Ring Homekit

Ring cameras will never be homekit compatible because then amazon couldn t share your camera s video with others.

Ring homekit. Homekit has excellent potential though much of it depends on the homekit accessories you choose. I don t want to upgrade to pro only to have a newer model come out. With your voice or any siri enabled product you can carry out hands free commands and allow your smart home. Ring has long promised homekit support but it s faced repeated delays.

You may want to ask why those other devices aren t willing to get on board. Only ring pro will get homekit support. Ring has continued to drag their heels on homekit support but the potential for device integration with such capable devices is huge especially when factoring in the protect security system. With apple homekit you can control smart devices from more than 100 different brands.

The wait for amazon s ring video doorbell to integrate with apple s homekit could soon be over. The appearance of the devices in this database will be a pleasant surprise for ring owners who want to control their smart home with apple s home app for ios and mac. I m wondering if ring is going to come out with a new improved ring pro once homekit is official or will it be the exact same product. This saga started way back in 2016 when ring announced homekit support for their doorbell pro which since then has failed to materialise despite ring s insistence that it was coming soon.

Ring is the dominant player in smart doorbells these days. Fortunately homeassistant can help us to deal with some of the pain. Ring has been promising for years to integrate homekit into its video doorbell pro the first excuse was that apples homekit required security chips which i did but now that apple has made that security part of their product in homekit software encryption there s no excuse ring not to integrate it other than the fact that they were bought out by amazon and amazon doesn t want apple to compete. Now it looks like ring s.

Unfortunately after promising homekit support more than three years ago announced in 2016 they have been unable to deliver on their commitment to their customers.