Home kit integration

Unfortunately HomeKit integration is really tough and is going to be pretty far down the road if it happens, and honestly it’s pretty unlikely. Apple makes it really tough for a small manufacturer to integrate.

Keen Home actually wrote a good blog post about it. But the summary is, we’d have to:

  1. Join Apple’s certification program, and have them approve our entire product plan and manufacturing process.
  2. Potentially make all Tidbyts in an Apple-approved factory. (unclear on this one)
  3. Purchase and add a proprietary Apple chip into every single Tidbyt (!)
  4. Pay a per-device royalty to Apple, and they won’t tell us how much that would be until we are approved.

Sorry :frowning:

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