@craiggrannell last three updates I’ve had to trash and reinstall express vpn. The last two updates I lose internet and have to search for an adapter to plug in Ethernet. Grrrrrr.
@craiggrannell I’m moving and I’m seriously debating continuing with HomeKit. I’m not a big fan of Amazon but Alexa is so much easier, more reliable and cheaper.
I’m not sure I want to deal with the hassle of HomeKit that I went through in my old place.
@rjfaas It certainly doesn’t make me want to buy a single other thing that’s reliant on this. The inability to share the home with my wife is infuriating. (Last time we got it to work by… going away from the house for a week! So clearly something got stuck. But because Apple is so opaque, it’s impossible to know what’s causing problems.)
@craiggrannell iOS 17 has been a real up and down for me. Up till December, all good. 17.2 goes on. Battery starts dying - 20% to zero instantly. Back of phone warm to the touch at times. iOS 17.2.1 refuses to install OTA. Had a new battery put in. Better for a week. 17.3 goes on via MacBook and we’re back to the same.
@marksemczyszyn I’ve found Sonoma abysmal. The worst macOS I’ve ever used in terms of bugs and stability. Almost as bad as pre-macOS/OS X. iOS has been OK here but HoneKit is bloody awful.
Ah, no. My wife tried to change something and it’s all gone for her too. Excellent. Thrilled about the prospect of spending my Sunday setting all this stuff up for the third time. And then jumping through hoops trying to invite her.
It says something that most of our HomeKit set up is HomePods and Apple TVs. So this is Apple kit and Apple kit. Gah.
@jamesthomson I’m just so sick of it. We had a fragmented ecosystem, split between HomeKit and Alexa. So I thought: hey, let’s upgrade everything to HomeKit. That’ll be easier, right?
It’s just a total rolling disaster. The best of it is that we had a period of three months where everything apart from one plug worked.
I get that this stuff isn’t easy. But the entire point of Apple is that this kind of thing is supposed to just work. Forums are full of these errors.
@angry_drunk@jamesthomson iCloud is great. It’s so great I on my Mac now set my default folder to ~/ rather than an iCloud folder, because Finder was routinely locking up whenever I tried to load a new Finder window. Quality. Sheer quality.
I genuinely can’t think of a worse and bugger OS than Sonoma from Apple that I’ve used since Mac OS 9.
@craiggrannell@jamesthomson Has been running HomeKit since it started, changed routers and changed so many brands. It has been almost perfect for me. Have got more than 40 accessories (lights, locks, doors, sensors) in the house.
@paubhavyang@jamesthomson Maybe I’m just unlucky. But forums online are full of people complaining that they can’t share their home setup with someone else. There are clearly some bugs in the system that Apple could do with squashing.
@craiggrannell@jamesthomson Or may be, I’m too lucky. I do share the home setup with my family (who is on iOS) and one of my family members uses android and his 3rd party app usage on some accessories instantly updates HomeKit status as well.
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