The first batch of apple HomeKit product members smart table lamp

Tencent Telecom, as the first to support Apple's HomeKit smart home platform products, Lutron Caseta series of wireless intelligent table lamp attracted many people's attention. And now the foreign technology website AppleInsider is the first time for the smart lamp of experience, from the actual results, although the basic concept of HomeKit has begun to take shape, but there is still a lot of room for improvement and progress.

In fact, in order to achieve the home automation is a very difficult thing, even including lamps and other accessories all equipment is working properly, if the configuration and installation of a better set of different rooms and areas, perhaps there will be such a problem. With the popularization of Internet technology, many platforms including apple HomeKit, Google Brillo, Nest and Weave, are beginning to emerge, and now all home automation platform configuration can also be directly using a mobile phone, the whole process is very simple.

This time, the test for Lutron Caseta wireless smart table let us have a preliminary understanding of Apple's HomeKit platform. From the packaging point of view, Lutron Caseta table lamp includes a HomeKit bridge, 2 Pico remote control, 2 control dimmer and remote controller.

install

The installation process Lutron Caseta need this in several steps, first create a good account, and then through the bridge paired devices, and remote control dimmer, name and assign it a App at the same time, the establishment of different rooms and the scene, the whole process is not very simple.

We created a bridge through the router to download the account after the establishment of a good App, everything began. Account created, we can not immediately successful connection. App prompt multiple errors, or simply can not load the site.

Then we added two table lamps, the process is not smooth, when adding the first light when prompted error, while losing the bridge, we have to re connect.

Integrated Siri

Integrated Siri can be said to be the core advantage of the entire apple HomeKit platform, and as the most obvious difference with other competitors, we hope that the addition of Siri can make the whole process easier. In the test, we tested the Siri to turn on and turn off the lights.

First of all, we have to determine the support Siri hardware, the bridge has a total of 8 encoding, and then we need to enter the corresponding encoding on the App to specify different rooms and regions.

When we create a room and an area, first of all, the room is wrong. Although we do not know whether it is our problem, but at least it can be determined that different rooms and regional names can not be the same.

The rooms we create are called "bedroom 1" and "bedroom 2", which are also named as "pink" and "white"". After the completion of the naming, we successfully through the Siri voice command in different rooms of different table lamp control.

Once completed, the creation of the rest of the members of the very smooth, but the initial settings often make us fear. And it's not easy for everyone, even though it's a lot easier than it was a few years ago. We can turn on and turn off the lights in a specific scene or custom room area, and we can also set the brightness of different lights to 20% and 50%, which can be completed by Siri.

However, we still can not open the Siri to control the lighting of the other networks, although we have logged in with the same iCloud ID iPhone, but still can not achieve full compatibility.

We hope that when the HomeKit platform formally launched this month, the problem can be resolved, after all, the command of the family members shared by iCloud is a very common operation. After all, when users buy networking devices, more inclined to add energy and security products. Before the sales of PHILPS Hue and Nest thermostat is a very good description of the problem.

One more thing to consider is the cost. Nest is priced at $249, while the price of the Lutron table lamp is between $50 and $60.

HomeKit can install products from different vendors and assign them to different spaces by App. And people are not satisfied with the current can not be compatible with all vendors App. If you want to control the light by App instead of Siri, then you need to enter each different App to modify. So now it is the most convenient option to use Siri control directly, although some people don't catch the voice control.

Siri is very effective for the control of different rooms and areas, and the most important thing is to improve the difficulty and accuracy of the initial setup. Once the entire network is completed, Lutron Caseta and HomeKit with very smooth. So we look forward to the future there will be more HomeKit products.

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