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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by baybal2 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:07AM (#21826246)
FYI: Homekit requires you to by a DRM chip from Apple to basically do a hanshake with Iphone and nothing else.

Not a good idea with OEMs, and that's why I believe they gave up the white flag now: no adoption.

They are either jump on the smart home bandwagon now, or never.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by eunoia on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:13AM (#21826301)
It was a hardware auth chip, not DRM and it hasn’t been required for 2 years now. Software auth went live in iOS 11.3. Apple doesn’t encourage the chip anymore and AFAIK no one uses it (except legacy devices obviously). Software auth rules the day.
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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by baybal2 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:40AM (#21826624)
Well too late now, the boat has sailed.

Most OEMs chose APP + own protocol approach

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by mackey on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:47AM (#21826697)
I think most major HA hardware providers support Homekit at this point, with the exception of ones that don't because of competitive reasons (Nest, maybe Ring, etc) or because of strict certification requirements (like camera streams being local, $$$).
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