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  • Some new iOS 10 Home app features not supported by third-gen Apple TV [u]

    William TimbermanWilliam Timberman
    1. I recently bought an August Smart Lock. Remote access worked fine with iOS 9.3.5, Siri, and a 3rd-gen AppleTV serving as a HomeKit hub. Now, in order to be compatible with iOS 10 and Apple’s Home app, my Smart Lock needs a firmware update. The update isn’t ready yet.

    2. My 3rd-gen Apple TV can no longer serve as a HomeKIt hub.

    3. My 9.7 inch iPad Pro could serve as a hub, but only if I leave it at home and plugged into the charger. (Unacceptable.)

    4. OK, fine, so I ordered a 4th-gen Apple TV, but….

    5. The new Apple TV doesn’t support TOSlink, so I can no longer connect my perfectly serviceable old iPod Hi-Fi to my home network. Crap, now I need an HDMI/TOSlink splitter, and another HDMI cable.

    6. OK, in the fullness of time, all of this will get sorted, and the future will once again be gloriously better than the past. In the meantime, though, it’ll have cost me a bunch of money I wasn’t expecting to pay out just to get back what I already had before. IT SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE to have had a little more explicit warning from Apple before I voluntarily turned myself yet again into a technology-besotted idiot.
    caliJanNL