Is anyone else disappointed or at least underwhelmed by the recent Apple Home announcements?

I’ve been waiting for this announcement before deciding what to do with the Ring cameras I want to replace. I figured I would get the HomeView and HKSV cams that were POE and would load almost instantly in HomeView and Apple TV. After their announcement, and after getting a lot of useful feedback on this forum, I ended up getting UniFi cams. I might try to add Scrypted later—I don’t want to deal with setting up an always-on device for now. I wouldn’t be surprised if the UniFi app fulfills all my needs.

I’m definitely prioritizing quality and reliability over integration. I’m tired of sacrificing quality for integration. That’s why I went with UniFi over Aqara and LG. Will the Matter standard fix this one day? Is there any hope? Or will mixing high quality with integration involve techie plugins like Scrypted and Home Assistant for the foreseeable future? Why can Apple wow us with their mobile devices and not much else? It seems like a blown opportunity to me. Anxious to hear your thoughts.

I have a Level Lock Pro on 3.6.1 and even after updating to iOS 27.2, still not able to see the “Door left open” and lock after door closes options.
Anyone able to see these features after updating to iOS 27.2v

I've updated my Thermo Watch app with a few neat new features:

Most obviously, you can now add some festive fun to your thermostat by decorating it with a Jack-o'-lantern or a snowman.

It now lights up the physical world around it when thermostat's screen is glowing (while the system is heating or cooling). You get some extra light with the Jack-o'-lantern decoration as he radiates his own light.

For those unfamiliar, the app lets you grab and spin a virtual dial to change the temperature. If you’re farther away from it, you can look and drag up or down. It functions as an interactive widget with live updates, that you can pin to a wall in your environment. More details and a video here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/1t9aqxe/my_vision_pro_homekit_thermostat_control_app/

Update is now available on the App Store. Hope you enjoy it!
https://apps.apple.com/app/thermo-watch/id6758426115

Hi everyone,

After updating to iOS 27.2 and tvOS 27.2, I'm having trouble enabling the new Apple Intelligence features in the Home app.

There are two issues:

1. Summarize Videos: I can't enable this feature at all. It keeps telling me that an iCloud+ subscription is required, even though I already have the 2TB plan.
2. Reduce Notifications: When I turn this on, the switch immediately turns itself off.

Here's my current setup:

• iOS: 27.2
• tvOS: 27.2
• Home Hub: Apple TV (active Home Hub)
• Me: Home Resident (Admin), iCloud+ 2TB
• Home Owner: iPhone 17 with Apple Intelligence enabled, iCloud+ 200GB

I'm wondering if the problem is related to the Home Owner only having the 200GB iCloud+ plan, even though I have 2TB as an Admin.

Does Apple require the Home Owner specifically to have the 2TB plan? Or could this be a bug in iOS 27.2?

Has anyone else experienced the same issue or found a solution?

Thanks!

After significant updates to Apple hubs I like to compare advanced automations to shortcut automations. My test is a simple one using a button device and a smart plug.

When button is pressed:

• in the shortcut automation I do: If plug is on, turn off. Otherwise turn on.
• in the advanced automation it is actually two automations. In the first, I use a conditional of plug is off. Action is turn on plug. In second automation the conditional is plug is on. Action is turn plug off.

With the shortcut automation the response time is roughly 2-3 seconds.

With the advanced automation response time is 1 second or less.

Yes, with advanced automations in my example you need to create two of them. But the faster speed can be more than worth it. (note: a third party app is required for advanced automations)

For those keeping score:

27.2 has thankfully fixed the Get Contents of URL shortcut action, which is often used to trigger notifications (I use Pushover).

Sadly, Stored Content actions still don’t work in shortcut automations. I’m really anxious to use this functionality to keep track of light status across automations. Hopefully a future update will make it work.

Ever since ios27 I’ve been swiping down through muscle memory, but instead have to reach to the furthest corner from my thumb to get of of this screen. Is it just me that finds this frustrating?

There is nothing in the changelog, but I swear to all the homekit gods that Apple has changed something on the back or frontend of 27.2. The issue was present immediately prior to 27.2 and for 9 LONG YEARS, and the fix was noticed immediately after I updated

I can now view all 9 of my HomeCam cameras while my computer is connected to NordVPN. This was literally impossible before. I'd have to disconnect VPN, re-launch HomeCam from my StreamDeck, then re-connect VPN (painful process!) and hope to all hell my cameras dont disconnect (which they do frequently).

Paging HomeCam dev /u/aaron-pearce Are you aware of this!? All 9 of my cameras are now fully operational behind (confirmed connection) to VPN. Apple allowed more than 2 cameras on WAN and now fixed HomeKit behind VPN. It's like a dream come true... I had given up all hope.

Now if we could get rid of that unsightly bar at the top of HomeCam (or make a setting to remove it) , I will be in heaven.

Edit: I am sure /u/RevolutionaryRip1634 will also want to know about this. I remember reading your post 1 year ago and guess what! MacOS 27.2 has finally fixed this issue. Let us know if you're seeing the same behavior.

First time seeing “door left open” alerts. Not sure if these are new? I don’t remember ever seeing them before. I have Aqara P2 door and window sensors. I don’t see any way to configure a “duration” to determine how long a door needs to be open to be considered “left open” though.

I updated my HomePod minis (OG) yesterday and it seems there’s an AI report? What’s this all about?

I don’t remember it being a thing before