HomeKit
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
1warn against
Jun 8, 2026first 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”
Caveats and dissent
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
Data: homekit.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“HomeKit is so painfully slow and flaky.”
“These days, I use native HomeKit for everything.”
“all of my local-only home automation stuff wired together, mostly into HomeKit”