their sponsor. Be careful out there.

[Axiarus]

My Nanoleaf lights have worked perfectly for about two years so far. No dropped connections, no resetting and super fast.

[BrandonDoyleMN]

Ahh yes the trials and tribulations of a DIY smart home, I appreciate your honesty and examples of issues you’ve had

[JC-dcoz]

Another solid video! You’re the only YouTuber who speaks at the correct pace for us non tech guys to understand. I appreciate your vids. Keep up awesome vids

[brockmorrell]

I recently bought 1/2 dozen Nanoleaf to replace my Philips wiz, and they've been a headache. Looks like I'm going over to Hue. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.

[wurzel]

Very much agree with you on Hue. It’s reassuringly expensive!
However I take a different view on Eve. I have invested in a lot of Eve gear - mainly because I see thread as the future protocol for low bandwidth IOT devices. My Eve devices have been absolutely bullet proof and incredibly fast/responsive. If I had to hazard a guess I might suggest you may not have had enough thread devices for this endpoint to take advantage of thread. I started with a number of Eve energy socket and those provided thread throughout my home (though now HomePods serve the same function). I suspect your door sensor defaulted to Bluetooth instead.

[enriquelinares]

I have the Nanoleaf bulbs and never had an issue with them. The thing with thread is that the more thread items you have the better it gets. Each bulb works as a thread router. There for if you have very few bulbs and HomePods or any other thread router, then maybe that’s why It didn’t work for you? I have around 8 Nanoleaf bulbs 2 HomePods, and one Apple TV with thread. All my bulbs work with no issue.

[thomastevis]

When he said Philips hue i was thinking of Paul 😂😂😂😂

[misstubbie]

I started my smart home about two years ago. I had to do something while in lockup, right? So started with Meross smart bulbs, a led strip, and plugs. I thought the price was affordable. But after a few months, they started dying out on me like flies. First, the plugs went offline, completely unable to get them to work again. Then the bulbs kept having lots of connectivity issues, and finally my led strip failed. In Mexico we have an old saying, "Lo barato, sale caro", which means you end up paying a higher price when you try to cut corners getting a cheaper, but a lower quality product that eventually will break down and leave no option than purchasing the 'expensive' option. Therefore, spending more money than you would have if you just went ahead and purchased the higher quality product in the first place. So I also went with Philips Hue, and I've never looked back. LOVE IT!
Also, in part thanks to your reviews, I went with Eufy cameras. One of my cameras had some issues when connecting to homekit, but after updating to 16.3 iOS they seem to be resolved.
Never had an issue with my Eve Contact Sensors so I'm good there.

[noahdesigns]

Just bit the bullet on the Philips Hue kit. Looking forward to integrating them with my homekit. Thanks for the advice!

[NerdTouchingGrass]

I had trouble with my thread lights because apple home was selecting my HD apple tv as a hub... it does not have thread so i had to set it to manually use the home pot and i have had zero issues since

[rubenayala]

So for the cameras do you need a hub also? Great content as usual. Keep the videos coming. It’s helping me build my smart home slowly

[thomasbekker]

Interesting about the Nanoleaf bulbs. There might be a variation in Europe, but I changed networks, home etc... without any issue. I started years ago with Hue, and it's reliable but always late to any advance in technology, and bloody expensive. I have two homes with a mix of Hue, Nano, and Eve and never had any issues with any of them. I would say the nano is more responsive and offer a great range of dimming than the Hue. Put simply a Hue at 1% or 10% is the same, now on the other hand the Nano has much stronger gradients in my home. Maybe it comes down to having Eve products that act as main thread nodes.

[WaynePhillips-pxxe]

Aqara has been rock solid for me. I am starting to replace my eve contact sensors. Especially now that i am developing a home assistant home. The eve sensors won’t connect.

[VitoAD]

I started my smart home with iHome smart plugs. I currently use Aqara for all my sensors, have hub one being a G2H camera. Have 4 Nanoleaf and have had no issues. What I regret buying is Arlo Camera. Being battery operated you usually miss what triggered the motion and that is frustrating.

[brittanyparker-vaughan]

Yes - no other smart bulb has been as reliable as Hue! Idk why people hate bridges so much. Your products are so much more reliable with them. Also - if I could throw every LIFX light strip in the garbage, I would. Those things have given me hours-long headaches with updates not working or losing connectivity all the time.

[krakentechnologiesapac]

Are you sure that the Nanoleaf light bulbs were using Thread and not Bluetooth? I've found that with my Nanoleaf strips, I had all kinds of lag and disconnection problems at first, exactly like you describe, then I discovered that they were connecting to my hub via Bluetooth, and once I switched them over to Thread they were fine.

That said, I'm using HomeAssistant's HAP support rather than an actual HomeKit setup so YMMV.

[luisdemetrio]

Eve and Nanoleaf are the most reliable devices I have. Is Aqara your sponsor?

[michaels]

Wondering if you’re setting up thread connection correctly? I’ve had Nanoleaf bulbs everywhere for awhile now and they have been extremely reliable in my experience.