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Take Control of Apple Home Automation
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Take Control of Apple Home Automation

by Josh Centers
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
3h 21m
English
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Use Accessories

Now we get to the real meat of the book: doing stuff with all this fancy equipment you bought! Thankfully, that’s pretty easy. In this chapter, I talk about basic control of accessories; I get into more advanced HomeKit features in subsequent chapters.

Check Accessory Status

At the top of both the Home and Rooms screens in the Home app is a status bar with icons that display status messages (Figure 15).

Figure 15: Home’s status messages are presented as interactive icons.
Figure 15: Home’s status messages ...
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