If you are an Apple HomeKit user you know how awesome it is. I love it myself, but
you also know there are some limitations with the Apple HomeKit app. Unfortunately,,
when you're setting up automations there's really not a lot of conditions. Meaning
that it's not taking to account of the current status of your smart home. Well
today I'm going to show you a hack of how to get conditions inside your HomeKit
smart home. Let's jump into the video!
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Welcome back, guys. My name is Eric you're watching Modern Day Tech, where I like
to simplify tech for your life. Today's video is a part of my Homekit
series where I'm building an awesome awesome smart home, and if that interests
you, I hope you consider subscribing down below. So if you have a switch or a
trigger to turn on a light, that switch has to have a different command to turn
off the light. So if you press it twice to turn it off, and then you have to have
another one, single tap, turn it on. If you tried to do
turn it off with a single tap unfortunately it does not work. And
that's because if we quickly go into the Homekit app you can look at my trigger
which in my particular case is button number 2, you look at the single press
and I'm just going to turn on the light and that is it you have no other
conditions except for you can turn it off in a certain number of minutes or
hours. You can have additional triggers like a double press or long-press but
even in those options, you have no conditions. So the hack to this is to use
the Eve Homekit app. Which is amazing! I've looked at a lot of other homekit
apps like Philips, iDevices, iHome, you name it I've looked at it and there is
nothing that compares to this Eve app. Yes, the other ones might be prettier but I gotta admit
this Eve App has it all. Even when you click on rooms, you can see all your
rooms, you can see what zone. Then when you click on the product you can
see all the details, all your products are there, all in one app. Where the other
homekit apps you're definitely limited, to maybe only their products, or there's
no conditions, there's definitely very limited
resources in those other home kit apps where Eve blows it out of the water. But
by all means it is not perfect they still got work a couple things help I
have some workarounds for you for instance here I want to set up switch
number one or button number one but number two is already assigned to the homekit
app which you can see here. So I want to sign button number one. You go in here
you want add rule since we want to have conditions
we need to have custom rules. And when we go in there you can see here it
says button number two even though I tried to do a rule for button number one.
I don't know why this is, but the workaround is fairly simple. Instead of
going into the product and setting up the rule, you want to go to your list of
rules and create the rules with the condition for the trigger or for the
product. Which I'm going to show you here. At the bottom of the Eve app, hit
automations, go to the top, hit rules, you'll see your current list of rules. Go to the
bottom of that and add a role. And it kind of shows you here, that a trigger
which meets a condition, will trigger a scene. So go ahead and select whatever
your trigger is. In my particular case, it is the studio control button number one. Now
I want a single press for it to turn off and if it's already off, I want to turn on, if
it's on I want to turn off. So I'm going to have a single button press for both
triggers. So I'm gonna hit single press, hit add, hit next, and here's the condition
so I'm first gonna say if the studio lights is off, go ahead and turn it on. So
going to hit off, hit next hit next, and the scene is that studio lights is going to be on.
Hit add, click next, you're gonna have to name the scene and you can add a little icon
if you want to. You can actually use these scenes over for other automations.
And you also have to name the rule itself. And there we go the first one is
done. Now you got to do it again for the reverse.
So I'm going to add a rule. Hit Trigger
The trigger is gonna be a single press on button number one. Hit next. And now we're
the condition here is if that studio light is on............hit add
Click Next, and we're going to add the scene of the studio lights being off.
There we go! Hit next. We're going to name the scene. And name the rule and then
we're done
Alright, guys let's give this a shot. One click! Lights are off! One click!
Lights are on. That's awesome! It's so cool. Another scenario that briefly
talked about last week with my Nanoleaf remote is that each side is one trigger.
Well, with conditions you can actually have two triggers per side. For instance
when this is facing up on number 7. I turn it over, and the lights are going to
turn off. Now I'll do that again. Same number, number seven, lights are
gonna turn on. And that is all done with conditions. The Eve app is awesome even
though I did have to figure out that little loophole to get the right trigger.
It actually took me over two weeks to figure out, so I hope this information
helped you. If it did I hope you consider subscribing by pressing that blue
circle. If you want to check out the next video in my Homekit series, click that
video right here. Thanks for watching!