thewb

The part about the automation rule applying to only one specific person (yourself) arriving is incorrect.

My Home app is setup with two users (tap the little house icon in the upper left to get to the screen where you can invite other people to control your home, and note that each invited user has two toggle settings to allow them to control things when they are not present in your home (maybe a bad idea) and to allow them to edit your setup (almost definitely a bad idea), so configure these at your discretion when inviting people who don't live with you).

When making a new rule, the When People Arrive options allow me to choose one or more users. If I select only one then the wording is "When ____ arrives", but if I select both users then the wording changes to "When Anyone Arrives". There is also a "When The First Person Arrives" option which triggers the rule only when no other users are already at home.

There are further conditions which can be added to the trigger, such as only during the day or night or a specific range of time, and you can also change the location in question. You can have rules that trigger when arriving or leaving any specific location and not necessarily your home, for example I have a rule to change the thermostat when I depart work in the afternoon rather than when I get home, so that my HVAC has more of a head start on reaching the target temperature by the time I arrive.

Meanwhile, most if not all the other major U.S. ISPs don't even support Single Sign-In yet.

Since they already have people using the phone's camera to take a selfie, why not take a picture of the passport's first page as well and use some of that machine learning we keep hearing so much about to perform OCR and validate it?

Besides, what are you supposed to do if you've already smashed the passport's chip to prevent it from being scanned by anyone with an Android phone nearby?

Nest likes to pretend otherwise, but there are other smart thermostats on the market, and some of them are Homekit compatible. At this point I think Nest is holding out because Apple's terms and conditions for Homekit devices forbid something that Google doesn't want to have to stop doing.