itinj24

I’m pretty convinced that this is an issue with the Home Hub.  The other day, my dad visited for the first time since I set up HomeKit Secure Video with my Logi Circle 2’s. After he left, I went to add him as a recognized face in my home but noticed that he didn’t show up there. Found this strange since I do have a lot of cameras in and around my home. Also realized I stopped receiving camera notifications sometime early that day before he showed up. I went to check recordings of my cameras to see if any camera caught his face and noticed all recordings stopped at about 1030 that morning. This couldn’t be a camera specific issue. Checked which of my devices was the active Home Hub and it was an OG HomePod. Went to reboot it and it kept saying there’s no Wi-Fi connection. A-ha!  Rebooted the AppleTV it was defaulted to and then unplugged the HomePod until it finally regained connection and sure enough all the recordings for that day were restored, my dad’s face showed up in facial recognition and notifications were coming alive. 

lordjohnwhorfin said:

At this astronomical price it’s cheaper for me to rip out my legacy ZWave devices and replace them with HomeKit ones, than try to keep them on life support and deal with the idiosyncrasies of yet another hub (I already have Homebridge running on a Raspberry Pi, Philips Hue, Caseta, Ikea Tradfri, Aqara, a Sonoff Zigbee gateway… way too many tiny boxes that use up an Ethernet port and a power outlet, it’s maddening.

The only issue is trying to find a device with native HomeKit support to replace the existing Z-Wave device you currently have.  After all these years, there’s still not something as simple as (for example) a water shutoff valve available for HomeKit.  I would love one of these as a recent water leak cost me a lot more than $500 in damages that I wasn’t home for.  This hub will make it possible and especially for those that don’t have the time to tinker with HomeBridge. 

ionicle said:

Difference between this and thread? 🤔

“Matter” is an alliance of manufacturers that will be making accessories that will be able to work with any of the participating Smart home platforms. For instance, if you look on the box of an accessory and you see badges printed on the box that say “Works with Google”, “Works with Alexa”, “Works with HomeKit”, “Works with SmartThings”, etc… the Matter alliance will be combining all those badges into one that says, “Works with Matter” and you will know that that accessory can be used with any of the above platforms.  In theory, it’s supposed to make the smart home market less confusing so that people can buy whatever and it will work with whatever. I just hope this doesn’t cause more confusion by adding another platform to the mix while still keeping the others around, separately. 

ArchStanton said:

itinj24 said:

I guess this explains why all the newly announced Google cams don’t support “Matter”

Was really looking forward to this soon. Oh well, there’s always next year. 

Was looking forward to it too.  Basically a lot of home automation becomes available to a much wider group of consumers. 

I’d assume Google cams can be given an update to provide support? I “thought” I read that Chip would only need SW update to make a number of things work. It wasn’t a hardware issue per se (but I could be wrong)

I believe Hue already announced that their Bridge will be getting “Matter” support via FW update. It is possible that the Nest cams will also be given the same treatment but surprised there was no mention of it since this is supposed to be next big thing in smart home automation. I’ve been using the Nest Hello (and four Nest Protects) with Starling for HomeKit and I must say, out of a combined ~75 accessories including a bunch of Logi Circle 2 cams, they have been the most reliable and they’re not even HomeKit certified. Needless, to say, I like Nest and want native HomeKit integration 

I guess this explains why all the newly announced Google cams don’t support “Matter”

Was really looking forward to this soon. Oh well, there’s always next year.