Hello everyone,
I'm currently trying to use the HomeKit framework to create some time based automations. I read through the documentation and I'm still confused on how much I can do there.
What I want to achieve:
Create time based automations that changes some lights every 30 (or better 15) minutes. I don't want the user to have the app open or running all the time, so my idea was creating HomeKit automations for that. But that has the negative point that there will be 48 automations in the "Automation" tap of the apple home app. Also the user can change settings of those and my app would only notice next time the user opens it.
Has anyone created time based HomeKit triggers before and can point me into a direction how I can achieve this?
My workaround would be to use the API's of the respective Light Providers like Hue or Lifx, but then I would need to create a connector for each brand and I would really love to use Homekit.
Disclaimer: I'm very new to Swift & App Development