Apple has pushed HomeKit, and there are already many vendors doing it that can reach Siri to control all of the device's functionality. But Siri is not everything, and the semantic understanding of human beings can be a mistake, but I believe the problem will be solved in the future. If the home has an old television and other equipment, or make a machine to switch windows, then HomeKit is powerless. Some of the family's valuable items such as refrigerators, air conditioners and other equipment are not said to be eliminated, when the home is flooded with homtkit equipment, other equipment can not be controlled by HomeKit, it is very painful. To achieve such compatibility, consider the following:
As a HomeKit hub, this hub communicates with other devices to control all smart devices.
In fact, there are manufacturers have done the hub, using HomeKit to compatible with their own equipment, so that this idea is feasible, see: http://www.feng.com/Story/ From-intelligent-control-household-homekit-how-far-worse_618798.shtml for DIY, low cost is also needed, the overall structure is as follows: For old equipment, such as air-conditioning equipment, The infrared interface is definitely there, so using infrared control, infrared peripherals are very inexpensive. Because HomeKit hub does not assembly and these appliances in a house price inside, so make a 2.4G module + infrared transponder is necessary, paste on the wall can. For their own windows and feeding machines and other equipment, you can add 2.4G modules on it, but also low-cost. For home monitoring equipment, the need for high-flow transmission of the environment, you must use WiFi, with the current mainstream technology, with 11AC of USB WiFi, home monitoring equipment is best DIY, involving very serious security issues, to the cloud platform is not at ease. The last one is purely yy, if there is an atom information transmission machine/receiver, then it must use the optical communication. In the whole system, the HomeKit Development Board needs at least a piece of STM32 CPU, is undoubtedly the most expensive in the entire system, if with WiFi (high traffic), you need to be on the Raspberry Pi level of equipment. Another potential problem is whether you can't use it without an apple certification, so you'll need to buy an off-the-shelf Development Board to add to your entire system. For other peripherals, 2.4G modules, infrared modules are not more than 10 yuan, the whole system such a calculation, do HomeKit the compatibility layer cost is not high.
HomeKit and old equipment
