HomeKit Is Dumb

I’m going to get on my soapbox again and call out Apple once more on the extremely limited HomeKit automation experience–and how they can fix 80% of the gripes I have with it by just cloning a small subset of the Shortcuts user experience. The most infuriating, they-are-so-close annoyance I have with it is that automations can only have one trigger, and extremely basic conditions, to the point where they are effectively useless in real life. Right now, HomeKit automation is effectively as simple as this pseudo-code: if office.presence = true then scenes.office_ambient.light = on One trigger, one outcome. There are some conditionals, but they are extremely limited: if office.presence = true and schedule = "daytime" then scenes.office_ambient.light = on Conditionals are just a schedule and somebody (optionally me) being home, which is not enough for the way people actually live in a house. For instance, I can’t set up logic like this: if office.temperature.celsius > 27 and…