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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 2 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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jiqiren ◴[18 Jun 25 19:50 UTC] No.44312796[source]▶
HomePods perform real-time vision processing on multiple camera streams for HomeKit. However, the primary quality challenge lies in the video quality of HomeKit-enabled doorbell cameras that can consistently stream to Wi-Fi. For instance, my doorbell operates on 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, resulting in highly compressed video streams. This compression likely impacts the results.
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cosmic_cheese ◴[18 Jun 25 20:01 UTC] No.44312869[source]▶
The range of HomeKit-enabled doorbells and cameras is disappointing to begin with and even worse when removing options that require a proprietary adapter box and/or subscription. The best option at the moment seems to be a Ubiquiti setup that integrates into HomeKit by way of Homebridge or other similar solutions rather than anything that supports HomeKit specifically.
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dzhiurgis ◴[18 Jun 25 22:02 UTC] No.44313651[source]▶
At this point I'd just avoid HomeKit entirely.

Any sort of automation in Home app besides 2-3 line demo is quickly turning into nightmare, you are locked in bunch of annoying limitations and devices are always costing more than open source alternative.

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1. cosmic_cheese ◴[18 Jun 25 22:40 UTC] No.44313898[source]▶
It’s the smart home ecosystem that the FOSS world has kind of coalesced around, though (see HomeBridge, HomeAssistant, etc). The others are all much more centered around someone else’s servers and subscriptions and offer little to no possibility of running things locally.
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2. dzhiurgis ◴[19 Jun 25 00:10 UTC] No.44314341[source]▶
Yes I run Home Assistant too. Also got quite a bit of devices on Aqara's platform, and a device each on Ewelink, Tuya, Meross which all technically are a platforms. There's probably another 5 devices with their own apps. Tasmota + Home Assistant is the only one I'm happy about.

Home Assistant (with all its dumb quirks) at least makes an attempt to integrate them. Some FOSS devices I've exposed to HomeKit for presence automation, but seeing Siri is going nowhere I don't think I'll continue.