Currently I use my iPad as the hub for flic2 buttons. Is there a reason why the buttons can't use homekit to turn on the lights on and off? I find the current method very lack luster due to either the buttons being slow to respond or takes multiple presses to respond. I just swapped out the battery which improved it but nothing crazy. Also is there a reason as to why there is no battery information provided? Such as everytime a button is pressed to provide a percentage left or something and on a press if less then a certain percentage to provide a warning on low battery? It is really not good to have low battery as a led light up on the button itself as it defeats the purpose of it being a physical button since the button is there so we can not look at it.
iPad as a hub
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Currently I use my iPad as the hub for flic2 buttons. Is there a reason why the buttons can't use homekit to turn on the lights on and off? I find the current method very lack luster due to either the buttons being slow to respond or takes multiple presses to respond. I just swapped out the battery which improved it but nothing crazy. Also is there a reason as to why there is no battery information provided? Such as everytime a button is pressed to provide a percentage left or something and on a press if less then a certain percentage to provide a warning on low battery? It is really not good to have low battery as a led light up on the button itself as it defeats the purpose of it being a physical button since the button is there so we can not look at it.
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@siobhanellis correct. Only the Hub LR of our hubs support Homekit, but all our hubs support Matter (as a controller).
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@Emil but that doesn't support Matter as a bridge, does it? It is Matter as a controller. Therefore still does not support HomeKit.
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@undead9786 if your devices you want to control support Matter, then I would say yes!
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@Emil So it is better to get the mini which has matter support as well?
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@undead9786 our Flic buttons do not implement native Homekit over Bluetooth, so therefore a Flic Hub LR as a bridge is necessary. At the moment the hub mini does not support Homekit since we have not had the resources to certify it for that. Instead we have put all focus on the newer Matter protocol (which is now in beta in our iOS app), which we believe is much more future proof and will be supported by more devices.
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@Emil I know I can get the hub but an iPad is a home hub so why can't it work better and have homekit integration so it can be fully functional?
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@undead9786 you can try our Flic Hub LR instead, which works with Homekit and has better connection parameters than iPad for lower latency.