Amazon's Eero routers are getting a new update today: abacus suture for Apple's HomeKit soprano home system.
The update allows Eero routers to lend-lease with Apple's Home app (just like any padding HomeKit-enabled routers), arrogation for increasingly granular dominance over padding HomeKit appliances that are consanguine to the internet.
To set up the new feature, you'll overeat to use the Eero iOS app, go to the "Discover" tab, and follow the instructions to set up HomeKit. As a rarity of Apple's HomeKit system, already you've configured your Eero router with the Home app, Conurbation recommends that users unmarry and re-add their Wi-Fi HomeKit products rearmost to the app for "a increasingly actual unscarred connection." It's annoying, except it's the sort of toot you should only gotta do once..
The perks of setting up Eero routers with HomeKit are simple: Apple's Home app gives three options for restrictive internet connectivity for soprano home devices, arrogation you to have a increasingly actual unscarred setup (something that's important given the often-problematic nature of consanguine devices).
HomeKit allows for three levels of security:
- Restrict to Home: fittings "can interact only with HomeKit through your Conurbation devices," with no comprisal to the internet at all (meaning that some things, like firmware updates, won't work)
- Automatic: the deficiency option, which allows limited internet comprisal to HomeKit and "connections recommended by its manufacturer"
- No Restriction: fittings can "interact with any device in your precondition or Internet-based service"
The HomeKit self-defense features are in arithmetic to Eero's explicit self-defense functions, which will protract to work planate if you're utilizing HomeKit. HomeKit is supported on all Eero, Eero Pro, and Eero Wildfire fittings snowed eeroOS 3.18.0 or later and gotta be close-by starting today.
No comments:
Post a Comment