Home 3.3

Since the intial release of HomeKit in 2014, Apple added new features to HomeKit every year. But this year was different – no changes to HomeKit in iOS 12. Nevertheless I’ve added new features to Home in version 3.3.

HomeKit Cameras

The main focus of the new version is to improve the interaction with HomeKit cameras. The app already supported HomeKit cameras, but now everything looks and feels much nicer. You can now favorite your cameras and see them in the new camera widget.

The widget is designed to give you a quick overview over all favorite cameras.

The camera snapshots are automatically resized to fit the available space in the widget. No matter how many cameras you have, you can always keep an eye on all of them.

If you want to see the live stream of a camera, you can long press on the snapshot. This will open the app and connects you to the camera.

Condition Conjunction

Another improvement is the ability to change the conjuction of conditions. Until now an event trigger only executed the actions if all conditions were true. Now you specify that only one of the conditions is required to be true.

As you can see in the screenshot below, if a trigger has more than one condition, the type of conjunction will now be shown between the conditions. When you tap on and you can easily switch to or and vice-versa.

Eve Door & Window

Finally I was able to fix a long standing issue with Eve Door & Window sensors. Previously the app crashed when you tried to add the sensor to an automation. Because the issue only occurred on the latest hardware version, I wasn’t able to reproduce the crash because I used an older version. A lot of people will be happy to see this issue resolved.

Find more information about the new version in the release notes or on the App Store.