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How to make HomeKit work for you automatically with scenes and automations
Love this -- as suggested, the HomeKit system itself is super powerful, possibly the best on the market -- the problem is that you'd never know if you just used Apple's Home app. The Eve app and Controller for HomeKit are both great options as well -- you can use them in combination with the Home app to do some cool stuff, including changing the brightness and/or color of any HomeKit compatible bulb, based on the time of day: https://homemadeautomation.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/make-any-dimmable-homekit-light-follow-the-sun/
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How to make HomeKit work for you automatically with scenes and automations
This is correct - while it's true that the HomeKit API is far more feature-rich than Apple's Home app would lead one to believe, this can be done in Apple's Home app, and is actually the default behavior, if you have multiple people in your home -- I can confirm after having used it with my family for the last few years. If you're seeing different behavior, it might be that one of the devices in your home is misconfigured, or needs their Geolocation config reset -- https://homemadeautomation.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/homekit-location-troubleshooting/ might be able to help.thewb said: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.
