It's obviously a given that you either currently have or are planning to get a HomeKit device if you're interested in this tutorial, but in your excitement do make sure that
the HomeKit device in question is installed and functions properly within your home network before trying to control it remotely.
Using the trigger system you could, for example, set your lights to turn on when the back door in unlocked or to blink red if the alarm is triggered (assuming
the HomeKit devices in question support the event system required for the triggers to work).
Not exact matches
A full slideshow of every
HomeKit device I saw at CES is here, with reviews coming soon, but for now I'm as excited about the possibilities as I am full of
questions: Will the Apple TV get stronger Bluetooth and Siri soon, and maybe a
HomeKit interface for the biggest screen
in your house?
You can't connect with those gadgets from outside of the limited Bluetooth range, but with
HomeKit, you can use Apple TV as a relay point — it'll receive your commands from afar over Wi - Fi, then pass the command
in question to the
device in question via Bluetooth.
It doesn't answer the
question of when you might see
HomeKit devices in stores on a broad scale, but it does move us much closer to that day, at least theoretically.