Nanoleaf Debuts New HomeKit-Enabled Smarter Kit With Two Light Bulbs and a Hub

That design looks vaguely familiar…

One of the biggest points about HomeKit is that it doesn't need a hub. Everything should be able to connect to wifi and work in that way.

HomeKit is such a mess. I thought one of the big points with HomeKit-enabled devices was, as someone mentioned earlier, you weren't going to need to fill your house with hubs because the HomeKit-enabled devices would talk to the Apple TV over Wi-Fi instead. Meanwhile, Apple is releasing a brand new Apple TV this week and as far as I can recall, there was precisely zero mention of HomeKit in the keynote where the new Apple TV was introduced.

If Apple is going to play in the connected home space, they either need to get their act together and go all in or get out of the game entirely.

Edit: After reading Apple's HomeKit page, it appears that the Apple TV is only used to allow control of HomeKit devices with Siri when the user is not on the home network. I think Apple has totally missed the boat with the current implementation of HomeKit. So each of these brands of devices still needs their own hub, and if you have Apple TV, you can still control the devices with Siri when you're away from your house. It's just a kludgy setup.

Normally, Apple simplifies the things they decide to touch and in most cases, Apple makes those things better and more reliable in the process. In this case, however, Apple seems to have just added more clutter, confusion, and instability to an area that already had a tendency to suffer those shortcomings.

Hey HomeKit accessory manufacturers, we're all good on the plethora of lightbulb options. Would you please get around to other useful things like HomeKit enabled outlets, switches, security sensors, smoke detectors, garage door openers (looking at you Chamberlain), etc.

"These bulbs also have a unique design that lets them be used sans lampshade and with a range of decorative open-faced lamps. They're made from printed circuit boards embedded with LED chips and and folded into a dodecahedron shape."

Entire paragraph could have been shortened to: "These bulbs are butt ugly."

Why are bright whites and day lights so hard to find? I can't flipping see with soft whites.

Not willing to pay for Phillips Hue either.