Adding my old Vacuum cleaners to Apple Home
One of the classes of devices we've been waiting for the longest in Apple Home is the ability to add Vacuum Cleaners and that finally came with a combination of Matter 1.4 and iOS/iPad OS/TVOS 18.4. Whilst Apple still has not implemented the whole of Matter 1.4, it did actually do it for Vacuum cleaners. Indeed, it even delayed the capability to make sure that the full functionality of Matter 1.4 was included. This was great news for anyone who bought a new Vacuum cleaner that is Matter compliant, and there are a few of them now. Not such great news for those of us that already had Vacuum cleaners that the manufacturers were not going to upgrade to Matter at all. In my case it is a mixture of iRobot and EcoVacs. It was particularly annoying for me as I'd just bought the T20 having given up on iRobot due to their terrible Customer Service. I digress..... For sometime I'd actually had my iRobot Vacuum cleaners in Homebridge, and I found the integration there to be superior t...
