Omar Morales written about Apple, Tech, Photography, Internet & More.
California based elgato have been releasing an assortment of smart-home devices including many HomeKit enable ones.
Today elgato added the HomeKit enabled smart motion sensor to their offerings.
The motion sensor is available now.
Updated on 4/26/2017
So you decided that your house need a smart upgrade and you will like to get some Apple HomeKit compatible accessories so you can tell Siri to turn the light on, open the door, lower the temperature or more.
But you have no idea what accessories are actually HomeKit compatible and will work with your iPhone, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Siri.
Don’t worry any more here is the list of the HomeKit Compatible Accessories you have been looking for.
NOTE: I won’t be reviewing this accessories on this page I will only point you to the accessories available. I will be updating this list as soon as I find more HomeKit compatible accessories.
Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance A19 Starter Kit, 3rd Generation with Richer Colors
Philips Hue White A19 Starter Kit with two A19 LED light bulbs and bridge (hub)
Philips 460989 Hue White Ambiance Starter Kit (2 A19 Bulbs, 1 Bridge, and 1 Dimmer Switch)
Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance A19 Bulb Starter Kit 2nd Generation
Other Philips Hue As Long As you Have a 2nd Gen Philips Bridge
Ivy Smarter Kit: Apple HomeKit Enabled Smart LED Lighting Kit
Incipio CommandKit Wireless Smart Light Bulb Adapter
iLuv Rainbow8 Smart Multicolor Lightbulb
Incipio Smart Wall Switch (coming Q2 2017)
Sylvania LEDVANCE Smart Multicolor A19 Lightbulb (coming early 2017)
ecobee 4 (coming soon)
ecobee3 Smarter Wi-Fi Thermostat with Remote Sensor, 2nd Generation
Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat 2nd Generation
Honeywell Lyric T5 Wi-Fi Thermostat
Carrier Côr Thermostat HomeKit Enabled (announced for 2017)
Elgato Eve Energy (NEW), Switch & Power Meter Bluetooth Low Energy
Elgato Eve Energy, Switch & Power Meter (old)
Koogeek Wi-Fi Smart Plug for Apple HomeKit
INSTEON 2635-222 ON/OFF Module
Incipio CommandKit Wireless Smart Outlet Adapter
Incipio Wireless Smart Power Strip (coming q2 2017)
Leviton's Decora Smart Plug (coming April 2017)
Chamberlain Smart Garage Hub (Expected by April 2017)
Chamberlain MyQ HomeBridge (Expected by April 2017)
LiftMaster MyQ (Expected by April 2017)
iHome iSS50 5-in-1 Smartmonitor Multi-Sensor (motion, temperature, light, sound and humidity)
ecobee3 Room Sensor (Motion & Temperature)
Elgato Eve Room (NEW), Wireless Indoor Sensor
Onelink WiFi Environment Monitor
Onelink WiFi Environment Monitor
Onelink Wi-Fi Smoke + Carbon Monoxide
Netatmo Smart Smoke Alarm (coming soon)
Elgato Eve Door & Window Sensor
Fibaro Door/Window Contact Sensor
Fibaro FGBHFS-001 Flood Sensor
Ring Video Doorbell Pro (Homekit update coming soon)
Honeywell Lyric C1 Camera (Coming Q1 2017)
Honeywell Lyric C2 Camera (Coming Q1 2017)
Withings Home Plus (CANCELLED)
Hunter Fan Company Signal Ceiling Fan
iDevices Instant Switch (control other Homekit iDevices) (announced for 2017)
Schlage Sense Smart Deadbolt with Century
August Smart Lock HomeKit Enabled
August Smart Lock Mortise Kit (announced not available yet)
Yale HomeKit Module (announced for 2017)
Focalcrest Mixtile Hub (announced for 2017)
elgato Extended (Bluetooth Extender) (announced for 2017)
ConnectSense Bluetooth Extender (coming Spring 2017)
elgato Eve Aqua (announced for 2017)
Apple has opened registration for the Apple World Wide Developers Conference 2016 to be held during June 11th to 16th in San Francisco.
We will certainly see previews for new version of iOS and watchOS and maybe a rebranding of OS X to MacOS.
There are three things I actually want to see at this year WWDC.
I will like to see an update to Siri’s backend. Let’s face it Siri can’t stand beside Google’s and Amazon’s voice assistants.
The only time I use Siri is when I tell her to open the Google app so I can search something by voice while driving. Google understands me every time while Siri does it about half the time.
And when I am home I only use Alexa on my Amazon Echo to do voice search and control my smart home devices.
And that bring me to the second thing I will like to see this year.
A big HomeKit status update.
I have smart everything in my house. I have added Philips Hues, Nest Thermostats, connected cameras, Wemo Switchesand more. But home kit support has been lacking and I have to use a bunch of hubs and IFTTT in order to have all this work together.
HomeKit was suppose to be the unifier of the home automation but so far is way behind. Devices makers are even abandoning supportfor it. I have to thanks Amazon for the Echo as it had been the great unifier so far but I really think Apple needs to take charge of the home and HomeKit before is to late.
But what I really want to see is real END to END iCloud encryption. So that Apple no longer have description keys to users data.
Apple has made great advances on devices security but with most user backing up to iCloud and using iCloud sync they are still exposing their data to hackers and power hungry governments. I really hope to see Apple address this critical vulnerability on the Apple ecosystem.
With the troves of data been backed up to iCloud it’s no longer wise for them to hold decryption keys and it’s actually a huge liability for them. I believe is no longer an option but a necessity for Apple to implement this.