It seems like an obvious use for a Stream Deck, yet while you can control your HomeKit setup from one, the solution is far from obvious. Here's what you need
It seems like an obvious use for a Stream Deck, yet while you can control your HomeKit setup from one, the solution is far from obvious. Here's what you need to do.
Egg, chicken, chicken, egg. While HomeKit remained less successful than, say, Amazon's Alexa ecosystem, third-party firms might only develop for Apple's home app as an afterthought.Hopefully this will change as Apple, and others, move forward with the Matter system that means they'll all work together. But in the meantime, neither Elgato's Stream Deck nor the third-party plugins it supports, can control HomeKit.

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