Apple users deserve a better Smart Home

Thanks to the new smart home standard Matter, Apple users have the potential to smarten up their homes beyond HomeKit. That sounds great! And so we tried to swap a whole apartment's worth of devices entirely.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 EMERGENCY Message
0:38 The Problem and Solution
1:01 Jake's Existing Setup
3:15 Thanks Squarespace!
3:45 Finding Matter Devices
6:10 Setting Things Up
8:03 In Due Time...
10:11 Do They Give Up?!
11:02 One Week Later

[blackfoxstudioX]

The problem is that every App wants to be the center of attention, no one wants to give up that control. This is the problem not only with smart devices...

[HearMeLearn]

I don't know what these companies need to do differently, but matter NEEDS to be quick and painless to setup to get normal people on board with buying smart home things, and all these connectivity errors and stuff not working despite doing everything the app is asking is just not cutting it. I dream of a future where you can have a house that does everything around you for you, and we have the technology to do that already, but there's way too much mucking about trying to get it working right now.

[jvnkstuff]

4:33 "No, you're Jake!"
im disappointed to announce that got me.

[MAPPASTUDIOSnonly]

a smart home is now a dumb home, because one man's software is another man's nightmare.

[nicka]

Home Assistant is the only Smart Home app that’s worth it

[bubbledoubletrouble]

12:13 Yeah, in this case what you want is a _presence_ sensor rather than a motion sensor.

[barcofigari]

Ikea lights are cheap and have a hub but work 100% with HomeKit

[Devastator]

Seeing videos like this reinforces my decision to never deal with smart home garbage ever.

[gufogames.]

and this is why homebridge/home assistant are so nice

[nofunberg]

I use smart lights, a smart lock, and a smart thermostat with presence/temp sensors in most rooms.

I made sure to buy models that supported HomeKit, so they all integrate well and are pretty reliable.

There are extra features in the Hue app that make it nicer for setting colorful lights, but adjusting on the fly works well in the Home app.

Word of warning: don’t pair a Hue Bridge to your ROG Ally. That was an hour of madness.

[rgbkgb]

1:04 I like how when he entered the shot, the operator had to adjust the camera angle. I feel you, I didn't expect him to be this tall either.

[lilbabygroot]

*correct me if I’m wrong. The script states that you “need a thread router for matter”. That is incorrect, you need a thread border router for thread devices, but many matter devices still communicate via wifi.

[thekwoka]

There are ISPs that dont support ip6 yet?!?!

[wateriver]

There are times I wish I had smart bulbs and smart locks and so on but then this video comes along and shows me that straight up, I wouldn’t have the patience to troubleshoot anymore. I used to buy my own modem and router for my Internet service to save myself a five dollar rent Fee but I got tired of having network issues and when I called my ISP they would tell me they couldn’t help because it wasn’t their router. I’ve got other things going on in the last thing I want to do is spend 30 minutes or more troubleshooting why my lightbulb isn’t on Wi-Fi.

[avenged]

Thank you for not trying to gaslight me into pretending that IPv6 isn't a nightmare. Also, nice touch with the iOS 6 UI elements in the beginning. Also also, I hate all of this so-called 'smart' tech. Just give me a nice internal web server for configuration any day of the week.

[nothingtoseehere]

home assistant -> homekit bridge problem solved. Homekit is an excellent front end for home assistant

[fuomag]

The matter hub does not need to be on the same 2.4ghz netwok for wireless devices, just the same vlan
IPv6 can work locally, there is no need for support from the ISP for outbound internet connections for matter

[davidadao]

I have Philips Hue since 2018 and never replaced a thing, they work pretty well specifically now that I’ve routed some automation thru homeassitant and NodeRed. I also have a ZigBee dongle to handle all other brands of devices (mostly sonoff and ikea) and it works really really well. Quite stable I’d say. Even integrated with the Hyperion Project for the TV ambilight and couldn’t be happier

[billbarton]

The time I’ve spent with home bridge and home assistant just to get everything working in the Apple home app…

Matter makes all of that time seem like a waste. I should’ve just waited. Love that they’ve finally figured this all out. The only thing I’d say about this video and complaints of spending all day on it is to just start slow with smart home. Automate a light here and there as a use comes up. Eventually everything will get there and it won’t feel like it was much work.

[opdd]

aqara ecosystem works fine with apple. I have 5 sensors and 2 cameras from aqara, they are fantastic, works every time. For lights I prefer smart switches, I installed 12 sonoff devices with tasmota firmware, so I’m rocking with matter, apple homekit and google home are mates at my home.