{"id":6131,"date":"2017-06-09T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2017-06-09T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T01:34:00","slug":"apple-loosens-the-homekit-reins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/apple-loosens-the-homekit-reins\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple loosens the HomeKit reins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…HomeKit is now open to any Apple developer to tinker around with. […]\u00a0They can even develop prototypes on top of popular developer boards like Raspberry Pi and\u00a0Arduino.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More importantly, Apple also updated the HomeKit specification so that developers no longer have to go through the trouble of integrating an authentication chip into their products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HomeKit is finally beginning to take steps in down the right path. After a very shaky start as a headless system it has been refocused and pivoted into what could be a great smarthome platform.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest issues that remained however, for HomeKit’s adoption, was\u00a0the stringent and ludicrous requirements\u00a0to make a certified product that works with it.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0removing\u00a0hardware authentication and shifting to a software solution Apple removes one of HomeKit’s\u00a0largest roadblocks.\u00a0The change should mean a huge increase in products developed for the platform.<\/p>\n

Source: Apple Frees Up Its Smart Home Platform To Kickstart Development<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"…HomeKit is now open to any Apple developer to tinker around with. […]\u00a0They can even develop prototypes on…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}