Apple HomeKit
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
3warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Oct 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“These days, I use native HomeKit for everything.”
got tired of the admin job of maintaining a self-built setupswitched from Home Assistanton “It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell”
“I’m migrating from my zigbee stuff bridged through home assistant to HomeKit.”
switched from Home Assistanton “Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cam…”
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“I also use HomeKit as the main hub of my home automation”
“Been using the HomeKit ecosystem.”
Caveats and dissent
“It works as well as Apple HomeKit works, which isn't all that well.”
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“People dump on Apple/HomeKit (deservedly!)”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 2 mentions
- Siri is so bad at everything 1 mention
- Apple HomeView 1 mention
- I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant 1 mention
- LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' 1 mention
- It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell 1 mention
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All comments 16
“HomeKit is so painfully slow and flaky.”
LLMs/AI has taken my HA usage to another level. It worked great and I loved it pre-LLM but armed with LLMs I can do some amazing automations and tweak them with my voice [0]. I recently tasked Claude with creating a vector floorplan of my house, then added icons for lights/fans/etc (Claude wrote a little tool where I could drag everything where it goes), and then set it up in HA so I can click on devices on the floor
“There are also separate firmware options for HomeKit and Matter.”
“one integrates with HomeKit and pretty much just works”
“These days, I use native HomeKit for everything.”
“I was using primarily HomeKit as my home automation platform”
“It works as well as Apple HomeKit works, which isn't all that well.”
“I’m migrating from my zigbee stuff bridged through home assistant to HomeKit.”
“all of my local-only home automation stuff wired together, mostly into HomeKit”
“They integrate really well with HomeKit.”
“I also use HomeKit as the main hub of my home automation”
“I use only the basics of HomeKit, a couple switches and CCTV.”
“Been using the HomeKit ecosystem.”
And you can run open source camera firmware on a disconnected vlan if you don't want to trust a phone app or a camera with internet access. https://github.com/radredgreen/wyrecam
“I use Siri enough to control HomeKit that I give things really mundane names”
“People dump on Apple/HomeKit (deservedly!)”