gutengel

Let's see if they finally add a decent camera on these computers, besides fixing the keyboards.

Apple is doooooooooooomed! Jobs would have never let this happen!! Fire Cook!!! What a sinking ship XD

These look hideous! I'm gonna wait to see what titles start rolling out after iOS 13 and probably buy a PS4 controller.

Bring back the rainbow Apple!

StrangeDays said:

gutengel said:

I have a couple family members with Crestron System on their places and it's trash, the Ui is confusing and the remotes and screens look and feel cheap. To be fair, they don't have the latest and greatest, but every time they have any issue, some IT person has to come to fix it. Obviously the company want to play nice with HomeKit so their system appears updated and capable. However, I really hope Apple start making the Home Kit ecosystem more capable so companies like Crestron really work hard so you can justify purchasing their system or just get crushed.

In what ways would you like HK more capable? What use cases are missing from HK APIs?

The powerful aspect about Crestron, as far as I underhand, (I'm not super knowledgeable about their protocols or APIs) is that is agnostic and you can connect almost anything as far as it has some communication interface like infrared, bluetooth, wifi, zigbee, etc, etc. Even if you have a proprietary system or old hardware, you can usually build around it so you can control anything and everything from one place. Whatever you want to connect to HomeKit has to come ready from the factory, obviously is a much more reliable and intuitive system, but it excludes a lot of possible integration an backwards compatibility. Apple should to finally incorporate Thread for HomeKit on their new Apple TV or Router so it can open a whole new realm of possibilities for the smart home.