{"id":481,"date":"2023-07-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-10-23T03:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:09:53","slug":"homekit-home-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"HomeKit &#038; Home Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9902\"><a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/chrt.fm\/track\/7FB487\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/6b81f8b2-53b9-424e-94c4-04582db94262.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgxCbHVicnJ5BjoGRVQ%3D--a8950c811add1124beefcda61e27f2a7f7825eba\">https:\/\/chrt.fm\/track\/7FB487\/rss.art19.com\/episodes\/6b81f8b2-53b9-424e-94c4-04582db94262.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIgxCbHVicnJ5BjoGRVQ%3D--a8950c811add1124beefcda61e27f2a7f7825eba<\/a><\/div><p>Although home automation is not a new topic for the Brothers (see the Home Automation series from 2020\u2026including Convenience, Security, &amp; Safety)\u2026there are quite a few changes that have occurred across this market that are worth discussing. With both of the Brothers having recently set up or adapted their automation ecosystems, it is time to share those experiences, successes, and frustrations. If you have been thinking about using\/migrating to HomeKit, you will want to listen to this episode. Listen\/watch as Brian attempts to (begrudgingly) set up HomeKit (along with his Alexa environment)\u2026and his therapy session with Alan. Luckily, Brian made a mistake in his set-up (on purpose, of course)\u2026just so Alan could feel good about helping him to correct it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Products\/Apps\/Services mentioned in this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/home-app\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Apple HomeKit\/Home app<\/a>: Apple\u2019s native smart home application\/system<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/homebridge.io\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Homebridge<\/a>: Open source server application for converting non-HomeKit devices to HomeKit signals<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aqara.com\/us\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aqara Wireless Switch &amp; Hub<\/a>: A simple button that can be programmed to operate your HomeKit scenes\/devices (but, be aware of using with Alexa)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alexa.amazon.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Alexa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/home.google.com\/welcome\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Google Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Hosts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan Jackson<\/strong>&nbsp;(the older Brother) is a producer of online content with<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejacksoncreative.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Creative<\/a>&nbsp;and survey researcher with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksoninsight.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Insight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Jackson<\/strong>&nbsp;(the younger Brother) is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificu.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific University<\/a>&nbsp;and Product Director\/Consultant at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/senaptec.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Senaptec, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have any feedback for the Brothers regarding this topic (or future topics)? Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brothers-in-tech.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.Brothers-In-Tech.com<\/a>&nbsp;or email&nbsp;info@themesh.tv.<\/p>\n<p>See Privacy Policy at <a href=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy<\/a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although home automation is not a new topic for the Brothers (see the Home Automation series from 2020\u2026including Convenience, Security, &amp; Safety)\u2026there are quite a few changes that have occurred across this market that are worth discussing. With both of the Brothers having recently set up or adapted their automation ecosystems, it is time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brothers-in-tech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}