Apple HomeKit vs. Control4 - What’s The Difference?

Most of this stuff is focused on TV/AV stuff which I mostly don't care about from an automation perspective. Also why use an alternative 'instead' of HomeKit? You can integrate HomeKit with HomeAssistant, that's what I'm doing.

Also your TV is hilariously high lol

Good video - gonna have to start directing people here when they ask us we we install Control4 over HomeKit and other options 🤙

I use homeBridge for my UniFi camera it works good

buy an ir blaster , program and voila , no need for control 4..... no need for subscription, with homekit you can use "Nature Remo Nano IR Controller w/ Matter" . or my favorite method is broadlink blaster and home assistant , (hopefully you dont delete this comment too) 🤣😂🤣

Homekit, and all its wireless standards like Matter, Zigbee, etc.. have always been unreliable to me in multiple houses, cities for many years. I decided to dumb down my house a couple years ago and it's the best decision i've ever made. Be aware nerds, tech is cool, but remember that a light should just work, and a doorlock also. You don't want to wake up early when you have to go to work, and your bedside light wont turn on, then you walk to your bathroom in attempt to take a shower, and surprize!. no light either! So now you have to use your phone's flashlight to see in the bathroom and to take a shower. It's horrible. After experiencing this utter horror, i realized how important and underrated the function and reliability is of something simple as a frickin' light switch that always works.

I'm happy with my dumb lights. The smartest thing i have is cheap 433mhz remote controlled sockets that work reliably (because they're not connected to the bloody internet, you know, routers, hubs, cloud services, local servers, it's so tiring.) and i'm very happy with it.

And with wired systems like KNX, Loxone, Control4 and there might be more idk, it's beautiful but too expensive for what they are so until a time where they become more affordable and also more intuitive to program yourself, until then, it's just for the people with money I guess. (and of course, wireless homekit stuff is also expensive, but not even close to the pricey prices of wired systems.)

I'm a Control4 user and the best thing Apple can do at this point is to give 3rd parties full access to their Apple Music API. They also need to give the ability to play music natively on 3rd party devices.