I’m not the kind of person that says “the team that makes this software should be fired and replaced”, but the atrocious bugginess and unreliability of the #HomeApp and #HomeKit sure is tempting me with the thought.
Broken syncing, invitations that don’t work, devices showing the wrong states, crashing, camera recording/motion detection that stops working, UI bugs and freezing, elements glitching and flying in from out of view for no reason, bad navigation, controls that are unusable… 🤷♂️
I challenge the #Home team to try to navigate back several days through a camera’s recordings (if the date picker even appears) and export a specific clip on macOS without it getting stuck or crashing.
(also: totally broken location services where it thinks you’re always at home when you aren’t, or it thinks your Home’s location is in a place where it isn’t and there’s no reliable way to adjust it, thus making all useful Automations impossible)
Once again today the #HomeApp / #HomeKit has mysteriously stopped recording video and sending notifications for one camera. Yesterday I got someone to go and restart the Apple TV, which fixed it for all of about 12 hours.
The camera is accessible and can be viewed live, it just never gets recorded, as though the motion detection is failing.
The nature of the #Home app means it has to be reliable, yet it’s one of the least reliable things Apple has released.
And now it’s stopped recording all cameras and no matter what I adjust or turn on or off I can’t get it to start again.
With the Home app and HomeKit, your house could get broken into and you’ll have no record of it because it is so shamefully unreliable. This is a failure of a product from Apple and I would strongly recommend against using it.
In the continuing trash fire that is Apple’s Home app, today it’s getting the days of the week incorrect and thinks it’s Monday the 25th instead of Sunday the 25th, with the rest of the days of the week all offset by one day.
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The camera UI in the Home app is *so* buggy in every way: the date and scrubber controls, the display of the video, zooming, etc. It needs to be completely scrapped and rewritten.
#HomeApp #HomeKit #Home #HKSV #HomeKitSecureVideo #Apple #FeedbackAssistant
Because HomeKit Secure Video recording and automations seem to randomly just stop working after a while and a restart of the Apple TV fixes them, this is what I’ve now resorted to: a 7-day digital timer that turns the Apple TV off for a minute once per week 🙃
I really wish it was possible to remotely restart an Apple TV via the Home app. Being able to remotely tell it to install a software update would be nice too!
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